<<Why is it amusing for somebody's reputation to be smeared by false accusations? That's sick.>>
Why was $80K paid out for "false accusations?" That is way beyond the "nuisance value" at which most baseless claims are settled. Especially cases where trial would have been quick and easy, there being no documentary or physical evidence involved, and a "thorough investigation" having already been conducted by the employer and Cain's ass already out the door before the settlement was even signed.
<<One woman works in the Obama administration and her son works for Politico . . . >>
That was an outright lie, which the Cain campaign has already had to retract. Someone with the same last name as the accuser but not related to her at all had previously worked at Politico but had been long gone by the time Politico broke the story.
<<and the other lived in the same apartment building as Axlerod. >>
Now THAT is a serious allegation. Living in the same apartment building as David Axelrod can easily make one a slave to his nefarious plots. All I can say in her defence is that she probably didn't check the full tenant list carefully enough before moving into that building and falling under his evil spell.
<<I do not believe these accusations are genuine.>>
Nor do I. It is just bad luck and sheer coincidence that four different women, all on the payroll of the same company, one living at the same address as David Axelrod and all of the others within a five-mile radius of his apartment building have come forward with these accusations against him.
I was kind of wondering, though - - why did these four crazy bitches all come out against the Hermster, and not, say, against Mitt Romney or The Newt? Then I realized - - of course!!! Cain's the front runner. It's the old principle, concentrate your fire. Once he's knocked off, the four crazy bitches will change their story and accuse the new front runner with sexual harassment. Or to make it even more credible, Axelrod will recruit four NEW women from his apartment building to launch the new wave of fake sexual harassment charges against the new front-runner. The beauty of his scheme is that it's self-replicating. That building has an endless supply of crazy bitches. The REAL trick is getting them onto the payroll of whoever employed the front-runner back in the day. It's a trade secret that Axelrod will never reveal. If he does, Gloria Allred will have him killed by a fake heart attack.