“I loved it,” Cain said, according to local news site MLive.com. “I thought it cut through the clutter. You know, mamby-pamby commercials aren’t going to make it in the media or the political world. I don’t think it was insulting at all. I don’t think it was racist at all.”
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The ad, which ran during the Superbowl, featured an Asian actress speaking in broken English. She dubbed Hoekstra’s opponent Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) “Debbie-spend-it-now.” Hoekstra defended the ad against charges of racial insensitivity, but the featured actress apologized for taking the role. The video was later removed from the campaign website.
Cain criticized the “outrage” over the ad, saying that as a candidate he lacked similar defenders.
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