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Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« on: March 26, 2013, 06:17:43 PM »
“Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts,” he added. “They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground…to sit around and act like third graders is not productive.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/26/dr-ben-carson-fires-back-at-msnbcs-toure-others-that-claim-conservatives-are-only-embracing-him-so-they-can-say-they-arent-racist/

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Truth and ridicule can be a potent combination!
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2013, 07:23:41 PM »
Don't fall in love with this guy.  He gets some things right, but not all and one of the things he gets wrong is 2A.
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2013, 07:36:10 AM »
Oh yeah, hadn't heard that.   ::facepalm::
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2013, 07:43:24 AM »
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2013, 07:53:09 AM »
Nice.  Don't like the idea of conditional rights nor do I understand the demonization of for-profit healthcare companies, and given his more recent statements is there evidence he has had a "come to Jesus" moment or is this some sort of Ruling Class op being put into play?  Or is this guy just dicking with us for his own amusement?

God, I hate this century!

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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2013, 08:02:22 AM »
Quote from: Libertas on March 27, 2013, 07:53:09 AM
Nice.  Don't like the idea of conditional rights nor do I understand the demonization of for-profit healthcare companies, and given his more recent statements is there evidence he has had a "come to Jesus" moment or is this some sort of Ruling Class op being put into play?  Or is this guy just dicking with us for his own amusement?

 ::whatgives::   Book demonizing for-profit published in 2012, so, you tell me.

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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2013, 08:04:27 AM »
Quote from: Pandora on March 27, 2013, 07:43:24 AM
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/03/04/dr-ben-carson-your-right-to-own-a-semiautomatic-should-depend-on-where-you-live/

Not all that great on "healthcare" either .....

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/ben_carsons_views_on_health_care_problematic.html

I read a bunch of the comments at your first link (thanks BTW ;-)
Many were good - this one brilliant in its simplicity:

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“Your right to own a semi-automatic should depend on where you live.”

Let me finish that for you…

If you live in the United States, then you have that right. If you live in a country without the 2nd amendment or similar provision, then you don’t.

Wasn’t that easy?

Russ in OR on March 4, 2013 at 3:38 PM

Ironic that I was watching "I, Robot" while reading this. It puts one particular line from the Will Smith character in stark focus:

"You're the dumbest smart person I know"

Don't lose your day job Dr. Ben...
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2013, 08:10:52 AM »
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I'd say "my pleasure", but it gives me none to be a killjoy.
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2013, 11:34:09 AM »
Well, even today it sounds like Rush is still on the Ben-crush...

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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2013, 11:46:01 AM »
Quote from: Libertas on March 27, 2013, 11:34:09 AM
Well, even today it sounds like Rush is still on the Ben-crush...

 ::facepalm::

I see no reason to not admire the man for what he is and what he's accomplished, but that doesn't translate into Presidential material, in my opinion anyway. 

Conservatives are so desperate for a decent and stalwart standard-bearer, as soon as someone utters something halfway sensible, many of them jump on the "_______ for President" bandwagon.
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2013, 11:58:46 AM »
Quote from: Pandora on March 27, 2013, 11:46:01 AM
Quote from: Libertas on March 27, 2013, 11:34:09 AM
Well, even today it sounds like Rush is still on the Ben-crush...

 ::facepalm::

I see no reason to not admire the man for what he is and what he's accomplished, but that doesn't translate into Presidential material, in my opinion anyway. 

Conservatives are so desperate for a decent and stalwart standard-bearer, as soon as someone utters something halfway sensible, many of them jump on the "_______ for President" bandwagon.

Yup. I've been guilty of it, but now that I see the pattern emerging, it is a bit disconcerting to see conservatives repeatedly moving from one savior to the next. Sarah Palin... Herman Cain... Marco Rubio... Chris Christie... Rand Paul...

We can never out-rock-star the Leftists, because conservatism does not rest on the cult of personality. Personality and charisma are fine qualities, but we don't need a cult-hero, we need resolve to do what needs to be done. It seems that kind of resolve does not reside in the realm of politics.
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2013, 12:02:26 PM »
Well, I wasn't knocking anyone in particular here, IDP.

We may as well classify me as the Resident Cassandra.
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2013, 12:06:57 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on March 27, 2013, 12:02:26 PM
Well, I wasn't knocking anyone in particular here, IDP.

We may as well classify me as the Resident Cassandra.

I didn't take it as a knock, but if the shoe fits, I'm willing to wear it. I'd rather admit to having my eyes opened to a particular shortcoming than to walk around with my head up my ass.

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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2013, 12:08:26 PM »
What IDP said!  (That popping sound earlier was me pulling out!)

I hope DC does not corrupt Ted Cruz, he might be the only elected person who best represents our beliefs!

(Hope I didn't just jinx him.)  
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2013, 12:19:57 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on March 27, 2013, 12:02:26 PM
Well, I wasn't knocking anyone in particular here, IDP.

We may as well classify me as the Resident Cassandra.

If I remember Cassandra correctly her prognostications weren't believed even though they were accurate. You're not sharing anything that isn't true - just unsettling.

All my heroes are gone away and I'm too old to pretend to finding new replacements - or that my sensibilities even matter a tinker's damn. I used to have an expression that made various people so agitated that I put it on a shelf. Perhaps it's time to take it down and dust it off:

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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2013, 07:47:28 PM »
Yeah, that one might have to come of the shelf more often.
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2013, 01:39:06 PM »
Just heard on Rush:  the graduating class of medical students at John Hopkins University, where Dr. Carson teaches, asked they he be uninvited to speak at the ceremony.
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« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2013, 01:52:03 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on March 29, 2013, 01:39:06 PM
Just heard on Rush:  the graduating class of medical students at John Hopkins University, where Dr. Carson teaches, asked they he be uninvited to speak at the ceremony.

What petulant little totalitarian f***s.
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« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2013, 01:57:14 PM »
One of the most brilliant medical minds in the country, and these little brats can't put aside their fetish for Obama for their own frikking graduation ceremony and allow him to honor their accomplishment as someone whom they should all aspire to be like, if they had half a brain.
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Re: Dr Ben Carson properly nails critics
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2013, 02:51:03 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on March 29, 2013, 01:39:06 PM
Just heard on Rush:  the graduating class of medical students at John Hopkins University, where Dr. Carson teaches, asked they he be uninvited to speak at the ceremony.

I doubt it, but I hope John Hopkins university tells these snot noses to mind their own business.
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