HAHAHAA!!! BYE CAIN!! the baggers are already on the newt train who’s about to fail next

Herman, I love you buddy, but you are wrong.  That may work for Barry and the Dems, but we expect more from our candidates.  It’s time to bow out. 

And this is why CEO’s make horrible elected officials. Cain was an amazing CEO who took a floundering brand and propelled it to excellence. However, CEO’s are accustomed to giving orders and not having them challenged and they are used to absolute authority, which no president of the US has had in generations.

In addition, CEO’s are used to all manner of experts and such to run various divisions. I assure you Herman Cain has no idea how to grow a tomato or milk a cow, but he does know how or where to get those to make a good pizza. Presidents do not get that luxury. They need to be up on pretty much everything. Part of the job.

Look at Florida. Rick Scott (this is most assuredly not an endorsement of Scott as governnor) was a very good CEO who built more than one company and made them profitable. Once he became governor, he just assumed he would have absolute power Now that he has realized he does not, he is well on his way to ineffective since he is not used to legislatures and voters and public record laws. In fact he has repeatedly tried to change the law by fiat. Doesn’t work for Obama or Scott or any other elected official, but it is a major tool for any CEO.

Cain would have the same issues in the White House. CEO’s simply do not work well unless they have absolute power, which the Constitution specifically prevents.

That’s competent management. If you’re not in the big chair, you’re not getting all the information you need to make a proper decision.

I’d like our Obamaphiles to explain why Obama had to spend months reviewing Afghanistan before deciding how to proceed there. That was the right approach to take and it’s exactly what Cain is saying. Except that after deciding on a course of action and appointing a commander (McChrystal) to proceed with it…he then decided to spend several more months reviewing it all again. 

http://tinyurl.com/ycwnjh8

http://tinyurl.com/85rv8c5

Which means Obama didn’t do it right the first time.

n addition, CEO’s are used to all manner of experts and such to run
various divisions. I assure you Herman Cain has no idea how to grow a
tomato or milk a cow, but he does know how or where to get those to make
a good pizza. Presidents do not get that luxury. They need to be up on
pretty much everything. Part of the job.

Huh? How many CEO’s have a Cabinet?

I do agree with you, but Cain has made too many gaffes to survive.  It they were buried by the media, like Barry’s are, he might be able to survive, but if you are a Conservative, that’s not the way it works. 

Barry doesn’t know anything about foreign policy? Really? Seems to me like he has done a pretty good job in that area but I know you Michelle…you will never give him credit for anything. If he ran into a burning building and saved two children and a puppy you would ask why he didn’t put out the fire too.

I thought they blamed his gaffe on lack of sleep!? For being such a “straight shooter”, like Hermanites like to say, he sure has an excuse for everything! He should have used his classic, “i was taken out of context” line, it always worked for him with the ignorant before. Biggest joke this country has ever seen. Welcome back to reality Hermanation!!!

So let’s let the media pick a GOP nominee! I wonder if John McCain is busy.

There is a difference between needing fine details and understanding BASIC facts.  Cain does not have the intellectual curiosity to be President. 

And majority of the President’s job is foreign policy.

When this guy is in a hole, he asks for a backhoe.

You might argue that having a CFO, Chief Counsel, COO, DHR, Controller, etc… Functions in a similar manner. Not an overly absurd comparison.

Guy is running for president and suggests it’s best for him not to know foreign affairs. Smh

And which facts are those? Is the “fact” that “majority of the President’s job is foreign policy” one of them?

What is happening in Libya and Obama’s position.  This is basic stuff.

Obama just said Hawaii is in Asia how’s he doing?

But it does further my point. The President is, by nature of the job, surrounded by advisers with expertise in the various areas that one man simply cannot be expert in.

You’re going to vote and you’re incapable of recognizing a wisecrack.

Ha ha…you’re comparing that pathetic display of ignorance by Cain to minor gaffs by Obama.

Can we finally stick the fork in him?

I mean, come on already. Even Sarah Palin pretended to know something about foreign policy by thinking Africa was not a continent – but rather a country.

At first glance, I though it was a wisecrack, too. But when he follows it up by talking about not needing to have answers, it’s hard not to conclude that he really thinks that he shouldn’t have to know anything about foreign policy.

What facts did he miss there? Yes, it took him too long to spit them out, but he did exactly that. Tell us what he got wrong.

Keep spinning.

He asked the interviewer if he was right!

This is not a man in command of the facts. This is a buffoon. Shouldn’t the most important single job in the world be held by a smart man? How can you support this imbecile?

If you think that was a wisecrack then you shouldn’t be allowed to vote. 

No, it’s more that you not only don’t need to know everything, but you can’t possibly know everything you need to know until you’re in the job. You don’t have all of the information available to you. This is the basic reality of the process of executive decision making.

