What do you think of him? His appeal is surprising to me and anyone here likes him too?
Ben Carson
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Why does he always look like he ODed on Sleepytime tea?
i know lol. he said the scriptures gave him peace. he's going to heaven so all this leading up to that is just ....biding time
he's a clown wholly unqualified for office. yet he's surging
he's a clown wholly unqualified for office. yet he's surging
Surprisingly, Trump called Bush a low-energy candidate. Carson is a somnambulist by comparison.
that's why I never invite brain surgeons or rocket scientists to my cocktail parties. They are so boring.
WTF does THIS "brain surgeon" know about running a country, economics, political culture, how to get things done etc?
We need a career politician, someone familiar with the culture and how things work.
We don't have time for Ben Carson to be dicking around playing leader of the free world.
We need a career politician, someone familiar with the culture and how things work.
We don't have time for Ben Carson to be dicking around playing leader of the free world.
http://theweek.com/articles/578765/how-ben-carson-both-incredibly-smart-spectacularly-stupid
That's not to mention the fact that Carson's entire campaign for president is built on the rejection of knowledge and experience, in that he argues that all you need to succeed as president is common sense, even if you've never spent a day in government. That opinion, unfortunately, is widely held.
That's not to mention the fact that Carson's entire campaign for president is built on the rejection of knowledge and experience, in that he argues that all you need to succeed as president is common sense, even if you've never spent a day in government. That opinion, unfortunately, is widely held.
And he had practically no relationship to the bogus supplement company. Hardly any.
Ben Carson had extensive relationship to dietary supplement company despite denial
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/politics/ben-carson-mannatech/
Ben Carson had extensive relationship to dietary supplement company despite denial
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/29/politics/ben-carson-mannatech/
Carson is following in the path of many other moron right wing politicians before. Grifter. He will be on Fox News, sell gold and prepper supplies and of course, bogus dietary supplements.
About the grifters: Start with the lowest level, in which marketers use political affinity to sell get-rich-quick schemes, miracle cures, and suchlike. That’s the Carson phenomenon, and it’s just the latest example of a long tradition. As the historian Rick Perlstein documents, a “strategic alliance of snake-oil vendors and conservative true believers” goes back half a century. Direct-mail marketing using addresses culled from political campaigns has given way to email, but the game remains the same.
At a somewhat higher level are marketing campaigns more or less tied to what purports to be policy analysis. Right-wing warnings of imminent hyperinflation, coupled with demands that we return to the gold standard, were fanned by media figures like Glenn Beck, who used his show to promote Goldline, a firm selling gold coins and bars at, um, inflated prices. Sure enough, Mr. Beck has been a vocal backer of Ted Cruz, who has made a return to gold one of his signature policy positions.
Oh, and former Congressman Ron Paul, who has spent decades warning of runaway inflation and is undaunted by its failure to materialize, is very much in the business of selling books and videos showing how you, too, can protect yourself from the coming financial disaster.
At a higher level still are operations that are in principle engaging in political activity, but mainly seem to be generating income for their organizers. Last week The Times published an investigative report on some political action committees raising money in the name of anti-establishment conservative causes. The report found that the bulk of the money these PACs raise ends up going to cover administrative costs and consultants’ fees, very little to their ostensible purpose. For example, only 14 percent of what the Tea Party Leadership Fund spends is “candidate focused.”
You might think that such revelations would be politically devastating. But the targets of such schemes know, just know, that the liberal mainstream media can’t be trusted, that when it reports negative stories about conservative heroes it’s just out to suppress people who are telling the real truth. It’s a closed information loop, and can’t be broken.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/opinion/springtime-for-grifters.html?_r=0
About the grifters: Start with the lowest level, in which marketers use political affinity to sell get-rich-quick schemes, miracle cures, and suchlike. That’s the Carson phenomenon, and it’s just the latest example of a long tradition. As the historian Rick Perlstein documents, a “strategic alliance of snake-oil vendors and conservative true believers” goes back half a century. Direct-mail marketing using addresses culled from political campaigns has given way to email, but the game remains the same.
At a somewhat higher level are marketing campaigns more or less tied to what purports to be policy analysis. Right-wing warnings of imminent hyperinflation, coupled with demands that we return to the gold standard, were fanned by media figures like Glenn Beck, who used his show to promote Goldline, a firm selling gold coins and bars at, um, inflated prices. Sure enough, Mr. Beck has been a vocal backer of Ted Cruz, who has made a return to gold one of his signature policy positions.
Oh, and former Congressman Ron Paul, who has spent decades warning of runaway inflation and is undaunted by its failure to materialize, is very much in the business of selling books and videos showing how you, too, can protect yourself from the coming financial disaster.
At a higher level still are operations that are in principle engaging in political activity, but mainly seem to be generating income for their organizers. Last week The Times published an investigative report on some political action committees raising money in the name of anti-establishment conservative causes. The report found that the bulk of the money these PACs raise ends up going to cover administrative costs and consultants’ fees, very little to their ostensible purpose. For example, only 14 percent of what the Tea Party Leadership Fund spends is “candidate focused.”
You might think that such revelations would be politically devastating. But the targets of such schemes know, just know, that the liberal mainstream media can’t be trusted, that when it reports negative stories about conservative heroes it’s just out to suppress people who are telling the real truth. It’s a closed information loop, and can’t be broken.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/opinion/springtime-for-grifters.html?_r=0