14 thoughts on “The Problem With Herman Cain”

  1. Yeah, I’ve cooled on him a bit. NRFPT. Perry, too. I don’t care for Romney. I have respect for Newt’s intellect, though he worries me as being a bit of a loose cannon. Still, I’ll crawl over broken glass to pull the lever for any one of them.

    2. At least Cain is smart enough to know he isn’t the smartest man in any room, unlike Obama. A good executive doesn’t have to know everything and would be a fool to think he does (e.g. Obama). Instead, he surrounds himself with good people to help him make important decisions (e.g. Reagan).

  5. Still too early for me the care other than ABB and ABR. In another 2 weeks, Bachmann or Paul will get their 15 minutes for the press to tell us about their days harassing men, visiting some park that had a sign 20 years ago reading “wet back rapids”, or some problems with a marriage.

  6. Established in 1990 and officially dismantled in 2010, the LIFG was modeled along the lines of the Egyptian al-Jihad: secretive, elitist, and exclusively paramilitary. The group led a three-year, low-level insurgency mainly based in eastern Libya and tried three times to assassinate Qaddafi in 1995 and 1996. By 1998, the LIFG was crushed in Libya. Most of its leaders and members fled and joined forces with the Taliban in Afghanistan. They even gave a religious oath of loyalty (bay’a) to Mullah Omar. After 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, Belhaj and most of the LIFG leaders fled that country as well, only to be arrested in 2004 by the CIA and then handed over to Qaddafi’s regime, following interrogations in Thailand and Hong Kong.

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    1. You ever notice how wherever you go in the Galaxy and encounter Vulcans, that the Vulcans all seem to know each other? You would think that Vulcan is a big place if it is big enough to have Earth-normal gravity or close to it.

      Oh Paul, I hear you are from “Earth.” Lempar Tsvanishvilli over there says he is from “Earth.” You know Lempar? Never heard of him? Thought it was worth at least asking.

      But Vulcans, on the other hand, they do all seem to know each other. Or maybe they all know Spock. Or maybe Spock comes from a high-caste Vulcan family, at least on his Dad’s side, that is, and maybe everyone knows Spock.

      Back to the topic at hand, whether rebel factions in Libya, have anything at all to do with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The thing is, these radical, revolutionary, asymmetric warfare types do in fact all seem to know each other. Tom Clancy riffed on that theme in Sum of All Fears, that there is a worldwide network of folks, it isn’t only radical Islam, but rather this confederation of folks with a grievance who seem to know each other.

      Sum of All Fears is a work of fiction, but surely it is meant as a vehicle for explaining Clancy’s world view. In his non-fiction work Special Forces, he gives details of the aftermath of the Achille Lauro hijacking, where among the terrorists that the Special Forces commander let go (safe passage to Saddam’s Iraq or some such place) was some red-headed dude that the commander thought could have been IRA.

      Strange isn’t it, but these folks do seem to all know each other.

      2. Or maybe Spock comes from a high-caste Vulcan family, at least on his Dad’s side, that is, and maybe everyone knows Spock.

        Spock’s father, Serek, was the frickin’ ambassador to the Federation. Even if they didn’t know him, they’d pretend to — Vulcans aren’t that different from humans…

  7. I don’t know if I would call not being a politician a “knowledge deficit”. At this point I’m willing to take a chance on someone who’s not a Harvard or Yale laywer. Someone with an actual mathematics background, someone who knows how to count, someone who knows how to run a business.

    Someone, in short, who isn’t part of our intellectual nomenklatura.

    I’ll settle for Newt if he pulls ahead, but I *like* the fact that Cain isn’t part of our de-facto aristocracy.

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