Posted on 11/18/2011 7:26:16 AM PST by TBBT
He is running for president knowing little about major matters of public import.
Poor Rick Perry. His “brain freeze” is indelible, otherwise it would forever be eclipsed by Herman Cain’s more cringe-inducing meanderings on Libya.
At a meeting with the editors of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Cain was asked whether he agreed with Pres. Barack Obama’s handling of Libya. You would think he had been asked who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan, Cain’s joshing description of a prototypical gotcha foreign-policy question. What ensued was the longest five minutes of an editorial-board meeting ever.
Cain paused. Then he asked for a lifeline by trying to confirm with his questioner that President Obama supported the Libyan uprising. He started to say why he disagreed with Obama, but stopped after realizing, “No, that’s a different one.” He hesitated again. “Got all this stuff twirling around in my head,” he explained.
Cain hadn’t been asked about an obscure conflict or one distant in time. We’re not talking the War of Jenkins’s Ear or the Second Peloponnesian War. He seemed to all but have missed that there had recently been a Libyan War that had taxed the capacities of NATO, created an intense conflict with Congress over presidential war powers, teetered on the brink of failure, and divided conservatives. For Cain, Libya was little more than a rumor of war.
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I’m a big supporter of Cain, and that video did make me cringe.
That said, I size up all the candidates in a “T-chart” fashion. This one goes on the negative side for Cain, but it is pretty lonely over there.
$50 says Lowry is a Romney guy. Any takers?
Most Americans don’t know and don’t care about Libya. Its a burning issue for the MSM and the elites but Americans are focused on other things. They don’t like these “gotcha” questions. I’m not saying Cain is right on everything but quite frankly, 99% of the questions asked are just not what people talk about around the water coolers at work and around the family dinner table at home.
Let me ask my neighbor. I have almost every tool he ever bought because he will bet on anything.
If you watch the “Libya” video and the “wet foot” video, it’s pretty obvious that he’s never given any real thought to foreign policy. He’s just not qualified.
Hmmm...I’m pretty sure he realizes that there are 50 United States and that Hawaii isn’t part of Asia...Hmmm...
born December 13, 1945 in Memphis, TN (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Luther Cain Jr., born March 16, 1925 in TN, died March 29, 1982 in Atlanta, GA
Lenora Davis, born July 27, 1925 in GA, died August 20, 2005 in Atlanta, GA
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Herman Cain is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!
Click on the cane, (Go Cain.)
Exactly, and this holds true for any candidate. My favorite visual on FR the last couple weeks is the circular firing squad. We are killing off all the viable competitors to run in the general by utterly destroying our own. The second Perry entered, the entire field, the left and the right all piled on the guy out of the gates. He was like a boxer entering the ring against six Mike Tysons in his prime.
Cain rose up and once he got accused of by Politico, the same thing happened, and now it is starting with Newt.
No one is perfect, but your recommendation is so important. Do the pros and cons on each person, and then compare the field. We are picking one or two negatives on each and destroying them no matter how short the negative list is...and we ignore the positives. Perry, Cain, Gingrich...all would be a fine President and vastly better for the country for Obama. Romney would be vastly better than Obama, although I am not so happy with what he'd do for the conservative movement.
As for your point with Cain, you are exactly correct. This interview question was terrible for Cain, but it was one minute in a year long campaign. The timing was bad because he was already taking the hits, but we gotta focus on an overall pro and con list for each and make smart decisions. Our right-wing media is not doing any favors because they are jumping right in the pile, too.
I could use a nice multimeter. Switch it to that please.
Cannot disagree with El Rushbo! The man is rarely wrong about anything. Except maybe his marriages.
But that would be racist.
An MD making a diagnosis would never say out loud in front of a patient, “No, that’s a different one. Got all of this stuff twirling around in my head.” Neither should anyone aspiring to be the president.
You can't do that.
As soon as state-controlled attacks a conservative candidate, you must abandon that candidate.
It's the law.
I felt from the very beginning that the thing wrong with taking Cain's candidacy seriously is that he was simply an affable, likeable personality who enjoyed opining on things in a general sort of way. In fact he had made his living doing just that for the last nearly 20 years, first as a lobbyist (which is really just another name for a schmoozer) then as a radio personality and motivational speaker. He seems to have zero background - as the author says, he doesn't even seem to read the newspapers - and doesn't even prepare on topics, probably because he doesn't have enough information to understand them. So he relies on his personality to carry the day (and his habit of referring to himself in the third person is creepy).
He comes across as a sort of quirky old man who might be at home gossiping in the barber shop and sharing opinions with equally uninformed old men.
And just saying that Barack Obama also relied on his popular personality (although I must say that I find his personality extremely unappealing) to make up for his lack of smarts and information is not going to cut it. We've all seen the effects of having an uninformed ideologue who sees his very person as God's gift to the US, and I don't think we want to repeat the experience.
What was that funny line the Newt supporters always bring out when anything critical of Newt is posted?
Something about a “circular firing squad”.
The stench of hypocrisy wafting off the Newt team is getting quite potent.
“Multimeter”. Neighbor should be on American Pickers show. He has five acres of stuff laying around that he has bought from tradesmen going out of business.
I spent many years in the military, when it comes to Libya, I wonder why were we involved? To remove a dictator? To arm Alqaeda? Protect Europe’s oil delivery? To give Obama a boost in ratings? To divert interest away from domestic scandals? Libya wasn’t and isn’t our major problem, our economy is. I don’t care what they think, I believe Cain will appoint his own experts and we’ll be better off than we are now. Hopefully he’ll appoint people for their knowledge and expertise and not for their financial contributions.
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