Dr. Ben Carson is.....

[sr71plt]

All campaign staffs make gaffs like that. It's just petty and majoring in the minorities to do more than titter about it for a few minutes and move on. It makes it look there's nothing substantive to go after, when there is.

 

[JackLuis]

Carson Inexplicably Considers Trip To Australia To Help Him Win Iowa

As Dr Ben's polls slip he says he needs to polish up his foreign policy chops.

The official said Carson and his advisers are looking at ways to own news cycles, acknowledging that the recent focus on national security has hurt him in the polls. An overseas trip could burnish his foreign policy credentials, the official said. It would also be “eye opening” and “attention getting” and a way to command coverage leading up to the first voting contest.

Pix of him with a kangaroo or a koala would make him seem more marsupial.

 

[JackLuis]

Cruz Surpasses Carson in Iowa

Texas Senator Ted Cruz has replaced retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson in second place behind front-runner Donald Trump in Iowa, according to the latest CBS News Battleground Tracker poll.

The poll was released Sunday on "Face the Nation."
Here are the results of the top six candidates released:

Donald Trump: 30 percent
Ted Cruz: 21 percent
Ben Carson: 19 percent
Marco Rubio: 11 percent
Jeb Bush: 5 percent
Carly Fiorina 4 percent

 

[Sean Renaud]

All campaign staffs make gaffs like that. It's just petty and majoring in the minorities to do more than titter about it for a few minutes and move on. It makes it look there's nothing substantive to go after, when there is.

Again, HOW. This is a very specific gaffe. I don't think this is anything important about Carson or his crew. I just want to know how you accomplish getting a US map wrong. It's like getting an off pic of George Washington. Not mistakenly labeling Lincoln or Madison as Washington because it was 2 am but instead making Washington a Red Head with an afro. I want to know how you accomplished this.

 

[about_average]

Again, HOW. This is a very specific gaffe. I don't think this is anything important about Carson or his crew. I just want to know how you accomplish getting a US map wrong. It's like getting an off pic of George Washington. Not mistakenly labeling Lincoln or Madison as Washington because it was 2 am but instead making Washington a Red Head with an afro. I want to know how you accomplished this.

Like I said, I think they were doing some sort of manipulation with an editor, and saved it directly to a web site and didn't go back and check. Like so many people here who completely fuck up quoting.
It would be very easy to do even saving it locally if it's too big for the screen/window and the east coast is out of view.

But it is nuts that a presidential campaign doesn't double check things before making it public.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Ben Carson's gaffes do not bother me nearly as much as his ten percent flat tax. That will raise taxes on the working poor, and increase deficit spending. He also has suggested a ten percent cut in all government spending programs, including Social Security and Medicare.

Ben Carson's constituency mainly consists of the 60 percent of Republicans who believe in the Genesis creation story. The vast majority of these are in the lower half of the income distribution.

Someone better tell these people that Dr. Carson wants to raise their taxes, while reducing government spending programs that help them.

 

[phrodeau]

Ben Carson considers a ban on waterboarding to be a form of political correctness.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11...al-correctness.html?google_editors_picks=true

 

[sr71plt]

Like I said, I think they were doing some sort of manipulation with an editor, and saved it directly to a web site and didn't go back and check. Like so many people here who completely fuck up quoting.
It would be very easy to do even saving it locally if it's too big for the screen/window and the east coast is out of view.

But it is nuts that a presidential campaign doesn't double check things before making it public.

Campaign staffs are incredibly busy--and staffed mostly with volunteers with more enthusiasm than knowledge. On TV we frequently see clips of guys out on the street asking random people basic questions that they can't answer. Americans are unbelievably insular and tied to electronic toys and trivia that have nothing to do with the world.

But I think you answered Sean's question, and my response is why Sean has to be so anal on minutia. Again, there are a whole lot of significant problems with Ben Carson that could be pursued without dwelling on the petty and watering down the challenge.

 

[sr71plt]

Ben Carson's gaffes do not bother me nearly as much as his ten percent flat tax.

Thank you.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Rush Limbaugh urges Republicans to give up on Ben Carson

Teh Fat Lady Has Sung.

 

[about_average]

But I think you answered Sean's question, and my response is why Sean has to be so anal on minutia. Again, there are a whole lot of significant problems with Ben Carson that could be pursued without dwelling on the petty and watering down the challenge.

It's not totally watering things down. Attention to detail is a pretty important quality, IMO, for a president and staff.

 

[sr71plt]

It's not totally watering things down. Attention to detail is a pretty important quality, IMO, for a president and staff.

