As the Republican presidential race begins to take shape, a few sharp elbows have been thrown: Pawlenty vs. Romney and Bachmann vs. Palin, for example. And it seemed that during a recent interview with the liberal blog Talking Points Memo that Herman Cain took a shot at Michele Bachmann. “Well, that sounds like the ultimate pander,” Cain said when told of Bachmann’s prayer at the end of her speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference. 

But in a followup phone interview late last week with THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Cain said that in retrospect he shouldn’t have said Bachmann pandered.