{"id":2576,"date":"2011-11-12T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/the-voice-of-one-crying-in-the-wilderness-in-defense-of-herman-cain.html"},"modified":"2011-11-12T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T03:20:00","slug":"the-voice-of-one-crying-in-the-wilderness-in-defense-of-herman-cain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/11\/the-voice-of-one-crying-in-the-wilderness-in-defense-of-herman-cain.html","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness \u2013 In Defense of Herman Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 22px;margin-bottom: 1.571em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">by\u00a0William Dwight McKissic, Sr:\n<p>The liberal media, conservative Republicans who support rival candidates and African American civil rights leaders who strongly support the Democratic Party and liberal causes, have unwittingly formed an unholy trinity to defeat and destroy the presidential aspirations of Herman Cain. The purpose of this article is not intended to endorse Herman Cain for president; but rather to defend Mr. Cain against the scurrilous, scandalous and shameful attacks on his character.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 22px;margin-bottom: 1.571em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">An allegation and formal complaint is not a conviction. A settlement is not an admission of guilt, but an acknowledgement that the parties involved have brought the \u201cdisputed\u201d matter to an agreed upon closure without any admission of guilt or liability. There has not been one shred of evidence made available to the public with regard to the sexual harassment allegations leveled against Mr. Cain that suggest he\u2019s guilty. The National Restaurant Association has granted the anonymous accuser(s) and her lawyer the right to tell her story, but they declined.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;color: #111111;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 22px;margin-bottom: 1.571em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/sbcvoices.com\/william-dwight-mckissic-sr-the-voice-of-one-crying-in-the-wilderness-in-defense-of-herman-cain\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0William Dwight McKissic, Sr: The liberal media, conservative Republicans who support rival candidates and African American civil rights leaders who strongly support the Democratic Party and liberal causes, have unwittingly formed an unholy trinity to defeat and destroy the presidential aspirations of Herman Cain. 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