Awesome (and funny) post. I wish FR had a like button.
Dr. Carson is a good man and a brilliant neurosurgeon. He had the GUTS to take it DIRECTLY to Dear Leader at the Prayer Breakfast years ago. Cost him a neuroendoscope of an audit by the Soetaro IRS. That alone makes me respect him.
And that “call out” really got to Barry (and Val). Why? Dr. Carson is EVERYTHING the “historic” Obama claimed to be. A brilliant student; came from humble, single mom, low income background. Carsons story is inspiration; Obamas is pretty much made up.
Carson can campaign straight thru Cleveland as far as I am concerned.
Thanks for your note. I can begin to appreciate Dr. Carson as a neurosurgeon because I needed one about 5½ yrs ago. — had to have a craniotomy to remove a large (benign) tumor. I also read his biography, and an very aware of his asrounding reproof to BOb at the prayer breakfast. Result? End of National Prayer Breakfast, as well as local ones.
With all said, Ben might make a good legislator or political executive when he gets to really know the people in the field. However, that is not what he is exquisitely trained for, to heal and teach others in the intricacies of modern medicalocracy. I think he may be just really intrinsically too good, basically ethically and morally, to be able to toss people under the bus when he needs to. Like sending Americans into wars to get their limbs blown off by totally depraved terrorists, when his fellow surgeons’ tasks are to sew them back on, or debrade cratered skulls to “save” a vegetable not knowing whether or not the soul is still present.
I think it might destroy him, at the core of his Seventh Day strict Christian honorable medical being, his pledge to Christ and Hippocrates.
But thanks for your word of caution. i was just trying to be funny, and it might well have been inappropriate to offer that turn of phrase. I’ll try to be humbled and corrected.