Anyone who thinks they know everything is a fool. A man who knows what he does not know is much wiser.

He’s doing fine, actually. 

And you’re not gonna be President!

Oh, like Europe?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nGXqsKchPk

Yes. I am allowed to agree with you, correct?

How do you know what he meant? stfu

You don’t understand the difference between a verbal gaffe and an obvious lack of understanding, do you?

Oh, BTW, nice hat, Herman.  

Wise up, Pablo.  Denial isn’t just a river in Italy. 

I’m not supposed to know anything about rivers.

I thought he said to Neal Boortz that he would destroy Obama in debates on any topic & that he can go “two levels too deep”. I suppose he was thinking of how far he can go reaching up women’s skirts

Well, I didn’t say I liked it, but we have to face reality. 

What were his foreign policy creds as a candidate?  Do tell?

Come on Pablo, let’s hear your defense of ignorance.

Let’s hear you say that the President can be stupid, ill informed, guided solely by advisers. Let’s hear you actually say that it’s okay for the single most important person in the world to not have this sort of basic knowledge at his fingertips.

You won’t read any of this, but…these are detailed highlights of Senator Barack Obama’s endeavors as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with the following sub-categories addressed:

Campaign Issues
U.S. Policy toward AfricaU.S. Policy toward IndiaMilitary Tribunals and Guantanamo BayDomestic IntelligenceAfghanistanDemocracy Promotion in the Arab WorldEnergy PolicyIsraeli-Palestinian ConflictNorth Korea PolicyCuba PolicyU.S. Policy toward ChinaDefense PolicyIraqTradeHomeland SecurityIranU.S. Policy toward RussiaClimate ChangeImmigrationUnited NationsU.S. Policy toward PakistanNuclear NonproliferationFinancial Policy

http://www.cfr.org/experts/world/barack-obama/b11603

Again, Michelle, you won’t actually READ any of this, but Herman Cain is not even on the same PLANET as Senator Obama was when it came to foreign policy.

–Cobra

You do remember that we first invaded Afghanistan in 2001

You are really ignorant…..you want to tell me that you were under a rock when

1) Obama got Osama
2) The withdrawal of troops and timetable were announced
3) Death of Ghaddafi

“He never should have showered with those boys.”- Herman Cain, on Obama’s policy in Libya.

Every time he gets caught in a buffoonish comment he then comes back with “it  was a JOKE”  Frying Mexicans on a fence…. Was a joke.   Offering Kissenger cabinet offer…. was a joke. Anita Hill and harrassment… Was just a JOKE..  No that is his way of weaseling out of stupid statments….. I was JOKING.  Yeah where have i heard that before….

Anytime  I know more about a Foreign Policy issue that a presidential contender that tells me they are NOT qualified for the job.

Yes, but we don’t have to accept media manipulation. We don’t have to surrender to the progressive narrative. That thing can’t vote.

I’m
really bothered that to answer questions on foreign policy, he is going
“to talk to commanders on the ground”.    Does this imply he thinks foreign policy is
a military issue?

What is happening in Libya? Obama’s position?

Rival Libyan militias clash near military base

UN: Libyan conflict, weapons has negative impact on Central Africa

Libya’s leftover weapons arming Gaza militants

Al-Qaeda’s North Africa Branch Says Got Libya Weapons

Al Qaeda, Radical Islam Threaten Progress in Africa

You don’t know and neither does Obama.

Let’s hear you say that the President can be stupid, ill informed, guided solely by advisers.

Why say it when we’re all watching it happen?

“…we expect more from our candidates.”

That may be the single funniest thing you’ve ever written!

All of them. They are called VP’s. Check any corporate structure.

Obama spent the vast majority of his Senate term campaigning. The only thing of note that he tried to do in the foreign policy realm was insure that we lost in Iraq by stopping the Surge.

I recommend it!

Of course one can’t know everything, but there’s no way we can look at that statement in isolation from what prompted it. He wouldn’t have to know every infinitesimally small detail of foreign policy, but he would absolutely have to know the basic, fundamental facts of a given situation, and those are what he revealed himself to be ignorant of in that editorial board interview.

Conjecture…your hatred of Obama has led you to support Gaddafi. It’s time to look at your news sources if they are supporting a brutal dictator.

Indeed, but any president – unlike a CEO – is not the final arbiter of policy. My point was that CEO’s do not have to deal with a legislature to get stuff done. Presidents do. I believe I said Cain was a good CEO, and he was. Also, Presidents are expected to know all of this stuff hands down. Whether it is reasonable is another topic. Obama has shown that he does not, but Cain has shown that he is not aware of big stuff like China having nuclear weapons. This does matter.

I stand by my point that CEO’s make bad elected leaders. They just do. This does not mean Cain is a bad guy. He is not.

