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Subscribe to RSSHerman Cain suffered his own memory lapse in response to a question about Libya just days after Rick Perry's campaign tumbled following Perry's debate misstep.
Cain struggled for an answer when asked by the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel whether he agreed with President Obama's approach toward Libya.
Cain said:
OK, Libya. [Pause] President Obama supported the uprising, correct? President Obama called for the removal of Khaddhafy. I just wanted to make sure we're talking about the same thing before I say, 'Yes, I agreed' or 'No I didn't agree.' I do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason -- nope, that's a different one. [pause] I gotta go back and see. I got all this stuff twirling around in my head. Specifically, what are you asking me that I agree or not disagree with Obama?
Cain had previously criticized Obama's handling of the uprising in Libya in a debate this spring. Cain accused the administration of lacking clear objectives in Libya -- or, for that matter, Syria -- and called for the U.S. to develop a foreign policy strategy for each nation on earth.
The moment, though, invites parallels with Perry's moment of forgetfulness during last week's presidential debate. Perry struggled to remember the identity of the third federal agency he would eliminate.
Obama had weathered criticism from some GOP presidential contenders at the time for having authorized U.S. military airstrikes to aid the uprising against Kaddhafy's regime. Kaddhafy was captured and killed last month in Libya.
Cain has previously said that he didn't feel the need to master every detail of foreign policy issues, a sentiment he reiterated in his interview with the Journal-Sentinel, which was conducted on the record for about 30 minutes this morning.
I'm a much more deliberate decision-maker. It's a point that I keep coming back to. Some people want to say, 'Well, as president, you're supposed to know everything.' No you don't. I believe in having all the information, as much of it as I possibly can, rather than making a decision or making a statement about whether I totally agree or didn't agree, when I wasn't privy to the entire situation. There might be some things there that might have caused me to feel differently. So I'm not trying to hedge on the questions, it's just that that's my nature as a businessman -- I need to know the facts, as much as possible, I need to hear all the alternatives...I would want to hear all those views, look at the information, then I make the decision as the commander in chief.
This isn't the first time Cain has risked looking dismissive on foreign policy issues, either. He said, for instance, that he didn't feel the need to known the name of the president of Uzbekistan.
"I’m ready for the ‘gotcha’ questions and they’re already starting to come. And when they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I’m going to say, you know, I don’t know. Do you know?" he asked in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network last month.
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The liberal media at work again! Remember when they had the audacity to ask Sarah Palin what newspapers she read! Where is the justice!
Speaking of Sarah,someone sent her a new I pad in hopes that she would educate herself,unfortunately she returned it to best buy,she complained it was very uncomfortable and didn't absorb hardly at all.
"I got all this stuff twirling around in my Head"
And if they opened up his head they would probably find a couple P-U-S-S-I-E-S flappy around.
So Herman --- is this like selling pizzas??
It took (4) years to get rid of Sarah Palin....PLEASE tell me it won't take that long to rid ourselves of this self righteous cocky know nothing ignoramous Herman ( I wanna be white) Cain.
Don't panic,his book tour ends soon......
This reminds me of The Jay Leno show segment called Jaywalking.
Amazingly uninformed, pompous, 'I'm the Decider' idiot. A legend in his own mind and maybe his wife's.
Who wants to go to war in Iran....? Everyone who raises their hand for Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Gingrich. He is what he said he is, 'a Koch brother from another mother' and wants to get those No Bid contracts going for his 'brothers.'
Ron Paul is their only viable candidate but he isn't a warmonger.
Cain and Gingrich are both predator's of woman. Proven!
I want to see Bachmann's Birth Certificate for Gender proof.
Poor Poor Repods..... Wah.
I have laughed hard at some of Bush's gaffes, like the "breast and brightest" or the one about "there's an old saying in Texas, ....and then he forgets the punch line. Most conservatives have a sense of humor, we laugh at ourselves, at Republicans and Democrats but I have never seen a liberal laugh at a liberal, I have never seen a liberal criticize another liberal. Democrats use words like idiot, homophobic, tea bagger, neo cons, bigot, greedy, redneck and I could go on, to demonize, marginalize and destroy anyone who doesn't think like them. It's a shame that so many people on the left are really, deep down inside, intolerant.
Nice projection of all your side's qualities onto liberals.
what an idiot !
What makes me say that?
"He would have done a better job? But he doesn't know how good a job the Obama administration did, because he doesn't have the facts... he doesn't know, what they knew... he didn't see the reports... but he still would have done a better job"
One more proof, that he IS an IDIOT !
