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Showing posts with label ben carson r tb. Show all posts
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BEN CARSON AFTER SUPER TUESDAY VOTES ARE TALLIED BYE-BYE ben, you will not be missed because your brother from another mother donald trump is still around promoting hate, greed, racism, ignorance.....This from +NPR .....
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has coffee with staff members during a campaign stop at The Airport Diner in Manchester, N.H.
Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images
A day after he failed to crack 11 percent in any of the Super Tuesday presidential contests, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson appears to be effectively ending his campaign for president.
"I do not see a political path forward in light of last evening's Super Tuesday primary results," Carson said in a statement Wednesday afternoon. While Carson did not explicitly say he was dropping out, he said he will not attend Thursday's Republican debate, and that he'll "discuss more about the future of this movement" on Friday during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.
The announcement signals the end of an improbable run that saw the accomplished neurosurgeon rise from political neophyte to top-polling candidate for the Republican nomination.
Carson had long been a celebrated figure in both black and conservative communities for his inspirational story, overcoming a poor urban upbringing to become one of the country's most accomplished doctors. He first became politically prominent in 2013, when he delivered a searing speech at the National Prayer Breakfastwhile President Obama sat just feet away.
Video of the speech quickly went viral and led to a "draft Carson" campaign. Once Carson entered the race, he moved to the top of national and Iowa polls, even briefly topping the Iowa polls for several weeks last fall.
But Carson, more than any other candidate, suffered when the November Paris terrorist attacks shifted the race's focus to foreign policy. It was a policy area he wasn't familiar with, and he appeared uncomfortable discussing terrorism and military issues in debates and campaign appearances. Poll numbers dropped, and despite a late December campaign shakeup, Carson was never able to fully recover.
Carson finished fourth in Iowa, with less than 10 percent of the vote. Despite poor showings in other primary and caucus states, Carson had stayed in the race and participated in debates until now.
donald trump. Liar, deceiver, manipulator, bigot, racist, fear-mongerer, sexist, greedy, loud-mouth drippings and (big surprise) is running for the 2016 republican presidential nomination. He represents everything so many republicans and tea-baggers believe but is too stupid to know they don't say these things in public. No, the rest of the republican candidates (except ben carson) generally spout this ignorance in the presence of their 1% masters. Check this out from +Mother Jones and to check out trump's and carson's record go to their pages on +PolitiFact by clicking trump and carson and then for a healthy dose of sanity check out Bernie Sanders campaign website, and you'll find his PolitiFact page here ......
Dennis Van Tine/Geisler-Fotopres/DPA via ZUMA Press
There's
a legal term applied to advertising called "puffery." For example, if
Coca-Cola says Coke is the best-tasting soda in the world, that's just
puffery. They can't prove it, but that's okay, even if polls show that
most people prefer Pepsi. Legally, statements like this are evaluated
not as strictly factual claims, but as mere ordinary boasting, something
that "ordinary consumers do not take seriously."
The same concept applies to politics. Presidential candidates always
say their tax plans will balance, they'll crush every one of our
enemies, and the current incumbent is the worst ever in history. This is
just puffery. It's worth pushing back on, but it's not generally a
hanging offense.
But Donald Trump is different. Sure, his picture is probably in the
dictionary next to the word "puffery," but he also tosses out wild
howlers with a con man's breezy assurance and tells flat-out lies as a
matter of routine. He'll say things one day, and 24 hours later he'll
blandly insist he's being malignly misquoted even though it's all on
tape. These aren't just exaggerations or spin or cherry picking. They're
things that are flatly, incontrovertibly wrong.
And that's not all. Trump doesn't do this only in private or only
when he's under pressure. Nor does he do it to cover up dubious past
deeds. That would at least be normal human weakness. Rather, he does it
again and again in front of huge crowds and on national TV, whether he
needs to or not. It's just his normal, everyday behavior.
We need an official list of this stuff. Like I said: not
exaggerations or spin or cherry picking. Things that are just plain
wrong. Here's a start:
This is not normal political hucksterism. It's a pathological
disregard for the truth. Trump knows that the conventions of print
journalism mostly prevent reporters from really calling him out on this
stuff, and he also knows that TV reporters won't usually press him too
hard because they want him back on their shows. And when he does get
called out, he just bluffs his way through. He knows his followers will
believe him when he says the fault-finding is just another example of
how the liberal media has it out for him. Within a day or three, he's
repeated the lie often enough that it's old news and enters the canon of
what "everyone knows." Journalists don't even bother with it anymore
because they're already trying to play catch-up with his latest whopper.
