Dr. Ben Carson for President
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My sentiments, exactly!
And they always have but I never heard of him before he was selected for the SCOTUS. Carson was a known quantity so the disappointment is deeper.
More of the same!
The Democratic Party is looking like the Republican Party of old. Pretty soon they will dog whistling about blacks being on food stamps and other ignorant shit.
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More of the same!
Don't forget some of the other negro-coon RepubliKlan scumbags; waste of DNA like:
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Larry Elder's book is called "Stupid Black Men". I wonder if he realizes what a self projection the title of his book is. What an ass.
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Watch the self hating buffoon Larry Elder clown himself on CNN in the video below
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Carson Surges Past Trump in Iowa Poll
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has moved into a dominant position in Iowa,
surpassing former front-runner Donald Trump as evangelical Christians begin to coalesce around
him in the state that will cast the first 2016 nomination ballots.
A new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows the retired neurosurgeon is backed
by 28 percent of likely Republican caucus participants, up 10 percentage points since late
August. Trump is supported by 19 percent, down 4 points.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...omberg-politics-des-moines-register-iowa-poll
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has moved into a dominant position in Iowa,
surpassing former front-runner Donald Trump as evangelical Christians begin to coalesce around
him in the state that will cast the first 2016 nomination ballots.
A new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows the retired neurosurgeon is backed
by 28 percent of likely Republican caucus participants, up 10 percentage points since late
August. Trump is supported by 19 percent, down 4 points.
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...omberg-politics-des-moines-register-iowa-poll
So, what's the appeal of Ben Carson? Iowans say he inspires
Leading/Winning in Iowa isn't necessarily a good thing. Just look at the history of that caucus and who goes on to win. Bush Jr, and the current Pres won it and went on to win the general election, but in my lifetime, I don't think anyone else has. The winner doesn't even always get the nomination. Looks like Iowa, at least on the Repup side these days, goes to the one who can quote bible verses the best.
How Will Trump Respond to Ben Carson's Iowa Surge?
Can the former frontrunner outflank the new leader,
and will he buy TV ads to do it?
Ben Carson’s rise in Iowa might force Donald Trump to finally put up or shut up. And given historical precedent about the latter, maybe that means the former is in the cards.
This week, two separate polls showed Carson pulling out ahead of Trump in Iowa. The Quinnipiac poll (whose accuracy some pollsters question) had them at 28 and 20 percent respectively, while a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg News poll had the gap at 28-19. It was the Quinnipiac poll that led to a disparaging tweet about Iowans being retweeted from Trump’s account, and then deleted, with Trump blaming an intern.
But Trump’s troubles in Iowa run deeper than undisciplined tweeting. Look at their polling trend in Iowa, via RealClearPolitics:
That’s Trump in blue and Carson in red. While the two have moved mostly in concert over the last three months, they’ve suddenly diverged recently. And while Trump’s favorable/unfavorable rating sits at 59-37 among Iowa Republicans overall, Carson’s is an incredible 84-12.
What would reverse the trend? Trump’s brand is built on outlandish comments, but Carson is no stranger to controversy either. (Here’s a roundup.) The poll asks respondents about how they rate certain facets of Carson’s personality, and it’s amazing. All of the things that might typically be considered weaknesses rate highly:
There’s almost no way for Trump to outflank Carson on these things.
Even worse for Trump, Carson is about to buy TV ads in Iowa for the first time, which could widen the gap. Trump’s campaign has been telling the press since at least August that he’s mulling ad buys (see The Washington Post on October 7, for example), but no one’s seen any in New Hampshire, and in Iowa the only TV presence is anti-Trump spots.
As usual, predicting trouble for Trump is a fool’s errand. But Carson’s surge and ad buy might make Trump finally get off the TV sidelines and spend.
This week, two separate polls showed Carson pulling out ahead of Trump in Iowa. The Quinnipiac poll (whose accuracy some pollsters question) had them at 28 and 20 percent respectively, while a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg News poll had the gap at 28-19. It was the Quinnipiac poll that led to a disparaging tweet about Iowans being retweeted from Trump’s account, and then deleted, with Trump blaming an intern.
But Trump’s troubles in Iowa run deeper than undisciplined tweeting. Look at their polling trend in Iowa, via RealClearPolitics:
That’s Trump in blue and Carson in red. While the two have moved mostly in concert over the last three months, they’ve suddenly diverged recently. And while Trump’s favorable/unfavorable rating sits at 59-37 among Iowa Republicans overall, Carson’s is an incredible 84-12.
What would reverse the trend? Trump’s brand is built on outlandish comments, but Carson is no stranger to controversy either. (Here’s a roundup.) The poll asks respondents about how they rate certain facets of Carson’s personality, and it’s amazing. All of the things that might typically be considered weaknesses rate highly:
- He said Obamacare was as bad as slavery? Attractive to 88 percent.
- Suggested an unconstitutional religious test for office? 73 percent.
- Made historically suspect claims about Hitler? 77 percent.
There’s almost no way for Trump to outflank Carson on these things.
Even worse for Trump, Carson is about to buy TV ads in Iowa for the first time, which could widen the gap. Trump’s campaign has been telling the press since at least August that he’s mulling ad buys (see The Washington Post on October 7, for example), but no one’s seen any in New Hampshire, and in Iowa the only TV presence is anti-Trump spots.
