Posted on 11/06/2011 11:33:55 AM PST by smoothsailing
worship of any candidate boggles my mind
Very well put. Leave the iconic candidate idolatry to Marxist/democRATs.
Cheers,
OLA
While I can see some truth to concerns about Cain’s views in foreign affairs, would not any President rightly look “at all of the information provided by the intelligence community, the military” before they chose a response to an action by Iran?
That part of Cain’s answer appeared to be laughed at by the questioner, but I think Cain’s answer equated to what any President should do first - consult with the principal advisers.
Go to your room!
Just laugh it off. It is only Gandhi’s Phase Two that frontrunner/threat Herman Cain is, and HE HAS TO BE, going through. He’ll survive. They will eventually stop and pick on someone else.
She was just on CNN, Piers Morgan. He asked about foreign policy and presidential candidates. She said very few presidential candidates come in with much understanding of foreign policy, however, they become very familiar with foreign policy very quickly.
She didn’t think it was a big deal.
She also gave no indication who she favors. She said she is enjoying watching it all as a regular citizen.
She also said she’s happy being a regular citizen, and doesn’t want to go back into politics.
Cain knows more about America’s place in the world than Obama did and does. I would expect a President Cain to appoint people like Boulton and Gingrich to help him. An executive hires the best and brightest as subordinates.
For a professional writer, Mr. Caruba would seem to be forgetting his grade-school spelling and the repetitive drills everyone suffers through (for about twelve years, it seems) on recognizing and differentiating homonyms in the English language. I suspect he might also confuse "there" with "their" and "they're", "through" with "threw", "except" with "accept" and "week" with "weak".
It's really risky to just run an article through a spell-checker before it's to be published on the Web. If it gets read at all, it's likely to be copied, emailed, snipped and shipped to parties with potentially sharper eyes for usage and spelling errors than the author's own.
If by chance Mr. Caruba was using someone else's transcript of the Cain interviews he quoted in his column, it would be permissible to insert "(sic)" after any misspelled words; otherwise it tends to cast the subject as uneducated or illiterate, and we know Mr. Cain is neither.
I know, Caruba's defenders will contend this is not as bad as the out-of-context sound bites that are the stock-in-trade of TV newsrooms. I agree. That kind of "journalism" reflects poorly on all those reporters, editors, producers and talking heads that employ that method of generating higher ratings.
Regardless, writers need to make sure that a quote represents the best estimate of what the subject actually said, hems and haws included as appropriate--but not misspellings. Leave that for the candidates' media releases, where you'll likely find many.
Some posters don't like criticisms of Perry. Some posters don't like criticisms of Cain.
SFW!
BTW, look at your own post. It's not that you are offering reasoned criticism of Cain. Instead you have come on to a thread trashing unnamed posters without provocation.
You're wrong. Cain has criticized Mitt. I documented Cain's criticisms of Mitt several weeks back in a post.
Love, love, LOVE IT!
And you think Obama’s doing a great job.
But...he doesn’t know anything about foreign policy, so how can this be?
What a GREAT statement!
Proof that we are on the Religion Forum.
Unless you were being sarcastic.
Good post.
I take exception to “genial,” however. He has a nasty temper, which appears if anyone questions his CEO status in anything.
He made a few rude remarks to Speaker Gingrich, who despite his weak points has a stature and learning and qualifications that dwarf Cain’s and deserve respect.
That China is thinking of developing nuclear weapons? I'm surprised he didn't go on TV the next day and say something like "It was a slip of the tongue. I meant Iran." Or maybe did and I missed it.
You might have noticed that other candidates support Israel. Of course that might just be because Ron Paul doesn’t.
Cain uses improper English (and I don’t mean the intentional lapses for dramatic effect). Am I nitpicking now? Well, the Founders used too many commas, so maybe it is OK.
That was after he was criticized for never criticizing Romney!
And yet again you wonder why you are getting flamed.
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