Ben Carson, MD vs Ben Carson, Politician
On May 3rd, 2015, NPR.org published an
article entitled “5 Things you should know about Ben Carson"
He grew up poor, was a poor student and quick tempered.
He was the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Hopkins.
He’s an accomplished author and Presidential Medal of
Freedom recipient.
He gave a famous 2013 National Prayer Breakfast speech.
He has never held or run for public office.
And now I come to Ben Carson the candidate for President who
is leading in the polls in Iowa.
The genesis of this blog post was the first headline I saw
this morning “Ben Carson: Rape victims who have abortions are just like slave
owners”
This man, this highly educated man, has, since he entered
the race for the White House, has become a bomb thrower extraordinaire.
How could he possibly compare a woman who has been raped to
a slave owner?
Owners of slaves had a choice, they could pay for labor or
not. They chose not. They chose to enslave other human beings.
So according to his comparison, women choose to be raped and
choose to become pregnant by their rapist so that they can choose to have an
abortion.
A couple of weeks ago, in response to our latest gun massacre,
he informed us that the Jewish people living in Europe were partially responsible
for the Holocaust because they did not own guns.
Leaving his disregard for the families of victims of gun
violence who have died in this country aside, he also scorned the 6 million
souls that perished in Europe. HIs callous attitude towards the pain that
lingers today and always will, the sheer ignorance that he chose to display by
pretending that the Jewish people could have walked into their neighborhood gun
stores, armed themselves and escaped their deaths is despicable and beyond
contemptible.
He has taken a different tack to the rest of the Clowns.
Instead of closing the Department of Education, he wants to use the employees
to monitor what students at colleges around the country, are saying, and is
willing to close any schools that are too liberal. This is the United States of America. 1st
Amendment = free speech. I guess he intends to suspend the Bill of Rights and
govern using an ideological-religious test.
And finally, there is his attitude towards the race problems
that exist in the US. According to him, race relations have gotten worse since
President Obama was elected. The
President has spoken out against the many atrocities, which, have been
committed and in doing so, has used the race card. Sounds familiar? LaPierre has told us that
President Obama’s attitude is responsible for the gun violence that we
experience on a daily basis.
From poor student to director of pediatric neurosurgery to
right wing nut running for president, that is Ben Carson.
His manner is quiet. He appears to be a likable and easy-going guy. And, he's a pediatric neurosurgeon - intelligent, caring and sensitive. And, he's black - which (one would think) would have an appeal to the political left. All precisely why he is so dangerous.Not to mention that he has no experience or credential to suggest that he is qualified to hold public office. What are we thinking?
ReplyDeleteI do not know what we are thinking, but we had better awaken before 11/1/2016 or we are going to be in for a world of hurt. He will be Bush and who will be Chaney?
ReplyDeleteThe same way we are listening and hearing what he has to say and has been saying especially lately, I would hope that others are also paying attention and thinking twice! but then again who would have thought that Trump would have the support that HE does?? No accounting for people's way of thinking, and it's scary!
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