Gotcha? Ha ha. Not ME!

Herman Cain really is a different breed of political cat.  For example, he proudly told reporter David Brody the other day that he was on the lookout for “Gotcha” questions.  He gave an example “When they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I’m going to say, ‘You know, I don’t know. Do you know?”  And he continued “knowing who is the head of some of these small insignificant states around the world.”  

Wow.  Surely Cain must know Uzbekistan is pretty significant in today’s world.  It plays a major part in helping supply American troops in Afghanistan and also a number of corporations are very active in that country.  Now you can agree or not with the war in Afghanistan, but surely no one thinks we should just abandon them there.  But?  Well, maybe he just didn’t know.  

At any rate, Herman Cain just “gotcha’d” himself. That’s one way to stay ahead of your competition and leave them scratching their heads.  Well, Cain is not the first candidate to Gotcha himself, he is just the first one I have seen who seems proud of it.


This is the guy who is "not a Washington insider"?  Well, that's what he said.  Of course he WAS a lobbyist.   He lobbied for the National Restaurant Association.   He lobbied hard to get legislators to continue letting their patrons smoke in the restaurants and fought hard against lowering the level of alcohol that determines the status of "DUI".  He also knows the Koch brothers pretty well, and apparently receives a good bit of money from them.  He also incurred a trail of two, three, four? sexual episodes, all paid off now with a pledge of silence obtained in exchange for that money.  Apparently there is a lot more than just some of the world's nations that are small and insignificant.  Ask Herman Cain.