Speak the Speech, I pray you.

 I’ll begin with Herman Cain’s closing speech from the Republican debate. This is a point where candidates can prepare a direct address to the public, and it is known beforehand:

“A poet once said ‘Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it’s never easy when there is so much on the line’ and we have a lot on the line”- Herman Cain

The poet he is quoting is Donna Summers. But the song is something she recorded recently, for Pokemon the Movie: 2000. Millions of people watched that debate, and watched a political candidate quote a children’s television movie which made $45 million dollars to date. 

Millions also watched as he stated his greatest strength he would bring to the White House: his sense of humor “because America is too uptight.” These are deliberate lines inserted into a serious situation under the mask of serious intentions. While quoting Martin Luther King Jr. or another great leader may have been more appropriate, and amongst the politician scrambling to appear professional, here we have a candidate that quotes kids movies and talks in jokes.