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Your words, little buddy.

Just for the record, because apparently I'm the only one that has any law enforcement knowledge, the program in question detects stress levels via speech recognition. So, you know, someone who's accustomed to making speeches would appear to be unstressed (especially on television) while speaking as well as the opposite. It's actually been said to be less reliable in detecting lies than a standard polygraph by the National Academy of Sciences. In fact, after testing by the Pentagon they called it "No better than flipping a coin."

So ... more

(A) The same poll that used to show Obama losing to said "generic Republican" by eight points and now have Obama ahead by a point? Nice 9 point swing
(B) Cain isn't a "generic Republican" but I understand why you'd want to use polls that don't mention him by name over those that do and show him losing in a landslide.

[From a different thread, so as to not hijack that one]

Heh.

Indeed.

Since she currently lives in Mundelein, IL and not in Lake Point Tower, I'd guess... no one?

Edited, Nov 11th 2011 9:21am by Jophiel

I just heard the "Generic Republican" bit on the news again today, and I thought to myself, gbaji would be their best bet ;)

Do you have one of his brilliant "For every one person that accused me, there are thousands that haven't" defense?

EDIT: Found this, and a case could easily be made that what he meant was that for every accuser, there are a thousand people that would say he would never harass anyone, but still a bad choice of phrase.

Edited, Nov 14th 2011 9:24pm by lolgaxe

Yeah. He looked like he was trying to remember what the correct answer was and not just speaking on the subject. To be fair to him, this was a taped interview and not live, so he likely expected he could take time to collect his thoughts and answer, but that's still pretty darn pathetic. How do you not have an answer to that question, or at least the ability to say *something* on the subject?

Yeah. Once he actually figured out what topic he was discussing. And that's a pretty horrible answer this far into the process anyway. Medved had a good thought on that today. He said something about why should we expect him to have people around him to provide him with that information once he's president if he can't get people around him to provide him with that information today? It's a valid point, but honestly while I don't expect a president to know everything about everything, I do expect them to know enough about most things to be able to weigh in with an opinion. You can get away with "I'd have people to provide me with good information" 0-1 times depending on the candidate.

This *wasn't* a gotcha question either. It wasn't a request to recall a specific example on some random subject the interviewer came up with, but a question about a position on a relevant major recent foreign policy issue. About the only even slight gotcha-esque part of the question was the interviewer was asking him whether he agreed or disagreed with Obama on the issue, without clearly outlying what exact aspect of the issue he was referring to. But honestly, if you don't have an opinion already about Obama's actions in Libya and the outcome, and can't speak at least semi-intelligently about the subject, you've seriously failed to study your foreign policy.


Is this where I pipe up with the same "There's a reason we tend to elect career politicians" bit? I like Cain. I think he's got some interesting ideas and a willingness to say what he thinks, but he's hitting every single branch of the political-fail tree.

Edited, Nov 15th 2011 3:22pm by gbaji