After all we KNEW that Palin was an idiot without much education, so her ignorance was easily understandable.
But Ben Carson is supposed to be a well educated man, so HIS ignorant statements are far more troubling.
I think there is a portion of the populace who think that because he acts like he knows what he is talking about and has an MD that he must be right about things like free education damaging America, Egyptian pyramids were for grain storage, and Obamacare is worse than slavery.
And that is pretty frightening.
I'm pretty sure the Republicans know he's one weird fuck, but his main attraction has always been that he's a black man who was happy to make a name for himself by being publicly rude to the new black president. Republicans love that shit, it's all they have.
ReplyDeleteCarson is the 'token' black man for the national Republican party! Plus, he is weird as Hell and should have his mouth sewn shut or his tongue extracted!
DeleteHe brings nothing to the table except evilness and stupidity especially as to foreign affairs.
It totally astounds me how stupidity and ignorance are valued in this country. I am so going to miss President Obama.
ReplyDeleteBen Carson gave up neurosurgery to become Sarah Palin
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DeleteMy sister had a crainiotomy last week at a teaching hospital. When she felt better I told her in a serious tone the Neorology Team decided to have another Neirosurgeon see her. She asked me his name. I said "Ben Carson". My sister laughed so hard she cried saying "noooo, he's crazy!"
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"Joe, explain though, why do we care what Dr. Carson says? He’s somebody that doesn't have ambition for a political career, at least the last time I saw him talk about a political career, he says he doesn't want one, he’s more interested in a TV show. So is he just a black Sarah Palin basically, a fire thrower?"
-Thomas Roberts
MSNBC
I agree with you for exactly the reasons you stated. I really doubt that Carson will be the nominee or a VP pick but he nonetheless is a very scary man.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Gryphen. And I get annoyed when commentators, who should know better, write things like "Ben Carson says some really crazy things but he's a 'brilliant' surgeon." Someone who says and writers (or has written for him) the nonsense that Ben Carson spouts is not brilliant. And I sure would never like to have to rely on him for any medical help.
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Beaglemom, back in 1993, when my oldest was a baby, we were referred to Carson to rule out a neurological condition. Carson (correctly, it turned out) ruled out the condition. As a doctor in 1993, he was competent and seemed sane. I'm shocked and appalled by him now, based on the experience I had with him back then. My guess is that his gifts lie (lay? past tense?) in just one area and he's a complete nutter in every other area.
DeleteThere was a piece on Politico about a play that ran for 20 years about Ben Carson. The same guy played the character of Carson the whole time. This guy was interviewed, and he said he met Carson many times and does not recognize him as a candidate. I believe he has some type of degenerative brain disease.
DeleteBeaglemon said: " Someone who says and writers (or has written for him) the nonsense that Ben Carson spouts is not brilliant. And I sure would never like to have to rely on him for any medical help."
DeleteI say: Nobody said he says brilliant things, they said he says crazy things, but he was a brilliant surgeon.
The man has a personality disorder of some kind. He is very weird. People call him soft spoken and calm, but what I see is a very flat affect and dead eyes. I think he is creepy as hell. couple that with his intellectual disconnect, and you have a bizarre person.
ReplyDeleteThats because the average person has not engaged their doctors in conversation that has nothing to do with their medical condition. My family doctor is a wonderful man---but seemed unaware why people didn't have health insurance. Not once in his lifetime was he ever uninsured. Then there was the time my ninety-three year old grandmother had a massive stroke and was hours from dying---the surgeon (quite talented) wanted to remove her leg (clots) and seemed upset because we said we wanted to spend that time by her bedside to just hold her hand.
ReplyDeleteMy family doctor was clueless because of financial privilege and the surgeon was clueless because he only saw a problematic limb--not my grandmother. I'm pretty sure these flaws carried over into their personal lives. I'd never want these men to run for anything political. But in our culture some see doctors as all knowing gods instead of professionals who do a job but are just as flawed as the rest of us in knowledge, common sense or understanding the human condition.
Ben Carson isn't qualified to run for town council---which is where Sarah Palin's political world should have ended.
Well said.
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Delete'''My guess is that his gifts lie (lay? past tense?) in just one area and he's a complete nutter in every other area.'''
Bingo!
I really hate to say it But, Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President, than this fool.
ReplyDeleteThat's like saying your dog is a better driver than your cat. Neither should be behind the wheel.
Delete@5:39, brilliant!
