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Subscribe to RSSDuring his press conference today in Florida, Herman Cain was asked about his pregnant pause on Libya in his sit-down with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
In his response, Cain appears to believe -- mistakenly -- that there are elements of the Taliban in Libya that will have sway with the new government there. Cain said:
The Libya question was- the question was too broad. Now, I do admit that I was a bit fatigued but the question was too broad and so I paused and what they didn't show was I asked the reporter to be more specific. Well, he didn't get more specific.
His question was and I hope you all show this or write about it. Do you agree or disagree with President Obama on Libya? What part? Do I agree with the part where we intervene with rockets and missiles? Do I agree with siding with the opposition? Do I agree with saying that Khaddafy should go? Do I agree that they now have a country where you've got Taliban and Al Qaeda that's going to be a part of the government? Do I agree with not knowing what the government is going to do? Which part was he asking me about? And I was trying to get him to be specific and he wouldn't be specific. Then I went on to say, they didn't show this. If it were me as president, I would have wanted to know more about the opposition because now we see that not all the people in the opposition are our friends. I would have wanted to know more about well what was the result in government going to look like.
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Days later and instead of learning something about the circumstances in Libya this idiot doubles down on STUPID!!!
If I didn't know better, I would say Hermie is Sarah Palin in disguise...
Stick a fork in this turkey he's DONE!
SNL is going to have a field day this weekend! ;o))
I actually watched the clip of him saying this on Hardball. Almost dropped the bottle of wine I was opening!
Like I said the other day.... this dude has no business running for president.... he's absolutely clueless...for me to feel and believe that I know more than he does is absolutely scary to me. Shouldn't you dedicate yourself to learning a whole lot once you decided that you would like to lead the free world?
And about Newt being paid $37million from the health care industry.. that just blows my mind... I don't know, but I think this borders criminality.
The GOP is a useless party.
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Why does the media even fool around with this clown? The Cain train should have pulled into station 999 a long time ago.
Tunde,
I agree. My husband and I keep up on the news, probably more than most people, but we could have answered that question better than Cain. The idea that anyone running for the highest office in the land doesn't have a better grasp of current news events is just mind boggling. And yes scary!
With all that stuff twirling in his head, he meant to reply yes you can grab some tail in Libya, but being tired and all, it came out as catch Taliban in Libya.
It's not very often that I am at a loss for words - but, this is one of those moments!
You don't know whether to laugh or cry at the current crop of clunkers running...
I need another Newt story to wash the taste of Cain out of my mouth.
Me, too, Fiesty. It's just unbelievable. . . .
Too bad you never stop there.
Oh well.
It is interesting that Cain's actual quote was (from above) ....
.... yet the title of the article is ......
"Cain suggests the Taliban has influence in Libya" ...... with no mention of Al Qaeda?
Since Al Qaeda provokes a much more visceral response, why did Mark edit Al Qaeda out of the title?
Because Al Qaeda's effort and influence is absolutely true, well founded and well documented?
Well, since it is true and well documented, that would be my guess.
So what about the Taliban influence in Libya?
Here Mark has a story probably.
I have never even seen the suggestion that the "Taliban" was in in Libya, or for that matter in Iraq, or anywhere other than Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Taliban is made up from ethnic Pashtun tribes, local guys to Afghanistan and Pakistan - that it. They have their goal, kicking Obama out of Afghanistan, and they are devoted to that - not Libya.
That being said, it is not to say that fighters previously killing Americans in Afghanistan are not now the very same guys we support in Libya.
Regardless, Cain should not be this sloppy / unsure.
Cain's comfort zone is economics / business and he obviously is behind the curve on national security. Obama's interest / agenda has always been social transformation, not the economy or national security.
With the damage being done, the emerging threats, we can not afford another one-shot pistol / another Obama.
Tell is Booby - how does it feel to bend over and GRAB your ankles?
Heads UP butter-cup! lmao
Still choking on the worm... eh... little buddy?
well bob you and fiesty need to get a room, we all know now how fiesty likes it. lmao!
Nice catch on the wording, BTW. FR libs just love to misdirect.
Herman, Herman !?!?..... Just as well no one asked him about Burma or Laos.
But he can be forgiven, as most of us aren’t any different and very likely could not find Libya on the map anyway. Herman isn’t the problem, our education system is!!
Cain suggest anything he likes...doesn't make it true. But now we know what the next "talking point" will be...
Maybe I can make a distraction...
ahh...ahhh...ahhhhh...CHU!
There, that's better....
Sure they are! And according to Pat Robertson, President Obama was taught in madrasas and also taught to be a socialist by his Kenyan father. And Perry and Romney state the President said Americans are Lazy. And Michele Bachmann stated she never had any flubs during her campaign. . . . and . . . stay tuned . . . it should only take one more minute for another whopper from their lips.
On the bright side Ana, we only have less than a year to put up with this reality show know as the GOP race!
Ana
Here's more tortured logic.
Michele Bachmann is a wild-eyed gargantuan LIAR!!!
Michele Bachmann prides herself for pressing Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but during an appearance at Webster City, Iowa Wednesday night, the Minnesota congresswoman proved that she's also leading the charge in developing outrageous new attacks against the legislation.
At the town hall, Bachmann complained that undocumented immigrants are exempt from paying for the law, claimed that a seven-foot doctor told her the IRS had to approve medical procedures.
She told this group of Iowa voters, "One man stood up, he was over 7-feet tall. He was a physician in the community. And he said, 'I had a little lady in my office and because of Obamacare, I had to call the IRS and I had to get a number to put on a form before I could see her."
