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Cain says he's ready for questions about "Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan"
SeeBS News ^ | 10 Oct 2011 | Sarah Huisenga

Posted on 10/10/2011 4:10:20 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss

In a novel attempt at lowering expectations, Republican candidate Herman Cain told an interviewer recently that he plans to simply answer "I don't know" if he is asked "gotcha" questions by reporters covering his campaign for president. "I'm ready for the 'gotcha' questions and they're already starting to come," Cain said. "And when they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan, I'm going to say you know, I don't know. Do you know?"

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Cain replied, "I'm ready for the 'gotcha' questions and they're already starting to come. And when they ask me, 'Who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan?' I'm going to say you know, 'I don't know. Do you know?' And then I'm going to say, 'How's that going to create one job?' I want to focus on the top priorities of this country. That's what leaders do.

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Uh-oh, he just completely alienated the Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan vote!

Herman Cain: ”The United States of America is NOT going to become the United States of Europe – not on OUR watch!”

1 posted on 10/10/2011 4:10:22 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

Oh dear, now Cain detractors have a new talking point:

“He thinks there is a Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan!!”

(snicker)

I love Cain’s sense of humor.


2 posted on 10/10/2011 4:13:13 PM PDT by justsaynomore (Cain 2012 - http://teamcain.hermancain.com)
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To: justsaynomore

He should look the MSM reporter in the eye and say:
“Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan? Isn’t that right next door to Derkaderkastan?”


3 posted on 10/10/2011 4:16:38 PM PDT by hawkboy
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To: Meet the New Boss
This is brilliant. I hope the epsilon-minus semi morons of the media will give it a lot of play. Now, whenever a gotcha question surfaces, the public will remember this, and it will fall flat or even backfire.

Cain is nobody's fool.

4 posted on 10/10/2011 4:17:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: justsaynomore

On second thought, maybe we shouldn’t snicker — who knows how many illegals from Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan are in the country and voting with fake ID?


5 posted on 10/10/2011 4:20:37 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

I think Cain is getting some pretty good advice. If he doesn’t know something, just defer and say he will get back to the interviewer if it is important enough. Just as he didn’t need to wade into the FEMA matter, the N*Head “controversy.” the “Romney is a Mormon” non issue, he needn’t let the interviewers get him off his message by bringing up petty crap. He appears to be getting more media savvy each day. And that’s a GOOD thing!


6 posted on 10/10/2011 4:21:00 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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Cain needs to remember he's auditioning for president, commander-in-chief, and leader of the free world--not comedian-in-chief. He needs to know some of this stuff.

He has got to start getting serious about this. The more flippant he acts, the more doubts many people will have about whether he's really ready for the job.

Cain is surging and has a golden opportunity to do something special here. Does he not realize this? If he doesn't, or if he does realize it but doesn't really care to put in the effort, do we really want him in the job?

7 posted on 10/10/2011 4:21:32 PM PDT by behzinlea
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To: behzinlea

Relax, it’s okay to make a joke once in a while.

*************

QUESTION: What would you bring to the White House?

Cain: Sense of humor because America is too uptight.


8 posted on 10/10/2011 4:26:57 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: hawkboy

or as Mark Steyn would say, “It’s on the far side of Hoogivesastan.”


9 posted on 10/10/2011 4:28:05 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Meet the New Boss

“Uh-oh, he just completely alienated the Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan vote!”

And made fun of Perrys’ vaunted speaking abilities in the process. At least that is what some of the more....zealous of the Perry supporters might say.


10 posted on 10/10/2011 4:29:38 PM PDT by Grunthor (Heartless Bigot for Cain.)
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To: justsaynomore

There is. Uzbekistan.


11 posted on 10/10/2011 4:29:57 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: Meet the New Boss
I want to focus on the top priorities of this country. That's what leaders do.

Seems like when we think a presidency is going to be all about the economy, events prove otherwise.

12 posted on 10/10/2011 4:30:31 PM PDT by Huck (NO FEDERAL SALES TAX -- UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES)
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To: Meet the New Boss

what about Pahkoostahn? Obama cued me in on that place in 2007.


13 posted on 10/10/2011 4:31:28 PM PDT by Baladas ((ABBHO))
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To: justsaynomore

I can see the SNL skits already - “I can see Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan from my front porch”


14 posted on 10/10/2011 4:33:15 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: behzinlea
He needs to know some of this stuff.

He needs to know how to hire smart people to keep track of the details, bring the important things to his attention, and provide him with options to take decisions.

He has the ability to understand briefings, unlike the idiot usurper in residence now.

15 posted on 10/10/2011 4:35:12 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: mamelukesabre

You didn’t get the JOKE. As expected.


16 posted on 10/10/2011 4:36:16 PM PDT by justsaynomore (Cain 2012 - http://teamcain.hermancain.com)
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To: behzinlea
Him (Cain) knowing or not knowing who is the president of Uzbekistan is tantamount to knowing how the fry machine works at one of his restaurants. Just because a 15 yr old knows how the machine works shouldn't qualify him to be CEO and chairman Godfather's Pizza!

That is why you have the CIA.

17 posted on 10/10/2011 4:36:41 PM PDT by bubman
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To: justsaynomore
"As the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan, I take great offense at the ignorance of this man you call the Hermanator"


18 posted on 10/10/2011 4:37:23 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: mamelukesabre; justsaynomore

Are you a reporter? If not, you missed your calling.


19 posted on 10/10/2011 4:40:15 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter Hobbit)
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To: hawkboy
“Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan? Isn’t that right next door to Derkaderkastan?”

Just a little south of Trashcanistan.

20 posted on 10/10/2011 4:40:59 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I never win at Scrable.)
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