Lawrence O'Donnell's Hostile Interview With Herman Cain

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: On another note, my jaw dropped when I saw he was at a book store on a book tour during the interview. I think the book tour in the middle of his campaign speaks volumes about his true intentions = Get media/public attention, sell a book and make some money. Kind of the Christine O'Donnell/Sarah Palin method of "campaigning".

Possibly. It is also possible that his focus is on the "media/public attention" part. It makes sense for an unknown who is running for President.
If he starts missing debates or stops showing up on talking head shows in favor of book signings than I would agree with you.

Doing a book tour while he should be campaigning? Sounds like the same thing to me. Beside the first causus is months away and Cain is still climbing in the polls on his book tour.

Should Obama be being performing the duties of President instead of campaigning?

But back to the original topic, they are fair questions, but I think it would have been better to have an African American from the same time period ask them instead of a priveliged white guy from a upper class background who didn't have to fight for anything.

I agree the question should not only be directly to black folks, but someone who is running for the highest office in the land and who directly benefited from the results of the Civil Rights Movement, I think it's fair that he was asked how he looked back on that time now and that he did not choose to participate. He was at the same damn college that Martin Luther King Jr graduated from. It was a big deal at Moorehouse College. It would have been hard to ignore engagement. I think the questions are valid.

He seemed to be content with sitting at the back of the bus, as he was told. I also think O'Donnell's questions were valid in asking why?

SS109 wrote: Doing a book tour while he should be campaigning? Sounds like the same thing to me. Beside the first causus is months away and Cain is still climbing in the polls on his book tour.

Concure. He is on CNN as I type.

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: I agree the question should not only be directly to black folks, but someone who is running for the highest office in the land and who directly benefited from the results of the Civil Rights Movement, I think it's fair that he was asked how he looked back on that time now and that he did not choose to participate. He was at the same damn college that Martin Luther King Jr graduated from. It was a big deal at Moorehouse College. It would have been hard to ignore engagement. I think the questions are valid.

Your time period is wrong. He was a kid in high school.

So were a lot of people who were in the movement at the time... The three college-age kids who ended up buried in the swamps by the KKK were out of high-school by only 2-3 years; and many of the marchers were high-school age... You need a better deflection than that...

Lady, you are quite a hand at ignoring facts so that you can make whatever claim that you want.
I have just decided to implement the "ignore" button on your hiney.

Oh PLEASE do... You haven't added anything intelligent to a conversation thread yet.

Arlen wrote:

Wily Fox aka Angela wrote: I agree the question should not only be directly to black folks, but someone who is running for the highest office in the land and who directly benefited from the results of the Civil Rights Movement, I think it's fair that he was asked how he looked back on that time now and that he did not choose to participate. He was at the same damn college that Martin Luther King Jr graduated from. It was a big deal at Moorehouse College. It would have been hard to ignore engagement. I think the questions are valid.

Your time period is wrong. He was a kid in high school.

He graduated from Moorehouse in 1967. He even admitted that in the interview.