Fourth accuser urges Herman Cain to ‘come clean’ about harassment

[phkrause]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/fourt...-193541143.html

[Dr. Shane]

I think we are starting to get to see the real Herman Cain here. I am glad this came out when it did.

[lazarus]

He's holding a press conference tomorrow. The only thing that makes any sense now is to confess.

[bonnie]

Seems to be on pretty good terms a month ago

Witness: Cain accuser hugged him during Tea Party meeting a month ago

By MICHAEL SNEED msneed@suntimes.com November 8, 2011 12:30AM

The Cain Encounter ...

They hugged each other backstage in a full embrace like old friends.

She grabbed his arm and whispered in his left ear.

She kept talking as he bent to listen, and he kept saying “Uh, huh. Uh, huh.”

Huh?

“I don’t know if what she was giving him was a sucker punch, but he didn’t put his arm down while she was talking to him,” said the Sneed source.

◆The “he”... is GOP presidential contender Herman Cain, who has been accused of sexual harassment by several women.

◆The “she”... is Chicagoan Sharon Bialek, who held a news conference Tuesday as the only woman to PUBLICLY accuse Cain of sexual harassment.

◆The Sneed source ... is WIND radio co-host Amy Jacobson, who tells Sneed she witnessed the Cain/Bialek encounter a month ago while backstage at the AM 560 WIND sponsored TeaCon meeting in Schaumburg Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center.

◆Quoth Jacobson: “I had turned on TV to find out who was Cain’s accuser, and I almost fell over when I saw it was Sharon Bialek accusing Cain of groping her genitals.”

“I was waiting for Herman Cain’s ‘Accuser No. 4’ to surface — and up pops Sharon!”

“I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked.”

“I recall Sharon was hell bent on going backstage at the TeaCon convention — where she cornered him,” said Jacobson.

“I was surprised to hear she claims she did not know Cain was going to be there. Cain was expected and was late.”

Bialek told the media on Monday: “I went up to him and asked him if he remembered me. I wanted to see if he would be man enough to own up to what he had done 14 years ago.”

◆The encounter: “It looked sort of flirtatious,” said Jacobson. “I mean they were hugging. But she could have been giving him the kiss of death for all I know. I had no idea what they were talking about, but she was inches from his ear.”

◆The introduction: “It all began when I took a convention break and joined my pals at the hotel bar. Sharon was drinking Mimosas with them. She said she was a Republican, a Tea Party member, had once dated [White Sox sports announcer’ Steve Stone] and had worked at WGN radio.”

◆The rendezvous: Sharon also said she was anxious to meet Cain again and had once gone to an afterparty with him and her boyfriend years ago. But she never mentioned he had sexually harassed her.”

◆The upshot: Bialek has since applied for employment in sales at WIND radio and is scheduled for a second interview Thursday.

So it goes.

[lazarus]

Like I said he's toast.

[Dr. Shane]

Her credibility is building and Cain's is dwindling.

[Tom Wetmore]

And now there are 5...

What will it take for Cain supporters to get it?

[Woody]

And now there are 5...

What will it take for Cain supporters to get it?

I actually agree with you. But I don't believe that any Clinton supporter has a right to believe any such thing.

[phkrause]

I actually agree with you. But I don't believe that any Clinton supporter has a right to believe any such thing.

What would that be Woody? Just curious. I do agree that those that had no problem with Clinton's antincts(sp) have no right to be down on Cain. White Horse Ministries has an interesting take on this: http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/about/?p=tidings&d=53

[John317]

And now there are 5...

What will it take for Cain supporters to get it?

It's too early yet to tell whether these allegations will put Cain out of the running. The election is a long way off. After all, there were allegations against Clinton before the election, but he managed to come roaring back and won two terms. It's possible Cain could do the same. We'll just have to wait and see.

The point here, though, is, what right do Democrats who supported Clinton have to slam Cain and people who vote for him?

[Tom Wetmore]

What right do you have to say they don't?

[Dr. Shane]

I don't think it is an issue of rights but rather simple hypocrisy. That said, I think it takes us down a road we need not go. Why worry about what Clinton did and how Democrats reacted to it when deciding whether or not to support Herman Cain?

Herman Cain's biggest problem is his 9-9-9 plan but besides that he has many other issues. He is terrible on foreign policy. Comparing him with Palin, I think even the most far left-winger would have to admit that Palin is head and shoulders above Cain.

I can't see Cain getting more than the 20%-24% that he is now getting in the polls. Cain is sucking all the wind out of the sails of Gingrich and Perry and may end up knocking all three of them out and giving the nomination to Romney. That wouldn't be such a bad result.

[phkrause]

He is terrible on foreign policy. Comparing him with Palin, I think even the most far left-winger would have to admit that Palin is head and shoulders above Cain.

I have to disagree, only because he's not yet in office and neither has Palin. So there's no real way of knowing how they would or will do. Even if there talk tells us they probably will not be good at it, we will not really know until or when they get into office. That also includes domestic affairs. A candidate can promise all sorts of garbage and than get into office and not get one promise passed.

[olger]

True, PK.