"Herb" Cain Taps Henry Kissinger To Be His Secretary Of State If Elected

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Accomplished and controversial former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is known as a practitioner of realpolitik, but GOP contender Herman Cain says his offer to give him his old job back was a nothing more than a real joke.

“Dr. Kissinger turned my offer down to be secretary of state,” Cain, who met Kissinger earlier this month for breakfast and a rapid tutorial on foreign policy, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in an interview posted to the paper’s web site on Tuesday. “He said he’s perfectly happy doing what he’s doing.”

When asked by reporters later Tuesday if he had really offered Kissinger a job, Cain denied it and said he was only kidding.”

“Dr. Kissinger has retired and I respect that,” Cain said. “I just appreciate the fact that he was kind enough to spend some time and give me his perspective on the Middle East and a lot of these other countries around the world. So he was like a wise sage, you know, giving me a lot of perspectives about how to go about dealing with these issues. Which is, that’s something that I’ve talked about.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/herman-cain-says-henry-kissinger-job-offer-was-a-joke/

You can't make this s--t up!!!

[monmouth]

1. Poor Henry, no I mean it..LOL. He and the wife must have had a

hilarious dinner conversation that evening. You just can't make it up..

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Wish I Was A Fly On The Wall

It would have been like Albert Einstein explaining nuclear physics to Fred Flintstone.

[Enrique]

3. i'm picturing multiple facepalms

:rofl:

[Blue_Tires]

4. shouldn't he like; concentrate on getting elected first

before publicly announcing his presumed cabinet?

[EC]

5. I bet Kissinger and his buds got

a good laugh over that.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Another joke. In an alternate reality, if President Cain pushed the nuclear button

that would be a big joke, too.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Herman, Dr Kissinger really neutered you on Libya. I mean tutored

:rofl:

[CreekDog]

8. Please don't call him "Herb" Cain, jeez

Herb "Caen" would likely appreciate not being closely associated with that.

Herb Caen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Herb Cain.


Herb Caen's "Loyal Royal" typewriter on display at San Francisco Chronicle offices
Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916 – February 1, 1997) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the San Francisco Chronicle from the late 1930s until his death, with an interruption from 1950 to 1958 during which he wrote for the San Francisco Examiner. His collection of essays titled Baghdad-by-the-Bay was published in 1949 and in 1953 he published the book "Don't Call It Frisco". Caen died of lung cancer and his funeral was one of the best-attended in San Francisco history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Caen

:hi:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Well

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/sarah-palin-herman-cain_n_984868.html

[DCBob]

9. then perhaps General Patton for Secretery of Defense...

this guy is just too much!

[fujiyama]

10. I despise Kissinger

but can you imagine his shock at Cain's ignorance when talking to him?

Cain: So what's this whole right of return thing all about? What's Ubeki-stan-stan? So Libya...good guys or bad guys? Fuck it, I want to be Defense Secretary. Let's bomb Iran!

Kissinger: Oh shit...this will take longer than I thought....

[JaneQPublic]

11. Not the first time Cain tried to "tap" someone who didn't want to be. (nt)