Republican Tea Party (GOTP) one-time presidential hopeful Herman “Pizza Man” Cain struggled to answer a question about President Obama’s policy toward Libya in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial board.
“Okay, Libya,” said Cain, glancing up. “President Obama supported the uprising, correct? President Obama called for the removal of [Muammar] Gaddafi. Just wanted to make sure we’re talking about the same thing before I say, ‘Yes, I agreed. No, I didn’t agree,'” said Cain.
“I do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason,” Cain started, before cutting himself off. “Nope, that’s a different one.” Cain shifted in his chair, adjusted his jacket and looked up again.
“I got all this stuff twirling around in my head,” he added.
Cain repeated he would have “assessed the [Libyan] opposition differently,” speaking in generalities about his problem-solving approach.
Cain raised broader questions about the nature of the Libyan opposition. “It’s not a clear yes-no answer, because all of those things I think should have been assessed, that’s what I’m saying.”
“And you don’t think they were assessed?” asked an editorial board member.
“I don’t know that they were or were not assessed. I didn’t see reports of that assessment,” Cain responded.
This isn’t the first time Pizza Man has stepped in the dough regarding foreign policy questions. Earlier Cain warned the world China was “trying to develop a nuclear capability,” though the country tested a nuclear device in October 1964.
Naturally, the Cain campaign has tried in vain to downplay the incident.
“The video is being taken out of context,” Cain spokesman JD Gordon said, according to MSNBC. “He was taking questions for about 30 to 40 minutes on four hours of sleep. He didn’t say anything wrong or inaccurate; it just took him a while to recall the specifics of Libya.”
Gordon added, “It just took him a while to gain his bearings.”
So, Presidents aren’t expected to have to answer tough questions or face difficult situations on four hours of sleep or less?
Herman Cain’s the GOTP’s version of Billy Ray Valentine; no one expects him to win, they just want him to do well enough so they can pat each other on the back and proclaim they’re not racists.
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