Anyway, this list is meant only as a start. It's what I came up with
just by digging through my memory and doing a bit of googling. I'm sure
there are plenty of others. Feel free to add them in comments.
ben carson r tb won't be with us much longer, politically speaking. I wish him health and longevity, and really really hope he finds some extremely remote, isolated place to spend the rest of his days once his campaign collapses and the only known to be true fact about him is he is one crazy s.o.b! Let's start with this piece from +PolitiFact on carson defending his lack of experience hold an elected office, followed by Daily Kos Recommended loaded with ben carsonisities.......
"Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience."
— Ben Carson on Wednesday, November 4th, 2015 in an edited Facebook post
By Louis Jacobson on Sunday, November 8th, 2015 at 10:30 a.m.
John Trumbull's
1819 painting of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence depicts
the five-man drafting committee presenting their work to the Congress.
The original hangs in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
This is the revised version of Ben Carson's Facebook post, with the edited line highlighted.
Ben Carson -- currently the top-polling Republican presidential candidate -- posted a message on Facebook on Nov. 4
to rebut critics who say his lack of experience in elected office would
be a serious obstacle to his serving as an effective president.
Soon after it was posted, we began hearing from readers asking us to check one of his claims.
"You are absolutely right — I have no political experience," Carson
wrote in the initial version of his post. "The current Members of
Congress have a combined 8,700 years of political experience. Are we
sure political experience is what we need. Every signer of the
Declaration of Independence had no elected office experience. What they
had was a deep belief that freedom is a gift from God. They had a
determination to rise up against a tyrannical King. They were willing to
risk all they had, even their lives, to be free."
After our friends at the Washington Post Fact Checker reviewed
Carson’s claim that "every signer of the Declaration of Independence
had no elected office experience" and gave it Four Pinocchios -- the
column’s worst rating -- the quote was changed. It now reads, "Every
signer of the Declaration of Independence had no federal elected office experience" (emphasis added).
We were already looking into Carson’s initial Facebook comment when
the wording change was made. We’ll address both versions here. The signers had 'no elected office experience'
Many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had held
elective office before joining the Continental Congress, which produced
the declaration. We found a long list, so take a deep breath before you
start reading. They include:
• John Adams. Elected to Massachusetts Assembly, 1770; attended First Continental Congress, 1774-1776.
• Thomas Jefferson. Represented Albemarle County as a delegate in the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1769-1775
• Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia councilman, 1748; elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1751.
• John Hancock. Elected to the Boston Assembly,
1766; president of the provincial congress of Massachusetts, c. 1773;
elected to the Continental Congress, 1774, and then president of the
congress in 1775.
• Samuel Adams. Elected to Massachusetts Assembly, 1765; delegate to the First Continental Congress, 1774.
• Elbridge Gerry. Elected to Massachusetts Legislature, 1773; provincial Congress, 1774.
• Roger Sherman. Elected to Connecticut General
Assembly, representing New Milford, 1755-1758 and 1760-1761; elected to
various offices representing New Haven in the 1760s and 1770s; elected
to the Continental Congress starting in 1774.
• Caesar Rodney. Elected to Delaware Colonial
Assembly, 1758-1770 and 1771-1776; delegate to the Stamp Act Congress,
1765; elected to the Continental Congress, 1774.
• George Taylor. Elected to Pennsylvania provincial assembly, 1764-69; elected to Continental Congress, 1775.
• John Morton. Elected to Pennsylvania provincial
assembly, 1756-1775; delegate to the Stamp Act Congress, 1765; president
of the provincial assembly, 1775.
• George Ross. Elected to Pennsylvania provincial assembly, 1768-1776; Elected to Continental Congress, 1774.
• James Wilson. Elected to Pennsylvania provincial congress, 1775; elected to the Continental Congress, 1775.
• Thomas McKean. Member of the Delaware Assembly,
1762-79; Delegate to the Stamp Act Congress, 1765; delegate to the
Continental Congress, 1774.
• Matthew Thornton. Member of the New Hampshire provincial assembly, 1758-1762.
• William Whipple. Elected to New Hampshire provincial congress, 1775 and 1776.
• Stephen Hopkins. Speaker of the Rhode Island Assembly,1750s; member of the Continental Congress beginning in 1774.
• Lewis Morris. Member of New York provincial legislature; delegate to the Continental Congress, 1775.
• Philip Livingston. Alderman, New York City.
• Carter Braxton. Virginia House of Burgesses, 1770-1785; delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774-75.
• Thomas Nelson Jr. Member of the House of Burgesses, 1774; Virginia provincial convention, 1775.
• Francis Lightfoot Lee. Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1758-1775; elected to Continental Congress, 1775.
