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Tommy_Carcetti

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16. It's okay.

Reply to strawberries (Reply #15)

Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:28 AM

Mar 2015

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I have a theory about Ben Carson. [View all] Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 OP

Like most smart people treestar Mar 2015 #1

The Peter Principle. nt Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #2

Yes! treestar Mar 2015 #3

With a little... 3catwoman3 Mar 2015 #31

"intelligent people" can be more susceptible to believing in weird things than others. Johonny Mar 2015 #20

Exactly! Being smart and wacky ensures one does the wacky bit better than the next guy. Being RKP5637 Mar 2015 #28

Intelligent people are well skilled in rhetoric Johonny Mar 2015 #38

Looks like a good book to read! eom treestar Mar 2015 #40

I think that's very true. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #21

The law and government look especially easy treestar Mar 2015 #41

There are many different kinds of intelligence. One is not to speculate about those outside leveymg Mar 2015 #4

Homer: look son the brain only hold so much... underpants Mar 2015 #5

I think... sendero Mar 2015 #6

That's odd . . . Brigid Mar 2015 #12

Fair enough.. sendero Mar 2015 #18

Perhaps certain evangelical, fundamentalist Christians. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #14

I agree... sendero Mar 2015 #19

please paint with a smaller brush guillaumeb Mar 2015 #29

Nonsense. 840high Mar 2015 #33

I think Carson is very bright. Archae Mar 2015 #7

He is quite accomplished and strawberries Mar 2015 #8

On political issues, he's quite dumb. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #9

did he say why he felt that way? NT strawberries Mar 2015 #10

The quote. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #11

wow strawberries Mar 2015 #15

It's okay. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #16

Pretty Good! ProfessorGAC Mar 2015 #34

Depending on how you look at it, WWII was good in that war was the right thing to do Reter Mar 2015 #22

Nonetheless, we did lose hundreds of thousands of people. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2015 #23

evil is never "necessary" guillaumeb Mar 2015 #30

Oh that gay people are so by choice treestar Mar 2015 #24

He's in it for the money & fame. He's found it pays well to be the token Black conservative and he's Erose999 Mar 2015 #13

It's all about selling books to the Faux News crowd NightWatcher Mar 2015 #26

That and speakers' fees. Addressing whatever GOP affiliated groups will pay him big bucks to speak. Erose999 Mar 2015 #35

He's pandering to Republicans. Even if he knows better, he has to act as stupid as his constituents. Hoyt Mar 2015 #17

No mystery. Money makes 'em all talk stupid and mean. Orsino Mar 2015 #25

He's no doubt an opportunist, he doesn't believe half the crap that comes out of his mouth uponit7771 Mar 2015 #27

I've known many really bright people woodsprite Mar 2015 #32

Doctors are really bad business persons Gothmog Mar 2015 #36

drs focus on the minutia. need larger view to get REAL perspectives. pansypoo53219 Mar 2015 #37

Ben Carson is a fucking idiot. Period. Don't make more of him than the idiot he is. nt TeamPooka Mar 2015 #39