It’s abundantly evident that Herman Cain is woefully uninformed on U.S. foreign policy. Embarrassingly so for one deigning to speak globally for America in less than a year.
Last week Cain was in Miami and made the requisite stop at Little Havana’s Versailles restaurant. There he added to a gaffe-a-thon that already had included blatant missteps on China and Libya. This time he showed himself clueless on this country’s “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy, which allows Cuban immigrants who have made it to U.S. soil to stay here. And in lieu of answering reporters’ questions about his take on President Obama’s easing of travel restrictions to Cuba, Cain non-answered with a retort that he wasn’t responding to a “gotcha question.”
The best he could do was shout-outs of “Free Cuba Now.” As it turned out, he didn’t even pander well. Miami-Dade’s Republican executive committeewoman, Liliana Ros, said as much. Actually, she called his approach: “B.S.”