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Herman Cain On That China Comment: Once Again, I Misspoke (VIDEO)

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Herman Cain has trouble getting things out right the first time. And the latest example of a classic Cain misspeak apparently came earlier this week when Cain said pretty clearly that China doesn’t have nuclear capability.

“I may have misspoke,” Cain told the Daily Caller. “What I meant was China does not have the size of the nuclear capability that we have.”

Here’s the video:

So now we can add China to the pantheon of classic Cain misspeaks, that includes ‘I didn’t mean what I said about the Palestinian right of return‘ and ‘I didn’t mean it when I said I’d release the prisoners from Gitmo.’

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