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Herman Cain didn’t have a solid answer when he was asked whether he supported the way President Obama handled the conflict in Libya. “President Obama supported the uprising, correct?” he told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday. “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.’” His campaign blames it on sleep deprivation, according to the New York Times: J. D. Gordon , Mr. Cain’s spokesman and national security adviser, said the candidate had not been at his sharpest in Milwaukee because of a lack of sleep amid a long day of traveling. “We were all going on four hours sleep, so he was tired,” Mr. Gordon said in a telephone interview. “When he got the Libya question, it took him a while to get his bearings on it, but he got the answer right.” This is the same excuse, right down to the number of hours, Cain’s campaign used the last time he was pressed on a foreign policy issue. From the Daily Beast in October: Cain told Wolf Blitzer after the recent Israeli-Palestinian prisoner exchange that he’d consider trading hundreds of Gitmo detainees for one U.S. soldier, but later walked it back. That was a mistake Cain would not have made “if he’d been rested,” Gordon says. “Mr. Cain was only going on about four hours’ sleep. He did correct it right away—he would not negotiate with terrorists.” Cain isn’t the only one. Also in October, in an effort to boost Rick Perry ‘s debate performances, his team recommended he get more sleep, too.
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Cain camp blames lack of sleep for confusing remarks again
It has nothing to do with anything Gloria Allred has her hands in. It’s his continued lack of preparedness on, and familiarity with, basic domestic and foreign policy issues. Sorry, Cain fans. Tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. But like Rick Perry, Herman Cain is just not ready for prime time. The real Cain scandal: He can barely form a coherent thought on Libya when put on the spot and garbles collective bargaining 101 facts. This Milwaukee Sentinel Journal editorial board session — all on video, in all its prolonged cringe-worthiness — sums up the problem with the Cain Train. The paper’s recap : Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Monday that he believes public employees should be allowed to bargain collectively on wages and other benefits as long as it does not create an undue burden on taxpayers. In Wisconsin Monday for two fundraisers, including a tailgate fundraiser at tonight’s Packers game at Lambeau Field, Cain met for a half-hour with Journal Sentinel reporters and editors. In the meeting Cain: * Struggled to collect his thoughts and explain how his approach to the crisis in Libya would have differed from the actions taken by President Barack Obama. …On the issue of collective bargaining, Cain said he supported the right of public employees to bargain collectively. “But not collective hijacking. What I mean by that, if they have gotten so much for so many years and it’s going to bankrupt the state, I don’t think that’s good. It appears that in some instances, they really don’t care.” Asked about last week’s vote in Ohio, in which the state’s new collective bargaining law was rejected by voters, Cain said that “maybe they tried to get too much and as a result it failed.” Asked if the Ohio Legislature had gone too far in stripping collective bargaining rights for public employees, including fire and police personnel, Cain said that Ohio legislators “may have tried to get too much in one bill.” Ohio’s collective bargaining law differed from Wisconsin in at least one key aspect: Wisconsin exempted police and fire personnel from the law. In an interview with the Journal Sentinel last month, Cain said that he was “right in the corner of Gov. Scott Walker 100%” in Walker’s battle with public employee unions. Cain also appeared to be unclear on the issue of collective bargaining as it involves federal employees. Asked if he thought federal employees should have the ability to bargain collectively, Cain said: “They already have it, don’t they?” Told they didn’t, he said, “They have unions.” The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 600,000 federal government workers in 65 agencies, says that most federal employees don’t have collective bargaining over pay and benefits. Watch for yourselves. Take anti-depressants or a stiff drink first: On Libya (listen for the part where he excuses his hemming and hawing by explaining that he has “a lot of stuff twirling around in his head”)… And on collective bargaining… Cain makes Rick Perry look like a Mensa president. Where are my nose plugs?
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The real Cain scandal: Video cringe alert
The front doors of Milwaukee's Messmer Prepatory School were super glued shut Thursday ahead of a visit from Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. (Newsradio 620 WTMJ)
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Alleged Anti-Walker Protesters Super Glue WI School‘s Doors Shut Before Gov’s Visit
Rep. Paul Ryan has been in the news a lot lately and is enjoying widespread support among some of the heaviest hitters in the Republican Party, but the Wisconsin congressman has decided that a run for Senate isn’t part of his plan for the near future. How refreshing — a politician who’s not looking to make a career out of public service. Ryan explained his decision not to run to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “What matters to me is not the title. It’s my ability to impact policy. It would take me, you know, 12 to 16 years in the Senate to get where I am in the House. I don’t want to be in Congress for the rest of my life.” Read more
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‘I don’t want to be in Congress for the rest of my life’
**Written by Doug Powers If you want to make a few extra bucks, put a Groucho glasses vending machine outside Paul Ryan’s townhalls. Just a hunch. From USA Today : GREENFIELD, Wis. — At the last of four events on Rep. Paul Ryan’s “listening tour” of his district Thursday, he called on a man in the front row of a high school auditorium, then instantly recognized him. “You changed clothes!” Ryan told Steve Jozefczyk. The 54-year old salesman from Franklin, Wis., had asked Ryan several critical questions from the front row of an event six hours earlier in Waterford, when he wore a shirt and tie. In Greenfield, it was a black “Faux News” parody T-shirt. Josefczyk admitted trying to trick Ryan into calling on him again. But Ryan listened anyway. Ryan might be recognizing a lot of the same faces in the crowd in coming days : Citizens Action of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Labor Council have enlisted a traveling band of seniors to follow Paul Ryan’s every move while he conducts town halls across the state. “They have been and they will be trailing all his listening sessions and do their best to get themselves heard. For some reason I’m reminded of the sitcom “Cheers” when Woody was acting in a local production of “12 Angry Men” — except they only had six actors, so as a result “we all had to act twice as furious.” As for the master of disguise at Paul Ryan’s townhall(s), a quick search brought me to this book that I think is written by the same Obamaniac . (h/t Weasel Zippers and Washington Examiner ) **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Paul Ryan Townhall Meeting Astroturfer: Master of Disguise!
