Discussion: Behold The Painfully Awkward Answers Too The 1st Question in The GOP Debate

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Ben Carson: My biggest weakness is I never saw myself running for president in the first place.

ā€œThe weakness would be not really seeing myself in that position until hundreds of thousands of people began to tell me that I needed to do it.ā€

Hundreds of thousands of people? Okay, Iā€™ll bite. Minimum of 200,000 people, each one telling you that you should run for president. Give each one 5 seconds to tell you, and that would take onlyā€¦694 days. Non stop. I suppose they could have all spoke at once in one great orgy of presidential tongue bathing, but Iā€™m not buying that either.

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Jeb looks like he was assembled from the body parts of deceased plutocrats.

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Universal reply: ā€œIā€™m a republican.ā€ I belong to a party that hates government and people. I havenā€™t the faintest idea of what Iā€™m doing, or how I do it. I might have a future as a lizard.

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Okay, this is a stock interview question. Meaning, pull any book on how to interview for a job off the shelf and they will tell you this question will be coming, and you better have a good answer for it.

In fact, if I interview you for a job as a software engineer, you will get exactly this question amongst others. A lot of people fail at this question, because to give a good answer you have to have a moment of self-reflection and actually think critically of yourself and your abilities. No one takes the answer to the question and says ā€œOh, that engineer says he has trouble remembering design patterns; heā€™s out!ā€ The answer only matters on where it falls on the spectrum between honest and self-aware, and disingenuousness.

In short, I see here ten people who would not get to a second interview at my company on the basis of this one question alone. If you can not see any honest fault in yourself, even a minor one, then you are not fit to work with others and certainly are not capable of leadership.

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Theyā€™re all a bunch of fugginā€™ liars.

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Cā€™mon. We all know Ā®s biggest weakness is ā€˜the math they use to make themselves feel betterā€™!

jw1

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Why would anyone ask this kind of stupid question? Even a Jr. High student knows how to answer this question in a way that mocks the fool asking it.

Do these moderators get paid? They sure are not doing their jobs well.

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Iā€™m a little nervous about Ted Cruz driving me home. What does he hope to achieve? I meanā€¦ I can be a little creepy sometimes butā€¦

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Has Rand Paul been put on a milk carton yet?

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You forgot to factor voices in head.

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Itā€™s not a stupid question at all. See TomDibbleā€™s answer above.

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IfIWereAskingTheFirstQuestion:
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###If you are the Ā® nominee-- how would you destroy democracy?

jw1

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For bonus points: Which countries would you invade and why?

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Jeb said he was impatient. One of the absolute last character traits any president should have considering what is at stake. If anything, patience ought to be their number 1 trait.

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Just FYI: If you watch one of these Republcan Freakshow Debates and, alternately, watch the documentary Will You Kill for Me? Charles Manson and His Followers, the Manson Family doesnā€™t seem nearly as dysfunctional, fu*ked up and batshitcrazy.

Just a factoid. Nowā€¦back to the debate.

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This GOP steaming load of bullsh*t keeps setting off my fire alarms. Jeeeezā€™! Wellā€¦at least Agua Buddha Rubio seems to have hammered perhaps the last nails into Jebbyā€™s coffin.

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The moderators joined the clown show as clowns!

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I am laughing so hard I can barely stand it

Based on those answers the future for the GOP candidate (whoever it is) in the general election is:

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