Delete5:39 you owe me a new keyboard!
DeleteHyuk! Hyuk! That's rich.
DeleteImagine a border collie behind the wheel.
DeleteI'm a little behind on Carson...I didn't know there was a movie about his first book.
ReplyDeleteI guess the uninformed think they are going to elect Cuba Gooding Jr.
He would do a much better job.
DeleteAs I posted last night on the SNL thread:
ReplyDeleteThe Palin Effect Zaps teh GOpee.....big time.
“We’re potentially careening down this road of nominating somebody who frankly isn’t fit to be president in terms of the basic ability and temperament to do the job,” this strategist said. “It’s not just that it could be somebody Hillary could destroy electorally, but what if Hillary hits a banana peel and this person becomes president?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/time-for-gop-panic-establishment-worried-carson-and-trump-might-win/2015/11/12/38ea88a6-895b-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html
Many people on the left are hoping for the most extreme candidate from the GOP in order to increase the chances of the Democrat winning.
DeleteHowever, there is always the possibility of something unforeseen happening to Clinton before the election. Add to that the very real factors of voter disenfranchisement, easily manipulated electronic voting machines, and a right leaning SCOTUS to rule on any potential issues. It's just too frightening to contemplate how easy it would be for the Republicans to rig the election and win the White House.
As much as I hope that our next President is a Democrat, and the Senate flips back as well, I still want a reasonably intelligent, minimally qualified, marginally SANE Republican candidate that, should the election go the other way, would not destroy this country.
Old dowdy Palin, on the days before skinny jeans and shoulderless shirts. Oh how the propped up mighty have fallen.
ReplyDeleteAs for Carson, his insanity has been well documented for years, others just realized it was ripe for political exploitation for the death throes of a non-secular power grab.
Carson is not that smart. He is just a glorified mechanic, possibly a savant, but he lacks cognitive reasoning. I truly think he's mentally unbalanced.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch one of his speeches from 10-15 years ago,he is more alive than the automaton we see today.It's almost as though he is on anxiety meds or has had a stroke or something. I wonder what his real reason for giving up surgery was,since most surgeons seem to keep operating until much older than he was?
ReplyDeleteHe is a conman. Ben Carson's biggest fan is Ben Carson, and his lies and bullshit have worked well for him, now he's under more scrutiny than he expected, but he's got the grift going well....
ReplyDeleteBen Carson allows white conservatives to believe that there is no racial problem. They have a black man whose ideas align with theirs when it comes to such issues as abortion and causes like Black Lives Matter, and they can believe that their thoughts and feelings are not off.
ReplyDeleteAnd no one's been talking about the appearance of Ben Carson, but I'm sure it matters a lot to whites who support him. I am sure white women see him as an elegant Sidney Poitier who "doesn't act" black and "doesn't look" black. White people feel comfortable with his facial proportions all the way around and very much so his nose.
As an intelligent white woman, I find Ben Carson to be more of an uncle tom than a Sidney poiter
DeleteJust because he used to be an excellent doctor doesn't at mean he'd be a good POTUS. I used to be a pretty good welder, but that wouldn't qualify me to go into politics.
ReplyDeleteHe's already about halfway to Alzheimer's, by the looks of him. We don't need another Ronald Reagan.
Agree. Carson's pathology creepier than Palin.
ReplyDeleteHe has this snobbery attached to his creepiness as well. His speech is slow, but, only for the reason he thinks his followers or voters are stupid. He talks down, as though he's speaking to a patient about their impending surgery, very slowly, in layman's terms, so they can understand.
I think he enjoys a bit too much feeling empowered by the fact he was in control of people's lives. He liked the feeling of playing God. That he continually is play-acting himself as a revered 'hold my life in your hands' doctor, doing his 'bedside manner' trick, on voters, so he can run as POTUS, has some kind of horror movie thingy to it.
Even Trump is fed up, big time. Carson says in his autobiography that he tried to stab a friend but the knife blade got stuck in the buckle. The newsfolks tracked down a random African American and asked him if it was him and he said yes, when asked about the blade being stuck in the beltbuckle, he got that "Deer in the headlight" look.
ReplyDeleteWe in the lower 48 didn't know the extent of teh cray cray and her family. I've become somewhat immune to Sarah's patholology, but something about ben is much much more dangerous. I wonder how many "mistakes" he buried before "retiring"
Jinkies, Fred!
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