No, agreeing with Pablo is apparently forbidden.

So what do you know that he doesn’t? Enlighten us.

Cue some right-winger parroting “57 states!” as if it wasn’t Obama misspeaking on one occasion (compare that to Bush), and as if wasn’t completely clear from the context that he meant to say 47 instead of 57. Prior to becoming president, Obama was a constitutional law professor at one of the top 5 universities in the country (and the world). Unless you think any idiot who doesn’t know basic facts about the country can land a job like that, you have to concede the obvious: he misspoke once. 

Cain is entirely different. He has repeatedly shown he doesn’t grasp basic foreign policy issues. Saying that he doesn’t need to know them because his unnamed advisers (who aren’t up for election) will isn’t good enough. 

He’s not. There is nothing in the job that he’ll have in January 2013 that will require he has any foreign policy knowledge.

Unless he gets a caller into his show asking about it.

But the call screener should be able to filter that out.

If he wasn’t kidding about having done it, why would wanting Kissinger for SecState be a bad thing?

What is wrong with, upon being told that Anita Hill is coming, asking “Is she going to endorse me?” Do you actually think he meant that seriously? If so, the intellect problem here is yours.

Yes. I also understand that when Obama says something stupid, it’s because he’s so smart! Or, I understand that you allow yourself to believe that.

I love watching you two go at it just like the divided GOP is squabbling. It’ll get funnier as the reality that your side is bound to lose next year becomes more and more apparent even to you. 

1. Gadhaffi is dead, Jim. All of those articles postdate his demise.

2. So, you support Saddam Hussein?

Yeah, and?

Congress is analogous to a Board of Directors, except that Congress can’t fire you if you do a crap job.

I’m of the mind that politicians make bad leaders. How many CEO elected leaders do we have? How many politicians do we have?

We supported a civil war that was in progress. We invaded Iraq.

I know you Conservatives hate nuance, but the world is a complex place.

“BushDrunk did it for 8 years.  Why not me???

I’d love to see a corporate structure chart that denotes the CEO’s Cabinet. But I see that you’ve come to recognize the similarity between the structure of a corporation and that of the Executive Branch.

Please detail the facts which he showed himself to be unaware of.

We had already won in Iraq before the surge. I read it on a banner hung behind a moron.

57 states! Corpseman! Teleprompter! Squirt! Squirt! Squirt!

Of course you agree with him Miss Smells. You’re both ridiculous, and predictable, apologists for the  stupidity of YOUR best and brightest, Palin is not smart, Cain is not smart, Bachmann is effen Crazy. Newt is slimy and no where near presidential. Perry clearly stupid. Gingrich is a slimeball whose own party kicked him out of the caucus. And the hits keep comin’. How sad for you and how sadder still for a once great party. Honest Abe is rolling in his grave because of you dolts.

As you may recall, there was conjecture from YOUR side that he was not in fact AMERICAN. Remember that. It certainly gives him a broader worldview than . . . say . . . .G.W. Bush . . .  who’d only ever gone to Mexico, despite his millions. That’s a real curious about the larger world type isn’t it? Oh and he was also a senator and member of the foreign relations committee, right? Try again data-free voter.

This reminds me of his comment:

“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.”

If he doesn’t know who the president of Uzbekistan is that’s one thing. But ridiculing the name of a foreign country is a disgraceful thing for any candidate for our highest office to do.

And he sure as hell should know at least SOMEthing about foreign policy. How’s he going know who to pick and who not pick as advisers? Do you guys want a president that picks people blindly?!

This guy acts like he doesn’t care or know that the rest of the world exists. That’s exactly who we DO NOT need in office. He said he wanted to prevent China from gaining “nuclear capability”. They’ve had that since the 60′s! And you know what? If someone confronts him on that, he’ll just mock it and say he doesn’t care.

His whole strategy is to make as many wise cracks in general to hide that he knows he doesn’t have answers to a lot of fundamental questions. He knows wise cracks make him look to some like he’s smart and that he has some wisdom up his sleeve. It’s a charade.

That’s exactly what he does.

He did not say the word ‘everything’. He said doesn’t need to know “ANYTHING”.

There’s huge difference there. If he doesn’t know anything how would be able to know who to pick to advise him on foreign affairs.

Yeah like a president isn’t constantly fatigued and under stress or anything.

Pablo does not understand that you have to know something about something in order to know who’s a good choice for a cabinet member. No one asked Cain to tell about everything.

For one thing he lived abroad and he traveled extensively abroad. And not as some rich guy either.

That is one of the best slams on ignorant people that I’ve ever seen. Good job.

You know who else knew the name of the president of Uzbekistan?

Hitler.

