Herman Cain sings Lennon classic "Imagine There's No Pizza"

In this performance from 1991, presidential candidate Herman Cain sings (splendidly) a version of Imagine in which the lyrics have been changed to be about pizza. [via Gawker]

• [Timothy Krause]

  Pizza: the one thing wingnuts like Cain and the OWS protestors can agree upon!

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/33498942@N04/6186920999/

• [Cicada Mania]

  I’m glad to see Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are running his campaign.

• [jnordb]

  A world without pizza is a world I don’t want to live in.

• [Matthew]

  I think we know where he got the 9-9-9 plan from – get a pizza for $9.99!  I’d like a singing president, so I think I’ll vote for this guy!!!!!

• [Brainspore]

  His Lennon tribute was far more tasteful than his 9/11 tribute.

  • [MaxEmerika]

    I am permanently scarred after listening to that. And I thought Giuliani overdid 9/11.

• [lknope]

  “Imagine there’s no Herman Cain”

• [djfrantz]

  I imagined no pizza the few times I ate at our Godfather’s, which eventually closed.

• [devophill]

  Apply the Wadsworth Constant. Better yet, skip it entirely.

• [R. Scott LaMorte]

  Apparently he can’t imagine a world without religion, war, and so on.

• [e smith]

  Somehow an American  president that made a fortune making shit pizza is… oddly appropriate.
  See, it’s like a whole bunch of different toppings (people) thrown togeather that should make a delicious end product but really just sucks. 

• [Romeo Vitelli]

  Is he sure he wants to admit knowing who John Lennon was?  Imagine what his supporters will say!

• [millie fink]

  I think it was Hemingway who said to F. Scott, “Those singing Republicans, they’re different from you and me.”

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y

• [Mister44]

  It’s nice to see a politician with a sense of humor.

  • [asterios9]

    Agreed.  I think a Cain nomination would be….hilarious.  Maybe not always intentionally so.

• [bfarn]

  Well if nobody else is gonna come forward and say they just threw up a little in their mouths hearing that, I guess I’ll have to be the first.

• [bfarn]

  I just threw up in my mouth a little bit from hearing that.

• [anharmyenone]

  Those are some pretty gangsters’ molls.

  Here are the lyrics:

  Imagine there’s no pizza
  I couldn’t if I tried
  Eating only tacos
  Or Kentucky Fried
  Imagine only burgers
  It’s frightening and sad

  You’re lucky you have pizza
  To feed for kids for you
  Only frosting or cookies
  And no dishes you must do
  Imagine eating pizza
  Each and every day

  You may say that it’s junk food
  But to me it’s so much more
  It gives my life its meaning
  And it makes a lot of dough

  Imagine mozzarella
  Anchovies on the side
  And maybe, pepperoni
  Rounds out your pizza pie
  Imagine getting pizza
  Delivered to your door

  You don’t have to give up now
  On my skateboard I will go
  I’ll be back in 30 minutes
  I just bought Dominoes

  All I am saying
  Is give pizza a chance
  All I am saying
  Give pizza a chance!
  All I am saying
  Is give pizza a chance

• [Lhasaluck]

  Thanks for the lyrics. Herman Cain won’t sing for me.

• [skyhawk1]

  All he is saying, is give his slice a chance.

• [George Ford]

  His voice is so bad he reminds me of Bill Murray doing his lounge lizard act on Saturday Night Live.  All Herman needs is a crushed velour jacket.

• [teufelsdrochk]

  I actually like Cain. I like people who view business as something you create, grow, and nurture. I think he’s quite right that the difference between him and Romney is that Romney is a ‘Wall Street CEO’….

  …and it’s just almost possible that he DOES understand that being pro-business and pro-corporation  are so far from being the same thing they’re almost opposites.

  What I want to know is, what’s he in this for? Is he trying for a VP spot? Is he going to turn Paul/Perot at the last moment and be in the race to shift it towards a worthy goal? What’s the angle?

  BTW, when asked for people he admired, he named JOHN BOLTON and HENRY KISSINGER.

  Hitch on kissinger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xghrs_N4Vuo

• [Mister44]

  Some one told me he has a paid theme song that is sort of Shaft-esque. Has anyone heard this or know where it’s at, or does my friend need to stop watching Frontline stoned.