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NuclearDem

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6. Conversely, to understand the GOP:

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Tue Sep 9, 2014, 04:14 PM

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Ben Carson: if you want to know Pres. Obama, read 'Mein Kampf' [View all] shenmue Sep 2014 OP

Me: if you want to know Ben Carson, watch The Boondocks. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2014 #1

So true! PragmaticLiberal Sep 2014 #3

Or better, watch Lewis Black's hilarious Nazi tourettes rant on the Daily Show. Initech Sep 2014 #4

You win the intertubes for today. hifiguy Sep 2014 #37

Nut job. Reading his wiki was like reading the wikis of two very different people. merrily Sep 2014 #2

The dividing line between the two versions is the day he went religious nutters and Fox News Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #8

I did not get the impression his religious views were new for him. merrily Sep 2014 #10

Perhaps not, but they sure did blossom when Fox got a hold of him. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #13

I was asking. I don't really know, one way or the other. merrily Sep 2014 #15

Yes, I appreciate you share my indifference to who he was, what happened to turn him into this? Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #22

I just saw him as brilliant at medicine, yet nutty in politics. merrily Sep 2014 #26

He's Herman Cain, version 2.0. Initech Sep 2014 #25

Carson read The Bible and now he has totally lost it...shame, he was a good surgeon and a Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #5

Conversely, to understand the GOP: NuclearDem Sep 2014 #6

Ben stick with being a doctor bigdarryl Sep 2014 #7

Doc, just stick to surgery. You suck at political commentary. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #9

Tunnel vision. Once you finish with their specialty, you've finished with them Warpy Sep 2014 #14

I'm not asking them to extend their brilliance beyond their specialty, The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #24

You're not getting it. You're a generalist, with knowledge about a lot of different things Warpy Sep 2014 #27

Ha, maybe you're right. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2014 #30

Did this guy have a hand in Godfather's Pizza, too? TheCowsCameHome Sep 2014 #11

Memo to Ben: Stop calling Obama a Nazi. He's black and by definition cannot be one. muntrv Sep 2014 #12

Anyone's automatically a Nazi Jamaal510 Sep 2014 #34

So now he's supposed to be German???? valerief Sep 2014 #16

Good grief! stage left Sep 2014 #20

Nope. German burlap. And they say he's not straight. valerief Sep 2014 #21

Has Ben ever read it? nt joeybee12 Sep 2014 #17

Apparently Ben Carson is the same thing SC Senator Tim Scott is. stage left Sep 2014 #18

doubt Dr Nutbag's ever read it himself KG Sep 2014 #19

Here comes a white guy Dirty Socialist Sep 2014 #23

Sure you can. Propaganda relies on lots of shiny controversies that are deliberately stoked woo me with science Sep 2014 #28

Read it a long time ago, what exactly in the book lines up with Obama's mindset? Rex Sep 2014 #29

No. As with the majority of people, he sees the terms simply as insults, with no concept of meaning… Journeyman Sep 2014 #31

It is so strange watching supposedly educated people throw the terms around like they were Rex Sep 2014 #33

Do we want him to run? He doesn't amuse me like the others. Glimmer of Hope Sep 2014 #32

It'll be fun to Jamaal510 Sep 2014 #36

If you want to know...read Dickens Loge23 Sep 2014 #35

Goodwin's law Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2014 #38

Stupid.. all you have to do "to know" ben carson is bite the bullet and listen to him for 5 Cha Sep 2014 #39