Nein Nein Nein

Herman Cain is receiving much flak for his response to the question in this video:

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However, it seems to me that his response has been misconstrued. In responding to the question of whether he has demonstrated his weakness in foreign policy, Cain brilliantly responds "No, no, no," in German, simultaneously demonstrating his knowledge of foreign languages while also alluding to his economic plan.
UPDATE: For some reason, Baghdad Bob thinks this is funny.

A man a plan to can Obama

Wannabe cannibal explains motivation:

In an interview with Secret Service agents a few weeks later, Brockman admitted writing the letter to calm himself down. According to court papers, he told the agents he was upset about the war in Afghanistan, marijuana prohibition, and underfunding of public schools. 

Life imitates Democratic congressman imitating Forrest Gump

Those who forget history...

Karl Marx said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. But what if the first time around was a farce? Slate editor Jacob Weisberg:

As you listen to Huntsman’s blunt assessment of the country’s prospects, it’s hard not to notice the commonalities with the man he would challenge in 2012... There is, to begin with, the physical resemblance. Huntsman is slender, athletic, and stylish, with a winning smile.

Do Weisberg's insidious comments about Huntsman mean that we have forgotten the lesson Slate taught us just three short years ago?:

In the Aug. 1 Wall Street Journal, Amy Chozick asked, "[C]ould Sen. Obama's skinniness be a liability?" Most Americans, Chozick points out, aren't skinny. Fully 66 percent of all citizens who've reached voting age are overweight, and 32 percent are obese. To be thin is to be different physically. Not that there's anything wrong, mind you, with being a skinny person. But would you want your sister to marry one? Would you want a whole family of skinny people to move in next-door? "I won't vote for any beanpole guy," an "unnamed Clinton supporter" wrote on a Yahoo politics message board. My point is that any discussion of Obama's "skinniness" and its impact on the typical American voter can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race.

A whole family of skinny people. Can't we talk about Huntsman without alluding to his extreme Caucasian-ness?

Walter Russell Mead thinks Obama's best hope is to be the next Jimmy Carter, but I think Obama is the JFK of the 21st century after all.