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Subscribe to RSSHerman Cain, who has struggled to explain his foreign policy, also said in that Milwaukee Journal Sentinel interview yesterday that he offered Henry Kissinger to be his Secretary of State, if he's elected president.
Kissinger, who's 88, "turned down my offer," Cain said. "He said he's perfectly happy doing what he's doing."
During the height of the sexual misconduct scandal surrounding Cain earlier this month left Washington, D.C., where he had several events, to meet with Kissinger in New York City.
Cain said others he's spoken to, who he'd consider for his cabinet, include:
- K.T. McFarland, who worked at the Pentagon under Caspar Weinberger and who more recently lost badly to Hillary Clinton for Senate in 2006;
- Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC);
- John Bolton, the former Ambassador to the U.N.; and
- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Cain said he "wholeheartedly supports" Paul Ryan's plan to phase out Medicare.
The paper has also published several other video excerpts, with topics including: collective bargaining, Occupy Wall Street, former President Bush's foreign policy, Iran, his experience, African-American support, support with women, campaign finance, his staff, and "ObamaCare".
Huffington Post first noted the Kissinger offer from the interview. More video here.
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At which point, Henry fell off his chair laughing uncontrollably!
Thankfully, he didn't break a hip!
At this point why doesn't Hermie just dig up Saint Reagan and give him a cabinet position as well...
Are the seniors paying attention yet?
Can this clown show get any more bizarre? <shakes head>
"we have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
John- F**ing -Bolton? Is this clown for real??
Hey, Hermster- I hear Dick Cheney is looking for work as a veep. Wanna give the man a call??
In other news, Herman Cain was observed pulling out his Ouija Board to contact President Nixon for advice on handling political scandal. The response received was 9-9-9.
What about Silly Sarah......ya' know, proximity to Russia..Putin and all of that!
There goes Cain with his fun with numbers vision for America, Kissinger is 88 so he can set em straight. It sure would be fine if he was 99.
Kissinger?!? Why doesn't he cut out the middle man and resurrect the corpse of Richard Nixon?
Kissinger? How did this brain fatigued goon run God Father Pizza?
Good for Henry Kissenger. I wouldn't want to be a part of the Herman Cain administration either.
yes,they saw the article written by AARP saying basically the same thing.Missed that one,did you Red?
Oh. My. God.
Did everyone look at the whole list?
It's like a bad Chinese take-out menu from all the failed Republican foreign policy years -- Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Iraq and Afghanistan.
And Paul Ryan, too, to balance the war-mongering budgets this would produce on the backs of the elderly.
Good grief, Charlie Brown. Good grief.
[It's like a bad Chinese take-out menu from all the failed Republican foreign policy years -- Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Iraq and Afghanistan.]
Anna, I totally agree...maybe Cain wants to bring us back to the 1980's, you know, the good 'ole war days.
And Ron Paul would like nothing better than bring us back to the 1700's.
Oh, and best of luck with the Walker recall petitions!
* as a side note, has anyone heard form Spanky lately? Hope everything is OK on his end...it's not like him to NOT weigh in on issues such as this...
Since he will be seeking advisors help on everything - we need to see a complete list of all of his advisors-to-be. You know all those experts that he will talk to after the 3AM phone call. He will be the President of all advisors - POAA - they will all be mini Presidents for different areas of advice.
Yes this is too silly!
Maybe he's actually WORKING for a change!
I'm not friends with Spanky off the boards, so I don't know, but I'm absolutely sure I saw him out here yesterday. I don't remember the exact context of his comment, but I do remember that "POS" was involved.
I totally get that about the work.
Can't you just hear Kissinger??
Who ESSS Dis guy?? Does he know who I AM???
[ I don't remember the exact context of his comment, but I do remember that "POS" was involved.]
LoL...now I remember...he was commenting on SCOTUS hearing the HCR issue next March...hence the "POS" comment.
Well that does it for me, I was hopin that his unpolished presence was due to his lack of desire to be a politician. We all make lapses and the MSM has been hitting him hard, you people will not see the passes given to others. As for the women comin foward, they were pretty lame so far in my opinion.
But to want Kissinger, He is a disgusting livin dead New World Order CFR cadaver like David Rockefeller and George Soros.
So he is running to provide just a distraction and to provide the circus. Where is da FREE Bread? LOL!
Regardless of what you think of Kissinger's tenure back in the 70s, you know he is smarter than to get involved with this Frikkin idiot.
Remember the Dominos campaign "Avoid the Noid" (Meaning avoid the bad pizza and order Dominoes)?
Well Cain is the Noid, please avoid.
