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Awwwā¦shucky ducky. OOoops, wrong guy.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/10/09/339879/cain-uzbekistan-beki-beki-stan-stan/
Same diff. Just another day in wingnut presidential politics.
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Dammit! You wrote exactly what I was going to say. Brava!
I mean, the GOP shows such disrespect for President Obama that they HAVE throw up every stupid ass Black man they can find.
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I was not informed that this material would be on the mid-term!
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Ben Carson is confused. Period!
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Iām actually kind of surprised that he is being honest about the concern that Carsonās field of knowledge is pretty limited. Republicans usually tend to fake it, and then they will turn around and talk about how Obama was never fully vetted or saying Hillary is hiding things (when we know literally everything about her).
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In fairness, heās started reading up. It was never fully established whether that other GOP presidential ticket type who went thru something like this ever read at all.
I fully expect that all heāll do is spend a few months reading synopses from links at Drudge and posts at Human Events, NRO, the Weekly Standard, Tuckie Carlsonās joke site, Red State, Town Hall, Hewittās pit of stupid, Instaputz, Ace of Spades HQ, that ilk, and heāll be good to go before an audience high on tea.
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someone should have asked carson what countries comprise the baltic statesā¦ and to point them out on a map.
There are about 97 more important reasons Carson shouldnāt be president. But James Fallows made a good point about candidatesā background knowledge back when Charles Gibson asked Palin about the Bush doctrine. He said it wasnāt so much that she simply flubbed a question, it was that her not knowing what the Bush doctrine even was showed sheād never taken any serious interest in foreign policy. Itās the basic question any job interviewer wants answered: Do you have any real interest in actually doing the job? Not that it matters to the GOP, because we live in interesting times.
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anyone getting schooled by Hugh Hewitt is a non-Presidential candidate.
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Carson said that heās āread a lot in the last six months.ā
āThereās a lot of material to learn. Thereās no question about that,ā he said.
I wouldnāt allow a politician whoās āread a lotā to operate on me, nor would I allow a surgeon to be President just because heās āread a lot.ā
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Q: Which Baltic states?
A: Oh, all of them, Charlie.
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āI imagine youāve done hundreds of these procedures, right Doc?ā
- Actually - no; thoracic surgery isnāt something Iāve done, ever, or even studied much.
But hey, Iām a king shit award-glomming neurosurgeon to the kiddies; how complicated can trunk organs really be? And how tough could it really be to just slice in there and cut around this and that and mess a bit with the cardiovascular, lymphatic and digestive systems, really?
Iāll pick up a few pamphlets from the doctor place on my way out, and whatever still seems maybe a bit iffie Iāll check out on Wikipedia.
Should be a cinch!
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It appears that he has Herman Cainās grasp of geography and foreign policy.
What countries comprise the Baltic states was such an obvious follow up that any āreal journalistā worth half his salt would have hit him with it immediately.
Oops, I forgot. "Real journalist have been extinct for quite some time now.
āIt doesnāt matter. All you need to know is that, if they do not kowtow to whatever Amurikkka wants, I will talk like Django while threatening them. That should be enough for you.ā
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I donāt remember if I said it here first, or in another venue, but it bears repeating.
Eventually, all of these GOP Clowns make a mistake. Like the Pizza salesman in 2012. You know, the one who could not keep 3 of the same number straight in his head.
Usually, Foreign Policy is our best hope that they will reveal what they really are- Snake oil salesmen and far worse.
Bye Bye Benā¦ It was nice of you to stop by and be the Grumpy Old Partyās āeducatedā alternative. Too bad you failed geopolitics.
What Carson meant to say is, āWe have always been at war with Eastasia.ā
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Carson should have stayed with neurosurgery. What happened that he gave up his practice?
My favorite part of the interview was his concern that the Shia and the Sunnis could unite to destroy the US. Yes, pigs could fly under certain circumstances, improbable as that may beā¦
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