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Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say
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yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Ya gotta wonder what someone said or did, for him to make that face? "Sorry Mr. Carson, we ran out of peanutbutter and Jelly sandwiches".
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)And we know the men in white coats came to take her away in the end.
Kali
(55,008 posts)where did someone find a photo of him looking awake?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)maybe it is better that he keeps them closed most of the time.
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)It was a barely discernable image on a burnt piece of toast, but it changed his life.
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)is that if he does win the nomination and ends up losing in an historic landslide because he knows nothing outside of brain surgery, the Freepers/Teabaggers will blame it on Carson being black - so, they'll be fired up to nominate somebody just like him, only white, in 2020, and we get a repeat of 2016.
red dog 1
(27,798 posts)in 9 or 10 key states,
(like Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Florida & other GOP controlled states)
we will have a President Carson to deal with.
Oregon has the right idea....all absentee ballots!
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)underpants
(182,800 posts)That's a lot for him to handle.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)would hire better ones.
niyad
(113,302 posts)after friday!
it isn't so much his utter cluelessness and stupidity which bother me as much as the fact that there are actually people who find him in the least bit credible as a candidate.
He never thought it would go this far....the purpose of his candidacy was to sell books...just like Newt.
erronis
(15,241 posts)Shit - while there's a bit of celebrity and adulation, might as well lap it up.
Strange critters, those repuglicans.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)And ol' Ben is in the center of it.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Carson Announces Detailed Plan to Google Syria
By Andy Borowitz
DES MOINES (The Borowitz Report)In a major foreign-policy announcement on Wednesday, the Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson unveiled a detailed plan to Google Syria.
Speaking in Iowa, the retired neurosurgeon told an audience of supporters, Any responsible policy on Syria must begin with a fact-finding mission, and such a mission must begin with Googling.
He said that Google holds the key to many questions about Syria. Where is it? Who lives there? How many square miles is it? These are all things that have to be pinned down, he said.
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AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... Hee Haw.
(It still needs a laugh track because its not funny)
lark
(23,099 posts)Sounds about right for him/them. The crazy, it burns!!
trueblue2007
(17,217 posts)Bucky
(54,005 posts)link ==> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/world/23clarridge.html
He's apparently obsessed with proving that Hamid Karzai is a heroin junkie. So, yeah, he's a pretty good match for Carson. Now they're calling him senile? Fine, that only makes him a better match.
red dog 1
(27,798 posts)it's basic intelligence...which Carson obviously lacks.
K&R
getagrip_already
(14,750 posts)maybe the spox was referring to carson being senile.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Look up Clarridge, he has a long history.
malthaussen
(17,194 posts)I am convinced that the people who respond to the polls are trolling all of us.
-- Mal
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)by polling the same people.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)thebighobgoblin
(179 posts)were used to store grain?!
It's kinda tough to break down more cerebral stuff like Sunnis and Shiites if you can't get past that one.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)thebighobgoblin
(179 posts)Like, really?!?!
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)So he took his Carson paycheck as a consultant, and has now demonstrated his enduring loyalty to the Family.
Notwithstanding that it's true!
And an implosion of Carson may benefit Trump but it ain't going to Jeb!'s benefit.
Schadenfreude all around.
MADem
(135,425 posts)And that's Gentle Ben's core constituency.
TeeRUMP is not a believable Christian. He's got the Archie Bunker voters, not the "Geez, Edith, not dis religious crapola again!" voters.
Tapper wondered how screeners would know which refugees were Christians.
We do that all the time, Bush insisted. I think we need to be obviously very, very cautious. This also calls to mind the need to protect our borders, our southern border particularly.
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)What a vile, disgusting POS.
spooky3
(34,451 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)It looks like the air is leaving his balloon pretty quick.
His loony supporters seem like they're a closer fit with jeb! than TeeRUMP!!!!
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)We expected Cain to be a clown and he actually seemed to relish that role. But in many respects this Carson guy is worse than the "Becky-becky-stan-stan" guy. In both cases, they seem to celebrate complete ignorance about the world.
Not that any of the others on that stage are any better. But Carson tries to pass himself as some hyper-intelligent brain surgeon.
It really is astonishing how little any of these GOP candidates knows (or even wants to know) about the world. I remember the Ford-Carter debate where Ford seemed to say that Poland wasn't within the USSR's sphere of influence. Hell, at least Jerry Ford knew where Poland was, but this was considered on of the great blunders in the entire country's history of Presidential discourse. These GOP clowns today don't even try.
Of course, the votes they are going for are the dumbed-down anti-intellectual crowd, Reagan and his followers have bred generations of Americans to be little more than obedient consumers. This is the end result of that systematic dumbing-down.
It would be one thing if the candidates were just "acting dumb" to appeal to that base. But other than possibly Bush and Christie (a stretch in both cases) these are just garden variety dumbasses. Today's GOP politician knows you don't get nay sprinkles on your cupcake by studying world history hard.
Midnight Writer
(21,762 posts)SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)rsacamano
(1,908 posts)I love watching this jackass implode