During the past week, according to most major polls in America, Herman Cain has now become the leading contender to win the Republican nomination to contest Barak Obama for the presidency of the United States.

Because I am aware that many of the readers of this blog do not follow American politics as diligently as your faithful correspondent, and because, as you must know by now, one of the main responsibilities of this blog is to provide, as a public service, special insight into the Amerikan psyche, I feel it is incumbent upon me to introduce this person to you now, and to comment on his progress as the campaign season progresses.

So today I present to you the basic background of this candidate. You should know, for example, that Mr. Cain is the CEO of a chain of Mafia-themed pizza shops called “Godfather’s” (I am not making this up). But you should also know that Mr. Cain is a very “spiritual” man, a man of God who feels he should be about the Lord’s business, and has recorded many Gospel based albums (not this either). But, Mr. Cain feels, he should mainly be about his own business as well because he feels that the two are inextricably intertwined – that there is a relationship between how much money you make and how much the Lord favors you.

And so, and by way of introduction, I would like to present to you Mr. Cain, in front of the Omaha (Nebraska) Chamber of Commerce and Omaha Business Association, “announcing” the fact that he has just bought the Godfather’s Pizza franchise.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Herman Cain who may very well be the next President of the United States:

(By the way, this is actual, it is not from Saturday Night Live or a parody. To paraphrase the Pet Shop Boys: What did we do…What did we do…What did we do to deserve this?)