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    Herman Cain: God told me to run, 'I was like Moses'

    David Edwards
    November 13, 2011 12:42PM ET
    David Edwards
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    Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain says that he was shocked when God told him to run for president.


    "Before President Obama took office, I never even conceived or thought of running for president," Cain told a group of Young Republicans in South Carolina Saturday. "It was only after he took office and I saw his arrogant disregard for the American people that I know that I had to do what I could do. ... That when I prayed and prayed and prayed. I'm a man of faith. I had to do a lot of praying for this one."

    "And when I finally realized that it was God saying that this is what I needed to do, I was like Moses: 'You've got the wrong man, Lord. Are you sure?'"

    Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Nov. 12, 2011.

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