As usual, predicting trouble for Trump is a fool’s errand. But Carson’s surge and ad buy might make Trump finally get off the TV sidelines and spend.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ump-respond-to-ben-carsons-iowa-surge/412210/
Cooning for the Presidency?
source: BuzzFeed
Carson In 1999: White People “Have No Grasp” On History Of Racial Violence In U.S
“Black Americans, on the other hand, find it almost impossible to think about ‘fairness’ or ‘justice’ in anything but racial terms — because of our nation’s historical record of unfairness and injustice to our race,” Carson wrote in the book The Big Picture.
In his 1999 book, Dr. Ben Carson wrote that our nation’s history on racial injustices made it impossible for the black community to think of the judicial system in anything but racial terms and that white Americans were only able to view racial violence in a modern context.
In his book, The Big Picture, released by Zondervan, Carson argued white Americans had “no grasp on the history of racial violence in this country.” Carson wrote of a time his mother was thrown in jail for a minor traffic violation as an example of personal history of the racial injustice in criminal justice system.
Carson, who talked about how the incident shaped his own view of the Black Lives Matter movement in an interview with BuzzFeed News earlier this month, was writing about the different racial reactions to the O.J. Simpson case.
“Black Americans, on the other hand, find it almost impossible to think about ‘fairness’ or ‘justice’ in anything but racial terms — because of our nation’s historical record of unfairness and injustice to our race,” wrote Carson. “As I said in the previous chapter, no matter how often we are told we need to ‘get over’ the past, white people need to understand these things are not easy for us to forget.”
Carson noted white Americans view racial violence only in a modern context.
“White people think of racial violence in a modern context — such as the black riots that erupted in the wake of the Rodney King verdict,” he wrote. “They have no grasp on the history of racial violence in this country — as illustrated by their total unawareness of what Newsweek (Dec. 8, 1997) admitted were ‘two [facts] that every American should know. Between 1885 and 1900, at least 2,500 blacks were lynched or murdered as the KKK consolidated its hold on the post-Reconstruction South. In 1741, 14 slaves were burned at the stake and 18 others were hanged because of fears of a slave revolt— in New York City.’”
Carson cited an example of his own personal history with racial injustice, an arrest of his mother for frivolous charges.
“Well, I recognize that there are, you know, inappropriate actions done by policemen, just like there are inappropriate actions done by doctors, nurses, teachers, even journalists. It doesn’t make all of them bad, and it doesn’t create an overall impression of them all,” Carson said.
“And I think it’s probably not the most reasonable position to take — that because you have a police officer that does something bad that all the police are bad,” he continued. “Having said that, do we always need to always be vigilant and pay attention to the justice system? Absolutely. Do we need to look at, you know, mandatory incarceration of people involved in nonviolent crimes? Of course we do. We don’t want to send them to a university to make them into more hardened criminals. So yeah, all of these things are things that could be improved upon.”
In 1999, Carson noted most black Americans could cite similar personal experiences of injustice.
“Most black people can cite similar personal experiences of injustice. President Clinton’s commission on race specifically cited the injustice of ‘racial profiling,’ which many police use to identify potential criminals,” wrote Carson. “It is employed most often in traffic stops, for a crime sometimes derisively referred to in the African-American community as ‘driving while black.’”
“Statistics support what many blacks have never doubted, that our justice system metes out different treatment to blacks and whites,” Carson continued. “The disproportionate percentage of black murderers versus white murderers who receive the death penalty is just one example. The 1998 race commission report cited another when it urged the president to reduce the disparity in sentences for crimes involving powdered cocaine and its concentrated form, crack. The board said longer sentences for crimes involving crack, largely involving poor, black, or Hispanic offenders are ‘morally and intellectually indefensible.’”
source: BuzzFeed
Carson In 1999: White People “Have No Grasp” On History Of Racial Violence In U.S
“Black Americans, on the other hand, find it almost impossible to think about ‘fairness’ or ‘justice’ in anything but racial terms — because of our nation’s historical record of unfairness and injustice to our race,” Carson wrote in the book The Big Picture.
In his 1999 book, Dr. Ben Carson wrote that our nation’s history on racial injustices made it impossible for the black community to think of the judicial system in anything but racial terms and that white Americans were only able to view racial violence in a modern context.
In his book, The Big Picture, released by Zondervan, Carson argued white Americans had “no grasp on the history of racial violence in this country.” Carson wrote of a time his mother was thrown in jail for a minor traffic violation as an example of personal history of the racial injustice in criminal justice system.
Carson, who talked about how the incident shaped his own view of the Black Lives Matter movement in an interview with BuzzFeed News earlier this month, was writing about the different racial reactions to the O.J. Simpson case.
“Black Americans, on the other hand, find it almost impossible to think about ‘fairness’ or ‘justice’ in anything but racial terms — because of our nation’s historical record of unfairness and injustice to our race,” wrote Carson. “As I said in the previous chapter, no matter how often we are told we need to ‘get over’ the past, white people need to understand these things are not easy for us to forget.”
Carson noted white Americans view racial violence only in a modern context.
“White people think of racial violence in a modern context — such as the black riots that erupted in the wake of the Rodney King verdict,” he wrote. “They have no grasp on the history of racial violence in this country — as illustrated by their total unawareness of what Newsweek (Dec. 8, 1997) admitted were ‘two [facts] that every American should know. Between 1885 and 1900, at least 2,500 blacks were lynched or murdered as the KKK consolidated its hold on the post-Reconstruction South. In 1741, 14 slaves were burned at the stake and 18 others were hanged because of fears of a slave revolt— in New York City.’”
