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Why Won't People Just Call Ben Carson the Idiot He Clearly Is?
The Daily Beast ^ | 11/18/2015 | Barrett Holmes Pitner

Posted on 11/18/2015 9:49:34 AM PST by conservativejoy

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To: pgkdan

Agreed, an Idiot is someone like that black democrat congress woman from texas, Carson is not, he is just not ready for primetime, put him as surgeon general and leave it as that.


21 posted on 11/18/2015 9:55:06 AM PST by the_individual2014
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To: conservativejoy

I’m not sure I see his admission on relying on experts for advice as a fault. The current President thinks he knows everything about anything and looks at the crappy job he’s doing. A more important question is who he would seek the advice from. Obozo has surrounded himself with Left-wing idiots, causing the resultant stupid policy decisions. Dig around Carson’s answers and ferret out who his advisers would be rather than condemn him for not knowing everything.


22 posted on 11/18/2015 9:55:11 AM PST by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: DoodleDawg
Being a gifted surgeon does not make someone smart enough to run the country.

How about being a lazy, ignorant, stupid, mouthy "community organizer"? Does that make someone smart enough to run the country?

The only Job Obama was ever qualified for was filling Ice Cream cones at Baskin Robbins.... and i'm not even sure about that.

Anyone who has not already first slammed Obama for being the stupidest President in History, has no credibility when it comes to criticizing anyone else.

23 posted on 11/18/2015 9:56:07 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: conservativejoy

The MSM would destroy him.


24 posted on 11/18/2015 9:56:41 AM PST by McGruff (Trump-Cruz 2016. Make America Great Again.)
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To: HarleyLady27

I just love the irony of a department chair from the highest-rated medical school in our nation being told, “Your [sic] an idiot.”


25 posted on 11/18/2015 9:57:33 AM PST by dangus
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To: conservativejoy
Why won't people call Obama the clueless idiot he truly is? Carson's stupidity isn't putting us in danger and destroying our country.
26 posted on 11/18/2015 9:57:47 AM PST by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: conservativejoy
He is also Black.

Thank you for being brave enough to say it. Regardless of ideology, people don't want to cast aspersions at blacks out of fear of being called racist. It's a sick, sad world in which we live.

27 posted on 11/18/2015 9:58:28 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: conservativejoy
If Doctor Carson who in one the top brain surgeons in the world is an idiot?.. then what should we think of the IQ of you typical mediocre college professor?... and then what should we think of your typical college student being educated by the professors...as most likely the writer of the article was?
28 posted on 11/18/2015 9:58:33 AM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patr a in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: conservativejoy

I knew this back in April. I had, and continue to have much respect and admiration for Dr. Ben as a doctor, as an academic success story. Dr. Carson will forever be a symbol to motivate minorities to study hard, and apply themselves fully to the chosen profession. He has achieved that.

But I could see early on, he was not suited for politics, let alone politics on a national scale. The Doctor has been focused on the physical world of his patients and the spiritual world of faith, the spiritual world that calms and trains the mind. Hopefully, he will be appointed to be the Top Doctor.

I think I read yesterday that one of his own campaign trainers was in the press saying Dr. Ben continues to struggle to understand foreign conflicts now occurring.
That’s someone on Carson’s own team slamming him in public.
Sounds to me, the wheels are coming off anyway.


29 posted on 11/18/2015 9:59:11 AM PST by lee martell
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To: conservativejoy
Trump's campaign tactics make it easier to envision how awful his presidency would be, but the vagueness of Carson's policy positions and general ignorance on all pressing issues can make Carson's potential future harder to envision, yet equally as troubling.

Carson's not an idiot but I'm not so sure about the author.

30 posted on 11/18/2015 9:59:44 AM PST by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: scottinoc

It’s easy to write a column slamming Dr. Carson. It’s not brain surgery. He’s clearly not dumb. The good doctor will make an excellent Surgeon General.


I am not a Dr. Carson supporter but he is not stupid/idiot material. He just probably never spent much time thinking about stuff outside the medical profession or his religion.

Also, he maybe medicated for a mental condition to control anger, etc and that can explain his uber relaxed facial expressions and why he appears - well - medicated.


31 posted on 11/18/2015 10:01:27 AM PST by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: conservativejoy

Clumsy writing.
Uses words he doesn’t understand.
Ex.
“Reality takes precedent”
Precedence, not precedent
Makes me feel like editing the whole thing. It would be half as long.


32 posted on 11/18/2015 10:01:54 AM PST by buwaya
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To: conservativejoy
Carson is not stupid. Just ignorant about certain national issues and foreign policy. There is a difference.

And I really despise all the personal attacks going on against some of the other non-Trump Republican candidates. The nastiness I saw yesterday concerning Jindal was just over the top.

33 posted on 11/18/2015 10:01:59 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: conservativejoy

Is there a particular reason you listed this as a Hot Air piece and not a Daily Beast piece? This is written by an ultra liberal race pimp from the Beast——what are you doing here?


34 posted on 11/18/2015 10:02:10 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: conservativejoy; humblegunner

HG, we have a posting problem here....


35 posted on 11/18/2015 10:04:06 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: conservativejoy

I was one the very first who called this ass clown Michael Steele version 2015.

But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, some Freepers called me racist for calling out the liberal white guilt Freepers.


36 posted on 11/18/2015 10:04:28 AM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: conservativejoy

He’s an idiot because he doesn’t have craftily sculptured answers given to him by his handlers.


37 posted on 11/18/2015 10:04:54 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: conservativejoy

I don’t believe he’s an idiot, perhaps a savant is closer to the truth.


38 posted on 11/18/2015 10:05:15 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: conservativejoy

He isn’t an idiot, but he’s woefully over his head in the run to the presidency. His being in the race blocks the way for a true conservative candidate like Cruz to coalesce around.


39 posted on 11/18/2015 10:07:02 AM PST by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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To: RetSignman

I give him credit, he hasn’t played the race card YET.


40 posted on 11/18/2015 10:07:23 AM PST by DaveA37
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