Saturday, October 01, 2011

Raising Cain



The very different life lessons of the president and his challenger.

By FRED BARNES


What did Cain and Obama learn from their families and education? “One of the most important lessons Dad taught us was not to feel like victims,” Cain writes. “He never felt like a victim. He never talked like a victim. And both our parents taught us not to think that the government owed us something. They didn’t teach us to be mad at this country.”

Based on his career, Obama didn’t draw the same lessons. He concluded America is an unjust country. He became a community organizer, a civil rights lawyer, a state senator,
a U.S. senator, and president—all the while pursuing liberal efforts to aid perceived victims of the free-market economy through strong government intervention.

The more I know about Herman Cain the more I like him. To read more of Fred Barnes article about the two men and their upbringing click on the title for a link