Take Me To Your Leader?

The Liter took a road trip to Pella, for
The FAMiLY LEADER Presidential Lecture Series, with our friend Cal (Freedom's Pal) to see Herman Cain.

It's expected an Italian boy, and one married to an Italian, seek counsel of The Godfather.

Both of us were eager, I even changed the lyrics to The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

Herman Cain is his name...

The night he drove Obama out of town and all the people were singing...

We wanted to like Herman Cain, and we do, but just not for President.

Cain was late for the 1:30 p.m. start, but it was explained he viewed Missouri River flooding on the flight from Sioux Center.

Cain was introduced by Bob Vander Plaats, who doesn't know how to use a microphone thereby showing he is truly a Vander Putz.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

You don't hold it down to your stomach and make sure it's turned on when you use it.

You've been around mics enough to know how they work, if not get training from your buddy Steve Douche, err Deace who was in attendance.

Cain took the stage and paced back and forth throughout his talk.

He told the media cameramen they were going to have to work instead of sitting back to drink coffee (or Koffie in Pella).

Later he questioned if the Ragister's Jennifer Jacobs could keep up, as she typed away on her laptop, telling the audience he could slow it down because he is from the South.

I thought Cain was going to channel Richard Nixon when he spoke of the crises facing the country -- energy crisis, a moral crisis, a foreign policy crisis and a "severe leadership crisis in Washington, D.C."

Cain lost me when he said he'd only allow small bills for legislation, 3 pages, as President.

CONgress, has the say in that as they draft legislation, not the President.

I'm not sure if he was trying to beef up credibility in foreign affairs, but citing a long term socialist country, Chile, for solutions to American issues (Social Security and Flex Fuels) didn't seem right.

I'd have to agree with an attendee to Cain's talk in Iowa City, that the candidate is "dynamic" but "simplistic."

The Iowa Republican's Craig Robinson offers his take on the day here.

The FAMiLY LEADER recorded the Pella talk and said the video would be available here.

UPDATE....Shane Vander Hart adds his insight here.