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The clown car comments must really hurt, I guess. None of these GOP bozos can be taken at all seriously. Their rebranding "listening tour" in 2009 revealed that they had an obsession with Ronald Reagan and no actual policies relevant to the 21st century. Nothing has changed since. Phony solutions to phony issues and nothing of any help at all with our actual problems. The GOP is the Party of Ignorance and Uselessness.
What does this with have to do 2009? You mean when the dems held congress? Yea, I'll agree not much changed...
A bunch of phony solutions to phony issues...you nailed the dems dead on there...that's for sure....
Ignorance and Uselessness? The American people disagreed with you in 2012 and 2014....sucks huh...
Wait what was that famous line....elections have consequences...yea...that's it...those 2 years (12 and 14) musta really chapped your ass....
So he has won some awards that may qualify him to be the president of some kind of medical or scientific society. By all accounts he is a brilliant surgeon, but what in that list qualifies him to be president of the US?
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We don't know enough about him to know what kind of President he would be - we do know that it takes stamina, brilliance and courage to do the kind of surgery he did. To say a man like this is a "dwarf" riding on a Clown Car is moronic Hyper Partisanship.
He regressed from brilliant to dwarf the moment he said the ACA was the worst thing to happen in this country since slavery, and then followed up by comparing gay marriage to bestiality, to name just a few of the inanities that have passed his lips. Either his brilliance stops at the doors of the operating theater or he has proven that he is just another partisan hack who will say outrageous things to pander to the base.
So he has won some awards that may qualify him to be the president of some kind of medical or scientific society. By all accounts he is a brilliant surgeon, but what in that list qualifies him to be president of the US?
Obama was a Community Organizer with zero experience in the private sector. Yet you voted for him.
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He regressed from brilliant to dwarf the moment he said the ACA was the worst thing to happen in this country since slavery, and then followed up by comparing gay marriage to bestiality, to name just a few of the inanities that have passed his lips. Either his brilliance stops at the doors of the operating theater or he has proven that he is just another partisan hack who will say outrageous things to pander to the base.
Obama was a Community Organizer with zero experience in the private sector. Yet you voted for him.
Obama was a community organizer for about three years. Then he worked as a lawyer, was a professor of law for 12 years, was a state senator for seven years and a US senator for two. But you keep on with the community organizer meme, as it will prevent you from having to admit that he had done so much more than that before running for president. I get that you are unable to handle that fact.
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Your racism is showing.
It's racist to quote Carson's words? Okaaaaaay....
This is the most interesting group of GOP candidates I've ever seen in one election. I see Carly poaching political neutral women from the Democrats, Ben Carson poaching common sense minorities and Trump the large percentage of men.
If it's orchestrated its brilliant. No matter who wins the nomination, many of these poached voters will vote republican.
Oh, c'mon The differences between the candidates are stark and serious. On one hand you have some advocating shutting down the government, tearing up the agreement with Iran and sticking to principles over compromise, and on the other you have candidates stating that shutting down the government is stupid, that the Iran deal should be made to work and it would be a good idea to work with democrats.
The fact that several referred to George Bush and his train wreck of a presidency will tell you that the GOP nominee will certainly be campaigning on "I am not George Bush or the republican congress". Combine that with a party that is all over the place in terms of policy, I really don't see how anyone other than Hillary Clinton was the true winner last night.
I wouldn't be surprised if the GOP choose a candidate that has literally zero government experience. Hillary would steamroll them.
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Comments like these... the dwarfs comments, the clown car comments... I suppose Dems still haven't learned from the 2014 elections that throwing around the same infantile insults about the GOP doesn't work; in fact is starting to backfire. At some point, one needs to grow up.
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When people make idiotic comments like that, you have to know, that they are misinformed and are owned by their political affiliation, and have nothing intelligent to offer. These people will back corrupt politicians, no matter how corrupt they may be, b/c they fear saying, "I made a mistake and voted for the wrong person", and they actually don't know any better. They actually think and believe their political affiliation defines them.
I had a brother in law like this, who caused nothing but trouble in the family...he was actually thrown out of a coffee shop b/c of it.
He refused to look at any other point of view but his own, hence, stagnating his own growth.
and he literally backed and voted for, corrupt politicians.
If by now, people can't see, that both side of the coin are corrupt, they never will and all you can do is shake your head and feel very sorry for their limited sources, and personal culture. It is sad....
These arguments would work if the OP himself had not started out this thread by insulting people.
Obama was a community organizer for about three years. Then he worked as a lawyer, was a professor of law for 12 years, was a state senator for seven years and a US senator for two. But you keep on with the community organizer meme, as it will prevent you from having to admit that he had done so much more than that before running for president. I get that you are unable to handle that fact.
It's racist to quote Carson's words? Okaaaaaay....
He was NEVER a professor of law. That was an honorary title given to him and all he did was make some speeches. BTW as Senator, he never voted on a single thing, he voted "present" every single time. The man is unqualified to run a garage sale.
Awards and honors Carson is a member of the American Academy of Achievement, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. Carson has been awarded 38 honorary doctorate degrees and dozens of national merit citations. Detroit Public Schools opened the Dr. Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine for students interested in pursuing healthcare careers. The school is partnering with Detroit Receiving Hospital and Michigan State University.
In 2000, he received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
In 2001, he was elected by the Library of Congress on the occasion of its 200th anniversary to be one of the 89 who earned the designation Library of Congress Living Legend.
In 2004, he was appointed to serve on The President's Council on Bioethics.
In 2005, Carson was awarded the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership.
In 2006, he received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP, their highest honor for outstanding achievement.
In 2008, the White House awarded Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
In 2008, Ford’s Theatre Society awarded Carson the Ford's Theatre Lincoln Medal, for exemplifying the qualities embodied by President Abraham Lincoln—including courage, integrity, tolerance, equality, and creative expression—through superior achievements.
In 2008, U.S. News & World Report named Carson as one of "America's Best Leaders".
In 2010, he was elected into the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
In 2012, Carson was the Influential Marylander Award recipient from The Daily Record, Baltimore's legal and business newspaper.
In 2014, an American poll conducted by Gallup ranked Carson sixth on a list of the most admired men in the world.[45]
We don't know enough about him to know what kind of President he would be - we do know that it takes stamina, brilliance and courage to do the kind of surgery he did. To say a man like this is a "dwarf" riding on a Clown Car is moronic Hyper Partisanship.
Carson has a compelling story and certainly is an accomplished surgeon. That has nothing to do with being president.
As you pointed out, Carson was named the 6 th most admired man in the world according to Gallup poll.
Obama remains #1 for the 7th year, followed by the pope, Bill Clinton, Billy Graham and Geo Bush. BTW, Putin made the top ten list, too.
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The differences between the candidates are stark and serious. On one hand you have some advocating shutting down the government, tearing up the agreement with Iran and sticking to principles over compromise, and on the other you have candidates stating that shutting down the government is stupid, that the Iran deal should be made to work and it would be a good idea to work with democrats. 