Carson cited an example of his own personal history with racial injustice, an arrest of his mother for frivolous charges.
“Too many other incidents of injustice are not merely ancient history, but personal history, even current events, for the majority of black people. I remember in Boston when I was a child, my older cousins, sons of the aunt and uncle who took our family in, were arrested and thrown into jail for some minor infraction of the law. When one of my cousins protested that abuse, he was beaten so severely by the police that he almost died. I vividly remember seeing the results of that beating. A few years ago, when my own mother questioned a policeman who stopped her for a routine traffic violation in a Detroit suburb, the officer angrily told her she met the description of a woman wanted for abducting an elderly couple. He promptly arrested her, had her car impounded, and threw her into jail. I had to call a lawyer friend of mine, a fellow Yale alumnus, who used his contacts as a senior partner in a major Detroit law firm to get her released and to see that the bogus charges were dismissed.
Asked about how that personal history shaped his view of the Black Lives Matter movement earlier this month, Carson told BuzzFeed News the criminal justice system could be “improved upon.”
“Well, I recognize that there are, you know, inappropriate actions done by policemen, just like there are inappropriate actions done by doctors, nurses, teachers, even journalists. It doesn’t make all of them bad, and it doesn’t create an overall impression of them all,” Carson said.
“And I think it’s probably not the most reasonable position to take — that because you have a police officer that does something bad that all the police are bad,” he continued. “Having said that, do we always need to always be vigilant and pay attention to the justice system? Absolutely. Do we need to look at, you know, mandatory incarceration of people involved in nonviolent crimes? Of course we do. We don’t want to send them to a university to make them into more hardened criminals. So yeah, all of these things are things that could be improved upon.”
In 1999, Carson noted most black Americans could cite similar personal experiences of injustice.
“Most black people can cite similar personal experiences of injustice. President Clinton’s commission on race specifically cited the injustice of ‘racial profiling,’ which many police use to identify potential criminals,” wrote Carson. “It is employed most often in traffic stops, for a crime sometimes derisively referred to in the African-American community as ‘driving while black.’”
“Statistics support what many blacks have never doubted, that our justice system metes out different treatment to blacks and whites,” Carson continued. “The disproportionate percentage of black murderers versus white murderers who receive the death penalty is just one example. The 1998 race commission report cited another when it urged the president to reduce the disparity in sentences for crimes involving powdered cocaine and its concentrated form, crack. The board said longer sentences for crimes involving crack, largely involving poor, black, or Hispanic offenders are ‘morally and intellectually indefensible.’”
Ben Carson, President Obama, Clarence Thomas are all African Americans that achieved success at a great cost to us. They won't be celebrated as achievements in the black community, no schools or streets named after them. These institutions now look diverse, however we would be better off with a progressive/white liberal than these clowns.
He is being used to attack President Obama, his direct attack in which President Obama was a few feet away launched him into the spotlight. This is becoming a common strategy among racists - I see it all the time. In any event they isolate somebody from the harshness of reality which will falsely convince this person to adopt views antithetical to most blacks. This person is than used as an attack dog by racists to legitimize their heinous acts
They want to go after the ACA, Obamacare, and want this effort to appear purely about politics. The Social Security Act is 100 percent government and much larger than Obamacare, why aren't they voting 60 times to repeal this law?
Unfortunately, finding negroes like this is becoming more easier.
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Ben Carson’s Long History Of Medical Malpractice Will Shock You
Dr. Ben Carson’s only qualification he has for his ill-fated presidential campaign book tour is his work as a pediatric neuro-surgeon, but much like his public policy proposals, not even that track record can stand up to scrutiny. Carson is an anathema, a man who may not be the great surgeon that legend suggests – at least as judged by the number of medical malpractice lawsuits brought against him as a surgeon – and a man who also puts forth some of the most vile and evil diatribe imaginable while on the presidential stump.
Dr. Carson’s claim to fame was his successful 1987 surgery to separate conjoined twins, joined at the head. Carson was the first doctor to complete this procedure successfully. Both twins survived the intense 22-hour surgery, and a legend was born. However, Mike Papantonio, a lawyer by training and the host of Ring of Fire spoke on Carson’s shady medical malpractice history on his broadcast yesterday: “He (Carson) holds an above average rate of medical malpractice lawsuits, very serious medical malpractice lawsuits. Many of been settled for undeclared amounts of money, while others are still pending in the courts.” Papantonio went on to say “that while 75% of doctors have malpractice claims at one time or another, but less than 2% of those claims lead to any kind of financial claim to the victim…[while] virtually all of Carson’s cases have…Carson has been a medical malpractice nightmare, and now he’s a political malpractice nightmare.”
Specifically, no less than six medical malpractice suits have been brought against Dr. Carson in his years as a surgeon:
“In one case, Carson was accused of bungling a surgery to replace a shunt in the brain of an ailing 9-year-old girl, leaving her disfigured for life and for a time partially paralyzed. In another case, the well-regarded surgeon allegedly punctured his patient’s eardrums during an operation and forgot a sponge in her skull, which he later claimed was a tumor. Others claims against Carson outlined in a heap of legal documents include performing an unnecessary surgery on a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis and leaving a teenage boy with dwarfism paralyzed from the waist down. One of Carson’s most vocal critics has been 27-year-old Karly Bailey, who in 2009 filed a lawsuit against the former brain surgeon and John Hopkins Hospital claiming medical malpractice involving the alleged failure to properly perform surgery to replace a shunt and remove a tumor.”
