On Monday night, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” offered up a retrospective on some of the more curious moments in Herman Cain’s run for the White House, which officially began last May with the exclamation, “Aw, shucky-ducky!”:
A quick, transcripted taste:
Cain: “’Aw, shucky-ducky’ was a way for me to say, ‘I’m thrilled to be here. And I am happy that you are happy that I am here.’”
John Oliver: “Why not just say that?”
Cain: “That would be too formal.”
John Oliver: “So it would be too formal for an announcement that you are running for the highest office in the land?”
Cain: “Yes.”
We know the Comedy Central interview was taped, because Cain was in Dalton on Monday, where the former GOP presidential candidate declared that he could have been the nominee – where it not for “dirty, gutter politics.” From the Dalton Daily Citizen:
“If I had not dropped out of the campaign, in all modesty, I would have sewn up the nomination,” Cain [said] Monday after a fundraising luncheon for U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ranger, at the trade center. “I really believe that. I was the lead candidate for four weeks and every week, my lead was getting bigger and we hadn’t even had a primary yet. Because people were connecting with my message and I was moving away from all of them, that’s why someone dug up the dirty, gutter politics.”
Meanwhile, over in Los Angeles, the Braves declared they could have beaten the Dodgers last night, but ran out of innings.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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