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I was very fortunate to have as my professor in foreign policy studies to be a gentleman by the name of professor Lawrence. He had been a adviser to president Kennedy. The most important thing he said we have to understand about foreign policy is how quickly it changes, three months and it is mostly stale. The damage done and ongoing right now by the current administration; makes it impossible to predict where the world will be when Cain takes the oath of office.

Herman Cain is a CEO by training in a real world scenario, which has made him a great manager, which means he knows how to identify good people, no one knows every thing, except Obama that is and look how that’s working out.

I think that cult of foreign policy as a field requiring deep ‘expertise’, is silly mysticism that has it’s roots in European treachery. All an American president needs is an unshakable belief that America comes first,, period. Next, we are not going to involve ourselves in cheating and lies. PT Barnum’s honest man was the one you can’t cheat. Last, we should be a friend to all who will deal with us honestly, and stay away from the liars.
This vaunted expertise only becomes important when the president wishes to deceive the world and the American people of what he is actually doing.
America should not act like europe. Anyone who elects to deal
with us should know that there IS no hidden plan. This assures friends, and even makes enemies less dangerous.
If you neighborhood cop is meticulously fair and honest, it scares the shady, and warms the honest. But if he is corrupt, criminals are emboldened and always searching for ways to involve him in deeper and deeper corruptions. The good people will not become involved with him.
The foreign policy experts need it to be complicated. Honesty is simple. It’s time American foreign policy is Barnum’s honest man.

Herman Cain is sort of the republican version of Barack Obama, in the sense that everyone thinks he's kind of cute and gives him a pass when he fumbles the ball on an issue. We have to use big padded gloves on him. "Hell, he's never been a politician, man. Cut him some slack, he'll learn."

I don't buy into that garbage with either Obama or Cain. We elected an inexperienced rookie in 2008 and we're about to do it again? Two back-to-back guys with virtually no experience in government? One, a community organizer and professor (with minimal junior Senator credentials,) and another who led up a bunch of fast food companies that employed predominantly uneducated minimum wage workers.

I think Americans are dumber than hell. That's what I believe.