He made Wallace define it, by not attempting to answer and repeating the phrase with a ? after it twice. Wallace then defined it, then Herman answered it. I think it was clear to anyone of common sense that the catchwords were not in his mind, but the concept was. So what?
C’mon, it was a full stall. Wallace’s first “clarification” didn’t add much either, just added the qualifier “Palestinian.” Then Cain is off and away on dumping it into the “just negotiate it” bucket, a nice, safe, ambiguous catchall that doesn’t require Cain to expose his lack of understanding. Then Wallace presses him because he knows he’s hiding in ambiguity, and Cain is now stuck with a doctrine of negotiation of what Israel has said is nonnegotiable. A gaffe is a gaffe. All politicians are human and all make mistakes. It’s just better to not look like you’re trying to cover up for what you don’t know, especially to key demographics for whom this is clear and open knowledge.
“He made Wallace define it, by not attempting to answer and repeating the phrase with a ? after it twice. Wallace then defined it, then Herman answered it. I think it was clear to anyone of common sense that the catchwords were not in his mind, but the concept was. So what?”
Oh, for heaven sakes. Cain blew it bigtime. He had no clue what Matthews was asking him about. Even after Matthews gave him a big hint. Stop trying to cover for him. Cain doesn’t know foreign policy, and we already have one guy as Prez who doesn’t know it either. Why would we want another foreign policy illiterate, even if both Cain and Obama are smooth talkers. That’s not good enough, being a smooth talker. Cain’s off my list because he doesn’t have even a smidgen of foreign policy experience or knowledge, in an incredibly dangerous world.