He and his consultants set this up, and he failed to study for his day in the sunlight. He’s so absurdly over matched for this job. I would think you would at least want someone who has an original thought. The President has sat in front of interviews and proven his metal, whether you like him or not. But yet when these morons fail, it’s the liberal media…………………..sorry the 99% sees through this……..

…and the “Know Nothing” Party springs back into existence…..

You are truly a piece of work. Blaming Obama for Cain’s mental vacuity on foreign policy. I have never seen such a cornucopia of chronic victim-hood that’s being elicited by you political pu$$ies.

That was never found to be true. Some liberal smear merchant made it up.

Enkelin, I was a supporter of Cain in the past, but I have to agree with you on this. The man has become an embarassment to my party and he’ll never get my vote now.

The Media’s way to shun a black person of the wrong party. I have heard on CNN, he is a “joke”.  His accomplishments are many, where are Obamas???. 

Ummmm, it has been disproven that Obama was EVER a “Professor”. Stop posting lies. 

Also, why aren’t there any people (fellow students, ACTUAL PROFESSORS, other faculty, girlfriends, etc….) who say they remember him attending that University at all?  I know that if I had ever dated the now-sitting-President, I’d be telling friends and reminiscing about it.  The whole candidacy/campaign is fishy, and he is NOT leading this country forward.

Also, how could he have gotten foreign aid for his education (his own admission) unless he were a foreigner?  VERY simple question, VERY simple answer.  Look, I think he is a likable enough guy, but he is certainly not fit to be our President and, apparently, he is not even ELIGIBLE to be our President.

…and don’t forget he attended University in this country with foreign aid assistance, which only a foreigner can do…  Wow, you’re right, he’s probably got some vast knowledge of foreign affairs.

Obama is a flat-out know NOTHING terrible President. 

I’m not even going to say he’s a bad leader because he couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag without George Soros’s money and a gang of communist (or Marxist, take your pick) czars and advisers helping him.

Don’t forget Board Members, who have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. 

That’s certainly more than you can say about this administration and their frivolous spending of shareholder (read: taxpayer) money.

If Obama is so great, why are there so many (constant) scandals & scandoulous people surrounding him?

Ahhhhh, that explains why he thinks he’s a citizen maybe? 

It’s not entirely true that Herman Cain have no foreign policy experience. As CEO of different business American Organizations he’s had to have known how, where, why these American businesses have translated into successful international business organizations e.g, Burger King …et cetera. While he was in the capacity of NRA chief executive he oversaw, effectively protected small business interests and campaigned diligently to making businesses associated to NRA relevant and competitive in the national and international business arena !!!!!
 I’d say Herman Cain’s foreign policy experience is by far better than Obama’s while he was running for President for the two years he was Senator of Illinois. Does anyone remember Senator Obama claiming as part of his foreign policy experience “that part of his (Barack Obama’s)  foreign policy experience was living in Indonesia when he was 10yrs old” ? Truth be told, a true and adult foreign policy can not be run without having complete intelligence report of factual situations on how America will benefit in our relations with other countries. What matters is having the “initiative”. Herman Cain’s foreign policy therefore is “Strength through Peace with Clarity”. He’s not a typical politician who would answer “all” hypothetical questions on foreign policy only to reverse themselves as President when they have the benefit of reviewing the intelligence reports. It’s irresponsible and it’s politics as usual! Herman Cain will bring a different approach to governance which will be effective and result orientated. His track record has shown that he’s effective and successful in his management style. 
 Herman Cain’s idea on how to deter Iran from acquiring nuclear power (if everything we read on the media is true?) is also based on his theory of “Strength through Peace with Clarity”. First he’d have American and NATO warships outside the coast of Iranian waters to let them know that America and it’s NATO allies will use force if necessary to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear power. Obviously, since Obama’s bereft and delusional idea on Iran, about trying to deter Iran from acquiring nuclear power through peaceful negotiations has been rebuffed and failed (i.e, President Obama’s purported inaugural invite of “Khomeini” … Iran’s religious leader)  , it’d seem to me that Herman Cain’s idea will work. Col,M. Qaddafi decided to relinquish his biological and nuclear power program when he saw how American forces brilliantly invaded Iraq.
 Herman Cain for President!!!!     

And Hilter knew the name of our president too. What’s your point? Hitler was also a nonsmoker. So in your head everyone who is a nonsmoker is Hitler now too?

So, did Obama do ALL OF THIS while voting “Present”??  Do ya really think he puts any thought into anything except dividing this country along racial and class lines??

If he’s so “cerebral”, where’s the proof of anything he’s done?  (He, himself, not with a Soros entourage leading and assisting him)  Hello!!  He’s a tool!

Please – could someone give this clown a copy of the job description for the President of the United States?
Or, a copy of the US Constitition.  Do you think he can actually READ it?  we already know he doesn’t know that China has nukes, so a TV would also come in handy.

