America says GoodBye to a Great American

Herman Caine died this week from complications due to Corona Virus. My husband and I admired him and supported him in his run for the Presidency in 2012. Mitt Romney won the nomination and lost the Presidency. Maybe it should have been Herman all along. Whatever the case, he was a great man with a beautiful always present smile. He was kind, funny, intuitive and natural. He was also an associate pastor for many years. He knew and loved Jesus which must have been a large part of that smile. He also loved America and the American dream which he personified. He will be missed for his calming influence, positive attitude and ability to make any place he was seem like the place you wanted to be. Did I know him? No. 
It just felt like I did.

Here is a great excerpt of an interview Herman did with writer Byron York. It is the perfect picture of 
Herman Caine, 

beloved American.

"CAIN DEEPLY BELIEVED THAT AMERICA NEEDED someone who would bring a businessman's perspective to the White House. "I've actually run stuff," he told me. "I've actually fixed stuff. I've actually solved stuff." As evidence, he cited his turnaround of Godfather's, which was losing money when Cain took over in 1986. He would do the same thing, he said, with the United States, still suffering from the Great Recession in 2012.
"I spent the first 60 days of my time at Godfather's listening, to figure out what we needed to do," Cain said, leaning back at his desk. "It wasn't complicated: get back to basics."
"Number one, we had too many products on the menu," he explained. "We had gotten away from our core product. We had too many crusts.  We had the original Godfather's pizza crust, we had the original Godfather's pizza, and then we had three imitations that looked like Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Little Caesar's. I got rid of the three imitations, and we got back to focus on the one we were good at. Number two, we simplified the operations, because if you simplify the operations, you make it possible for the people in the restaurant to execute exceptionally well every day. When you've got too much stuff, they can't execute. Number three, we instilled in the company that we could, in fact, win again."
The same approach, he said, would work to shrink and simplify the workings of the U.S. government. "So in your view," I asked him, "America has too many crusts?" "Yes!" Cain exclaimed, breaking into a long laugh. "America has too many crusts! And we've got to simplify things, clarify things so that we can achieve real progress. You get it!"