Consider this is the same homophobic Ben Carson who bizarrely said on the political stump being gay was a choice evidenced by the outrageous anti-gay assertion that “[Prisoners] go into prison straight, and when they come out, they’re gay. So did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.” The same Ben Carson who like the rest of the science-denying Republican field denies evolution, which is especially egregious on his part because one inevitably must study basic biology in order to attend medical school. And the same Ben Carson, who claims to be pro-life making the outlandishly outrageous claim comparing abortion to slavery said in October on Meet the Press: “During slavery — and I know that’s one of those words you’re not supposed to say, but I’m saying it — during slavery, a lot of the slave owners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave. Anything that they chose to do. And, you know, what if the abolitionist had said, you know, I don’t believe in slavery. I think it’s wrong. But you guys do whatever you want to do’? Where would we be?”
We can only laugh in despair when Ben Carson said upon his retirement as a surgeon: “I’d much rather quit when I’m at the top of my game.” But, malpractice is not Carson’s alone, the entire field of Republican malcontents running for the presidency are guilty of national malfeasance and malpractice. The top three contenders are Trump, Carson, and Fiorina, legends in their own minds who have no political experience between them. The balance of the national Republican embarrassments advocate 30 year-old arcane malfeasant policies given credibility by an association with their patron saint, Ronald Reagan, and all of whom believe the vile and discredited answer to poverty and all our economic ills is lowering taxes for the top 1% – and a body politic who holds the priority of religious beliefs over empirical answers to the scientific problems confronting our nation – and all that follows from there.
Dr. Ben Carson’s only qualification he has for his ill-fated presidential campaign book tour is his work as a pediatric neuro-surgeon, but much like his public policy proposals, not even that track record can stand up to scrutiny. Carson is an anathema, a man who may not be the great surgeon that legend suggests – at least as judged by the number of medical malpractice lawsuits brought against him as a surgeon – and a man who also puts forth some of the most vile and evil diatribe imaginable while on the presidential stump.
Dr. Carson’s claim to fame was his successful 1987 surgery to separate conjoined twins, joined at the head. Carson was the first doctor to complete this procedure successfully. Both twins survived the intense 22-hour surgery, and a legend was born. However, Mike Papantonio, a lawyer by training and the host of Ring of Fire spoke on Carson’s shady medical malpractice history on his broadcast yesterday: “He (Carson) holds an above average rate of medical malpractice lawsuits, very serious medical malpractice lawsuits. Many of been settled for undeclared amounts of money, while others are still pending in the courts.” Papantonio went on to say “that while 75% of doctors have malpractice claims at one time or another, but less than 2% of those claims lead to any kind of financial claim to the victim…[while] virtually all of Carson’s cases have…Carson has been a medical malpractice nightmare, and now he’s a political malpractice nightmare.”
Specifically, no less than six medical malpractice suits have been brought against Dr. Carson in his years as a surgeon:
“In one case, Carson was accused of bungling a surgery to replace a shunt in the brain of an ailing 9-year-old girl, leaving her disfigured for life and for a time partially paralyzed. In another case, the well-regarded surgeon allegedly punctured his patient’s eardrums during an operation and forgot a sponge in her skull, which he later claimed was a tumor. Others claims against Carson outlined in a heap of legal documents include performing an unnecessary surgery on a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis and leaving a teenage boy with dwarfism paralyzed from the waist down. One of Carson’s most vocal critics has been 27-year-old Karly Bailey, who in 2009 filed a lawsuit against the former brain surgeon and John Hopkins Hospital claiming medical malpractice involving the alleged failure to properly perform surgery to replace a shunt and remove a tumor.”
Consider this is the same homophobic Ben Carson who bizarrely said on the political stump being gay was a choice evidenced by the outrageous anti-gay assertion that “[Prisoners] go into prison straight, and when they come out, they’re gay. So did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.” The same Ben Carson who like the rest of the science-denying Republican field denies evolution, which is especially egregious on his part because one inevitably must study basic biology in order to attend medical school. And the same Ben Carson, who claims to be pro-life making the outlandishly outrageous claim comparing abortion to slavery said in October on Meet the Press: “During slavery — and I know that’s one of those words you’re not supposed to say, but I’m saying it — during slavery, a lot of the slave owners thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave. Anything that they chose to do. And, you know, what if the abolitionist had said, you know, I don’t believe in slavery. I think it’s wrong. But you guys do whatever you want to do’? Where would we be?”
We can only laugh in despair when Ben Carson said upon his retirement as a surgeon: “I’d much rather quit when I’m at the top of my game.” But, malpractice is not Carson’s alone, the entire field of Republican malcontents running for the presidency are guilty of national malfeasance and malpractice. The top three contenders are Trump, Carson, and Fiorina, legends in their own minds who have no political experience between them. The balance of the national Republican embarrassments advocate 30 year-old arcane malfeasant policies given credibility by an association with their patron saint, Ronald Reagan, and all of whom believe the vile and discredited answer to poverty and all our economic ills is lowering taxes for the top 1% – and a body politic who holds the priority of religious beliefs over empirical answers to the scientific problems confronting our nation – and all that follows from there.
Ben Carson, President Obama, Clarence Thomas are all African Americans that achieved success at a great cost to us. They won't be celebrated as achievements in the black community, no schools or streets named after them. These institutions now look diverse, however we would be better off with a progressive/white liberal than these clowns.
