Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

Saddam himself? No.

Individuals and events following in consequence from Daddy Bush not commanding a more decisive result from Desert Storm? Yes.

 

LOL ... Been taking posting lessons from the NQT crowd?

 

OK, so what would be the dividing line for a terror attack? One year, two years?

How about if a mistake is made about foreign policy in which a leader keeps repeating an inaccuracy? How long should government officials be allowed to know that what they're saying goes from being a mistake to being a flat-out lie? One week? A month? A year?

 

Exactly seven years. Duh.

 

So your position appears to be bin Laden and Co. didn't want to attack the US until the early afternoon of Jan. 21, 2001 and wasn't a threat until exactly then.

#nuance

 

As opposed to your position, in which the economy was doing just fine and Iraq was perfectly peaceful until Jan. 21, 2009, right?

 

Duh. It's Clintons' fault. Both of them.

 

As bad as Jeb has handled the inevitable questions about his brother, it wasn't as bad as watching Hillary Clinton defend her ties to Wall St. last night.

Holy fuck. A complete lie, wrapped in 9/11, while shouting and pointing her finger.

 

Don't forget the pandering, "but, 60 percent of my donors are WOMEN!" shtick.

 

HRC was nothing short of tremendous as a senator in the aftermath of 9-11, working with Schumer on redevelopment funding and laser focusing on the health of first responders. She engendered huge amounts of goodwill among rich, middle class and poor.

I was frustrated by her support for going into Iraq, but that was probably my only issue with her performance as senator. Her foreign policy instincts are just a little too hawkish for me. Since Rand Paul is the only one to her foreign policy left among GOP candidates, it's not even on my radar as a presidential election issue.

Anyone notice that all three candidates laughed off the e-mail question?

 

"The former neurosurgeon and author is ... "

Ben Carson struggles in post-Paris interview on foreign policy

 

His supporters will see it as a positive.

"He's like me!"

I have a theory: Carson's support is, in part, a product of the recession. A lot of people lost their jobs, and had to seek employment in new fields. They wanted to believe that their general competence and intelligence would translate to new careers. So they are, in a way, projecting.