The question as to Afghanistan was in whether or not to increase troops and if so, by how many.  The facts are that the President didn’t want to increase the troops as many as some generals wanted to and they did a “no no’ by going to the press (McChrystral} and telling them Obama was increasing troops as they wanted him to.  Result: McChrystal retired suddenly.  The troop level was increased, but not to the amount McChrystal wanted or claimed.

  What’s your REAL story, kikibirdie…and I don’t mean to single you out.  I get that there are millions of conservatives and Republicans that simply hate Obama, no matter what he does or says. I really do get it.  You should leave it at …”I hate Obama”, because when you disregard the reality that is documented in the US Congressional Records for all to easily look up and say ….”Where’s the proof of anything he’s done?”…..you simply look like as big a fool as any birther, transcript requester, or muslim-baiter.

 Second…the bottom line of my post I put in bold so people wouldn’t miss the point…

“But there are any NUMBER of Republican politicians and government
figures who could address those topics with facts and informed opinions. “

 There’s no chance in hell you’d ever catch Colin Powell or Condoleeza Rice EVER saying…
“I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy…”

  Unfathomable.  Look at past Republican Presidents…from Bush Sr., Reagan, Nixon, Eisenhower….could you even DREAM of them displaying the willful and deliberate IGNORANCE on Foreign Policy, hell…current events that Herman Cain proudly boasts?  I wouldn’t trust Michelle Bachmann or Rick Santorum to run a faucet, much less the free world, but they at least they have formed opinions on foreign policy, and can talk on these subjects with the length and depth they deserve.

 It’s utterly stupifying for anybody who claims to take the Republican Party seriously to continue to defend Herman Cain at this point.

–Cobra

You are a fool to believe every spin you hear on the internet “Gorgegirl”, may be you missed the piece on Mediaite.com that correctly stated what Herman Cain really said on China. You need to read! Virtually everyone running for President have had a muddled position or seemed unsure one foreign policy or the other at some point. Even the supposed experienced ones like Vice President Biden have been gaffe machines on foreign policy ….

Herman Cain should be embarrassed, doesn’t he know that Barack Obama is a foreign policy genius? Obama learned how to speak Austrian. He found out what it takes to be a corpse-man and he pointed his finger at a Pakistani map and said “bin Laden there! Kill!” Oh, he’s effing brilliant!

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

I’ll just assume you’re joking…you know…punking all of us until you stick that Mitt Romney flag on your lawn come June.  I mean, you’d have to be joking if you claim that a guy who openly says:

““I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy.”

…has “far better” foreign policy experience than a guy who sat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he wrote and co-sponsored legislation on preventing nuclear proliferation.

 You should take this act on stage, Julie!  You’re hilarious.

–Cobra

I would submit that anyone who can get a degree in math has to be among the smarter people in our nation, at least by some measure. That’s easily one of the top 5 most difficult degrees. I’ve known plenty of people who stumble with algebra. A fair number of people can get through calculus. But to get the degree, you sort of have to understand high level math at a conceptual level, and I’d have to guess that fewer than 1 in 30 people have brains that allow for that. So the guy isn’t dumb.

He sucks in interviews. People’s brains work in different ways. For some, learned information seems easy to recall spontaneously. Others among us struggle to collect our thoughts and remember details. Some people have the gift of gab – able to communicate a chain of thoughts quickly with no pauses to think, while at the same time being unable to workout an Algebra word problem. Other people can’t shift thinking gears quickly but display much greater logical reasoning.

Cain is likely finished, because in order to GET the job, you have to have the skill to do well in interviews. But to DO the job of a president (or business leader), you need the logic skills he possesses. We’re not exactly giving candidates an IQ test here with these interviews.

Obama is extremely knowledgeable about foreign policy. Even some republicans recognize him as a fine foreign policy president.

 Cain doesn’t have to be an expert on foreign policy, but at a minimum he should know what is allowed by the constitution concerning foreign policy. 

Why?? 
Because the issues surrounding other nations and particularly the prospect of going to war is an extremely complex undertaking. Too many people, generally republicans, think everything is as easy as turning on a switch and requires no forethought whatsoever.
These things are not to be undertaken lightly, and things DO require assessment and projections and analysis.

Give me a break! Bush was given carte-blanche by the press for the first six years of his administration(s) and was given a complete pass about war-crimes and crimes against humanity. Obama even gets crap from his own party.

Can you explain what was wrong with the answer Cain arrived at for the Libya question? It took him several minutes to communicate his thought. But what was wrong with the final answer?

The answer he gave was that consideration was needed regarding the nature of the opposition forces and who would be taking over Libya should they prove successful. This is a mainstream belief, and as of yet, I haven’t heard people saying he’s incorrect. The laugh is how he meandered his way to that answer, not that his answer is lacking.

