Herman Cain's 'baffling' Libya stumble

The GOP presidential hopeful mangles an assessment of Obama's Libya policy. How could he flub such a basic foreign policy question?

In a video-taped interview released this week, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain spends minutes tripping over himself on Libya, in what some critics are calling a devastating "supergaffe
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In a "baffling" video that political analysts are comparing to Rick Perry's infamous "oops" moment, Herman Cain is seriously flustered when an interviewer asks for his opinion on how President Obama handled the Libyan uprising against the late Moammar Gadhafi. (Watch the interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial board below). "OK, Libya," Cain says, before pausing. "President Obama supported the uprising, correct? President Obama called for the removal of Gadhafi — just want to make sure we're talking about the same thing before I say, 'Yes, I agree,' or 'No, I didn't agree.'" The GOP presidential hopeful then says he disagreed with Obama's approach, before backtracking: "Nope, that's a different one." Cain then tried to explain his stumbles by saying, "I've got all of this stuff twirling around in my head." What does this video tell us about Cain?

He is not ready to be president: There is only one way to read Herman Cain's "Rick Perry-esque loop," says Colby Hall at Mediaite. His detractors were right all along — the former restaurant executive and motivational speaker is "not a serious candidate." "If a working knowledge of current foreign policy is a prerequisite," Cain's "cringeworthy" brain freeze is solid proof that he is not ready for the job.

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