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I think Ben Carson has demonstrated his complete lack of qualification to hold elected office. Period. Any elected office.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I think Ben Carson has demonstrated his complete lack of qualification to hold elected office. Period. Any elected office. I listened to part of the Commonwealth Club yesterday, featuring Dr. Carson. For the most part, he espouses all of the temious and shallow right-wing "positions" on the issues. The business model is to first state a broad assumption that is flawed (lower taxes on investment capital stimulates the economy, for instance), then proceed to elaborate on how America will be wonderfully transformed by it in a few short days. I found it interesting that Carson was every bit as egotistical about his "accomplishments" as Trump is, given the opportunity to Bogart the spotlight without competition. Bennie is sacrificing himself for our good to run for President. Like Jesus...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
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Bennie is sacrificing himself for our good to run for President. Like Jesus... And we all know how that ended...
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is the most unqualified group of candidates put forth in my lifetime, and not because they are Republicans (although that doesn't help). It's like they took bits and pieces of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and tried to run on just that. Freshman Senators (x3), Rich (Trump, Fiorina), "business leader" (Trump, Fiorina - and Carson tries to claim that too), marginal governor (Walker, Huckabee, Perry, Bush, Jindal, Pataki). Oh, and the perennial "also ran" (Perry, Huckabee, Santorum). The only "qualified" candidate, really, is Kasich (national legislator and executive), and we can see how popular he is.
On the Dem side, Clinton qualifies, as, like Kasich, having been a multi-term legislator and executive. Bernie Sanders, though I love him, has no executive experience, nor does Murphy. Biden, should he run, checks all the blocks, too. At least the Dems have "serious" candidates.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Bennie is sacrificing himself for our good to run for President. Like Jesus... And we all know how that ended... In a persistant, strange, multi-millennial religion?
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Bennie is sacrificing himself for our good to run for President. Like Jesus... And we all know how that ended... In a persistant, strange, multi-millennial religion? Actually derivative...
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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The older I get, the less respect I feel for "religion". Much of that disrespect is in how it is being used and abused, from faux "religious" candidates to genuine nutjobs, from arrogant county clerks who abuse their own citizenry to fanatical warriors who destroy antiquities and murder innocents. The infection of the current campaign with "religious" rhetoric is sickening. How can religion maintain any respectability in this environment? Especially when rooted in such questionable soil (yes, that especially includes Christianity).
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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On the bright side, this is driving young Americans and future voters away from religion.
Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...
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The older I get, the less respect I feel for "religion". Much of that disrespect is in how it is being used and abused, from faux "religious" candidates to genuine nutjobs, from arrogant county clerks who abuse their own citizenry to fanatical warriors who destroy antiquities and murder innocents. The infection of the current campaign with "religious" rhetoric is sickening. How can religion maintain any respectability in this environment? Especially when rooted in such questionable soil (yes, that especially includes Christianity). I've never understood how something that relies on dogma in order to justify its existence can survive at all. But I guess that's just me...
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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Careful not to step in any dogma shiit.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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