But here’s a more important question. When presented with the Libya situation, what do you believe most greatly affected Obama’s decision making?
A. Information about the Libya situation that came in from all of his available sources.
B. His past, personal study of Libya.

One can only hope (and probably safely assume) that the answer is A – he considered the information available for the situation and listened to the advice of experts who are most familiar with that topic. No president can rely on his own knowledge of foreign affairs to make such critical decisions.

Cain is out of the running now. But let’s be fair. He’s saying something that’s true – it has NEVER been a president’s comprehensive knowledge of foreign affairs that allows him to navigate major foreign policy hurdles. It’s his overriding philosophy about the role of the United States in the world combined with the information that comes in at the time.

To “kikibirdie”
About foreign aid for Obama’s education?http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/occidental.asp
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/occidental.asp– look at numbers 17,18, and 19 about Obama’s history with constitutional law.
Everything you said is a complete crock. Fox News is nowhere to get your news. Nor is talk radio. One should check their history before trying to base an argument upon it.

He sat in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-sponsored a bill? It’s like one of the bill he sponsored while he was a Senator in Illinois that precludes lobbyists from lobbying legislators within the legislative building? Meaning you can step out of the building with them and lobby them? Stupid! How hard is it to co-sponsor a bill in the House of Representatives and the Senate? Hogwash!
 Talking about gaffes, how about this quotation from President Obama in his recent hosting of Asia- Pacific Economic Summit in Hawaii ? “When I meet with world leaders, what’s striking — whether it’s in Europe or here in Asia — the kinds of fundamental reforms and changes, both on the revenue side and the public pension side, that other countries are having to make are so much more significant than what we need to do in order to get our books in order,” Obama said. I bet you believe that Hawaii is in Asia? If you think everything situated in Pacific is in Asia then you must think that Africa is in Europe or Asia? Stupid!!

It is pointless trying to have an intelligent conversation with someone as brainwashed and ignorant as you. As a candidate Obama had a lot of foreign policy experience but you would never admit it.

And here comes Pablo, the first of the ignorant to respond to Cobra’s excellent post.

Did you watch/read Charles Krauthammer’s reaction to it? That mirrors my critique…precisely. 

The continent of Africa is surrounded by Atlantic Ocean which links it to Europe and America etc, Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean mind you …

Got news for you Carver7. You have no sense of humor.

Like Hilter.

There was nothing botched about Cain’s answer just because he paused before he spoke. The way this was written with the word “botched” says a lot about the reporters politics and journalism.

Julie,

 You’re really going to make me re-post this link to the Council of Foreign Relations, aren’t you?
 
http://www.cfr.org/experts/world/barack-obama/b11603

 2.  Read back your own post:
” Talking about gaffes, how about this quotation from President Obama in
his recent hosting of Asia- Pacific Economic Summit in Hawaii ? “When I
meet with world leaders, what’s striking — whether it’s in Europe or
here in Asia —”

 Do you think any “Asian Leaders” were at this summit?  Wild guess?

Next, question for you….

 Why are you, and other conservatives leaping to defend the indefensible?  Why are you racing to the bottom to endorse Vaudville Act candidates?

 Why?

–Cobra

When did any Democrat say anything remotely close to that?
Or any repugnantan, for that matter?
Face it, he was a disaster waiting to happen.

Now, he’s happened.

And wake up and smell the pizza; 
he’s not your buddy, he’s your exploiter.

Cain insists that he is not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. This is true … if your goal in life is to SELL PIZZAS … domestically.

Africa is NOT “surrounded” by the Atlantic Ocean any more than North America is.

–Cobra

Austrian-German, or Austrian-Bavarian?

–Cobra

You’re serious, huh?

Herman Cain is circling the drain.

You are correct. It wasn’t right to insult them,  But he went even further on the Uzbekistan comment.  

When Herman doesn’t know something he says so and then goes on to talk about what he doesn’t know. In the case of Uzbekistan, Mr. Cain went on to say he wasn’t going to worry about an insignificant country.  Uzbekistan is insignificant? Sheesh.

No. You stfu.
Seriously, are you for real?

Good sense of humor.  This spin-doctoring might actually be convincing … if only there was not compelling video evidence to the contrary.

Please detail the facts which he showed himself to be unaware of.

After I just pointed out: He did not say the word ‘everything’. He said doesn’t need to know “ANYTHING”.
Your response that ignores what I pointed out is: “Please detail the facts which he showed himself to be unaware of.”

