Ok, edit the posts. Yeah, that was bad. At the same time, I can't help but think that it was intentional, somehow. Maybe to make Perry look better? Not worse then Perry, but it was fairly clear that he wasn't 100% sure about what Obama did regarding Libya. And that made him nervous. He guessed. I think he guessed right. Tried a sentence. Realized that wasn't going to work for him. Made that comment about things going around in his head.
Going to watch more of it.
Ok, he was good after the questioner talked again.
Was worse than my first assessment. He hemmed and hawed. He started a sentence and stopped. Said the thing about twirling in his head. But he did get the facts right, from what I can tell.
Not anywhere near as bad as Perry.
Perry was talking about his own plan. He could not come up with the 3, that he started his sentence with, his own plan. He was given a minute to do so.
Cain might just have been stumped with a tricky guestion. Perry wasn't trying to answer a tricky question. Perry was reading the headline of his own speech.
This isn't Jeopardy.
On the other hand, it's tricky for Republicans nowadays, because they really want to criticize Obama on foreign policy, and Obama is actiing pretty much like how they would act, that they have to find fault in such minor detail. "the assessment of the opposition" would've been handled differently.
For Ron Paul it's easy. Don't meddle in their civil wars. Slash the military budget. Close all the bases. Send our troops home from everywhere. He really doesn't have to know the small stuff, those little details. Cain agrees that we should've been in there, but he knows that it's good politics to be against Obama.
None of that stuff Cain said in that first minute was smooth. and it was bad. But nowhere near Perry bad.
You should know your own plan.
You might not know 1) what Obama did in Libya. 2) how what Obama did in Libya differs from what you'd do in Libya.
Cain worse than my earlier assessments. Still nowhere near as bad as Perry.
