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."
The MJS's dryly clinical post-mortem notes on the death of Cain's campaign really don't do justice to the amount of fail accumulated by Cain here. How truly bad was Cain's disastrous response to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's editorial board? Judge for yourself.
There's no way out of this one, folks. If the sexual assault allegations weren't enough to finish him for the GOP chuckleheads in denial, this "performance art" in the theater of the absurd here is finito for the Pizza Man.
This pizza is burnt, if not charred. Time to throw it out and pick the next flavor of the month, huh guys?
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