Good grief!
“Be a leader not a reader”, is a reference to the fact that Obama uses a teleprompter to speak. He’s reading off of it.
I suspect that Buckley would be thrilled to have a real life rocket scientist running for president.
"Some people want to say, well, as president you are supposed to know everything. No you don't. I believe in having all the information. As much of it as I possibly can. Rather than making a decision or making a statement about whether I totally agree or didn't agree when I wasn't privy to the entire situation."...."Who knows every detail of every country of every situation on the planet? Nobody!"
What he was saying is that he somehow just has this leadership ability and doesn't need to be bothered with pesky details (as if anyone said he has to know all the operational details). Nothing to do with Teleprompters.
Of course he is a smart man. I just don't know if he's an intelligent one. Obama, for example, seems to have all sorts of book learnin' but he is not intelligent. I've had enough of that, and just because Cain may have some of my moral point of view, that isn't the bottom line. The guy can't think on his fee--I've seen enough footage of him to decide that. If he says 9-9-9 one more time I'm gonna kick the TV in, and he seems popular now mostly because he's being attacked by people we hate. That's not enough to make him a good president.
I certainly didn't make up my mind about him over one video clip, but it is indicative of many other things.
And his cancelling the interview because it would be videotaped? If he can't stand up to some NH newspaper, he's not fit for the job. I'm sick of candidates whose every comment has to be followed by someone saying "What he meant was..."