"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..."
I’m sick of having politicians read speeches they did not write. How long has it been since we’ve had a candidate that not only delivers a speech but has written it himself?
Cain does both, and does both very well.
“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!”
If you want to represent the intellectual wing of the party, you might try to improve your reading comprehension of the above quote. You said this means “he doesn’t need to be bothered with the pesky little details.” That’s in direct contradiction to where he says, “I believe in having all the information. As much of it as I possibly can.” His statement is quite clear in what he is saying, you seem to be willfully misreading it.
I think Cain is quite correct in this instance. Asking specific questions about specific countries is a crap shoot because only those with full security clearance actually have the full background to know how to respond. Candidates who shoot from the hip about what they would do to this or that country are idiots who are making half-baked decisions. It is much better for a candidate to talk about foreign policy principles than it is to say what they would have done with Libya.
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There.... fixed it. As Mongrel said, now do you understand what he was saying?