November 26, 2011 - 8:32 am
Herman Cain has many problems. Although he probably knows how many states there are and that Hawaii is not in Asia, it has been claimed that he doesn’t realize that Spanish is spoken in Cuba. Does he know that “Idiota” is a Spanish word for “idiotic?” Spin placed upon what he has said in various contexts has damaged his candidacy not, I hope, beyond repair.
Maybe it’s time for a fresh look at Mr. Cain, his world view, his somewhat old fashioned charm and at the many other ways in which he is almost exactly unlike President Obama. Might he be as effective an antidote to the Obama Era as President Reagan was to the Carter Era? I think so, for the reasons explained here.
I got to the argument you made about Reagan not having a firm grasp of foreign policy. That pretty much ended my read into your reasoning. While Reagan may not have had a firm grasp, one thing he had that Herman Cain blatantly claims he does not need is the ability to look for answers and a knowledge of history. Herman Cain imagines that having experts give him the plan and him saying go is enough to get things done. It is not.
I assume that the statement about President Reagan’s foreign policy experience referred to a quote from a Washington Times editorial. As to his lack of foreign policy experience after he became the president the editorial said,
I thought the editorial was rather favorable to both President Reagan and Mr. Cain.
Pray tell what’s so “charming” about a potential POTUS who barely knows where Libya is on the map, has admitted to too many thoughts swirling around in his head and knowing nothing about foreign affairs, was in bed with the Federal Reserve for several years, made his pile of money off of Americans’ addiction to junk food, is being financed by the corrupt Koch Brothers, and willingly brays his support for elite globalists Romney and Gingrich?
Shudder. He’s just here to grab the reins from Obama and take what’s left of America down to a fascist/socialist bankrupt Hell following orders from the banking cartel.
The lefties love to demonize the Koch brothers.
So do you.
Food for thought.
he’s a paulista
Highly likely. Or, a second theory, he’s a lefty trying to sound like a Paulbot.
Either way, he’s unmasked now. Time for him to go create a new moniker.
Here are a few of the accusations that have yet to be made against Mr. Cain. Many of them could easily be disproved but some might stick.
Thanks and a tip of the hat to the unknown author.
There is no-one in science anymore who is an all-round talent because every field is too big to know everything, so why should politics be different?
The president’s job is to lead the team that runs the US, not to do their jobs for them…
You have to know enough to know what the heck they are talking about. More importantly, one’s head cannot be filled with all kinds of false things, so that said experts have to unteach ™ one first, to be able to teach one.
“It’s not that liberals are ignorant. it is just that they know so many things that just aren’t so.” – Reagan
Fortunately, I think that Cain knows that he doesn’t know, and he does not need to be untaught ™. I think he will get there, in time. He will learn from hard experience as President.
In sharp contrast, I think that Gingrich cannot be taught anything at all. He’s “the smartest guy in the room”, and he knows it all. It’s why his campaign staff quit on him en masse. he knows far, far more about politics than Cain. It’s the stuff he knows that just isn’t so, or just isn’t acceptable, that gives me pause about him.
All that said, I’ll vote for either of them for President. They each have their flaws, but they’ll get the job done, I think.
(I’ve taken to coining words lately. Weird.)
What Herman Cain brings to the table is the ability to work spectacularly well as an executive within our system. He is uniquely qualified among the candidates in this respect. That happened because the focus of his earlier life was running, and turning around, companies. His accomplishments are significant.
His accomplishments are not the same as Newt’s, for example, but Newt doesn’t have his experience, either.
The attitude that he should be all up on foreign policy is simply wrong, much like the attitude that trial lawyers shouldn’t be on the US Supreme Court, because they have no experience as appellate judges.
If Mr. Cain’s “America wants a leader, not a reader” did not make it clear that he was just joking, again, then his inability to hide his impatience with Candy Crowley on State of the Union this morning, should penetrate the Cain Train into questioning Mr. Cain’s temperament, judgment, and absence of curiosity about just about everything.
I am still waiting for him to explain how one builds an electrified fence in the middle of the Rio Grande (translation: Big River), which is the 1,200 mile long border with Texas.
I guess knowing how to read a map is also irrelevant.
maybe a good executive, but a terribly small world-view.
no sale. truly, thanks for trying. we need more volunteers to beat back the red tide….