Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who has become a grassroots conservative favorite on the strength of his motivational life story and strong opposition to President Barack Obama, said Sunday that he is entering the crowded Republican race for the presidential nomination.
“I’m willing to be part of the equation and therefore, I’m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States of America,” Carson told WKRC, a Cincinnati, Ohio, television station, one day before he was expected to kick off his campaign in Detroit.
The announcement puts Carson, 63, the black former head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, into his first political campaign following what his aides have described as a crash course on everything from economic issues to foreign policy.
What a wonderful campaign this is going to be for interested foreigners such as I, Many of us have been waiting for the good Doctor to put up his hand. I remember so clearly his speech some months ago at a function which I recorded in full and have retained. The mere presence of Ben Carson in the debates will at least add quality to the speeches as he drags the rest of them up a level or so.
ReplyDeleteCan he win the nomination? probably not if the entrenched money baulks at the color of his skin but yes if he is given a fair go as we Aussies say. Will Carson pull the Republican colored voters and will he bring across from Obama voting base the colored section of the electorate? I think he must have more pulling ability with the colored and Hispanic vote than any other likely Repub candidates. Would he make a good President? Perhaps his lack of Political experience will be against him but I am sure he has the ability to be an inspired and inspiring leader.
Reading the posts here this morning, I wonder if Williams effort with the contrived references to HRC and Margaret Sanger is enough to make Carson sick to the stomach and give up rather than enter the sleaze which appears to be the bull ring occupied by the Teas
Any one like to respond to this please?.
Cheers from Aussie
Ben Carson doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of being our next president. He will be gone by Super Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteDr. Carson enjoys wide Tea Party support. It is understandable that king as an outsider would not understand today's central planners represented by HRC and experimenters line Sanger from the socialist controlled 30's.
ReplyDeleteAs we miss more or less 55 million black souls from our populace it is difficult to excuse the results that these progressives have promulgated in the name of "what's good for the colored people."
William my thanks as always.
DeleteCan I submit that understanding of the "central planners of the 30's" (my abbreviation of your words)is not absolutely necessary to engage in this debate.
My problem is with the original post which depicts HRC and a reputed quote beneath a picture and quote obviously taken out of context from one of many speeches of Elizabeth Sanger. As you would know William, Sanger died in the 1960s aged 80something.She had been a fearless fighter for woman’s rights and also as a proponent of birth control. I have been unable to verify the quote but I accept its veracity.
Just a very quick look at the literature available to me here in Australia demonstrates the thousands of quotes, opinions, answers to questions and other forms of giving an opinion which have been published.
My problem William is the hypocrisy in publishing the quotation from both ladies in such a way that HRC is automatically stained by the same quotation from the previous century. I would think, people who believe in freedom of choice would respect the right of a woman to decide if she wished to carry a child. If not then Sanger advocated methods to prevent pregnancy and for this forward thinking, so far ahead of her time she needs to be congratulated. If HRC also believes in those self same rights as Margaret Sanger, then I for one would think she deserves applause rather than the vitriolic smears on her character. Clinton has never to my knowledge ever agreed with the specific quote you rely on.
As for the quote, please provide the full context and perhaps we can see the intent rather than the opportunity to defame someone who is simply stating an opinion about Sanger the person not the author of an 11 word quote.
Cheers from Aussie
The scary thing is king you actually hold to these tar papered rewrites of history. Latter day progressive temples of enlightenment using modern day spin to cover the asses of their messiah's. My paragraph called HRC the central planner (Clinton Global Initiative) but Sanger fit her time as another two bit Marxist experimenter, right up there with FDR himself.
DeleteNow in this enlightened age we have progressives that will endorse the ripping, sucking, and tearing apart of live born full term people. We have abortion mills (Philadelphia) that can't bother to clean up the murder room before rushing in the next female victim and her carry that will feel pain as he never has a chance like YOU AND I.
These geniuses would rather import the next generation than bother to birth them themselves. Google percentage of black abortions. Hideous.
In 2012 more black children were aborted in New York City than were born there. What's your proper ratio king?
