Herman Cain’s campaign is out with a fresh document outlining his foreign policy vision, and it already has the wags on Twitter aflutter.
The document crunches the world down into four key regions: the Americas, the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia. Yahoo’s Chris Moody tweeted the observation that it lists Russia as part of the Americas. (Well, how else could Sarah Palin see it from her window, one wonders). Even if you’re willing to stretch geographical boundaries on this, it’s hard to do the same for the United Kingdom and Germany, which also fall in the “Americas” category.
As the document moves on from regions to the countries themselves, it lists them under rather business jargon-like summaries such as “Pakistan: Danger And Opportunity.”
TPM’s favorite, though, is the heading for Libya:
“Libya: Clarity Needed” – is the headline for that segment.
Clarity needed, indeed. It’s difficult to tell whether this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the flub that hammered Cain’s credibility, or if in the world of the Cain campaign the irony just passed everybody by.
Either way, it will no doubt provide MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow with more evidence for her contention that Herman Cain is a piece of performance art.
UPDATE – 9:22 Eastern – TPM’s Benjy Sarlin read the Canada section and observed that it contains the claim, “We have stood together during both World Wars and in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Although Canada was part of the UN force that drove Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait during the Gulf War, Canada’s government refused to join the “coalition of the willing” that invaded Iraq in 2003.
