I know it’s unlikely that Cain will win the GOP primary, but I still fear the possibility. Cain is asked whether he agrees with Obama’s handling of Libya, and after an insanely long pause, during which he is apparently trying to recall just what the hell Libya is, his answer only barely borders on cogent.
There was a point when I was a freshman in high school that I didn’t think it completely impossible that I could one day be a professional football player. Probably about a month into my first season as the smallest member of my very small high school’s junior varsity football team, I figured that because I could still compete with players twice my size, I could eventually, with a lot of dedication, practice, and a serious growth spurt, be able to not only compete but excel, first at the division 5 high school level, then division 1 college, and then the pros.
You know why I thought this? Because I had absolutely no idea at just how high of a level the game of football is played at in college, let alone the pros. Three months out of 8th grade I still, obviously, clung to a few of my childish fantasies, and being childishly naive I wasn’t able to rationally evaluate my size and skills, those of the professionals, and then see how unbridgeably gigantic the chasm was between the two.
I’m pretty sure Herman Cain thinks about being the next president like how I thought about being the next Jerry Rice.