Not sure what part of "all campaign staffs" overlook minutia like this you won't accept. And, no, the candidate him/herself doesn't get anywhere close to stuff like this. If he/she did they'd probably be too anal retentive to be a good candidate for higher office.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I missed Average's explanation. That's a sufficient explanation. I just found it really odd because IMO this isn't overlooking a mistake, like I said if you handed me the an off map of the United States I'd probably never notice. My issue was with where did it come from and I'm still curious what they were manipulating it to show. Was it based on population? Carson's chances of winning the state? The number of Bigfoot sightings or the density of adolescent terrapin martial artists?

 

[about_average]

Not sure what part of "all campaign staffs" overlook minutia like this you won't accept. And, no, the candidate him/herself doesn't get anywhere close to stuff like this. If he/she did they'd probably be too anal retentive to be a good candidate for higher office.

Of course they all do it, but that's no excuse.
If I received a "lack of attention to detail" on my performance review I wouldn't reply that everyone else is shitty at it too.
As for a president, I didn't mean to imply he should be micromanaging stuff like this, but he sets the bar. Or she, if Clinton or Forina wins.

I missed Average's explanation. That's a sufficient explanation. I just found it really odd because IMO this isn't overlooking a mistake, like I said if you handed me the an off map of the United States I'd probably never notice. My issue was with where did it come from and I'm still curious what they were manipulating it to show. Was it based on population? Carson's chances of winning the state? The number of Bigfoot sightings or the density of adolescent terrapin martial artists?

It could have been something as simple as doing color fill on a state and accidentally dragging a point of the map to the upper right.

 

[sr71plt]

Of course they all do it, but that's no excuse.

Sure it is. It's minutia and people are human. You are just looking for a reason to rag on the candidate when you do this. When you it on a candidate you reject but don't do it on your own candidate when it happens (and it is going to happen, because it's really down in the weeds as far as having any importance or any relevance to the candidate), you're being zealously partisan. And when you do do it on your own candidate too, you're being unreasonably anal retentive and clueless about what can/does happen in a busy campaign being staffed mainly by enthusiastic but inexperienced volunteers.

Just let it go. There's a lot to worry about Ben Carson about without getting petty.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Discuss.

Carson kicks ass over obama

Carson has done something with his life

Carson has created value and wealth

obama, steals money from tax payers, has never had a real job

 

[NeverEndingMe]

like your kind has a job

Ben Carson's gaffes do not bother me nearly as much as his ten percent flat tax. That will raise taxes on the working poor, and increase deficit spending. He also has suggested a ten percent cut in all government spending programs, including Social Security and Medicare.

Ben Carson's constituency mainly consists of the 60 percent of Republicans who believe in the Genesis creation story. The vast majority of these are in the lower half of the income distribution.

Someone better tell these people that Dr. Carson wants to raise their taxes, while reducing government spending programs that help them.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Looks like the Cancer Fairy done visited Dr. Ben Carson's colon and/or prostate once again, if the Wall Street Journal is to be believed.

Who says prayer doesn't work?

 

[midwestyankee]

Looks like the Cancer Fairy done visited Dr. Ben Carson's colon and/or prostate once again, if the Wall Street Journal is to be believed.

Who says prayer doesn't work?

I'm not clear on what the issue is here. What was Dr. Carson's claim regarding prayer in this case, since it's clear that he told people that he had had surgery.

 

[PeteHulbert37]

He may very well be yesterday's news barring some unforeseen resurgence.

 

[JackLuis]

Republican Ben Carson may consider a third party run

Do it Ben, the country needs a split in the Rethuglican race!

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson may consider an independent bid for the White House, angry over a report on Republican Party maneuvering involving this summer’s national nominating convention, U.S. media reported on Friday.

Carson was angry over a Washington Post report that Republican leaders were preparing for a brokered convention to pick their 2016 White House candidate.

“If it is correct, every voter who is standing for change must know they are being betrayed. I won’t stand for it,” Carson said in statement, Politico and CNN reported. If the report was accurate, he said, “I assure you Donald Trump won’t be the only one leaving the party.”

 

[phrodeau]

Carson declined to attend tonight's debate in Detroit. I don't blame him for not wanting to be in the same arena with Donald Trump's supporters.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-students-tossed-trump-rally-black-article-1.2548565

P.S. I bumped this thread from page 6.

 

[sr71plt]

It would have been strange to see him on stage since he's dropped out of the campaign.

 

[CaesuraDawn]

A good doctor, bad candidate.

 

[sr71plt]

My thought is that the last time he called God to ask if he should continue to run, God didn't answer the phone. Same with those "millions" of people who were urging him to run.