Ben Carson: Money pouring in after Muslim comments

[Acala]

You don't become arguably one of the best pediatric neurosurgeons in the world if you're a dummy.

Medical school is largely a matter of memorization. You can't be a dummy to get through it, but you don't have to have much independent thinking ability. As for surgery, it is largely a mechanical skill. Unless he was developing radical new procedures (and he might have been for all I know), that doesn't show independent thinking either. I've known some doctors that were pretty dim.

 

[LibertyEagle]

You don't become arguably one of the best pediatric neurosurgeons in the world if you're a dummy. He's not all that politically astute, but that's a different kind of intelligence.

Muslim immigration isn't a big problem in the US, but it could be. Once they get to be 5% of the population, the tide starts to turn. Look at the EU for evidence of that. We do not want that in America.

I hope he isn't restricted for long. He was the only one in this thread who made any sense.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

Carson is confirming, from a completely different direction, how strong the anti-establishment meme and sentiment is in the country right now. His popularity is showing you don't have to be brassy or narcissistic in order to challenge the mainstream, or to basically stand your ground. People here have been wary of Trump due to him being a grandstanding egotist, but when the outrageous views come from a quiet-speaking humble person, they're just as suspicious?

Carson's resolve on the Muslim statement (right or wrong) is coming across as statesmen-like, especially because he lacks political skills. Since he barely knows how to do the tap-dance, his views come across as an extension of his Christian character or integrity. In tone, he is in fact performing the kind of triangulation of the Trump phenomenon that Rand should have been doing. If Trump does collapse, I see the bulk of his votes rolling over to Carson as things now stand.

 

[Acala]

If Trump does collapse, I see the bulk of his votes rolling over to Carson as things now stand.

I don't see this at all. Trump is probably the least overtly religious of the Republican candidates while Carson is one of the most. Trump is a bloviating, obnoxious, insulting city slicker while Carson is soft-spoken and cordial. Why would you think people attracted to Trump would take Carson as their second choice?

 

[Peace&Freedom]

I don't see this at all. Trump is probably the least overtly religious of the Republican candidates while Carson is one of the most. Trump is a bloviating, obnoxious, insulting city slicker while Carson is soft-spoken and cordial. Why would you think people attracted to Trump would take Carson as their second choice?

Carson and Trump certainly are polar opposites as far as personality and religious fervor go. While the two of them are differentiated in the way they express a non-establishment posture, yes, anti-establishment people are splitting their support accordingly. But what happens if/when one of them implodes, and there's only one choice?

Is the anti-elite strain the strongest factor, or the religious/secular factor the strongest? I suggest that if you despise the establishment so much that you would accept a Trump as a candidate, then you would also tend to accept Carson as well if left with one option, or vice versa. So I'm suggesting the anti-elite dynamic is the biggest factor in this cycle, and so the bulk of the Trump vote would transfer over to Carson if Trump dropped out.

 

[Batman]

I thought Trump would trend down, but he looks like he's going out in a blaze of glory. He's gonna take Carly and Marco with him probably. Carson's less racist element will transfer over to Huck and Cruz missile. They'll fight it out for the biblical vote. I think Rand should probably be targeting Bush and Kasich territory.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

I look at Dr. Ben Carson and I am not sure I would want him to stitch up my cut. There's just something about him that screams "I am not very smart"...

September 21, 2015
Ben Carson Shattering Stereotype About Brain Surgeons Being Smart

 

[William R]

Why is this surprising. Some of the posters on this forum are truly clueless


Female Genital Mutilation on the Rise in the U.S



http://www.newsweek.com/fgm-rates-have-doubled-us-2004-304773


Honor Killings in America

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/honor-killings-in-america/391760/


I give Ben Carson two big thumbs up on this. I'll say it again. After 9/11 Ron Paul had no problem writing on his congressional website that we should end immigration from Muslim nations.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

I give Ben Carson two big thumbs up on this.

Do you think current President could be a muslim and give two big thumbs up to Trump too?

Trump Suggests Obama Is Our First Muslim President
by Judd Legum

Sep 20, 2015 10:34am
On Meet The Press, Chuck Todd asked Trump is he’d be comfortable with a Muslim president. Trump allowed that it was possible to have a Muslim president but refused to say whether he’d be OK with it. He then suggested that Obama himself was a Muslim.

CHUCK TODD: Can you imagine supporting or being comfortable if a Muslim ever became president of the United States?

DONALD TRUMP: I can say that, you know, it’s something that at some point could happen. We’ll see. You know, it’s something that could happen. Would I be comfortable? I don’t know if we have to address it right now. But I think it is certainly something that could happen.

TODD: You said you’d have no problem putting a Muslim in the–
TRUMP: I mean, some people have said it already happened, frankly. But of course you wouldn’t agree with that. And I–
TODD: Well, no…​

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...a-is-a-muslim/


Carson suggests Obama is 'anti-Semitic'
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...an-deal-121406

Ben Carson to Obama: Come clean on 'secret' past
http://www.wnd.com/2014/05/ben-carso...n-secret-past/

 

[DFF]

Muslim immigration isn't a big problem in the US, but it could be. Once they get to be 5% of the population, the tide starts to turn. Look at the EU for evidence of that. We do not want that in America.

Not sure why people object to Muslim mass immigration in Europe.
They just go there rape European women, build mosques get on permanent welfare and occasionally blow shit up.
So really, what's the big deal?

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Not sure why people object to Muslim mass immigration in Europe.
They just go there rape European women, build mosques get on permanent welfare and occasionally blow shit up.
So really, what's the big deal?

In sharp contrast, when US/UK/Europeans invaded muslim lands of Iraq few years back, they were mostly blowing shit up, building military bases to manage oil wealth resources and only occasionally built churhes or raped Iraqi women.

That's the difference between theirs and our cultures.

 

[CPUd]

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

This is not even close to the worst. There are really gory pictures online

 

[enhanced_deficit]

This is not even close to the worst. There are really gory pictures online

Unfortunately, current US President is one of them according to majority of US Christians/GOP. Ben Carson and some GOP senators have been trying to expose him.









Louis Farrakhan backs Obama for president at Nation of Islam convention in Chicago
... Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...day-convention



Monday, Apr 27, 2015 06:59 PM EDT
Louis Farrakhan, rising: With rap’s superstars at his side, the Nation of Islam leader steps forward in the new fight for civil rights

Rappers disenchanted with Obama and impatient with feuding West and Dyson are turning to Farrakhan for leadership



http://www.salon.com/2015/04/27/lou...ps_forward_in_the_new_fight_for_civil_rights/

 

[Batman]

Unfortunately, current US President is one of them according to majority of US Christians/GOP. Ben Carson and some GOP senators have been trying to expose him.

Why hello Chris Christie. I was wondering when you would start posting to the forums.

 

[DFF]

In sharp contrast, when US/UK/Europeans invaded muslim lands of Iraq few years back, they were mostly blowing shit up, building military bases to manage oil wealth resources and only occasionally built churhes or raped Iraqi women.

You're right.
But these war crimes committed by Western forces doesn't mean that Europe is responsible for accepting all Syrians.
The people who are culpable are the politicians. Tony Blair, George W. Bush, William Kristol etc.

Also I don't think that all Muslim immigrants are bad. Quite the contrary.

In the end though, they need their own countries to live in.
Because if too many come to Europe, they will upset the cultural dynamics and Europe eventually will longer be Europe.
Rather it will become some kind of European/Middle Eastern hybrid nation.