Posted on 10/16/2011 11:25:34 AM PDT by Def Conservative
When pressed for answers today on Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq, the best Cain could do was to repeat his mantra that he would consult experts and then figure it out. Which is to say that he knows he hasn’t a clue but hopes no one will care. The program also produced Cain’s admission that he had no familiarity with the neoconservative movement. While being a subscriber to COMMENTARY isn’t a requirement for the presidency, the idea that someone running for that office had not even heard the term suggests that Cain is not only bereft of foreign policy experience, he apparently has never even read much about it.
As COMMENTARY readers know, neoconservatism has a long and honorable history as the movement that helped mobilize the country to oppose détente and the Soviet Union as well as having played a key role in critiquing the failures of the welfare state. During the Bush administration, leftists used the word as an epithet seeking to demonize those who believed not only in the need to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but also in the whole idea of promoting democracy abroad. After all that, it truly says something about a public figure that would admit to never having heard the word or to know what it might mean.
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Well Romney is known to be a military and diplomatic genius./S
There ya go. Obama wins by default.
Sheez. . . .
Well you have to admit he's not a foriegn policy expert like Romney and Perry...oh wait...
Why anyone would want to be president is beyond me. But I suppose if I had the the other sense that Herman Cain has in spades, the Common Sense, a dedication to repair the broken, the resuscitation of the unbroken is the driving force behind Herman Cain.
One of the greatest thing he has going for him is that he is not a politician. Carer politicians brought us to where we find ourselves today. Washington reeks with corruption caused by career politicians. Washington is in desperate need of some fresh air!
Please do not lose sight of the fact that Congress is full of career politicians. Before any moves to reparation, Congress needs to have it’s House and Senate thoroughly cleansed of crusty Communists, then have term limits imposed on both, with no pensions!
The real war being waged in America is the Leftists war against the middle class (the Tea Party) which is a purely Communist concept! Obama and his crony-Communists want a two class society. The very poor and the elite!
Herman Cain said Reagan was correct with peace through strength. IMO, Herman Cain has the strength of character to achieve the viability of the American Dream ,which will be gone forever if Establishment’s Mitt Romney, Establishment’s Perry, or Muslim-Communist Obama take or retake the wheel
I heard his electric fence joke was real knee slapper.
Like I admired Perry’s “Ponzi” and “treason” comments, before I learned that he has little capacity for debate.
Well it's an honest answer. Would Perry, Romney and the rest make decisions without consulting experts in that field.
This statement is crap, Herman has already given some defense and foreign policy answers based on his knowledge of ballistics, remember boys and girls he started his career as a rocket scientist! Then eventually went the main street business route.
Ravenstar
Excuse me, are YOU saying that Cain isn't smart enough to tap someone like a John Bolton for example, as Secretary of State to assist him with Foreign Affairs?
At least Cain isn't like that ignorant narcissist imbecile Obama who picked Hitlery Clinton, the most unqualified Secretary of State EVER.
Personally, I'll take Herman Cain who "knows what he doesn't know" and is smart enough to surround himself with experts in the field. Gee, kinda like Ronald Reagan did when he needed help to fix the economy, our military and foreign affairs after the damage Jimmy Carter did.
Does this MORON know what a neoconservative is?
Allow me.
A neoconservative (also spelled "neo-conservative"; colloquially, neocon) in American politics is someone presented as a conservative but who actually favors big government, interventionalism, and a hostility to religion in politics and government. The word means "newly conservative," and thus formerly liberal. Many neocons had been liberals in their youth and admired President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
I certainly wouldn't call Neoconservatism as having a "proud role" in this nation's history. Big Government Progressives, they are.
You're calling the most failed President in the history of this country "smart?"
Sure you're on the right forum there, bub?
According to Perry's wife, Perry didn't want to enter the race, but had to be pushed by his wife and others. That sounds to me like a guy who has no fire in his belly and little motivation.
We need someone who WANTS to lead this country out of the wilderness - and it ain't Perry...
Dude, have you looked at Cain's CV??
He has to be one of the sharpest guys to run for POTUS in a long time and easily the smartest of the current field of GOP contenders.
Don't worry, he is a quick study and and his experience as a successful senior business exec will be good training to surround himself with competent people who will give him all the facts and offer their advice on foreign and domestic issues - and he'll make the appropriate call.
Obama will never get the hard questions in any debate, none of the news outlets have the balls to try it. let us see if he gets the kind of questions that Rommney, Bachman, perry or Cain have gotten.
I guess that would mean you can’t support Perry as well.
After three years of Obama and his race baiting and all the marxist socialist crap we have had to put up with I said that I would never vote for another black American for president. I think I could vote for Cain because none of the others have shown me anything. But it is still too early to tell yet.
“no one has ever accused Joe Biden of being too inexperienced for foreign policy”
And wasn’t Biden’s (alleged) foreign policy expertise the reason Hussein chose him for VP? What a joke.
I agree with all you said. I figure that he’s been very successful in the business world and has held top-level positions. That proves to me that he has the ability to identify and recruit excellent experts in areas where he needs the best. Delegating to the right people is a sign of a great manager.
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