Dude the answer to your response is: ‘Everything’, because Cain admitted he didn’t know “anything”. But if you want a couple embarrassing specifics: 
1. Cain wasn’t really sure what was going on in Libya. He didn’t know what the president’s policy was over there. He fell all over a very simple question and had to ask the reporter for hints as to what was going on. Eventually he actually gave up on trying to answer the question. Pathetically stupid.
2. Cain said in another interview that he wants to “prevent China from gaining nuclear capability”. Dude China has had nuclear weapons since the 1960′s! I’ve even known that since I was a child for God’s sake. Hint here’s why: only the countries that officially have nuclear power (i.e. leaving out Israel) are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. If you asked Cain to name the other permanent members on the Security Council he would not know.
3. He ridiculed and disrespected the name of a country called Uzbekistan (who by the way we need to be on good terms with due to our war in Afghanistan) by calling it “Uzbeki beki beki stan stan” like he shouldn’t really have to give a damn about other countries.

These are pathetic examples of why this guy is absolutely not capable of of representing us and of knowing what our position is in the world. Like I said before if he doesn’t know “anything” about foreign policy and the rest of the world, then he is capable of knowing who to pick as his advisors.

Anybody that votes for the guy is ignoring the obvious. If you’re gonna vote Republican then choose someone that has an idea of what goes on in the world. Jon Huntsman would be a good choice. He’s not an extremist and he’s been the ambassador to China and even speaks Mandarin–that’s a Chinese language that Hermann would say ‘Is that what people talk in Manderland?”

Yeah um Cain had to give up on answering the whole damn Libya question all together.

You actually think that the “continent of Africa is surrounded by Atlantic Ocean”? 

I guess her atlantic ocean surrounds Africa declaration shows why people are actually dumb enough to actually consider voting for Mr. Uzbeki beki beki stan stan Cain lol. 

Are you really calling it racism? If you cry wolf then no one will believe it when it actually happens. Don’t you know that?! The media is making fun of Cain (and white man Perry) for looking like amateurs during interviews and at the debates for not being able to answer some very simple questions.

He said Uzbekistan was “insignificant”? He obviously doesn’t know that we depend on using Uzbekistan’s military bases, airspace, and general cooperation in our war in Afghanistan stan.  

Are you forgetting that some of these so called ‘gaffs’ made by Cain were NOT in interviews? Why in the world is he using the excuse: “I was joking or it’s just a joke”? Ever hear of the term “book smart, people stupid”? I think if someone wants to be this countries President they better be both book smart AND people smart!!!

Where did you get your info from kiki?

Maybe Cain doesn’t know the difference between ‘everything and anything’?  WE do know he doesn’t know that Cubans speak Spanish…

So….. Cain can quantify the USA poverty percentages, the growing number of children scraping by at the poverty level, why and how the ruling elites and corporate USA manipulate unemployment statistics so that politician lackey lap-dog minions can spew froth for their ruling class and corporate masters declaring the various “rates” are far less than the REAL ACTUAL rates are so as to placate the masses of easily deluded citizen-sheep?

Yeah… those degrees will assist the Cain critter who early in his campaign to claim head Lackey figurehead of the masters declared that only YOU are to blame for not becoming a millionaire.

The USA does not really need laborers, the underclass performing the multi-millions of work-a-day tasks our society/country needs to function on a dad-to-day basis.

Heck… work those scum vermin underlings until they die then replace them with another body.

Any shortages or if the supply/demand equation accidentally causes wages to rise (gasp!!!) just bring in another mega-millions of illegal immigrants to get those wages back down where they belong.

Or increase the already highest-in-USA-history legal immigration rates to drive down wages and ensure benefits are not needed to attract workers.

The USA’s scum, those at the bottom of the pyramid-shaped socio-economiv hierarchy, exist to serve the masters and Cain has publicly proclaimed those low-class vermin belong at the bottom since it IS through their own failings the multi-millions of USA citizens filling the immensely HUGE ranks of the lower classes have not ascended to the much smaller groupings as one ascends the socio-economic hierarchy upwards to where the masters, the rulers to where our overlords exist.

I’m afraid Carver7 is right on this one…..  Saying that he doesn’t need to know ANYTHING about foreign affairs/policy means the end of Cain’s candidacy.  While I believe the allegations of sexual harassment might be frivolous at best, this statement is far more troubling to me.

The GOP needs a candidate that can beat Obama and, as much as I like Herman Cain, he will NOT be their candidate.

FYI. Obama WAS a professor, for a number of years too. I can understand why you didn’t know though, it was a small school, called THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO!!!! Their website even has a page confirming it: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media

Obama’s words, not mine!! 
(think he’s got a little chip on his shoulder??)

From Dreams From My Father:

“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of
12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to
whites.”

From Dreams From My Father :

“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of
grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”

From Dreams From My Father:

“There was something about her that made me wary, a
little too sure of herself, maybe and white.” 

From Dreams From My Father:

“It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,
to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”

From Dreams From My Father:

“I never  emulate
white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my
father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the
attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and
Mandela.”

