He’s actually a smart,educated man. He has a BS in Math, and a Masters in Computer Science. But being intelligent doesn’t mean being informed. You have to work to be informed.
It takes about 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. But it only takes a couple hundred hours to become well-read about something that interests you.
I don’t know everything about foreign policy. But I bet if I was hauled aside right now and grilled for 10 hours on foreign policy, I’d get the policy pretty much spot-on, even though I wouldn’t know who most of the leaders were (actually, I could probably identify which country a lot of the names were, if I was given the names).
If I needed to take a test on the subject, I’m pretty sure I could learn enough to get an A. I always could before. Cain clearly could in his day, and I don’t see any reason why he couldn’t do so now.
I would have to attribute his lack of knowledge at this point as more of a willful ignorance. If I were to speculate, I’d say that if he worked at it, but not hard, he’d be better, but not good enough — and it’s easier for him to be lousy at it, and be openly derisive about the idea of having to learn, than to actually WORK at it and still come up short.
But maybe he simply has so many things to learn that he hasn’t had time to get around to foreign policy yet. That’s the problem with picking a political neophyte and pretending they could be President.
You know, in spite of the fact that you and I mix it up sometimes, I really enjoy reading your posts. They’re always so well thought out.
Cindie