• Benjamin Harrison. Elected to Virginia House of Burgesses, 1764; member of the Continental Congress, 1774.
• George Wythe. Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1755-65.
• William Hooper. Elected to general assembly of North Carolina, 1773; member of Continental Congress, 1774-1776.
• Joseph Hewes. Member of the colonial assembly of
North Carolina, 1766-1775; member of new provincial assembly, 1775;
elected to Continental Congress, 1774.
• John Hart. Member of the New Jersey Assembly, 1761-1771; member of provincial assembly, 1775; elected to the Continental Congress, 1776.
• William Williams. Town clerk, selectman, provincial representative, elected state legislator, delegate to colonial conferences, 1770s.
• William Paca. Delegate to the Maryland Legislature, 1771; elected to Continental Congress, 1774.
That’s at least 28 of the 56 signers -- about half, and we were conservative in who we counted. The real number may be higher.
Either way, Carson’s original claim, that "every signer of the
Declaration of Independence had no elected office experience," is way,
way off. The signers had 'no federal elected office experience'
The edit Carson made to the Facebook post doesn’t help his case,
since there was no federal government before the Declaration of
Independence was signed. This makes his entire claim illogical, experts
say,
"Of course they did not have federal elected office experience
because there was no federal government at the time -- we were a British
colony," said Michael Gerhardt, scholar in residence at the National
Constitution Center and professor of constitutional law at the
University of North Carolina.
"It does not make sense to use the term ‘federal’ when no federal
government existed," agreed Danielle Allen, a political theorist and
author of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality.
"The signers of the declaration very often had leading political
experience in their colony or, as they called them, in their
‘countries.’ "
Jan Lewis, a professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark and the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia, finds Carson’s claim ridiculous.
"It makes about as much sense as saying none of them had been to the
moon," Lewis said. "Of course they hadn't, because it was an
impossibility at that time. No one could possibly serve in the federal
government before there was a federal government, at least in the
absence of time travel."
Carson’s staff did not respond to an inquiry for this article. Our ruling
Both the initial and the revised versions of Carson’s claim are far
off base. About half or more of the declaration’s signers had held
elective office previously, a reality that severely undercuts Carson’s
overall point that the drafting of the Declaration of Independence
showed how a lack of political experience can produce landmark political
achievements. As for his later addition of "federal" to the comment,
this makes the claim nonsensical, since there was no federal government
prior to the signing of the declaration.
We rate Carson’s claim Pants on Fire.
Ben Carson, Facebook post, Nov. 4, 2015
USHistory.org, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, accessed Nov. 6, 2015 Washington Post Fact Checker, "Ben Carson’s absurd notion that the Founding Fathers had ‘no elected office experience,’ " Nov. 5, 2015
Email interview with Emily Sneff, research manager of the Declaration Resources Project at Harvard University, Nov. 6, 2015
Email interview with Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, vice president of the
Thomas Jefferson Foundation and professor of history at the University
of Virginia, Nov. 6, 2015
Email interview with Michael Gerhardt, scholar in residence at the
National Constitution Center and professor of constitutional law at the
University of North Carolina, Nov. 6, 2015
Email interview with Jan Lewis, professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark and the author of The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia, Nov. 6, 2015
Email interview with Danielle Allen, political theorist and author of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, Nov. 6, 2015
The
exclusion of black people from juries is a hot topic this week, as the
Supreme Court considers the case of Timothy Foster, a black man charged
with murdering an elderly white woman in Georgia some three decades ago.
In 1987, Foster was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white
jury.
THERE is a lot of talk across the country and among most of the presidential nomination candidates about the need for reform of our judicial system, especially sentencing guidelines. Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders I VT is trying to end for-profit prisons with legislation he has introduced that will cut the funding for for-profit prisons, basically making them illegal. As a nation we can do better for the victims of crime as well as those convicted of crimes. As a people we have the moral responsibility to do better for both groups. Please check out Sen Sanders find out more about his progressive agenda at his campaign website +Bernie 2016 . And check out these other stories from +Daily Kos ......
Today in America, shamefully, we have more people in jail than
any other country on earth. We must recreate our criminal justice
system, but we cannot do that as long as corporations are allowed to
profit from mass incarceration.
I have recently introduced legislation that will put an end to
for-profit prisons. My bill will bar federal, state, and local
governments from contracting with private companies who manage prisons,
jails, or detention facilities.
It is wrong to profit from the imprisonment of human beings and the
suffering of their families and friends. It’s time to end this morally
repugnant process, and along with it, the era of mass incarceration.
Add your name to stand with me against the private prison system profiting from human suffering.
People on the terrorism watch are already 