He is being used to attack President Obama, his direct attack in which President Obama was a few feet away launched him into the spotlight. This is becoming a common strategy among racists - I see it all the time. In any event they isolate somebody from the harshness of reality which will falsely convince this person to adopt views antithetical to most blacks. This person is than used as an attack dog by racists to legitimize their heinous acts
They want to go after the ACA, Obamacare, and want this effort to appear purely about politics. The Social Security Act is 100 percent government and much larger than Obamacare, why aren't they voting 60 times to repeal this law?
Unfortunately, finding negroes like this is becoming more easier.
Dr. Ben Carson represent the same tactic used by the right to attack Civil Rights law and practices. An all white Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action would appear racist. Now you get a extreme minority viewpoint that just happens to be black, to attack this essential tool. Now millions of over-advantaged whites will get even more opportunities for jobs or education.
Carson is the next generation of this tactic, to repeal Obamacare and other laws enacted by the President, and to make the overzealous attacks appear normal. President Obama may be used as a pawn in a similar manner with regards to foreign policy and wars in the Middle East. Anytime somebody black ascends to these positions of power quickly it should raise red flags.
Just imagine if the NBA or NFL had to rely on stats only during the draft and if they looked at the conference or schedule to project their success it would be discrimination.
This act of diversity is a severe rollback in progress for the black community.
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Ben Carson Goes Crazy Over Annoying West Point Scholarship Questions #BenCarson
Ben Carson Goes Crazy Over Annoying West Point Scholarship Questions #BenCarson
During a recent press conference West Point Scholarship questions of lying bring out the "Thug" in Ben Carson. Ben told you not to make him angry. You wouldn't like Ben Carson when he's angry. Excerpt from the Tim Black At Night Show 11/7/2015
Ben Carson Goes Crazy Over Annoying West Point Scholarship Questions #BenCarson
Published on Nov 7, 2015
During a recent press conference West Point Scholarship questions of lying bring out the "Thug" in Ben Carson. Ben told you not to make him angry. You wouldn't like Ben Carson when he's angry. Excerpt from the Tim Black At Night Show 11/7/2015
source: The Grio
New poll suggests black voters could help Ben Carson beat Hillary Clinton
A new Quinnipiac University national poll has surprising numbers for Ben Carson supporters: the Republican frontrunner could beat the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in a general election, and it might just be with the help of African-American voters.
The poll poses the question for potential voters: Who would you vote for if the race was between Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson? The numbers show Carson winning with 50 percent versus Clinton’s 40 percent, but it’s the African-American numbers that are truly interesting, at 19 percent support for Carson against Clinton’s 73 percent. That level of support would be the first time a Republican has seen double-digit support in the African-American vote since 2004 with George W. Bush.
Interestingly, Carson has also picked up numbers among women voters, with 45 percent for Carson and 44 percent for Clinton among women polled.
The Carson numbers may also be helped by the perception of honesty among the candidates, with 60 percent saying Clinton is not honest or trustworthy, compared to Carson’s 62% positive honesty rating, the best among the top candidates.
“Is there a doctor in the house? There certainly is and at the moment Dr. Ben Carson is delivering a troubling diagnosis to Secretary Hillary Clinton,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. “With the election one year away, Ben Carson has surgically cut away all but one GOP opponent and taken a scalpel to Hillary Clinton’s lead.”
New poll suggests black voters could help Ben Carson beat Hillary Clinton
A new Quinnipiac University national poll has surprising numbers for Ben Carson supporters: the Republican frontrunner could beat the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in a general election, and it might just be with the help of African-American voters.
The poll poses the question for potential voters: Who would you vote for if the race was between Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson? The numbers show Carson winning with 50 percent versus Clinton’s 40 percent, but it’s the African-American numbers that are truly interesting, at 19 percent support for Carson against Clinton’s 73 percent. That level of support would be the first time a Republican has seen double-digit support in the African-American vote since 2004 with George W. Bush.
Interestingly, Carson has also picked up numbers among women voters, with 45 percent for Carson and 44 percent for Clinton among women polled.
The Carson numbers may also be helped by the perception of honesty among the candidates, with 60 percent saying Clinton is not honest or trustworthy, compared to Carson’s 62% positive honesty rating, the best among the top candidates.
“Is there a doctor in the house? There certainly is and at the moment Dr. Ben Carson is delivering a troubling diagnosis to Secretary Hillary Clinton,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. “With the election one year away, Ben Carson has surgically cut away all but one GOP opponent and taken a scalpel to Hillary Clinton’s lead.”
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Advocating for a tax system that will favor the rich to the bible, how sick can these guys get.
Advocating for a tax system that will favor the rich to the bible, how sick can these guys get.
“I’m Still Waiting On The Evidence:” Ben Carson Doesn’t Think Racial Bias In Policing Exists
While police brutality in Black communities seems more prevalent now due to the use of social media and video that has pushed high-profile cases like Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner to the front of an important conversation on race, the issue of racial bias in policing is a historic one.
That didn’t stop former neurosurgeon and presidential hopeful Ben Carson from dismissing the fact that Black men and women are being disproportionately targeted by police, saying he needed more “evidence” that profiling exists in law enforcement while speaking to a bipartisan group of Black lawmakers and community leaders this past weekend.
Think Progress reports:
During the 2020 Club’s Presidential Justice Forum at Allen University, a historically black university in Columbia, South Carolina, Carson said that he’s not convinced that there are racial biases in policing or that law enforcement singles out African Americans.
