Hermain Cain: Blame everyone except Wall Street

Cain: Wall Street is good, Obama is bad, and the rest of you are lazy

Cain: Wall Street is good, Obama is bad, and the rest of you are lazy

Herman Cain can't quite make up his mind on why the Occupy Wall Street protestors are wrong, but he's quite confident they are. Earlier this week he said:

"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks," he continued. "If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!"

OK, so we shouldn't blame the banks. Except that he said, during the same interview ...

Cain said the banks were in part to blame with the 2008 financial crisis, but he said, "We're not in 2008 -- we're in 2011!"

Yeah! Stop living in the past, people! That was three whole years ago! You can't keep blaming them for that.

So don't blame the banks. Do blame your lazy-ass self. Oh, but today in his speech at the Value Voters Summit (it's an annual get-together where the leading lights of conservatism all come together to complain about how immoral everyone else is) he had a slightly different take:

On the “Occupy Wall Street” protests, he said, Wall Street didn’t create Obama’s policies ... You can demonstrate all you want on Wall Street, the problem is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

All right, let's sum this up. The banks had responsibility for crashing the economy, yes, but being angry about that would be looking backwards. So instead, we should blame the Obama administration, which wasn't even in office at the time. Oh, and yourselves for being too lazy to be rich. You'd all be rich if you weren't so lazy. And if Obama wasn't something-something-something.

I dare say that sums up conservatism rather well.