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Posted on 11/18/2011 10:27:21 AM PST by Steelfish
NOVEMBER 18, 2011 Cains Knowledge-Deficit Disorder 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 Cains 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 Obamas handling of Libya. You would think he had been asked who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan, Cains 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, thats a different one. He hesitated again. Got all this stuff twirling around in my head, he explained. Cain hadnt been asked about an obscure conflict or one distant in time. Were not talking the War of Jenkinss 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.
In the hierarchy of gaffes, Rick Perrys was more forgivable than Cains. Everyone has lost his train of thought; few of us have run for president knowing little about major matters of public import.
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No big surge here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/sc/south_carolina_republican_presidential_primary-1590.html
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