Read my blog and you know I am a Herman Cain supporter.  I do have some concerns and he has to get back up to speed after what for most of us would be the worst weeks of our lives.  But sadly this week, I learned that even though I work 8+ hours a day and am a father, I know more about this primary race than some well-paid and maybe overpaid conservative media types.

Or are they just more slimy media types spinning the facts for their agenda?  Could be.

Anyone that has even moderate knowledge of how people young and older deal with stress they know that we have an amazing ability to get through it and shine.  But that at some point the body demands a price.  After two weeks of assault on Herman Cain by the media on his honor, his goal of bringing change to the White House and his family, what we saw in that interview was the crash.  It usually comes just when you think the stressful time is getting manageable, the body stops pumping the hormones and adrenalin it used to react to the stress.  Then you crash, and in Cain's case that morning he was running on 4 hours sleep.

I understand because in the last year, our family suffered a terrible tragedy and it was my job as husband and father to organize and manage both our travel and work and my pain and anger.  After two weeks, I laid down on my bed and it was my turn to cry and feel like I was losing it.

If you look at it in this context and are well informed you see a man worried about being tricked, misquoted and over briefed.  The people whispering in his ears will have multiplied with his success and money.  It all came to a head in those painful seconds.

But people who I usually have respect for Laura Ingraham and Charles Krauthammer both have judged the bad answer from total ignorance of Cain's numerous public answers to the Libya question over the previous weeks. They talk about it like Herman Cain was clueless about Libya.  He was not and is not, he has answered this question before.  He in a moment, just needed time to reshuffle all the info in his mind.  You had better hope whoever sits in the Oval Office takes a few seconds when tired to think things through.  And when you compare 30 seconds to the 3 month brain freeze two years ago when President Obama couldn't decide to send supporting forces to the troops he already had in Afghanistan.  We realize while embarrassing for a proud, smart, well educated man.. it was just a moment of humanity, not a lack of knowledge.

This IS the big leagues.  Cain has to keep beefing up on issues he doesn't know, so that he has that to go with a superior passion for American exceptionalism and a plan for the White House, that when I red it in his book,  re-inspired me to stay with Cain and give him a chance to mount a comeback. 

I understand why Cain had his moment.  I have no clue why Ingraham and Krauthammer have been having a week long lapse of knowledge on a topic their jobs demand they know.   If I was that inaccurate and short of key info at my job, I would be out of work.

Time for these professionals to stop counting on research done by others and summaries of events, while the people they pretend to inform put aside family time, hobby time and date time to watch these debates.  The future of our country is at stake, and those who are lucky enough to get paid to talk about it need to do better.  If you ask me some pundits need to decide if they really care about their work or if its time to let others try.