Cain Wreck: The Herminator Does Governor Goodhair One Better

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The "Cain Train" turned into a "Cain Wreck" in front of the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Governor Goodhair Rick Perry suffered the longest minute of his life during a recent debate. The "Herminator" did Governor Goodhair one better and drew blanks for a full five minutes.

The Cain campaign later made the excuse that he was tired on only four hours of sleep. Well that comes with the job of being president, Mr. Cain. I guess he's not ready to answer that "3:00 a.m. call." Cain stumbles on Libya question – JSOnline:

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, in the midst of a Midwestern campaign swing, stumbled badly Monday when attempting to answer a question about whether he agreed or disagreed with President Barack Obama's approach to handling the Libyan crisis.

Meeting with Journal Sentinel reporters and editors before fundraising appearances in Milwaukee and Green Bay, Cain was discussing foreign policy in general when he was asked specifically about Obama's handling of Libya.

Cain paused for some time, then wanted to clarify that Obama had supported the uprising. Clearly struggling to articulate a response, Cain paused again, saying, "Got all of this stuff twirling around in my head."

Finally, Cain said: "I would have done a better job of determining who the opposition is. And I'm sure that our intelligence people had some of that information. Based upon who made up that opposition . . . might have caused me to make some different decisions about how we participated. Secondly, no I did not agree with (Moammar) Gadhafi killing his citizens. Absolutely not. . . . I would have supported many of the things that they did to help stop that."

Cain said the question of America's involvement in Libya was not a simple yes or no question. "I would have gone about assessing the situation differently. It might have caused us to end up in the same place."

Told that a number of Republican leaders had praised Obama for his handling of the situation, Cain said he wasn't criticizing the president, "I just don't think enough was done relative to assessing the opposition before everything exploded."

Cain's answer, which began with a discussion of President George W. Bush's foreign policy before the Libya question came up, was recorded on video and posted as part of a series of unedited excerpts on the Journal Sentinel's online site.

This report goes on to discuss Cain stumbling on the facts in answer to other questions put to him by the editors. This report links to video segments for each question, and a full length video of the entire interview.