While there are a whole ton of other problems for him in that link, I’m not going to be too harsh on not knowing what language is spoken in Cuba. If he would have assumed Spanish and been wrong, he would have gotten beaten up for that too. So he didn’t assume he knew, and he asked a question and we bitch about that? Again, there were lots of policy flubs, and yes if he knew he was going to a cuban restaurant, he should have done his homework.
But seriously, Obama did say 57 states. Michelle Bachmann did say “John Wayne from Waterloo IA” which is John Wayne Gacy, not the actor John Wayne. Every time I have to give a speech there is a good chance I am going to screw something up. I agree, knock him down for not knowing a whole slew of things, but for asking how to say something in Cuban? Nah, there are substantive things to dislike, but this ain’t one of them.
I debate with a coworker who is republican, and he always tries to throw in that 57 states thing. The truth is the more people speak in public the more likelihood that they will screw something up, let’s stick to substantive issues instead of minor flubs. Cain has plenty of substantive problems.
The Obama 57 states slip was just that. No one actually thinks Obama believes there are 57 states, but if Republicans need one to hang their hats on, fine, Obama said 57 states. Cain, on the other hand, is demonstrably clueless. The man knows nothing, and it is becoming increasingly evident with every passing day.
Republicans must suddenly be peeing in their pants at the prospect of Cain getting the nomination and having to debate Obama. Too bad he won’t get the chance. It would have been hilarious.
I’m now of the opinion that even Palin would have debated Obama better than Cain. Yeah, she would have BS’d, word-souped, and winked her way through it, but I doubt she would have brain-farted it.
I would pay good money to see a Palin-Cain debate. I’d pay double if it was conducted by a no-nonsense moderator who called them both out on their bullshit.
Absolutely, her ‘all true Americans agree with me’ confusion amalgamation is a magic trick that appears to kinda work. She’s even more believable playing the media victim card when confronted with the light of reality.
Cain just takes it on the chin, his eyes roll back, spits out a tooth and still doesn’t put his fists up.
It’s different for Cain because this is just another piece on top of the mounting pile of evidence that he has zero knowledge of foreign policy. If this was his first misstep in speaking about other countries I would laugh and move on. But between the Ubeki-beki-stan and his flubs on Libya and Iran and now this, it’s just more evidence that he doesn’t have the chops to be President.
Indeed. It’s not just that Cain is flubbing, it’s that he’s constantly and consistently dropping the ball. For fuck’s sake, needing a good minute of deep thought to remember what’s even happening in Libya, a country that we were at war with very recently, is ridiculously bad! Not to mention that what seemed to bring him back on course was the realization that, “oh, wait, it’s something obama did–it must be bad!” That’s what you’d expect from a partisan redneck who doesn’t know Osama Bin Laden from Saddam Hussein, not the potential leader of the free world! What’s more, it’s not even just that he seems to be IMMENSELY ignorant of foreign policy, but also that he seems almost proud of it. I would let flubs like this fly if it were a candidate who had demonstrated a general understanding of foreign policy; who at least seemed to know what they were talking about. Cain is not that candidate.
Or an elaborate prank. I am so envious of the US political process. Canada used to have joke candidates at the federal level (like the Rhino Party) but they were never very funny and everyone ignored them, even before changes to the process effectively legislated them out if existence. What a wheeze it must be to live in a country where you can have candidates like this guy and he doesn’t even stand out that much from his competition in the primary.
