RIP Herman Cain
Herman Cain — the maverick American business czar and Republican presidential candidate who campaigned for a sweeping tax reform plan called 9-9-9 — died Thursday morning after a monthlong battle with the coronavirus. He was 74.
Cain, who recently joined Newsmax TV and was set to launch a weekly show, died in an Atlanta-area hospital where he had been critically ill for several weeks.
He was admitted on July 1, two days after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
It sounds as though the disease became serious for him very quickly. I don’t know whether he had any pre-existing conditions, although I do know that he was a colon cancer survivor after being diagnosed with Stage IV in 2006.
Note the way the following is framed:
Ten days before, Cain had attended a rally for President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
But it is not known for sure where Cain, co-chairman of Black Voices for Trump, was infected. He had been on a whirlwind travel schedule in June, stopping in multiple cities.
So he could have contracted it anywhere. He was all over the map in June.
Here’s a portion of Cain’s resume of accomplishment:
He was born Dec. 13, 1945, in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up poor in Atlanta, Georgia, where his father worked three jobs — as a janitor, barber, and chauffeur — while his mother toiled as a domestic worker.
A stellar student who worked hard, Cain graduated from Morehouse College with a mathematics degree in 1967. A year later, he married Gloria Etchison, whom he met when he was a sophomore at Morehouse and she was a freshman at Morris Brown College.
Cain went on to earn a master’s degree in computer science from Purdue University in 1971, and helped develop fire control ballistics for ships and fighter planes for the U.S. Navy.
Next, he joined The Coca-Cola Company as a systems analyst, and after considerable success, moved to Pillsbury.
After serving as regional vice president of Pillsbury’s Burger King, Cain then took on the biggest challenge of his career as president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, a national chain teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
In 14 months, he returned Godfather’s to profitability and led his management team to a buyout of the company.
Much more at the link.
You may recall that, during the 2012 presidential campaign, Cain was sidelined by sexual harassment allegations in a familiar scenario (I chronicled it here). Because of that, as well as the fact that he was a conservative black man, there has been a lot of nasty leftist twittering on his grave.
Here’s an appreciation, though.
RIP.
He was a man of considerable accomplishment, accomplishments you can quantify. And there’s no ready way to socialize the success he had and conceive of him as the client of some approved set of patrons. He was not employed in higher education or in the media and he did not do dirty work on behalf of the causes that sort of person favors. He will be appreciated by people who admire a man who can get things done and create well-being, which is to say by people who don’t have the megaphone.
So who’s leaning on Fauci?
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/yale-epidemiologist-accuses-fauci-running-disinformation-campaign
(Or should that be WHO’s leaning on Fauci?)
(Assuming he HAS to be leaned on…)
A great man. A self made man. A doer, but also a decent talker. A Christian man, who was active in his church. I felt like I knew him from seeing him on TV so many times. I liked him very much. Deepest condolences to his family. RIP, Herman
Rest in peace. He ran the race well.
The way his death is being framed is really unfortunate and horrible. “Tested positive after attending the rally without wearing a mask!” Not that a mask wouldn’t have been a good idea, but it would have been for other people’s protection, not his own. He didn’t get it from not wearing a mask at the rally. And as is pointed out, he tested positive more than a week after attending the rally. We don’t know where he got it. Do we think there was an outbreak among rallygoers? I haven’t heard anything about that.
“Note the way it was framed”
Yep, tonight I watched ABC World News tonight. I stopped counting at 5 for the number of times they mentioned that he attended the Trump rally without a mask. It seemed like every other sentence said that.
RIP, Mr Herman Cain.
I didn’t know much about Herman Cain, though I did know his first name wasn’t Herbert, a fact which eluded the New York Times in their first cut at an obit:
“THEY’VE FIXED IT NOW, BUT THIS NYT OBITUARY FOR HERMAN — NOT HERBERT – CAIN ILLUSTRATES WHY LAYING OFF THE COPY EDITORS WAS A MISTAKE”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/390579/
Thank you for posting his short biography Neo. All that and the only thing we hear about is his rally attendance, no mask and COVID-19 death. Prayers of condolence for his loved ones. He’s in a far better place.
And, of course, no one, including Barack Obama, will be chastised for attending the John Lewis funeral without a mask.
Ten days isn’t enough time to catch COVID and die from it. Science goes out the window when there’s points to score off Trump.
The mask is supposedly to protect others, not yourself. Not wearing a mask in a crowd is taking a chance that you will infect someone else. At least that’s the way I read the “science.” So, all the hoopla about Herman Cain getting infected because he didn’t wear a mask is just so much hoopla.
If you believe the MSM, you cannot get infected during a BLM riot, masks or not. Attend a Trump rally without a a mask and you are in grave danger. As Colonel Potter , used to say, “Bull Hockey!”