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Posted on 11/16/2011 8:34:37 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Herman Cain: 'I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy'
By: Maggie Haberman November 16, 2011 10:06 AM EST
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, whose editorial board interview with Herman Cain produced one of the most memorable videos of 2012, spent a day on his campaign bus with some nice highlights.
Among them:
He defended his view that presidents and presidential candidates don't need to be immersed in the fine print of world affairs - they simply need to be leaders who can surround themselves with the right people and sift through their advice.
"I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out," he said, a dig at his critics.
"I want to talk to commanders on the ground. Because you run for president (people say) you need to have the answer. No, you don't! No, you don't! That's not good decision-making," said Cain.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Presidential primary season is a special time in a young (or old) FReepers life. It's when normally snippy, sarcastic and grumpy FReepers turn into a frenzied troop of rabid howler monkeys screaming and throwing poo at each other. I get choked up just thinking about it.
This story originates from an interview taken on the bus, after the video interview.
[SNIP] By that time, the Cain bus had embarked from a fundraiser at the Milwaukee Athletic Club toward Lambeau Field about 120 miles away.
Aboard were Cain, a handful of staff members, four Wisconsin supporters - Cain called them “EBCs” for “Early Believers in Cain” - and a reporter.
It was almost as if the soon-to-be-famous Libya moment had never occurred. Cain was at ease and holding court.
“We have a lot of fun on the bus,” he said of the vehicle whose exterior bears a giant portrait of his grinning face.
“We need somebody who shoots from the hip and is not politically correct all the time,” said Cindy Cunningham, a Neenah businesswoman who rode the bus Monday. “You can feel his honesty.”
Cain brought up the GOP debate on foreign policy two days earlier.
“That’s a tough subject. You don’t want to get your facts mixed up,” he said.
He defended his view that presidents and presidential candidates don’t need to be immersed in the fine print of world affairs - they simply need to be leaders who can surround themselves with the right people and sift through their advice.
“I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I’d throw that out,” he said, a dig at his critics.
“I want to talk to commanders on the ground. Because you run for president (people say) you need to have the answer. No, you don’t! No, you don’t! That’s not good decision-making,” said Cain.
My view is Mr. Cain said “everything” NOT ‘anything’ in his statement to the reporter. It will be interesting to see how this washes out.
That was pretty quick — you watched a 34 minute video in 7 minutes?
Or you meant you had seen the entire 34-minutes before. That’s probably it.
I do worry that Cain is in over his head. I watch him very closely in the debates and I have that worry.
Let me ask you this: Why is he getting such strong support from conservatives, both here in FR, in the various Tea Parties and other places?
Because we all KNOW he’s a conservative?
Based on what?
Based on what he’s TELLING us?
I happen to believe him. But just think about it. He’s 65 years old, he has NO political experience, no track record on which to judge either his actual political principles or his ability to put them into action, and yet many conservatives accept a) that he IS a conservative and b) that he is a QUALIFIED conservative and they accept that based on what?
I’m asking myself that, too. Not just you.
I watched the video yesterday. It wasn’t posted for the first time today.
Because we’re sick of career politicians....this is the trade-off, a little less polish, I’ll take it.
I just watched Sportscenter, and Cain didn’t say anything like that on Sportscenter either.
My point being that the video has nothing to do with the quotes, which were allegedly from an interview on the BUS, apparently regarding the video you are watching now.
Thanks, I finally found the source of the story, see post #122
Ok. That’s fair. I understand that.
#121
LOL!
You post is an excellent argument to reject Herman Cain. He is inexperienced, an amateur with no record at all in either legislative or executive government positions.
And as you say, No Republican will ever have those two gifts in any election against a rat, those “gifts” being what allowed the inexperienced Obama to be elected.
Yes, it is AN argument.
But there are other arguments.
And you can read them right here in this and other threads.
And many of them are valid.
I suggest you read with an open mind.
I tend to think you are correct, that he was either joking or being sarcastic. Wouldn’t know without a full transcript, or a video though.
You might want to direct some of your ire against the pro-Cain folks who are defending the idea of a President having no idea at all about foreign policy. Several have argued this is 100% correct.
Politico has lost all credibility when it comes to reporting on anything regarding conservatives. First with Palin, then with Cain.
I will believe them when I see an actual video of Cain saying these words.
For all we know he could have said I don’t have to know “everything” about foreign policy.
You are discounting the fact that Herman Cain has worked on the OTHER side of the fence. He has experience the ineptness of the bills that Gingrich, Bachman, and the rest have put upon the American people. That is why he decided to run for office.... to clean it up.
That is the reason why I am voting for HERMAN CAIN. He is the can do candidate.
Heck, half the time when CAIN says something stupid, they crucify Perry.
That would explain how he ran Godfather’s pizza. Just on cruise control, never growing, slowly losing market share, flat revenues. Went from 5th best pizza company to 11th-best. Did return to profitability by cutting stores that didn’t make money. Which works if you don’t want to grow your business.
He just keeps making it harder and harder on us.
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