There's nothing in the Affordable Care Act that makes this requirement.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_11/bachmanns_giant_lie033577.php
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LOL
Oh, oh, oh, I wonder who is this 7 foot man or is this another one of Michele Batwomann's wet dreams?
She, undoubtedly, missed the school house rock video on how a bill becomes a law .
ROTFLMAO bev! I see you still just believe that anything thinkprogressive says is gospel. I watched the video, saw an editing break in it where michelle started about the 7 foot doctor and listened to the speech up until she implied that this was her interpretation of what to expect from obamacare. Yet you and thinkprogressive want to paint it differently.
Please bev, get some help when you want to post a link purporting to say one thing but which in reality misleads the reader into believing something else.
BTW - Before passed and signed legislation becomes the law of the land the washington bureacrats have to write the regulations that everyone has to follow. These regs are far more specific and encompassing than the verbage that congress and the president has approved. IER the bill is in broad strokes and the resulting detailled regs are what we the people have to adhere to.
Thanks for showing me you still don't dig down to the original facts, just to what someone said second or third hand. Pl;ease do carry on spreading missinformation.
Got to agree with Bev--it is time to stop treating this guy as a serious candidate.
Things have turned into a reality show--Keeping Up with Herman. Media flock to him like papparrazi to Lohan.
Secret Service protection or not, he is a totally unrealistic candidate for the presidency.
How he can remained statistically tied with Romney says much about conservatives, unfortunately.
I am starting to think this man has serious mental health issues.
Republicans, is this the best you can do!?
"C'mon Man!"
(someone call me a communist now)
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Got to agree with Bev--it is time to stop treating this guy as a serious candidate.
Things have turned into a reality show--Keeping Up with Herman. Media flock to him like papparrazi to Lohan.
My hypothesis it is another booooring distraction from the FOX NOISE ECHO CHAMBER!!
There is no credible GOP or Tea Nut who can beat our current President. The RepubliCONS know it. The more ridiculous their "flavor of the month" candidates flop the more the RepubliCONS drop on the American electorate another zero instead of a hero. They want another FAKE to pop up. That's why they have trotted out all the stupid clowns.
The more the Koch- suckers languish and concede to next time. YEAH!
At least Lohan is a decent actress, Cain's acting ability is very weak, and combined with the weak script they gave him, I give him two thumbs down.
Ah don't listen to those who want the media to stop covering Hermie. He just makes itmore and more obvious that the GOP doesn't have a decent candidate this time around. Obama should have no problem preparing his second inaugration early.
I saw the interview Hermann, you did not ask them to be more specific, you had a lot of memorized talking points swirling in your head you were trying to match to the question, instead of any real knowledge. You never asked for clarification, now after several days, you present this excuse, but you seem to forget we saw your reaction in real time, uncut, and unedited. First you said you were tired, now the question was too broad, in a couple of more days you will have a couple of more excuses, the only thing more disturbing than your lack of knowledge, is your dishonesty. You just don't have what it takes Hermann, and you can blame whoever you want, if you think it helps your case, but in the end it does not, you either have what it takes or you don't, and you don't. You don't have the character much less the information.
Well, if the new Libyan government is so bad from the conservative perspective, then why was McCain chiding Obama to send in ground troops. Republicans, just congratulate Democrats on bloodless victories in Libya and Kosovo and shut up about foreign policy because you wrecked our foreign policy from '01 to '09. Many former allies almost abandoned us over our preemptive war in Iraq and W's embrace of torture.
Then we all wonder why the Congress is at a all time low in it's approval rating and getting thinks done, just look at the candidates that they (the GOP) have to offer as a replacement for Obama. It is no wonder why the House and Senate GOP members can't agree on anything or pass any bills any more. The whole party is a bunch nut cases and no sense of knowledge or how to answer questions correctly or even how to compromise or how to tell the true.
Quaddafi & bin Laden killed Americans. To paraphrase Sam Spade, "You have to do something about it." Obama did.
America is one big joke.
Hermy The Garbage Can For President.
LOL..........
America the dumb
America the stupid.........
So bobo now that you have given us your opinuion on America, what country are you from? and what makes your nation better?
The Peter Principle is alive and well in Herman Cain. I really think Rachel Maddow is on to something when she says that the Cain "campaign" started as an art project lampooning presidential campaigns. I really think his main goal in entering the race was to position himself for a plum job at Fox News, a la Palin and Huckabee.
Then Herman began to receive accolades and support from way more people than he expected. He has been "promoted" to his own level of incompetency by these true believers. His ego now has got the best of him.
His failure is that HE NOW BELIEVES HIS OWN BS. He now takes himself seriously. And his ego is not strong enough to withstand scrutiny and criticism. He knows he is in over his head, but he can't let go the anchor of "I'm a serious candidate" that is dragging him down. So now he is forced to deflect responsibility, shift blame, disparage critics, and try to distract the American people with jokes, grins, and topic changes. That Fox News job is slipping thorugh his grasp, and the only way he can hope to salvage it is to admit that all this has been a big art project, and he really fooled us all. But his ego won't let go of the idea that he "coulda been a contenda."
Abd al-Hakim Belhaj, the commander of Tripoli's Military Council who spearheaded the attack on Muammar al-Qaddafi's compound at Bab al-Aziziya, is raising red flags in the West. Belhaj, whom I met and interviewed in March 2010 in Tripoli along with Saif al-Islam al-Qaddafi, is better known in the jihadi world as "Abu Abdullah al-Sadiq." He is the former commander of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a jihad organization with historical links to al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Egyptian al-Jihad organization. Does his prominent role mean that jihadists are set to exploit the fall of Qaddafi's regime Foriegn Policy Magazine
Maybe Cain thinks that the Nazis or the Communists have influence in Libya.It's no secret that he doesn't like reading.