“So your argument is that unqualified people have held the position before?”
No the argument is that leadership skills are transferable regardless of the job.
Jack Kemp used the leadership he developed as a quarterback and the research skills he developed as a congressman to perform a different job well because those skills transferred to his new job.
There is no reason to think that the abilty to make decisions under pressure, to trust one’s judgement, the attention to detail, the ability to trust one’s team, to delegate parts of a task to others, and the ability to break complex problems down to manageable steps-all attributes of good surgeons -are not things that Ben Carson couldn’t transfer to his new job.
Details can be delegated leadership cannot.
I’m not saying he will be great but there is no reason to automatically believe that Ben Carson could not perform adequately in the job. HUD also not a real high profile department
If he had experience the he would be part of the system.
Your misunderstanding is near total. Actually probably just gross ignorance.
Dr Carson will take the lead on the Trump effort to bring change to the rotten inner cities. He is one of the very few high profile Americans with honest to God experience in the inner cities. That is his heritage
Well said, Fai Mao.
People are fooled by Carson because of his calm demeanor. However, there’s an iron resolve inside the man.
And in terms of a fighter, I remember his ability to stand up to the media and tell them off.
Running for President also required excellent planning and management skills. And were it not for a man-of-century opponent like Trump, Carson had a real shot at getting the nomination because he and Trump were tied at one point.
I’m so pleased that this honorable, strong, and religious man is being nominated.
I think you may have that a little backwards. His skills at going under the center were used as a Congressman to pick our pockets. Now that is a skill set that was transferrable