Cain has "all this stuff twirling around in his head".

[Xavier_Onassis]

On Libya, Herman Cain has his own ‘oops’ moment

This time the subject was Libya. The candidate was Herman Cain. The question was whether he agreed with the way President Obama handled the matter. The answer, drawn out over more than five awkward minutes, produced another “oops” moment in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

When asked the question by the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Cain leaned back in his chair, looked at the ceiling, closed his eyes and said, “Okay, Libya.” He then searched his thoughts for 11 seconds before asking whether Obama supported the removal of Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi, who was captured and killed in October, seven months after Obama made the decision to try to oust him.

Cain fidgeted in his chair, searched the ceiling again and adjusted his suit jacket before allowing, “I gotta go back, see, got all this stuff twirling around in my head.”

His answer, which was videotaped and went viral online and on cable TV almost immediately, was reminiscent of the painfully long 53 seconds that Texas Gov. Rick Perry spent at a candidates debate last week trying to remember the name of a federal agency he would eliminate if elected. Perry, unable to pull the Energy Department from his mind, gave up with an “oops.”

More at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-libya-herman-cain-has-his-own-oops-moment/2011/11/14/gIQAxWnuMN_story.html?hpid=z1

Video at: Herman Cain on Libya

The question seems to be whether we need a president who has "stuff twirling around in his head".
I am thinking, maybe not.

On the other hand, I am sure he knows the precise number of pepperoni slices on a twelve inch pizza that will maximize both customer satisfaction and corporate profits. I am willing to accept that he knows more about the proper quantity of anchovies for a pizza takeout location to keep in stock for minimum spoilage better than President Obama.

[sirs]

"It's the economy, stupid".......Bill Clinton


"It's the economy, stupid" was a phrase in American politics widely used during Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H. W. Bush. For a time, Bush was considered unbeatable because of foreign policy developments

[Xavier_Onassis]

Admit it, this guy tends to be clueless.

[sirs]

About the economy, and policies he'd push to pull us out the abyss our current president drove us into??  Hardly

[Xavier_Onassis]

Obama is not to blame for the recession. It started before he took office.
It would be worse had he not did what he did.
It would be better had McConnell and the rest of the ratbag right not been intent on preventing him from doing anything.

Just listen to Cain on this video. Never has Obama seemed even half as dazed and confused as this sorry fraud.

[sirs]

Obama's to blame for instituting policies that made the recession FAR WORSE, most notably in far more stagnating regulations upon businesses, and in Obamination Care
Obama's to blame for getting everying he could possibly want passed, in his 1st 2years, with a Fillibuster proof majority, so you can dispense with the supposed McConnell roadblock.  If something didn't get passed, it was because of Democrats not wanting to lose their next election....which they did anyways
Obama's to blame for signing off on exponential spending this country has never seen before, racking up more debt, than all the prior presidents combined, to be passed on to our children, and their children's children, and so on

I've listened to Cain....ON ECONOMIC ISSUES.  He has a FAR GREATER CLUE ON THE ECONOMY, than Mr. Community organizer

[Michael Tee]

Saw the video and Pizza Man's pathetic.  Probably all the "stuff twirling round in his head" was blondes whose skirts he could stick his hand into when nobody's looking.  Whatever it was, the question was pretty simple.  You gotta be genuinely STOOOPIT to mess up on that one.  What happens when the going gets rough and the questions aren't so simple?

[Xavier_Onassis]

The fact is, that the President managed the Libyan thing as well as anyone could. But Cain, it is obvious from this video, did not know enough about it to comment on it, and there was no way that he could bring himself to say that "Mr Community Organizer" passed this with good marks, so he sat there and made a fool of himself.

How can anyone take a guy seriously that takes their centerpiece idea from a flippin' video game?

In the very unlikely event that Cain gets the nomination, the entire country will see this video many, many times.

[BT]

It is amazing that speculation that Cain got 9-9-9 from a video game has earned the rank of hard cold fact amongst his critics.

And we are to believe Cain is some pervert when one accuser filed a sexual harassment charge over a computer joke and the other has a long history of being irresponsible not knowing who the father of her child was and having a very spotty employment record.

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[sirs]

What the country will also see...AND...hear...."It's the Economy, stupid"

[Xavier_Onassis]

And they will see Cain blathering about, talking about all the weird stuff twirling around in his head, and conclude that he is far too clueless to trust with an economy.

Now if you wanted extra cheese with that, maybe he's your man.

[sirs]

NOT, when he is talking about the economy

[Michael Tee]

<<And we are to believe Cain is some pervert when one accuser filed a sexual harassment charge over a computer joke . . . >>

Wake up and smell the coffee, BT.  Sexually demeaning computer jokes have been found to be sexual harassment on many occasions over the past 20 years and for an attractive blonde, sexual harassment has been known to strike twice.  If she DID file a complaint over a sexually harassing computer joke, you can bet your ass she'd file a complaint over something more egregious as well.  But I guess you prefer your victims to be soft and compliant types who are too intimidated to speak up.  Those days are long gone and the racist, anti-woman Republicans are just going to have to adjust to the 21st century, like it or not.

<<and the other has a long history of being irresponsible not knowing who the father of her child was and having a very spotty employment record. >>

So of course, she couldn't be the victim of a serial sexual harasser already known to have harassed two of his other female employees.  Only financially responsible people who know who the father of their children is can be sexually harassed.  BTW, there's nothing particularly "spotty" about her employment record.  When I analyzed the Trib's hatchet job, I think I found about nine jobs that she'd worked at, one for up to five years, one for two years, and very little to evaluate them.   Did she move a lot from one city to the next?  She was a pediatrician's girl-friend for a number of years, I don't think she really had to go out and work then and she's a stay-at-home mum now.  Your indignation at "spotty employment records" in an era when capitalism has finally failed is laughable, as is your "financial irresponsibility" jibe - - at least in her financial irresponsibility, she took no one else down with her.  Don't you read the papers?  Financial irresponsibility is as American as apple pie.  It's virtually a qualification for high political office in your country.

What about the third victim?  Oh, she kept her head down, wisely, it seems.  No dirt for you apologists for racism and sexism to dig up on her, too bad, so sad.

Well, if you learned nothing else from this little fiasco (and I'm sure you didn't) at least you ought to know by now why a lot of ladies like to keep their heads down after a sexual assault by the Hermster or scum like him.  Because perverts, their enablers and their supporters sure like to revel in digging up the dirt and throwing it around.  Good job, guys.

[sirs]

Which then begs the question, and referenced in another posting, that if uncle tom is supposed to be some "serial sexual harasser", one would expect such accusations coming from up & down, and all across his occupational climb......you know, akin to Clinton's accusers, stemming all the way from College to President

What's up with that?

[Amianthus]

Which then begs the question, and referenced in another posting, that if uncle tom is supposed to be some "serial sexual harasser", one would expect such accusations coming from up & down, and all across his occupational climb......you know, akin to Clinton's accusers, stemming all the way from College to President

What's up with that?

That's what I find the most interesting. There appear to be two "groups" of accusations; one set in the late 90's and one person just now (Bialek). Both groups seem to correspond pretty well time wise with announced runs at the Whitehouse. But outside of those? Apparently nothing.