Herman Cain defends himself on his Libya answer:

Who knows every detail of every country on the planet? Nobody!

If Cain had been asked something fairly obscure about, say, the chief export of one of the countries that he would deem insignificant, this defense might hold up. Had he been quizzed on the recent winner of the presidential election Kyrgyzstan, he might be forgiven for not knowing Atambaev off the top of his head. That wasn’t what happened. He was asked a general, open-ended question about his view of a recently-concluded American military intervention. That makes this is a particularly pathetic defense. Cain didn’t need to know every detail about Libya. The main thing that he needed to know was what he thought about U.S. intervention in that country. I suppose that might require knowing a few things, but even that seems to be too much for this candidate. What is most annoying about this is that Cain can’t admit that his original answer was so poor.

There are quite a few people who know some details about many countries, and I’d wager that almost all of them are far better prepared for the office Cain is seeking than Cain is.