Herman Cain: ‘You Don’t Need Foreign Policy Experience To Know Who Your Friends Are’

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain appeared on The Today Show and reiterated much of his campaign talking points including that he is a problem-solver in business and “a real black man” who is prepared to lead. Yet NBC’s Savannah Guthrie took issue with Cain touting that his lack of political experience was actually a good thing.

Cain defended his minimal foreign policy knowledge and intent to rely on experts:

“You don’t need foreign policy experience to know who your friends are and who your enemies are. And you don’t need foreign policy experience to know that you don’t tell your enemy what your next move is.”

In addition to that jab at President Obama, Cain also vowed to get up to speed before assuming the job and was confident that the American people are “rejecting the old notion that you must have held public office” in order to be an effective President. Guthrie seemed skeptical, yet Cain’s enthusiastic optimism was not shaken.

Watch the clip from NBC below:

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