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IMO being a good doctor and being a good president require entirely different skills.
1 posted on 05/26/2014 10:46:54 AM PDT by kingattax
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By all means, let’s choose our candidate based upon the color of his skin as the number one priority.


2 posted on 05/26/2014 10:49:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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Don’t you have to be a lawyer?

LOL


3 posted on 05/26/2014 10:50:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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Well, if a union organizer can be POTUS I don’t see why a right-thinking doctor can’t.


4 posted on 05/26/2014 10:50:29 AM PDT by PapaNew
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I agree.


5 posted on 05/26/2014 10:51:05 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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I’d really like to see him run for mayor of Detroit. He’s a hometown hero and might actually inspire some of the people to stand and do something for themselves.

If he can hang in there till he decides to leave without being forcibly removed, he will have bonafides.


6 posted on 05/26/2014 10:51:29 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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If an unaccomplished, ignorant, community agitator can become pResident, anyone can.


7 posted on 05/26/2014 10:52:20 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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Why doesn’t Dr. Carson try at the mayoral level, then the governor level, before he tries at the presidential level?

Even if we have a collection of nitwits currently at those levels, it doesn’t negate the need to show competence first in large-scale organizational management.

About the only people that I would consider prepped to slide into the White House as a first governmental job would be, for example, whomever is running Ford.


8 posted on 05/26/2014 10:54:13 AM PDT by Yossarian
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As a doctor, Carson takes the Hippocratic oath to perform his service without doing harm to his patient (ie, patient being the USA). This in itself would qualify him to be a $Trillion times better POTUS than the current ‘resident, who apparently is following the exact opposite of that oath.


11 posted on 05/26/2014 10:58:51 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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Well, if a jackass community agitator from Kenya can be President, why not an accomplished doctor from the United States.


13 posted on 05/26/2014 11:03:00 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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I would like to hear how he would deal with anti second amendment traitors.


15 posted on 05/26/2014 11:04:24 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Considering that we now have a college lecturer who after 12 years couldn’t earn a promotion to ‘associate professor’, I believe a doctor may be over-qualified for the job.


17 posted on 05/26/2014 11:06:02 AM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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If a homosexual Muslim doper can be president, why not?


18 posted on 05/26/2014 11:09:22 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be President, but it helps!


19 posted on 05/26/2014 11:12:25 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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IMO being a good doctor and being a good president require entirely different skills.

If the President were to recognize the actual purpose of the office as based in the Constitution, s/he could be any well-educated person. The last non-lawyer President was Reagan; before him it was Eisenhower, and Truman before him. All three acquitted themselves well in the office, and so would Dr. Carson, should he choose to run and be elected.

20 posted on 05/26/2014 11:13:13 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Although being POTUS definitely has its challenges, Dr. Carson’s question about a doctor being president leads me to question if he aware of the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.

As a side note about Obama, given the federal government’s limited powers, in peacetime the Founding States had arguably intended for presidents to spend most of their time on a golf course.


21 posted on 05/26/2014 11:15:35 AM PDT by Amendment10
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One thing for sure, having career politicians who have never woked in the private sector or made a payroll sure hasn’t worked out very well for the Country.


24 posted on 05/26/2014 11:22:58 AM PDT by digger48
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Second Amendment disqualifies him from my vote. After Obama and Bush, I'm hesitant to vote for those who haven't run an executive branch.

I'm also highly suspicious of these emails from "PAC's" using the Ben Carson name asking me for money when there hasn't been indication from him running. It goes right along all those "Gingrich Productions" emails and the talk about him running every four years.

A lot of the lesser knowns make money off running for office by pocketing the money in "consulting" without running an actual campaign.

25 posted on 05/26/2014 11:23:04 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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We need more citizen statesmen. And the fact that he is NOT a lawyer is a good sign, imo.


32 posted on 05/26/2014 12:07:44 PM PDT by Reddy (bo stinks)
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Forget it. I got excoriated by FReepers for going after Herman Cain because he had no elective office experience. I don't care how good a businessman he is, or how articulate he is on policy matters, but if you don't have the track record to back it up, then no, you have no business running for the highest office in the land.

Dittos for Carson. Let Carson run for the Senate or Govenor first, then we'll talk.

35 posted on 05/26/2014 12:10:59 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (100% pure organic, free-range conservative)
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Not if he doesn’t understand the true meaning of the 2nd amendment.


42 posted on 05/26/2014 12:43:46 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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