Little Explosions of Recognition

I would have a policy that we do not negotiate with terrorists. Now, then you need to look at the whole situation and examine the facts.

Herman Cain, answering a question from Anderson Cooper as to whether he would, as he’d earlier intimated, be comfortable authorizing a hostage swap along the lines of what went down between the Israelis and Palestinians today — the hypothetical situation was an American soldier being held hostage, and his holder demanding the release of all Guantanamo detainees. Similar to Cain’s recent contradiction on his remark about an electrified border fence (he said it was a joke, but that he might still want an electric fence), he seems to want it both ways in an awkwardly compressed way. If you say you can’t negotiate with terrorists, isn’t that sort of the end of this question? (via shortformblog)

Isn’t that a quote from the Harrison Ford film, Air Force One? I mean, the guy quotes Pokemon, why not Harrison Ford, playing the President of the United States.

Source: shortformblog