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Sorry for multiple responses,

rmrd0000 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:40:18 +0000

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Sorry for multiple responses, but Carson's case is very interesting. If you believe that evolution is false, that the earth is only a few thousand years old, and that we are in the Biblical end-times, you really have no fear of hardship or death because life will be short anyway.

Worrying about climate change is futile because we will all die soon. The poor will only suffer for a short amount of time. Nothing matters other than "getting right with God." Good Christians will be okay. Instead of reading Mathew 25:29 as stating that there will be increased spiritual wealth for a person faith, Evangelicals see dollar signs. They see the wealthy becoming more wealthy and the poor becoming destitute as a part of God's will.

Carson believes in some very dangerous crap.

Conservatives have a strong

rmrd0000 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:58:22 +0000

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Conservatives have a strong fear of over-reaching government. Dr Carson worries about a nanny government that provides health care. Carson fails to consider the health care conglomerate that first buys a hospital and then has it's hospital buy the private practices of physicians. Once the corporately owned hospital has a core of physician, it then restricts admitting privileges of physicians who are in practices not owned by the hospital. The hospital owned physicians have now become serfs to a corporation.

Once the corporation has gained the upper hand, and the bottom line becomes the only reason for the hospital's existence, death panels will become a reality. There will be no legislator who can be pressured to change an obstructive law. There will only be a bean counter who calculates that a funeral is cheaper than expensive medical care. Dr Ben Carson is a champion of medical professionals becoming serfs.

That?s a perfect assessment,

Wattree — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:18:50 +0000

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That’s a perfect assessment, RM.

These people are less than independent thinkers. Instead of assessing reality for themselves they’re content to believe what they’ve taught to believe. That’s why I’m so quick to advise people that while Dr. Carson my be a brilliant neurosurgeon, he’s far from what we would consider an intellectual.

When we hold medical doctors in high esteem and assume that they have an intellect that’s superior that the rest of us, that’s not true. The practice of medicine is a craft. They’re just like auto mechanics, with the exact same diagnostic and analytical skill set. While medicine is a highly disciplined craft, it’s a craft nevertheless. So while they are highly trained, they’re no more intelligent or insightful than the rest of the population, as Dr. Carson’s belief in talking snakes clearly attest. So if he decides to move into the political arena where he’s exposed to the scrutiney of REAL thinkers and intellectuals, he’s gonna be torn to shreds.

The problem with people like Dr, Carson is he obviously thinks that he has better judgment and insight than the over 93% of the Black community who voted for Barack Obama. And as that old saying goes, when you begin to think that everyone is crazy but yourself, it’s time to be examined - and examined he’s going to be.

The core of Ben Carson's

rmrd0000 — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:37:33 +0000

In reply to Who’s In the ‘Dark,’ the Black Community, or Dr. Ben Carson?

The core of Ben Carson's political views are his interpretation of Christianity. Carson is a pioneering pediatric neurosurgeon. Dr. Carson does not believe in evolution.According to Carson, recognizing evolution as truth means that a person has spiritually lost their way. Government should not be involved in delivering health care even to the poor. The care of the poor is to be left to the church.Obviuosly, Carson cannot support a government that supports abortion rights and Gay marriage. Carson can only survive by believing that the criticism he faces is because of racist White Liberals.

Carson represents the diehard modern Black Republican. Robert Traynham, another Black Republican, is a Gay man whose disgust with abortion led him to serve on the staff of Rick Santorum when the homophobic politician served in the Senate. Traynham has convinced himself that Santorum only has "political" differences with homosexuals over the legalization of marriage. Robert Traynham tells himself that Santorum does not think that homosexuality is immoral. Traynum is incorrect.

Black Republicans have attacked Black Democrats as being trapped on a plantation. It is clear that modern day Black Republicans are the ones willing to stay on a political plantation that is constantly abusive.

Raynard Jackson is to be congratulated for his moment of clarity. The Evangelicals got 20% of Black voters in Ohio to vote for GW Bush's second term mainly on an anti-abortion platform delivered by by a Faith Outreach Program. Once the Black preachers who were hoodwinked by Bush cronies like the late David Kuo, the Faith Outreach and contact with the Black community disappeared. Kuo, like Raynard Jackson realized that the modern GOP had very little to do with faith of any type.

Carson and Traynham are trapped. Others like Jackson and Kuo saw the light.