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Cain’s campaign on Libya gaffe: He had four hours of sleep last night and was taken out of context
HotAir ^ | Monday November 14, 2011

Posted on 11/14/2011 8:32:53 PM PST by Bigtigermike

Good enough?

“The video is being taken out of context,” said spokesman JD Gordon. “He was taking questions for about 30 to 40 minutes on four hours of sleep. He didn’t say anything wrong or in accurate; it just took him a while to recall the specifics of Libya.”

Gordon added, “It just took him a while to gain his bearings.”

The clip was posted unedited by the Journal-Sentinel so I don’t know what context he thinks was missing. Is there some context that would explain why he needed the editorial board to remind him whether Obama is pro- or anti-Qaddafi? Because I’m thinking pretty much every one of our readers could nail that detail even on three hours’ sleep.

According to Andrew Rafferty of NBC News, “When I asked Cain if today’s Libya gaffe builds on idea he doesn’t have in depth knowledge of foreign policy, he simply said, ’999”. Not a joke.

I guess we’ll be okay as long as President Cain never gets a phone call at 3 a.m. The irony of today’s supergaffe is that I think it’ll do him much less harm among primary voters generally than the harassment charges have, even though his hair-raising vagueness on key foreign-policy details is much more certain than whether he did anything to his accusers. Only political junkies will see the Libya clip; thanks to Gloria Allred, everyone’s seen the Bialek presser. ABC’s out with a new poll tonight, in fact, showing Cain’s favorable rating now stands at 29/44, a steep drop from last month’s rating of 31/27. That’s a poll of adults, not of voters, but don’t forget that Rasmussen also found his favorables underwater at 37/51 in a poll of likely voters last week. I don’t know how he turns that around

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; 3amcall; 3amphonecall; 999; cain; caingaffes; gaffes; gop; hermanator; hermancain; msm; notfromtejas
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121 posted on 11/15/2011 12:48:43 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Paperdoll
Well, then call 99% of America, including me, is ignorant.

But you're not running to be the boss of all of those employees. You'd think he would know their status. Heck, I'm not a federal employee, and I know that they're unionized.

122 posted on 11/15/2011 1:06:07 PM PST by VillageDamien
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To: VillageDamien

Hey oh deaf one. People get whateveer news is out there for them. A sitting president gets thoroughly briefed every day and tosses it around;with his advisors, but he has the final say so, and of anyone running, I trust Mr. Cain to do the right thing. So why ask anyone not in that position such a question anyway?

It was a set up! And you fell for it!


123 posted on 11/15/2011 1:33:31 PM PST by Paperdoll (II like Herman Cain)
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To: ASA Vet
RUSH LIMBAUGH'S DEFENSE OF HERMAN CAIN TODAY (CLIP AT LINK)
124 posted on 11/15/2011 5:04:14 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Just remember. When they attack ANOTHER Conservative Candidate they are just practicing to get YOURS)
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To: 07Jack

>> This is the first time I can remember an print journalist editorial board releasing such a video.

Bait for the proud piranhas.


125 posted on 11/15/2011 5:25:01 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jet.)
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To: trumandogz

Uhh.. this is sarcasm, right?


126 posted on 11/15/2011 7:27:16 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: Bigtigermike

Cain seemed to me to have suffered through his brain freeze as did Perry, but the two suffer differently. Perry basically, in my opinion, did not during his freeze look so personally tragic about it. Cain nearly crawled out of his chair and up the wall behind him. Perry took it in better stride and simply apologized, with some humor by adding “oops”. Cain appeared far more personally uncomfortable with himself. What that means, I have no idea. Just my two cents.

Cain has still peaked, so it isn’t going to matter.


127 posted on 11/15/2011 7:34:33 PM PST by RitaOK (Rick has fallen, Cain has peaked. Romney or Newt?)
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To: bigdaddy45

Sarcasm, no.

Satire.


128 posted on 11/15/2011 8:52:21 PM PST by trumandogz (In Rick Perry's Nanny State, the state will drive your kids to the dentist at tax payer expense)
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