{"id":11652,"date":"2011-10-14T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11652"},"modified":"2011-10-14T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:23:37","slug":"more-good-questions-for-cain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11652\/more-good-questions-for-cain\/","title":{"rendered":"More Good Questions for Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is, I guess, my week to focus on Herman Cain. Jennifer Rubin does a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/post\/questions-for-cain\/2011\/03\/29\/gIQAHPKGhL_blog.html\">good job<\/a> providing the right focuses (foci?) this morning. As I wrote last week, Cain merits some serious vetting. I really really like the guy; I&#8217;ve liked most of what I&#8217;ve seen from him for 17 years now. I think his basic economic proclivities and understandings are right on target (even if I have doubts about the long-term impact of 9-9-9). But he&#8217;s running for president. It&#8217;s a huge job. Is he ready for it? I certainly think he has some of the experience needed, and all the intelligence needed, and the character needed, and most of the right principles needed. But is &#8220;some&#8221; of the experience enough? And is he temperamentally suited to political give and take while still maintaining his principles? Some people do the principles without the politics; some do the politics without the principles; but a great president must be able to do both.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the answers to these questions. I think he may have the stuff of greatness in him. But the vetting must be thorough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is, I guess, my week to focus on Herman Cain. Jennifer Rubin does a good job providing the right focuses (foci?) this morning. As I wrote last week, Cain merits some serious vetting. I really really like the guy; I&#8217;ve liked most of what I&#8217;ve seen from him for 17 years now. I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11653,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11652\/revisions\/11653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}