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DeleteMay I respectfully suggest that you and I and all men have no right to interfere with the decision legally taken by a pregnant woman,Yes,to our shame, we made them pregnant but in so many cases the man acts like a tom cat and runs off to impregnate another female. The woman is left with the problem and in so many cases she faces the inevitable decision to terminate the pregnancy.
Please William, do not label pro choice people as communists, Marxists or anything else. Consider if you will the apolitical thoughts of the woman as she has her feet placed in the stirrups and waits for the rectification of a problem caused not by her alone but by two people. I too abhor termination but it is preferable to bringing a child, black or white into a world where it is not wanted by either parent.
Cheers from Aussie
Where did I say I am against abortion? I am against late term abortion. Abortion says the progressives is settled law. Have at it. Let's go down to Planned Parenthood girlfriend and get rid of this problem so we can party again tonight.
DeleteIn your own paragraph you talk of Tom cats. When life is cheap in the womb life is cheap on the streets, life is cheap in the court room, oh yeah life is real cheap. The Sanger's of the world look at the situation, deem it oh so messy, and turn on the public hose of money to institutionalize and ensure the squeak gets the grease.
Baltimore today is a direct result of this type of enlightened thought.
Ben Carson has a lot to learn about politics. Fortunately he is bright and, I assume, eager to learn. Yes, I would like to see him give the other dozen or so candidates a run for their money. And, speaking of Socialists, what do you think of Bernie Sanders' chances?
ReplyDeleteThe headline should read, "Dr. Ben Carson enters the race for 3rd place in the Republican Primary."
ReplyDeleteA celebrity candidate with little experience in public office, Carson bears no small resemblance to Barack Obama during his celebrated 2008 candidacy.
ReplyDeleteBut that similarity highlights how much Obama betrayed his promise of hope with a divisive, cynical presidency. Obama has ignored inner-city issues while hobnobbing with rich elites over esoteric issues like global warming. Coincidentally, while Carson spoke about empowering students in Detroit, Obama spoke with college students in Brooklyn about their dreams.
Decrying the lack of a father in his own upbringing, Obama has, however, claimed that minorities have been kept down by societal unfairness and insufficient government funding. “Some communities have had the odds stacked against them,” he said in Brooklyn. “That sense of unfairness and powerlessness is helping to fuel the protests we’ve seen in Baltimore.” Obama’s message of victimization contrasts with Carson’s forceful call for personal responsibility.
But whereas candidate Obama marinated in media goodwill, Carson receives the Clarence Thomas treatment: scorn for daring to speak as a black Republican. More 2016 Will Rhode Island’s Dark-Horse Candidate Pose a Challenge for Hillary? Conservative Group Hits Rand Paul on Obamacare Republicans and the Patriot Act Media accounts of Carson’s announcement here stereotyped him as an awkward, religious-Right whack job.
The Associated Press, for example, recycled old gaffes while suggesting that Carson is a welfare hypocrite. To be sure, Carson’s rhetoric will need to be more disciplined, but lazy reporting has so far missed a campaign that challenges the GOP order. “The Republican Party has to get bigger,” says Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett. “Carson can talk about poverty in a way no other candidate can.” Indeed, his up-by-the-bootstraps story speaks to American ideals. Bennett dismisses the idea that Carson’s campaign is a business startup to raise money for the candidate’s pet causes. He points to Carson’s explosive, Obama-esque popularity on social media. “We can win,” Bennett says. “America needs to listen to him.” With a partisan media wind in his face and little establishment GOP support at his back, Carson is a long shot. But his campaign coffers are healthy, and he has defied the odds all his life. “So many people are negative. People will always tell you what you can’t do,” Carson told the students. “Nothing’s been done until it’s been done. Maybe you’ll be the one to do it.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417922/ben-carson-its-not-politics-or-economics-its-culture-henry-payne
1st man out of the race.
ReplyDeleteUh, that be Romney.
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DeleteI'm shocked your a closet racist.
You would claim people who don't like or support Bama to be racist you you would never support or like Carson.
Maybe it's self reliance he talks about you dislike. Maybe it. he doesn't like the government enslavement of people via entitlements.
In any case I call racism.