“I’m not aware of a lot of cases where a police officer comes up to someone like you and says ‘Hey, I don’t like you. I’m going to shoot you,’” he said to moderator Jeff Johnson from Black Entertainment Television. “I’m still waiting for the evidence.”
Johnson quickly responded: “I’ll show you the Tamir Rice tape,” to loud applause from the black audience.
Studies show that police are more likely to shoot an unarmed Black man than an unarmed White man, Think Progress notes. And Carson, whose skepticism shows a true disconnect between his reality and the ills Black communities face daily, need look no further than Ferguson, where the Justice Department earlier this year released a scathing report that implicated the police department in gross and wide-spread racially biased police practices. Black residents in the suburb of St. Louis were stopped, approached, and arrested at disproportionate rates compared to White residents.
Only when presented with similar evidence did Carson decide to address the issue.
“Whenever something like that happens, there must be swift justice,” he said when asked what he’d do about the fact that more than 30 unarmed black men and women have been killed by police this year. “If there is a situation where you have a rogue policeman who does something like that, that needs to be publicized and they need to be punished to the severest extent of the law.”
When pressed by a reporter about what policies he’d push to prevent the recurrence of police violence, whether it’s body cameras or improved police training, he refused to name concrete proposals.
Carson’s comments, while inflammatory and ignorant, are not surprising. Last week, Carson denounced protests to dismantle campus-wide racism across the nation, calling it “anarchy.” A top-aide recently revealed he knew very little about foreign policy and just days ago, Carson was called out for likening Syrian refugees to rabid dogs. And when asked about the Black Lives Matter movement during the Saturday forum, Carson said activists should be focusing on “Black lives that are lost at abortion clinics.”
Yes. Just to confirm. This is the man running for president of the United States of America.
While police brutality in Black communities seems more prevalent now due to the use of social media and video that has pushed high-profile cases like Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner to the front of an important conversation on race, the issue of racial bias in policing is a historic one.
That didn’t stop former neurosurgeon and presidential hopeful Ben Carson from dismissing the fact that Black men and women are being disproportionately targeted by police, saying he needed more “evidence” that profiling exists in law enforcement while speaking to a bipartisan group of Black lawmakers and community leaders this past weekend.
Think Progress reports:
During the 2020 Club’s Presidential Justice Forum at Allen University, a historically black university in Columbia, South Carolina, Carson said that he’s not convinced that there are racial biases in policing or that law enforcement singles out African Americans.
“I’m not aware of a lot of cases where a police officer comes up to someone like you and says ‘Hey, I don’t like you. I’m going to shoot you,’” he said to moderator Jeff Johnson from Black Entertainment Television. “I’m still waiting for the evidence.”
Johnson quickly responded: “I’ll show you the Tamir Rice tape,” to loud applause from the black audience.
Studies show that police are more likely to shoot an unarmed Black man than an unarmed White man, Think Progress notes. And Carson, whose skepticism shows a true disconnect between his reality and the ills Black communities face daily, need look no further than Ferguson, where the Justice Department earlier this year released a scathing report that implicated the police department in gross and wide-spread racially biased police practices. Black residents in the suburb of St. Louis were stopped, approached, and arrested at disproportionate rates compared to White residents.
Only when presented with similar evidence did Carson decide to address the issue.
“Whenever something like that happens, there must be swift justice,” he said when asked what he’d do about the fact that more than 30 unarmed black men and women have been killed by police this year. “If there is a situation where you have a rogue policeman who does something like that, that needs to be publicized and they need to be punished to the severest extent of the law.”
When pressed by a reporter about what policies he’d push to prevent the recurrence of police violence, whether it’s body cameras or improved police training, he refused to name concrete proposals.
Carson’s comments, while inflammatory and ignorant, are not surprising. Last week, Carson denounced protests to dismantle campus-wide racism across the nation, calling it “anarchy.” A top-aide recently revealed he knew very little about foreign policy and just days ago, Carson was called out for likening Syrian refugees to rabid dogs. And when asked about the Black Lives Matter movement during the Saturday forum, Carson said activists should be focusing on “Black lives that are lost at abortion clinics.”
Yes. Just to confirm. This is the man running for president of the United States of America.
Re: “I’m Still Waiting On The Evidence:” Ben Carson Doesn’t Think Racial Bias In Poli
The one cat... If he was stopped for a broken taillight, tazed, beat down and found by some guys fishing.. would not be that unhappy..
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The one cat... If he was stopped for a broken taillight, tazed, beat down and found by some guys fishing.. would not be that unhappy..
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The Joke About Mrs. Ben Carson’s Appearance Is No Laughing Matter
The meme circulating on social media comparing Michelle Obama, the wife of President Barack Obama, with Lacena “Candy” Carson, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson
There’s a particularly mean meme about presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson and his wife, Lacena, aka Candy, circulating around social media. In the meme, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are striking at the China state dinner Friday. President Obama is dressed in a well-tailored tuxedo, and the first lady has long, side-swept hair and an off-the-shoulder, custom-made Vera Wang gown.
The contrasting picture of the Carsons was taken in May, on the day Carson officially announced his candidacy for president in Detroit. He is dressed in an unremarkable but still presentable blue suit. It’s Candy Carson’s appearance that makes the meme funny to some (but not me). She is wearing a hairstyle and patriotic ensemble that is unflattering, ill-fitting and dated. The meme caption is a play on a popular DirecTV commercial that clowns its cable competitors for being subpar.
