# The "Make Fun of Herman Cain" Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 2, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647 "2011-11-02T16:47:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/201 "2011-11-15T15:24:49Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Its kind of unreal that he obviously hasn’t spent a little time thinking about it. I think maybe he has thought about it, and knows that Obama scored a major foreign policy achievement with his decisions regarding Libya, but is unable to express anything that is not in line with the “Obama! Bad!” narrative. Cognitive dissonace is a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/202 "2011-11-15T15:54:20Z")
Okay, just to prove that I am not a racist I will say that I would prefer Cain over Michelle Bachmann. And to further prove that I am not a racist I will say that I prefer Obama over any damned republican you care to name. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/203 "2011-11-15T16:03:29Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I want to see a reporter ask him which side he liked in WWII: Roosevelt or Hitler? Cain: Which party was Roosevelt again? ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/204 "2011-11-15T18:53:10Z")
Or, if you really wanted to confuse him, ask him to specify ‘which’ Roosevelt. Even money he couldn’t name them both and correctly attribute their party affiliation. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/205 "2011-11-16T01:12:29Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Or, if you really wanted to confuse him, ask him to specify ‘which’ Roosevelt. Even money he couldn’t name them both and correctly attribute their party affiliation. You’re being generous there. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/206 "2011-11-16T14:49:46Z")
Harman Cain says the Milwaukee paper was [out to get him](http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-herman-cain-interview-111511,0,4738305.story): > [@](#): > > Cain acknowledged in an interview with Channel 13 news that the video doesn’t make him look good but Cain claims that was the newspaper’s intent. Cain said, “It doesn’t make me look good. But obviously that particular publication was trying to make me look bad.” Obviously. Why else would they ask him questions about foreign policy? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/207 "2011-11-16T16:45:34Z")
[Herman Cain: ‘I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy’](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68480.html) Cain explains that he’ll have other people to figure out this stuff for him and all he needs to do is listen to them. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/208 "2011-11-16T17:53:22Z")
So, he’ll surround himself with expertise the way a hole surrounds itself with donut? Great idea! 'Cos we all know how well that worked out last time the guy in the Oval Office did that. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/209 "2011-11-16T19:33:12Z")
In fairness, [sometimes he says something sensible](http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/herman-cain-loosen-federal-marijuana-restrictions-160520011.html): > [@](#): > > At a campaign stop in Urbandale, Iowa, Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said he supports letting states establish their own laws regarding medical marijuana. > > “If states want to legalize medical marijuana, I think that’s a state’s right,” Cain said, according to NBC News. “Because one of my overriding approaches to looking at all of these issue --most of them belong at the state, because when you do something federally . . . you try to force one-size-fits-all.”… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/210 "2011-11-16T19:39:03Z")
Wonder if he’d say the same thing about legalizing recreational MJ… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/211 "2011-11-16T20:53:36Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > [Herman Cain: ‘I’m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy’](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68480.html). You know, I just _assumed_ that was a humorous paraphrase of something he’d said - something in which that sentiment was merely implicit. It didn’t occur to me that it might actually be a direct quote. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/212 "2011-11-16T23:35:11Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Cain: Which party was Roosevelt again? The smart answer would be to punt the ball and express your admiration for Winston Churchill. But the odds on Cain coming up with a smart answer? Slim. He’d be more likely to say something that would offend both Democrats and Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/213 "2011-11-17T03:09:57Z")
Cain: We shouldn’t attack Iran because it’s too hilly. [http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/16/369994/cain-attack-iran-mountains/](http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/16/369994/cain-attack-iran-mountains/) ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/214 "2011-11-17T04:00:01Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Cain: We shouldn’t attack Iran because it’s too hilly. > > [http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/16/369994/cain-attack-iran-mountains/](http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/16/369994/cain-attack-iran-mountains/) THUMP! That’s the sound of another Not-Romney hitting the pavement. Buh-bye pizza man. Next?! ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/215 "2011-11-17T04:28:08Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Cain: We shouldn’t attack Iran because it’s too hilly. > > [http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/16/369994/cain-attack-iran-mountains/](http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/16/369994/cain-attack-iran-mountains/) A golden quote from a commenter on that site: > [@](#): > > the gop clown car never gets empty. Kept me laughing for quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/216 "2011-11-17T12:04:28Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Harman Cain says the Milwaukee paper was [out to get him](http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-herman-cain-interview-111511,0,4738305.story):Obviously. Why else would they ask him questions about foreign policy? Obviously he’s hired Palin as his consultant re:media matters. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/217 "2011-11-17T15:03:30Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Cain: We shouldn’t attack Iran because it’s too hilly. > > [http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/16/369994/cain-attack-iran-mountains/](http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/16/369994/cain-attack-iran-mountains/) That doesn’t lower my opinion of him: if anything, it does the opposite. If he said more half-truths like that more of the time, he would have less time for out and out blunders and lies 🙂 (We shouldn’t attack Iran because it’s hilly. We also shouldn’t attack Iran for many more reasons than that, but the terrain is one factor.) ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/218 "2011-11-17T15:44:51Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > (We shouldn’t attack Iran because it’s hilly. We also shouldn’t attack Iran for many more reasons than that, but the terrain is one factor.) You’re right, of course. The other reason is because Israel might not like it. Seriously: [QUOTE=Herman Cain] CAIN: That is not a practical, top-tier alternative and here’s why. If you look at the topography of Iran. Where are you going to strike? It’s very mountainous. That’s what makes it very difficult. **Secondly, that would be a decision that would need to be coordinated and discussed with our friends in that part of the world like Israel**. But for the United States to unilaterally go in and attack Iran to try and stop them, I would want to consult with the intelligence community, the commanders on the ground in that part of the world, which I have stated before. But we should — I don’t have all the information necessary to make that decision. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/219 "2011-11-17T16:13:33Z")
[Cain scores another media management triumph](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68589.html): > [@](#): > > Herman Cain’s campaign stuck a finger in the eye of the most powerful conservative voice in New Hampshire on Thursday, blowing off a scheduled interview with the Union Leader newspaper. > > Before Cain’s no-show, the campaign had requested the 10 a.m. meeting, scheduled for 60 minutes, be shortened to 20 minutes. Cain also told the Union Leader it would not allow C-SPAN cameras to record the sit-down, as it had the paper’s meetings with Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum… > > [Union Leader editorial page editor Drew] Cline mocked Cain on Twitter, asking: “If Cain is more than 30 minutes late for our interview, is the next one free?”… ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647/220 "2011-11-17T17:32:22Z")
Apparently Herman Cain no habla Cubano. [link](http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-cuban-20111117,0,5913167.story) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-make-fun-of-herman-cain-thread/601647.md?page=12)