….he’s got that quirkiness one sees in engineers and mathematical types, …….

Do you mean all of us professional types who have designed and made the world you depend on? Like the OWS midiots you miss your own blindness.

The judgmentalism on our side needs to cease.

Why are you imposing that he must name his cabinet or advisors this early. Never before has that pre-requisite been imposed.

Make an assessment on the common sense that Herman Cain exhibits and the executive experience that he has.

He is a CLEAR improvement over Barrack Obama.

Thank you.

Somewhere (here?) someone commented that nothing prepares one for foreign policy. It has to be learned on the job, unless you’re Huntsman, who only knows about a sliver of the many cultures USA wants to dominate. And whoever mentioned Yes, Minister! can be heard here. In foreign policy there is an ossified hierarchy of bureaucrats and established channels that moderate any transient executive’s whim.

Foreign policy is an even bigger aircraft carrier than the US economy. Beyond occasional missile strikes against Sandistan and incoming Islamikazes, it may take more than one consecutive POTUS to turn the ship.

Paul’s concept of the President’s Constitutional duty appeals to me. Defense (not war/empire) and domestic issues are the charge of the office.

Yet I would still prefer someone who kills large beasts for sport to have a finger on the red button. We have no hunters in the race.

Cain may not be the best candidate for President, but if there were more Herman Cains in this world, many things would be better and many people would be helped. If there were more Barack Obamas in this world, nothing of consequence would change.

Cain is probably lacking in the experience needed with regard to foreign affairs, but then again, practically everyone in the country is also. However, given his long and varied career of leadership and accomplishment, combined with his demonstrated (and not just invented by himself and the media) intelligence and expertise, magnified by the fact that he has actual principles that he bases his decisions and opinions upon means that I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on that topic.

No doubt I want to hear what he has to say about the topic, in detail, but despite his inexperience in the subject, I would be surprised if he turned out to be a tenth of the Know-Nothing Bozo in White House now.

Cain strikes me as the kind of man who can look at a situation, appraise it, and suggest a course of action based on his principles and common sense, as opposed to just reciting a bunch of empty platitudes and letting someone else sweat the details and actually do the hard work, like You Know Who always does.

Plus, the bluntness is a huge plus in my book. I am so tired of politicians whose answer to any question is five minutes of verbal circumlocutions that distill down to nothing more than “I don’t want to offend anyone.” and we have enough of those in both parties to fill the Golgafrincham B Ark twice over.