(Though Dominos Pizza is fairly nasty too)
Because we all know Kissinger can travel the world so easily. Even with warrants out for his arrest. A "stay at home Secretary of State". Why not? We are looking at a sexual predator, a corrupt profiteer, a Texas simpleton and two Viagra models for President. Michelle Bachmann is starting to look like a viable candidate.
He's 88 years old, for crissake! Travel the world? He's lucky if he can travel to the bathroom!
Well, at least Kissinger still has his wits about him...which is more than I can say about Mr. Cain. What a silly man he is.
Since First Read leads with candidate blunders all day, will we see a headline about Obama , in Hawaii, claiming to be in Asia?
I'll take a misspeak over stupidity (ie Cain/Libya) any day. At least Obama was at an ASIAN conference, an understandable gaffe.
give it a rest Bob...no one is going to believe the Harvard law review guy is anything like your group of mental lightweights keeping us entertained day after day: dumb as a post. You'd have a bit more credibility if you just stick to what you don't like about his policies.
Ahh...yes...you mean the guy with nothing on his resume?? All fluff, no substance...
I thought Obama saying he'd been to 57 States was a Classic during his 1st campaign.
Well...I.M. even a teleprompter makes a mistake now and then...
Ahh...yes...you mean the guy with nothing on his resume?? All fluff, no substance...
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The guy with nothing on his resume but POTUS?
That might have been a valid criticism 3 years ago, but the President has been the President for YEARS...
That actually counts on the ol' resume and makes him the most EXPERIENCED, SUBSTANTIAL, person running for the job...
you know...doctrate, nobel,president, constitutional scholar......to GOP that just means "elitist". Obama with all that fancy book learnin'
gpotts,
Nobel?? You really want to include that?? On the job for 3 months and he wins the Nobel Peace prize?? Anyone with 1/2 an ounce of humility would have returned it in a second!
And I hate to tell you this...but all that over-priced education adds up to squat in running a country... By your standards then Ted Kaczynski would qualify for being a candidate for president since he was educated at highly prestegeous college (Harvard, I think...) too, right?
I am pretty sure hawaii is in the Asian-Pacific, and it is populated by asian aboriginals but all that is complicated to the occult members ( fox nation ) I wonder when Rupert Murdoch is gonna buy land in central or south america or oklahoma for that matter and get all of his cult ( fox nation ie; fox and friends ) to move there? I guess after the president wins a second term and the dems take back the house and one of the righty jurists on the supreme court croaks...I can't wait....Maybe it will be in the outback since that is his home anyway...They need to bring that old right wing act back known as the Alien an sedition act and hang murdoch for sedition........
[Since First Read leads with candidate blunders all day, will we see a headline about Obama , in Hawaii, claiming to be in Asia?]
At you're old tricks again, I see...your seat at Fox Nation and The Blaze is getting cold.
And if you really cared, Hawaii is considered part of the Asia-Pacific region...but we know you simply don't....care that is.
uh JK...so you're seriously going to still keep up that ridiculous arguement about the guy who was a US Senator, law Professor, who will have been President for four years, STILL doesn't have enough experience to be President?? ooookkkkaaayyy...let's see how that one works for ya. You've tried about everything else...
AP,
That wasn't my argument. But your gang seems to dwell on the fact of lack of experience of the current Republican candidates and simply forgot about about the lack of qualifications and/or experience Obama had back in '08. Comparing the experience to then and now is just as applicable. I would not argue that Obama wasn't experienced to be president now, but back then in '08, he had about as much experience to the run the country than any one of the current Republican candidates. What my other point was that having the degrees from Ivy League schools doesn't automatically make someone a better candidate for office, as if you used that benchmark then say a Ted Kaczynski would have made an equally qualified candidate.
So Pizza Man -- are you and Perry having a contest to find out which one of you is the biggest moron??
Corporate-sponsored fascism in 30 minutes - or your disorder is free!
Serendiphany...
SCORE!!
Good one, Serendiphany!
beautiful! LOL
He's going to need a heavy hitter as SOS, because he hasn't a CLUE. Becky-becky-stan-stan. Where's Libya?
RE: Becki Stan Stan:
See, being a southerner, he had no idea he was selling Pizzas- he thought he was selling PEACHES.
Notice how little press Palin gets lately? She ordered the HERB topping and she gets the silent treatment instead - I'll stick with Chef Boy-Ar-Dee!
Cain also asked Laura Bush to reprise her role as First Lady, Dan Quayle to come back as Vice President and Donald Rumsfeld to be Secretary of Defense. He also wants Joan Collins back on TV, she was so great in Dallas.
