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In March, Carson ridiculously argued that “a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay,” and was forced to retract his statement, only to feign ignorance on the matter of sexual orientation all together.
“I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation,” Carson later admitted, before citing his medical training to imply sexual orientation is a choice.
“I’m a doctor trained in multiple fields of medicine, who was blessed to work at perhaps the finest institution of medical knowledge in the world. Some of our brightest minds have looked at this debate, and up until this point there have been no definitive studies that people are born into a specific sexuality.”
Debt limit
Ryssdal: I’m gonna try one more time, sir. This is debt that’s already obligated. Would you not favor increasing the debt limit to pay the debts already incurred?
Carson: What I’m saying is what we have to do is restructure the way that we create debt. I mean if we continue along this, where does it stop? It never stops. You’re always gonna ask the same question every year. And we’re just gonna keep going down that pathway. That’s one of the things I think that the people are tired of.
As you can see, Carson never got around to answering the question and apparently does not know the difference between the debt ceiling and the budget.
Earth’s age
Later that month, Carson scrambled to backtrack on yet another controversial statement, telling the Daily Mail ahead of the CNBC debate that he was no longer sure that God created the Earth in six days.
“I believe that God created the earth,” Carson reiterated before adding, “I don’t know how old the Earth is.”
“The Bible says ‘In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth,’ and then there’s a period there. So we don’t know how long that period of time lasted,” Carson insisted.
Scientists agree that the earth is 4.4 billion years old.
Hurricanes
During last month’s historic tropical storm Joaquin, initially projected to be the largest hurricane to make landfall in history, Carson had no clue how he would handle the natural disaster. The storm made landfall in Mexico but eventually brought torrential rainfall along the Southern United States.
“If you were in the White House what would you be doing right now with tropical storm Joaquin,” ABC News asked Carson on the campiagn trail last month. “What would be your first step?”
A stunned Carson simply replied, “Uh, I don’t know.”
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Willtell
If you form an opinion based on people who hate him, then it might be negative.
Carson has also said some smart things. But this is the political season, so people are going to trash him, trash others and the world will continue to spin.
I'm trying to have fun this political season. I find the rabid hate of Carson amusing, personally.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Willtell
I find the rabid hate of Carson amusing, personally.
Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson has put his public campaign events on hold for two more weeks to go on book tour for his new tome “A More Perfect Union” and catch up on fundraising events.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Willtell
If you form an opinion based on people who hate him, then it might be negative.
Carson has also said some smart things. But this is the political season, so people are going to trash him, trash others and the world will continue to spin.
I'm trying to have fun this political season. I find the rabid hate of Carson amusing, personally.
originally posted by: GeisterFahrer
I will be voting for Ben Carson if he gets the nomination. Does that make you angry?
originally posted by: Willtell
People have to get over the immature romanticism of Barack Obama
His ignorance and Hugo Chavez like responses to issues is manifest
Why is he getting a break?
In fact Chavez is NOT as bad as he is as the examples underneath here illustrate
Every liberal thing out of his mouth is inaccurate, ignorant, sometimes immature, and often outright lies.
He says “all of the signers of the constitution were evil, slave owning white devils”
Well it turns out all of them were patriots
He doesn't think before he speaks and what that proves is that there is not much on his mind of any real Depth