Oh, and then there’s this:

From Audacity of Hope:  “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”People, do NOT let yourself be distracted by the surgical picking apart of each Republican candidate.  There is PLENTY more to come.  The important thing is to get this man OUT of the white house.  Hell, today I would vote for ANYONE but Obama.
Obama’s words, not mine!! 
(think he’s got a little chip on his shoulder??)

From Dreams From My Father:

“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of
12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to
whites.”

From Dreams From My Father :

“I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of
grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.”

From Dreams From My Father:

“There was something about her that made me wary, a
little too sure of herself, maybe and white.” 

From Dreams From My Father:

“It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,
to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”

From Dreams From My Father:

“I never  emulate
white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my
father’s image, the black man, son of Africa , that I’d packed all the
attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and
Mandela.”

Oh, and then there’s this:

From Audacity of Hope:  “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

People, do NOT let yourself be distracted by the surgical picking apart of each Republican candidate.  There is PLENTY more to come.  The important thing is to get this man OUT of the white house.  Hell, today I would vote for ANYONE but Obama.

RACIST!!   RACIST!!   RACIST!!   RACIST!!   RACIST!!   RACIST!!

(How’s that feel?)

He may have been a math major but he certainly doesn’t know much about the nations of the world, history or foreign policy based on his responses.

In fact, any one of us could have answered the question but yet Herman sat there and tried to wing it.  He had no clue whatsoever as to what was going on in Libya.  But this wasn’t the first time – he keeps saying he will get his “advisors” together to make a decision.  I want to know what he would have done differently – how he thinks, but apparently the guy can’t think.

Foreign Relations, Immigration, Veteran’s Affairs – he worked on lobbying and campaign finance reform, election reform, climate control and troop reduction. In the second year, he legislated for oversight of certain military discharges, Iran divestment and nuclear terrorism reduction

I recall that he worked on the nuclear stockpile reduction with Republican senator Richard Lugar.

Pablo – Kid Dynamite is right.  President George W Bush had a big sign saying “Mission Accomplished” in October 2003.

Are you saying he LIED?

kikibirdie – you can’t vote “PRESENT” in the US Congress.   He did vote ‘present’ at times during the years he was in the Illinois State Senate. 

President Obama “lived abroad” from the ages of 5-9 years of age.  By the age of 10, he was back in Hawaii attending school there.  You may think of Hawaii as ‘abroad” but it’s not.  In fact, he recalls some things about the years he lived in Indonesia, but just the typical amount any kid of those ages would.  Like he recalls getting cut quite bad on a barbed wire fence and his mother took him to the hospital – a dark back room where the “doctor” was busy playing dominoes and she had to wait until he was finished to care for the gash on Obama’s arm.  That was when she decided she had to send him back to his grandparents in Hawaii where she would eventually rejoin him.,

He may have gotten a Pell grant  which is available to American students as well as foreign students.

RIck Scott made the companies profitable by scamming the Medicare system.,  Check out the lawsuits. the people of Florida were told about it, but they voted the sleezeball in anyway.

Didn’t say that it was the be all end all but as someone who has gone to multiple foreign PUBLIC schools I got a lot of perspective as a kid. I sure as h*ell knew that China had nuclear weapons by the time I was 10 years old unlike Cain ignorance train.

And Cain ain’t Able speaks nein nein nein

RACIST!!  RACIST!!  RACIST!! RACIST!!  RACIST!!  RACIST!!  RACIST!!

I WAS speaking of Obama’s time in the Senate – I believe that he voted “present” over 90% of the time.
That is NOT leadership!!

O.K. Gorgegirl, if Obama received a Pell Grant then why hasn’t he proclaimed that?  That would be easy enough.  Hey, if he got one, I think that’s great.  Please provide proof if you want anyone to believe it.

Why has his entire history been covered up and vacuum-sealed?  Why do no fellow students, fellow faculty members, Professors, past girlfriends, etc…  come forward to reminisce about their associations with Obama?  Heck, if I would have “gone steady” with Barry Soetoro in grade school or dated him in High School, I would certainly tell someone today that I had a relationship with our now-President.

gorgegirl, please see my reply to your Pell grant comment above – couldn’t REPLY to that for some reason.

Herman needs to go on the offensive!  Instead of just issuing blanket denials, he should claim that he was the CEO of the NRA and therefore had to train the NRA members how to increase security at their restaurants.  In order to protect restaurant patrons from possible female terrorists, he believed that the best way to do so was to reach under the dresses of all the beautiful patrons and stroke their thighs and panties in a search for concealed weapons and bombs!  He should argue that the receipt of only a handful of complaints from women who claim they were harassed, is proof positive that everybody else knew exactly what he was trying to teach them.