This is what my P.C. mind thinks: I’m no fan of presidential candidate Ben Carson. I don’t like his politics. He receives his fair share of ire from potential voters, but he asked to be dissected in the media, traditional and social, when he announced his bid for the presidency. Candy Carson did not. There are plenty of exceptionally valid reasons to rage about Ben Carson without adding his wife to the mix.
I hark back to the time in 2008 when Obama, then just a presidential candidate, appeared on Good Morning America to defend his wife from undue attacks for her alleged lack of patriotism.
“I’ve been in public life for 20 years,” he explained. “I expect them to pore through everything that I’ve said, every utterance, every statement. And to paint it in the most undesirable light possible. That’s what they do.”
He added: “But I do want to say this ... if they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful. Because I find that unacceptable ... I think it is just low class.”
I loved how Obama stood up for his wife. He was the candidate running for office, not his wife. And Michelle Obama didn’t deserve to be ripped apart because of his political ambitions. Her being attacked wasn’t right and was “low class.” Period.
But then there’s also the un-P.C. part of mind, the side that gets me in the most trouble as a writer. That untamed part of my brain? It’s mature enough not to laugh at Candy Carson’s expense, but it’s still asking why she came out of the house looking like that when her man is announcing his presidential bid. She didn’t just join him onstage to say, “Congrats, boo!” and go on her way. Candy Carson, an accomplished violinist, performed that day, too, playing the national anthem as her husband’s intro music. Come on!
Well-meaning sympathizers of Candy Carson have excused her appearance as a result of her religious beliefs. She is a devout Seventh-day Adventist, a religion that discourages women from wearing makeup and jewelry and emphasizes a modest appearance. OK. But religion and modesty are not synonymous with ill-fitting and unflattering and out-of-date. Also, there’s a Seventh-day Adventist church on my block, and on Saturday morning, the women I see look well put together for service. Candy Carson’s look can’t be blamed on religion.
Let me tell you a story: I recall, when I was a kid, maybe 10, I attended a family event with my mother. A male family member, who had always been praised for his looks and appearance, showed up looking dapper, as always. His wife? Not so much. Pretty lady, but she looked as if she hadn’t put in much effort for the occasion of seeing all of her husband’s family, when she should have.
My mother leaned over to me in my seat and offered me a dose of grown-lady wisdom: “When your man is looking like something, you make sure you look like it, too. Don’t show up looking like the help.” I never forgot that.
Is that shallow? Maybe.
But let’s stop pretending that appearance never matters, when there are times that it absolutely does. It’s because appearance matters that when she was plucked out of the Alaskan wilderness and thrust into a presidential campaign, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s handlers spent $150,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus to dress her for the campaign trail. It’s because appearance matters that over the last eight years, first lady Michelle Obama has transformed from a rather stiff and conservative look popular among politico wives to that of a glamorous and designer-wearing fashion icon. It’s why black women still have serious debates about whether to wear their hair natural or straightened for work.
Are there sexist and, in this case, racist underpinnings that make appearance matter more in certain circumstances? Absolutely. But until those “isms” are dismantled, women absolutely need to look as if they at least tried, especially when they’re up for a role they really want.
I won’t drag Candy Carson. I’m sure she is a lovely woman, and she has endured her husband’s politics for 40-plus years. But I will say that I can’t help noticing that as a presidential candidate, Ben Carson always shows up looking like the position he wants to have. I want the Mrs. to look the same.
She doesn’t have to slay in off-the-shoulder, hip-hugging ball gowns, but it would be helpful if the team that works with his presentation, if he has one, would add a little oomph for her. And if there is no team, Candy Carson would be well-served to enlist the help of a glam squad. Not because social media has no chill, but because appearances matter, and when it comes to running for president, her husband needs all the help he can get.
This seems to be a new diversity strategy in politics to only use minorities that are right wing. There is no choices on the left.
Ben Carson Admits Trump Illegally Promised Him Cabinet Position For Endorsement
The end of Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign elaborate book tour unfortunately did not mean an end to Carson’s involvement in the Republican primary race. Following in the calculating and self-serving footsteps of also-ran Gov. Chris Christie before him, Carson discarded what few principles he had left and endorsed Donald Trump to win the nomination, in an obviously play for personal gain and political influence that could be dredged out of whatever remains of the Republican Party. He confirmed as much today when he announced that Trump had promised him a position in his “administration” should he win the election, “certainly in an advisory capacity…we haven’t handled out all the details but it is very important that we work together in this country … Again, I’m not going to reveal any details about it right now because all of this is still very liquid.”
It is a puzzling move on the part of the eternally nonsensical Carson, who promptly abandoned the millions of black Americans who admired for his achievements as a surgeon by endorsing Trump, which in itself is an endorsement of the bigotry and discrimination against minorities that characterizes the Trump campaign. It also makes one question his judgement once again, considering that Trump one compared him to a “child molester” and called him a pathological liar.
Given Carson’s well-demonstrated ignorance of the laws of the United States, it should come as no surprise that he may not have understood that his endorsement in exchange for a position, apart from being appalling from a moral standpoint, is also potentially illegal.
18 U.S. Code § 599 states that “whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”
Accusations of being a opportunistic Uncle Tom who has abandoned his commitment to anything but his own personal gain have dogged Carson throughout his “campaign.” He has blatantly reinforced negative stereotypes about African-Americans with his bizarre and fabricated stories about his childhood aggression and purported violence. He delegimitizes the very real concerns of race in regards to police brutality and social discrimination, asking blacks to “de-emphasize race and emphasize respect for each other” while calling the Black Lives Matter movement “silly” and “sickening bullies.” He even hired known racist and Jim Crow advocate Charles W. Pickering to be his Mississippi campaign chair and compared women who abort the babies of their rapists to “slave owners.”