This blunder ranks right up there with a former governor gaining foreign policy experience because her state bordered Alaska.
This stuff would be amusing if these candidates were running for city council in Montana somewhere. But it is getting a little scary when they want to be the leader of the free world. I wonder if anybody asked him if he knew where Libya was?
Hey !!!!! What the hell did Montana do..........
Has anyone told these fools that they are running for Leader of the Free World - not Prom King!?
Ole King Cain was a little insane,yes a little insane was he....
If not morally bankrupted the Republican Party has nothing to offer the American people other than baffoons, mental midgets and morons. Yeah let's vote one of these jokers in because George W. Bush worked out so well for all of us. Bachmann, Perry, Cain...these people can't get out of their own way.
I agree, let's elect a community organizer who's wife hates America. Let's elect a guy who will add more to our debt in 3 years than Bush did in 8, let's elect a moron who thinks the Occupy Wall Street urchins are a good start to his re-election campaign and a guy who doesn't have a clue how to get our economy going. Maybe we can find a guy who will blame everyone else (like you're getting ready to do) rather than take ownership for his actions.
"Who's wife hates America"??? As soon as I read that I dismissed anything and everything else you said as garbage.
Pretty much everything he's said here is garbage. Lies, misdirection, deflection, and fake "facts".
As far as i know, Obama never authorized military airstikes...only support for them..don't think a single US plane dropped a bomb....logistical, smart bombs supplied, and fueling for nato....
Don't you think that's a smarter way to run it then spending a trillion dollars and 10 years throwing away our young men's lives (Iraq)?
Maybe Jay Leno should host the next debate..
Study history. The last president I could admire was John F. Kennedy. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter did know how to use critical thinking. Barack Obama uses his head and can explain both sides of an issue.
None of these Republican candidates can be admired for their intelligence or knowledge, IMHO. OK, I'll give a nod to Jon Huntsman. However, being wrapped in a religious cult, one can only go so far with free thinking. Romney is for business and the rich, end of the line. To think solutions for the poor, unemployed can be solved with a tax credit ignores the fact that if there is not enough income, there is no need for a tax credit.
Actually, what is really amusing and also more than a bit sad is that any of these Republican candidates are taken seriously at all.
This blunder ranks right up there with a former governor gaining foreign policy experience because her state borderes Russia. How ignorant can he really be about foreign affairs? It's got to be all about selling books. Oops, there is that former governor again.
This was clearly an ambush from the media types.
But some blame must go to Cain's campaign for putting him in such a situation. To put it in proper context they were bombarding him with questions on everything and anything in a span of one hour.
Why his campaign put him in this interrogation barrage is beyond me?
George WIII Bush would have started crying under them conditions.
Uhhhh, that's what debates are intended to do... It's not like it was a trick question!
once again...Herman said it was Perry who started this,everybody else is ...well....just enjoying it !!
Considering another nation may 'bombard' him with actual bombs, I think it is relevant that he should be able to think on his feet.
or his back at least....
Cain as president: "Now wait, was I supposed to bomb Iraq or Afghanistan?" "How am I supposed to remember all this while taking pizza orders at the same time?"
This article will never appear on Fox News.com
Is this the trailer for Idiocracy II?
Brawno, It's Got Electrolytes.
He makes me cringe and squirm with embarrassment and I'm not even related to this clown. C'mon man!
Why are there so many candidates of GOP/T stripe suffering from the delusion that they can do the job better than it's currently be done? If it gets termed "elitist" to have both intellectual capability and intellectual stamina, please give us a choice of a less non-elitist nature!
Let's see:
Gheto grammar
Sexual assualts---not twice but 5 times
Libya what???? Does I support or does I not supporrt---what was the question??
If the US is not the laughing stock of the world for our insane politics we will be if this uneducated moron gets elected.
At least Palin KNEW where Russia was!!!!!
Does the right have a lower expectation for Cain as a black man? Never mind, I just watched a clip of Perry, I guess race is clearly not an issue in this case.
As the Canidates get more comfortable so to the extended answers. Ask the question is it black, blue or white, and he answers with " First let me thank my followers, my wife, my kids, my mom and dad and brothers and sisters, than I would first like to comment on Deligate 4's position on building a fence in New Mexico to keep the Arizona Roadrunners out." " Mr speaker have I a few more minutes to comment on the City of New Yorks festival of the Snow Rabbit."
I believe that any one of the republican candidates would be better than the halfwit we have now.
Deep thoughts with the doctor....
And you know the President is a halfwit because you were in his graduating class at Columbia or was that Harvard?
Doc2 must be self-medicating again. C'mon man!