great video, he is moving up, still like West.

Everyone in the United States has “access to health care.” It’s the law. The problem is paying for it – and two of the factors which have raised costs over time are 1) government-supplied health care via Medicare and Medicaid, where the low reimbursements force providers to raise prices to patients covered by private insurance or self-paying in order to make up the losses, and 2) the extraordinary costs of liability insurance for providers, caused by the risk of lawsuits.

No one should depend on donations from Stacy unless they call him “Daddy” – and even then I suspect they better be deserving of help.

Everyone has access in case of an ER visit, this is true.

Not everyone has access to decent ongoing care, or medicines, or Dick Cheney’s funky pulseless heart remedies.

Until you can account for basic stuff like that, Cain is a blowhard, and it’s all just talking points.

Priceless like an Obama talking point.

This great man is our next President of the United States of America. Mark my words. I was by his side in Iowa Monday night at the IFFC. I have never seen so much enthusiasm for a potential candidate before. The people and cameras were swarming Herman from the time he arrived to the time he left. No other potential candidate had as much attention as Mr. Cain did that night not to mention Herman’s speech received the loudest and the longest applauses. Team Cain Iowa was organized and had 6 volunteers manning his table. Iowans are gravitating to Herman Cain. He is a gift from God.

They do have access. It is called Medicare. If they do not qualify for Medicare then it is because they can afford it but chose to spend the money they would otherwise spend on health care premiums on something else. It is called “choice”. Something liberals claim to support but seldom do.

I like Herman Cain, but don’t think he’s got the stuff to be president. He would lose a live, televised debate with President Obama, and by ‘lose’ I mean I doubt independents would swing his way as a result of his performance. On a national level, any Republican can beat any Democrat on the logic of argument and facts on the ground. The problem is most folks are largely indifferent to the issues most of the time. They vote on perception and gut reaction if they vote at all. For example, Obama beat McCain in the last presidential debates not because Obama put forth irrefutable arguments but because McCain looked tired and old, worn out from the campaign, while Obama looked young and vital, calm and assured–in a word: presidential. Reagan did the same thing to Carter.

Same thing here. An Obama vs. Cain match-up would pit articulate, polished and persuasive against down-to-earth, spontaneous, fast-talking and loud. Cain would lose. What Cain needs to do is work on his delivery, cultivate gravitas and calm. He needs more polish to make it as a political player on the national scene.

One last thing: Cain should’ve allowed the liberal to shift question and then engaged him on that, too, countering and refuting every point and argument and pinning that socialist weasel to the wall. Calling the liberal out for using an underhanded Alinsky tactic is all well and good. Beating him at his own game is even better.

actually, everyone has access to ongoing healthcare. There are no laws forbidding a person from seeing a doctor on a regular basis. They can even enter into a private contract with a doctor, a contract that determines doctors fees and payment schedules.

The issue is idiots like you think it should be free. which it never will be. So Mork, get a life and get a job and pay for your healthcare like the rest of us who actually take personal responsibility for our lives and our families.

(note humor alert) Mork, you simply are upset by a clean articulate Black Man!

Troy – good points. I like Cain a lot – because he is a LEADER – he needs to work on slowing down his delivery a little. And I agree he should have taken this guy down point by point. For example, it wasn’t the GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY that gave women and blacks their rights; it was citizens and their duly-elected representatives, and the states, challenging why our government, founded on the principle of “unalienable rights endowed by their Creator”, was not recognizing equal rights of these people. If they waited for government bureaucrats to give them their rights, women would still be baking beans in heels rather than being a significant voting block. Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are the greatest documents ever created, and should be read often by every student and citizen in the USA.

Yes, I agree. Cain/West is my Dream Team. And again, either order. I’ve heard more of Mr. Cain, but Representative West is an outstanding speaker (plus he is from FL, just like me.