However, executive experience in government isn't quite the same as executive experience in business. A CEO has to work with the board of directors, but I doubt that Godfather's board of directors was made of up 435 members with all of the competing agendas that we find in Congress.
Mr. Cain certainly didn't show any decisiveness in his answer about Afghanistan. They weren't asking him to come up with a complete policy stated in one minute. They were asking him to show that he had studied the issue and had a coherent thought process. His answer was a one-minute long, debate equivalent of voting "present."
Herman Cain is a good man. I'd be proud to support him against Obama if he got the nomination. I see nothing to suggest that he's some kind of special winning candidate. He appeared to be a good man saying the right things but generally out of his league.