From the You Can't Make This Shit Up file:
November 16, 2011 05:43 PM
<..> Next, Cain hit Wings Plus in Coral Springs, one of Broward’s most popular stops for Republican candidates, where praised the crowd of about 400.
“We are America. Not them. We are,” he said.
Cuba wasn’t on the political menu at Wings Plus, but Israel was. “They are our friend,” he said. Under a Cain presidency, “If you mess with Israel, you’re messing with the United States of America.”
<..> Cain indirectly addressed what some perceive as his foreign policy weakness, fueled this week by a video of him struggling to answer a question about Libya. In Miami, when WPLG-Ch. 10 asked him about a key Florida foreign policy issue – the wet foot-dry foot policy which grants asylum to Cuban refugees who make it to shore in the U.S. but returns those interdicted at sea – didn’t have an answer to the question.
“A leader doesn’t have to know everything, but a leader has to know something,” Cain said, explaining that he’d ask the right questions, hire the best advisers, and bring clarity to U.S. foreign policy by aiding friends and punishing enemies.
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/pol...orida.html
My gawd, he doesn't even know he is ignorant of the facts.