That's funny, Amy. Dick Cheney will be his Chief of Staff.
Too bad Rosemary Woods has passed, she'd be a terrific secretary. So good at transcription.
Kissinger, who's 88, "turned down my offer," Cain said. "He said he's perfectly happy doing what he's doing."
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I'm mean really...if you truly believed in the thought strategy of the Secretary, why wouldn't you tell him that and then ask who in his inner circle would he feel could perform at the same level?
The man is 88 years old and the Secretary of State travels relentlessly. What a dumb and insincerely question/offer.
Frankly, I wouldn't doubt if the Secretary looked him in the eye and told him that he was being presumptuous and to not write checks that your arse can't cash.
If he did, Allen, I hope Dr Kissinger said it in German. Nothing like a good tongue lashing in German.
This guy just gets better and better. Yeah, can't you just see Jim DeMint taking orders from a pizza man? And, Paul Ryan wants to be President some day (you know, when he grows up). John Bolton is probably more extreme than Hermie is. Every day is a new adventure with these jokers.
but DEE- ain't you heard? he (Cain) gonna wee-yin! Despite all the akka-zashions about those women.
Drive by
Haha! Yeah, that black walnut sure is tasty! As Chris Matthews says - you just can't make this stuff up, folks!
Henry Kissinger? Seriously? Beyond the idea that the man is 88 and no way he could handle the workload, the foreign travel schedule, the stress and do it for very long--my memory recalls, it was Kissinger who played a big role in our ever-increasing involvement in Vietnam, big role in keeping the truth from the people. One of the many who kept saying if we just send more troops, we can win.
John Bolton, DeMint? OMG--these guys would have us in war quicker than we can blink.
this man can never be president. neither can Michelle Bachmann, or Santorum, Perry, Paul, Gingrich or Hunstman. I wish everyone would stop playing this ridiculous game where people make believe that these people are worth listening to or that they are capable of being a president. Stop please! Even republicans must be aware of the weird skewing of reality that is going on. But then again, I could never believe that US would go to war in Iraq, and look what happened.
huntsman is actually pretty reasonable, which gives him no chance with today's GOP/TP
Did anyone watch the Gloria Cain interview last night on Gretta?
It was painful to watch, so many awkward moments. Greta asked Gloria if her husband would make a good chief executive, she respond with an unenthusiastic, "I think he would."
On their first date, Herman Cain said. "I didn't try to get fresh, not the first date."
I remember thinking when watching exerts from the interview how they sounded alike, used the same words and said things with such an undercurrent of naiveness.
It was like it was the same person..and that made sense to me knowing they have been married for 43 years. What is she supposed to offer in the form of a defense/critique when your husband is being accused of such accusations and is running for the GOP nomination? "...he would have to have a split personality..."
That's it?!?! To my ears that sounded as dumb as Herm's statement that because he couldn't even remember this person that alone was supposed to be enough proof to show innocence.
I must admit, watching people like the Cain's simply makes me angry at myself and how I clearly have not pushed myself to the limits and beyond of my own capability, because if these folks that have held such high-profile jobs in their lifetime can be this damn crazy...my lazy arse has really dropped the ball in what I think I can do.
I don't think Mrs. Cain likes Mr. Cain very much.
I just think she's better off being a well kept secret. (like her husband).
It is sad to hear her say her husband would never do thoes things. He try to put the leak on the Dem kmowing this lady belong to his party. U r not going to tell me she don't know her husband is a womanizer. When they show his son he did not have a smile on his face. His wife and daugther did. What do that tell u.
The Kissinger quote is enough for me, unless it was made as a joke. But really, for you people to use the womanizer charge against him so far is ridiculous and biased.
Joan Collins was not in Dallas...she was Mrs. Alexis Morelle Carrington Colby Dexter etc....in Dynasty.
She (Collins) WOULD have been on Fox 'News', if it were around then, and if she had any cleavage....
Not to worry all, Cain's falling poll numbers assure he's not gonna get close to winning the nom.
We were all hoping he would not worrying....I still hope he does...And the longer he stays in the better...That is more time for whoever gets it to agree with his 9-9-9 plan among other stupid right wing ideas....And then after the election he takes glenn becks time slot on Occult Cental Communications ( Fox News )
OH GAWD. THAT IS IT!!!!...Mr. Businessman wants to use that traitor pseudo intellectual Kissinger as SOS. The same guy responsible for the death of thousands of GI's while he argued about the shape of the table at the Paris Peace Conference. So tell me connies is there ANYONE of your candidates that "represents" the American People.
