Herman Cain's Florida Tour Gaffes: Was Media Criticism "Over the Top"?

• The media is generally unfair to candidates and unfair to the public by focusing on the gaffes, the horse race of who is ahead/behind and avoiding actually asking intelligent follow up questions or deep intellectual query. Having written that, I confess, Herman Cain is singularly unqualified to be president or a candidate for any high office.  His claim to fame is working for a company that produced the worse pizza in the world; proving even an embarrassment for the Pillsburh Dough Boy. His economic "plan" is sophomoric and the numbers dont add up (even he cant figure them out), his knowledge of foreign policy (exotic places like Libya and Iran for example) is non-existent and he seems slogan-driven and substance free. If he were a white, ignorant, conservative with a big hat and massive ego he wouldnt be in the race.  He makes Santorum look like a statesman!

• You continue your mastery of ignorance and stupidity on every thread you are on. You sound like you were home schooled in a doublewide in Loxascratchee.

• This blogger Mr. Crowley must realize that Mr. Cain was talking to FLORIDA voters, right? Wet-foot-dry-foot may not be interesting to all voters, but it's certainly interesting to voters in...FLORIDA. It may not be interesting to everyone that Mr. Cain doesn't appear to know that "Cuban" is a nationality rather than a language, but it's certainly interesting to Cuban-American voters, who tend to be found in very great numbers in...FLORIDA. I could rant about how this represents the standard narcissistic, navel-gazing, condescending lens with which elite Northeast academic institutions view the country. Instead I'll simply say that perhaps Mr. Crowley probably should have spoken to a Floridian or two before passing judgement on what our media does--it's what a journalist would do.

• Is there any wonder why the repub candidates are actively avoiding the media?  Every time they open their mouth near a microphone they promptly insert foot.  The fact that Cain has no idea about the Cuban immigration policy is hardly surprising.  He does not seem to know much about anything, including pizza.  Ate it one when I was a kid..NOT pretty. Now if I was a republican voter, I am not rich so why should I do something stupid like that, I would be clamoring for ANYONE else to vote for.  Preferably with enough brain cells to do the job.  Its sad when the entire republican field is beginning to make Bush jr look like a Rhodes Scholar.

• In 2008, 60 million of us voted for Obama. In 2012, more than 60 million of us will vote for him. The Republicans have only one qualified candidate, Newt, and he's morally bankrupt. Republicans are anti-Hispanic, anti-woman, anti-black and anti-progress. They can't win.

• Golly, if a lack of perfect mastery of foreign policy disqualifies a candidate, then Barack needs to scuttle back under his Chicago rock.  And Barack, unlike Cain, has had 3 years to learn and thousands of advisers to help him. For Pete's sake, Monaco recognized the Libyan rebels before Barack the Dim.  And how's Barak's incompetence (if not timidity) on Morocco, Egypt, Iraq, North Korea, and Syria grab you?  

• I think his basic problem is that he can't see Russia from his back porch.

• In all fairness, it was hot outside and he didn't have his cowboy hat on.

• What a surprise. The cold pizza man demonstrates his intelligence again.

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