Today's Comedy Relief

Courtesy of Martin Peretz, about whom the only conclusion we can draw is that he's rapidly descending into senility:

And then there’s one of the Republican candidates for president, Herman Cain. “When the moon hits your eye … Like a big pizza pie. That’s amore.” He’s running second among all the professional politicians in the Republican race for president. Oh, yes, and he’s a black man. It can’t be. Republicans favoring a … a … a black man? Wow. There’s been very little about this phenomenon in the press. I’ve found no pretense in the man. He’s got common sense. He tells it like it is. Will someone write something serious about him?

OK, done.

Cain's campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending. Cain credits a businessman who served on an AFP advisory board with helping devise his "9-9-9" plan to rewrite the nation's tax code. And his years of speaking at AFP events have given the businessman and radio host a network of loyal grassroots fans.

(Another serious writer on the one-time pizza magnate. And yet another.)

Or, let Cain speak for himself.

"I'm not familiar with the neo-conservative movement."

Cain revealed this during his somewhat epic Meet the Press interview.

Cain has been notoriously weak on foreign policy, but this exchange on MTP highlighted just how weak.

Currently Americans are focused on one thing: The economy. Which largely explains why a candidate like Cain has amassed such popular support. However, one imagines we need only to face even a small security risk for this glaring ineptness on his part to develop into a fatal flaw.

Compare & contrast w/ Peretz's take on Elizabeth Warren, in the same item linked above:

Another fact is that Warren has no foreign policy and hasn’t thought about foreign policy. Ask her about the Arab Spring, Israel, and the peace process, human rights and Africa, the American relationship with Venezuela.

One more Marty ha ha:

Actually, Warren is a perfectly presentable woman, pleasant looking and handsomely dressed. She might not be noticed on the campus. But almost no one is noticed at 62 in these parts ’cept young ’uns.

Uh, whut?