Cain..hasn't the slightest understanding of geopolitics...Any kid that took a high school civics class knows more than this poltroon.
And Speaking of Poltroons:
Mittens...No one in his family ever served.."they served in other ways" according to him.
Newt...Avoided the draft..He was smarter than the rest of us.
Perry...An airplane driver who never made it beyond Capt.
Jeeez....
Wait until you read Cain's interview next week in GQ. Gonna completely tank his run. (Although, the way the GOP is now days, it might shoot him back to the top!)
I find it amusing all you leftists are trying to outdo each other dissing these guys when the real Republican candidates haven't thrown their hats in the ring yet.
Explain your commentary. Tell me/us who the "real Republican candidates" are and I'm sure there is plenty of crazy about them as well.
If you knew...why didn't you name drop them in your comment?
And those candidates would be exactly who? Time's running out IMCurious; 50 days to Iowa and another week after before New Hampshire.
Like most republican poltroons..We saw the movie, "I AM Curious Yellow."
the real Republican candidates haven't thrown their hats in the ring yet.
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You know, the REAL Republican candidates...these guys obviously CAN'T be the REAL ones, can they?
This just in from TFH* news
IT' S...
J-E-B....
Third BUSH is the charm!
*tin foil hat news
It better be jesus himself....
You guys believe in fantasy too much. ( the earth is 6000 years old ) The filing deadline for financing has passed...These are the loons you are stuck with..Unless its a third party candidate you are waiting for ie; Teabagger. And that would just be dandy split you nuts right down the middle..
What?? Another wabbit, come to rescue the poor webupwicans?? WHOA!!!
So the "real" candidates are what standing by while the clowns entertain us!!!!!!
the real Republican candidates haven't declared themselves yet.
And they aren't going to this time around. They are waiting for 2016. They don't want to have to tackle the current problems and get their hands dirty. It is way too late for any new candidates. They couldn't get on the ballot in a lot of the primary states at this point, and I don't think the GOP will go to the convention and draft one of them.
I.M.Curious--Who they gonna call, Ghostbusters?!
Dear I.M. Curious (Yellow?)
You're definitely on to something....These guys are just decoys...several are actually made from wood..
Wait till you see the REAL candidates...they are gonna be AMAZING!
Wait and see!...:)
The REAL candidates are coming!!!!!
Trump coming to save the party I.M.??? LOL Wouldn't be surprised at this point.
I said earlier, it better be jesus, but he would never associate himself with today's GOP/TP. Jesus actually cared about poor, sick, hungry,young and old. Nothing like GOP?TP....
Who the leader of your cult ( fox nation ) Rupert Murdoch? He is buying land in the outback for you guys to sit around drinking Kool-aid watching Oreilly,Hannity and the likes....
You mean they really are going to reanimate the corpse of Richard Nixon?
Its too late for anyone else to get on some of the ballots and to file for financing, in most states the delegates are bound to vote for the candidate the state chooses in primary, so you are stuck with whoever wins the primary and no one else can get in on it.
"Crazy Cain" still have alot of mentally disturbed thoughts running through his very empty brain. WOW!! Not only is "Crazy Cain" mentally ill! He is very dangerous to our nation, our allies, and the rest of the world. "Crazy Cain" for 5 minutes was absolutely beyond dumb. The GOP/RNC are just Cognitively Disabled, and could never beat President Obama in a debate. President is respected by the rest of the world, and he knows how the world works. President Obama is very correct in all his Foreign Policy so far. When the people have an intellectual President? This individual is President Obama. Good things happen! That is fact!
Cain gets funnier, and funnier as the days go by! This man thinks wayyyyy too much of himself. LISTEN UP CAIN!!! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ELECTED... PERIOD!
Jody Iowa
Not sure if you were playing with word there in regards to Dick being his Chief of Staff. Seems it has been that way for a while.
Emil
Cain asked Kissinger to be Secretary of State....
I'd laugh if it wasn't so g-d---n frightening.
This headline made me laugh out loud for real. Kissinger??? at 88??? Surely he was joking. My goodness Cain just needs to shut up and sit down. OMG.
He is such a fool. Can he please go away now? Ok who's next? Everyone except Huntsman gets a shot vs Romney.
Who's next the pillsbury sourdough boy? or Mr dog on man?
Ive had enough laughs, this is getting insane. Watching them debate is like watching a wounded animal whine in pain.
Can we just skip to the big blue dog vs the man with no soul?
AP is reporting the Death of Henry Kissinger,he apparently laughed himself to death in his apartment...no suicide note was found..but a telegram from Herman Cain was found near the body !!!
That's hilarious!!!