“Elect Herman Cain, I’m Herman Cain”
by Campaign with a twist: In Charleston, the celebrated TV satirist Stephen Colberts candidacy to the "President of the United States of South Carolina." Support was a favorite of the Tea Party.
Stephen Colbert, the Hape Kerkeling the U.S., with the former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.
Charles tones is only a few weeks ago, was the husband of one of the most popular politician in America. Was the clear leader in the polls, who will be the next Republican president, ahead of Mitt Romney. The whole country discussed his plan for a radical tax reform, called 9-9-9. Until he was suspected of having sexually harassed women, and withdrew from the race.
Herman Cain is now a cowboy hat on stage, grasps the microphone and sings the “Pokemon”-song.
A marching band plays, a squad of cheerleaders dancing on stage has a gospel choir formation assumed. The audience laughing, clapping, cheering. For hours they had stood, only to see him.
Not quite. Cain’s name and likeness can be seen while on the huge election poster behind the stage – but next to that of Stephen Colbert, the famous TV satirist. And at stake here today at the event “The Rock Me Like a Herman Cain: Cain-olina South Primary Rally”. So a huge joke.
“Elect Herman Cain, Herman Cain because I am,” Colbert calls at the beginning of the stage. The comedian takes on the election because he was “President of the United States of South Carolina” will be. The U.S. version of Hape Kerkeling “Isch a candidate” – but with a real party. The party this afternoon in Colbert’s hometown should be the spark for his campaign.
The only problem is that Colbert is not on the ballot, it was too late to file for candidacy. This is what Cain on it yet, although he is no longer in the race. So should people vote for Cain, even though they think Colbert. “He has not got his name on the list, I mean down no more,” says Cain. “So it was done.”
And so now here are the two on stage, hugging each other and make show. Colbert comes but after a few jokes about the other presidential candidates (”The difference between Mitt Romney and a statue of Mitt Romney, the statue does not permanently change their positions?”) To his real subject: the arcane campaign finance.
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