He is a traitor of the most despicable kind in a time of deep racial tension; instead of using his position of prominence in the Republican Party as the sole African-American candidate to provoke a real discussion on race in his party, he continually laid down and spouted the FOX News version of racial relations in America, consistently portraying black Americans to second-class citizens addicted to welfare and entitlements despite the public safety net’s critical role in his own successes and heavily implied that the systematic repression of black Americans in this country is due to their own moral deficiency. If it wasn’t clear enough before, this announcement proves that he is a man of no principles and no conscience.
The end of Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign elaborate book tour unfortunately did not mean an end to Carson’s involvement in the Republican primary race. Following in the calculating and self-serving footsteps of also-ran Gov. Chris Christie before him, Carson discarded what few principles he had left and endorsed Donald Trump to win the nomination, in an obviously play for personal gain and political influence that could be dredged out of whatever remains of the Republican Party. He confirmed as much today when he announced that Trump had promised him a position in his “administration” should he win the election, “certainly in an advisory capacity…we haven’t handled out all the details but it is very important that we work together in this country … Again, I’m not going to reveal any details about it right now because all of this is still very liquid.”
It is a puzzling move on the part of the eternally nonsensical Carson, who promptly abandoned the millions of black Americans who admired for his achievements as a surgeon by endorsing Trump, which in itself is an endorsement of the bigotry and discrimination against minorities that characterizes the Trump campaign. It also makes one question his judgement once again, considering that Trump one compared him to a “child molester” and called him a pathological liar.
Given Carson’s well-demonstrated ignorance of the laws of the United States, it should come as no surprise that he may not have understood that his endorsement in exchange for a position, apart from being appalling from a moral standpoint, is also potentially illegal.
18 U.S. Code § 599 states that “whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”
Accusations of being a opportunistic Uncle Tom who has abandoned his commitment to anything but his own personal gain have dogged Carson throughout his “campaign.” He has blatantly reinforced negative stereotypes about African-Americans with his bizarre and fabricated stories about his childhood aggression and purported violence. He delegimitizes the very real concerns of race in regards to police brutality and social discrimination, asking blacks to “de-emphasize race and emphasize respect for each other” while calling the Black Lives Matter movement “silly” and “sickening bullies.” He even hired known racist and Jim Crow advocate Charles W. Pickering to be his Mississippi campaign chair and compared women who abort the babies of their rapists to “slave owners.”
He is a traitor of the most despicable kind in a time of deep racial tension; instead of using his position of prominence in the Republican Party as the sole African-American candidate to provoke a real discussion on race in his party, he continually laid down and spouted the FOX News version of racial relations in America, consistently portraying black Americans to second-class citizens addicted to welfare and entitlements despite the public safety net’s critical role in his own successes and heavily implied that the systematic repression of black Americans in this country is due to their own moral deficiency. If it wasn’t clear enough before, this announcement proves that he is a man of no principles and no conscience.
Ben Carson Says He Has No Memory of Running for President
Borowitz Report
April 14, 2016
Ben Carson Says He Has No Memory of Running for President
By Andy Borowitz
Credit Photograph by Joe Raedle / Getty Images
The Borowitz Report)—Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, stirred controversy on Thursday by saying in a televised interview that he had no recollection of running for President of the United States.
Appearing on the Fox News Channel, Dr. Carson responded to host Sean Hannity’s question about his ten-month-long candidacy by saying, “I do not recall any of that occurring.”
“I’ve been told that I did it, but I find it impossible to believe,” he said. “I don’t think I’d forget a thing like that.”
Dr. Carson said he had seen photographs and videos of him campaigning for the Republican nomination but called them “the work of an evil person who is really good at PhotoShop and whatnot.”
He said he did not know who would create such an elaborate hoax to convince him that he had run for President “when I clearly did not,” but he speculated about the person’s motives.
“Someone is trying to mess with my mind,” he said. “And when I find out who is doing that I will make them pay dearly.”
While Carson insisted that “there is no way I ran for President,” he did not rule out running for the Republican nomination in the future.
“I think I’d be really good at it,” he said.
Borowitz Report
April 14, 2016
Ben Carson Says He Has No Memory of Running for President
By Andy Borowitz
Credit Photograph by Joe Raedle / Getty Images
The Borowitz Report)—Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, stirred controversy on Thursday by saying in a televised interview that he had no recollection of running for President of the United States.
Appearing on the Fox News Channel, Dr. Carson responded to host Sean Hannity’s question about his ten-month-long candidacy by saying, “I do not recall any of that occurring.”
“I’ve been told that I did it, but I find it impossible to believe,” he said. “I don’t think I’d forget a thing like that.”
Dr. Carson said he had seen photographs and videos of him campaigning for the Republican nomination but called them “the work of an evil person who is really good at PhotoShop and whatnot.”
He said he did not know who would create such an elaborate hoax to convince him that he had run for President “when I clearly did not,” but he speculated about the person’s motives.
“Someone is trying to mess with my mind,” he said. “And when I find out who is doing that I will make them pay dearly.”
While Carson insisted that “there is no way I ran for President,” he did not rule out running for the Republican nomination in the future.
“I think I’d be really good at it,” he said.
Lol good one