Posted on 11/15/2011 7:43:28 PM PST by TBBT
This might be the ultimate Cain clip, just because his response is the perfect synthesis of his good and bad attributes. On the one hand, he’s not going to pander with a slick answer designed to reassure some reporter. He’s doing this the Cain way. If you don’t like his response, keep walking. On the other hand: What?
He clarified the Libya answer a few hours ago:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Krauthammer provides an apt analysis of the now infamous Cain moment.
But don’t feel dissed if you’re a Cainiac. Later he gives Newt a fare wallop on O’Reilly.
Charles has been accused of being Establishment in the past... But memory doesn’t serve well on his views of Romney...
Is looking up to Henry Kissinger on foreign affairs as bad as looking up to Nancy Pelosi on global warming?
Where did he say he was only kidding about Kissinger? Link? From what I read he said he TALKED to them about foreign policy not that he asked them.
Cindie
Since Krauthammer put down the tea party candidates and now pushes Romney, he does not deserve the attention of anyone who wishes to save the Republic IMHO.
NEIN
The mans, what, 88 years old?
America needs to lighten up.
Is SNIDE your only active posting mode?
It is through the Hotair link above, but have to go down to Krauthammers remarks (HERE), or here it is.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68401.html
Saw the video earlier... Cain said he made the offer to Kissinger but Henry graciously turned him down.
To be fair... It appeared - at least at first blush - that Cain said this in jest. I didn’t re-watch the clip and didn’t watch that closely the first time.
Then again Cain was only joking about the electric fence, and then he wasn’t...
Just as I thought— just a simple-minded smart ass. I meet some in their twenties who are in college. They generally fail because they cannot think logically and refuse to do their homework — like reading background.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Precisely!! Does Cain really know when to stop joking around?
Apparently he needs to do more of if, because people ain’t getting the joke.
IMHO...
I watched the 5:16 minute long video; clearly the pause at the beginning was totally taken out of context. In the context of watching the whole video the pause does not come across as that long at all.
Mr. Cain points out, as he does seemingly all the time to “gotcha” reporters absolutely desperate to come up with a soundbite that will somehow magically turn voters away from his message of hope, good character, hard work and perseverance, that he, like most of us, is not privy to most of the information surrounding what the Executive branch does regarding national security and diplomacy. He always goes back to the simple truth, that all this internal information is needed to really second guess actions the goverment takes in situations like Libya, so second guessing much of what is done is not valid if the interviewer wants serious Presidential answers from a candidate.
Mr. Cain got to the essence of the Libya affair (in spite of the persistent, juvenile, political hack questioning), namely, the precise composition and intent of the opposition. And he managed to do this without being so bombastic as someone like myself who immediately would lean towards no action because of a lack of a formal Declaration of War in this particular case. A good Presidential candidate will be already thinking, as Mr. Cain shows he is, that he does not want to necessarily announce to the world a specific if-then rule, without qualification, that he promises to follow while in office, such as opposing or supporting every revolution that happens around the world over the next decade. Making brash foreign policy campaign commitments could prove to be quite unwise from a diplomatic standpoint as well as in dealing with the opposing party and the press during the candidate’s future term in office. That’s why a candidate that has rather staunch views, either to the right or left, has to tame down those views during a campaign because they sound too drastic for most people and would reveal possible future tactical thinking. Instead the wise Presidential candidate like Mr. Cain focuses on principles and mostly the highest level strategies; just enough to represent a plan.
The great worries of the establishment and the continual gotcha search of the left is one reason why the Ann Coulters of the world will be shocked when Mr. Cain is swept into office in a landslide election - because he’s a rock solid conservative and that is where most of the nation will be leaning by next fall. Another reason is that his demeanor is tempered just the right amount so that he will present a clearly-defined center-right alternative to Obama when their campaigns are publicly juxtaposed, and then once elected, he will have the mandate and the principles to actually take the nation on a more rightward tack in a noticeably more effectual manner than the typical politics-as-usual.
Did you just write that... Or was it a copy and paste?
Oh, but we have.
They say the average person has an attention span of only two to three sentences... I wonder does that apply only to listening or does that also include reading?
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