Herman Cain just described one of the complaints in the sexual harassment suit that were filed against him to Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren:
Van Susteren asked what Cain did that led to the accusation. There were reportedly more than one accusations in the complaint, but Cain said he recalled just one incident. “She was in my office one day, and I made a gesture saying — and I was standing close to her — and I made a gesture saying you are the same height as my wife. And I brought my hand up to my chin saying, ‘My wife comes up to my chin.'” At that point, Cain gestured with his flattened palm near his chin. “And that was put in there [the complaint] as something that made her uncomfortable,” Cain said, “something that was in the sexual harassment charge.”
There’s more to the suit than just that one incident—two women filed the complaint, according to Politico. And it’s interesting to see that Cain’s camp has come a long way in just a few hours. Cain went from “no comment” to saying he was unaware of a settlement to singing a gospel song to a detailed description of part of what happened in less than 24 hours. This is not the response of a disciplined campaign.
“Or maybe it was ‘My wife comes all over my chin.'”
Cain is not able to explain away this incident.
(BTW, you better get used to the phrase “Cain is not able.” You’re going to be hearing it a lot in the next few months.)
You guys are Lynching a black man with little to no actual evidence. Racists!
Expecting a presidential candidate to explain why two sexual harassment complaints against him led to financial settlements doesn’t exactly amount to a “Lynching.”
Hey Andy from Beaverton:
About your avatar: Change it back? Back to the halcyon days of the Bush Administration? When fighting wars that you didn’t pay for and running the economy into the ground was all the rage? How I miss that time. What an awesome festival of American arrogance… I mean exceptionalism. I so long for the days when we could squander post-9/11 internationtal sympathy in favor of becoming an international pariah.
I wish we still lived in a country where the free market was allowed to work its bubbliscious magic, and the richest 1 percent could expect historically large tax cuts.
Boy, those were the days.
Hey Andy from Beaverton:
About your avatar: Change it back? Back to the halcyon days of the Bush Administration? When fighting wars that you didn’t pay for and running the economy into the ground was all the rage? How I miss that time. What an awesome festival of American arrogance… I mean exceptionalism. I so long for the days when we could squander post-9/11 internationtal sympathy in favor of becoming an international pariah.
I wish we still lived in a country where the free market was allowed to work its bubbliscious magic, and the richest 1 percent could expect historically large tax cuts.
Boy, those were the days.