Herman Cain Opposed Healthcare Reform Before It Was Cool

Josh Green unearths a gem of a video:

What's really perplexing about Cain's obsession with Muslims, though, is that it's a lousy political strategy—nobody is pro-Sharia law, so it doesn't differentiate him from the rest of the GOP field (or from any Democrat, for that matter). It's an issue that seems likely to deliver a fourth- or fifth-place finish in the Ames straw poll and an ignominious departure from the race.  Meanwhile, Cain has going for him what any half-sentient politician would recognize as political gold, something that would not only distinguish him from the GOP field but in the process point up the greatest weakness of the frontrunner, Mitt Romney: Cain was passionately against universal healthcare back in 1994, and took on its champion at the time, Bill Clinton, in a memorable confrontation that made national news.