Good Lord.

“The video is being taken out of context,” said spokesman JD Gordon. “He was taking questions for about 30 to 40 minutes on four hours of sleep. He didn’t say anything wrong or in accurate; it just took him a while to recall the specifics of Libya.”

Gordon added, “It just took him a while to gain his bearings.”

So the excuse is two-fold:

1) He only got four hours of sleep and so needed to get his bearings before answering;

2) He was already answering questions for 30 to 40 minutes.

Ignore for a moment that you could wake most Americans in the middle of the night and they could tell you where we stand on Gaddafi. Forget that the president needs to be able to function on little sleep and that forgetting major aspects of American policy because you need more sleep isn’t a sufficient excuse.

Forget all of that.

Aren’t those two statements contradictory? He was tired so he needed some time to get his bearings before answering. Oh, but also he was answering questions for 30 to 40 minutes before the Libya issue came up. And he only had trouble with the “specifics” — despite the fact he struggled for two minutes to “remember” where the United States stood on Gaddafi.

He wasn’t asked who the Libyan finance minister was. He was asked if bombing the country and removing its dictator was right or wrong. If he can’t come up with an answer to those questions because he didn’t get enough beauty sleep, then he has no place being president. Perry couldn’t remember an agency’s name. Cain couldn’t remember where America stood on a brutal, anti-American dictator.