Well, now we have the answer. If you’ve been wondering who convinced Herman Cain to run for President, he says God did:
“I prayed and prayed and prayed,” Cain told a group of young Republicans in Atlanta, according to National Journal. “I’m a man of faith, I had to do a lot of praying for this one, more praying than I’d ever done before in my life. And when I finally realized that it was God saying that this is what I needed to do, I was like Moses. ‘You’ve got the wrong man, Lord. Are you sure?'”
That’s sort of weird, because if you’ve been following the Republican Presidential nomination race, Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich in varying ways also suggested God was egging them on,too. God egged them on and Republicans are egging them off.
And I’m sure that God also told Cain that the liberal media, the “Democrat machine,” Rick Perry’s campaign and my pet cat Clawdette were all behind the four women coming out with sexual harassment allegations.
Of one thing thing I’m pretty sure:
God didn’t give Cain the recipe for Godfather’s Pizza.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.