Dr Ben Carson

The New Yorker's take on Carson was that he only ran to generate more sales for his books.

You seem confused about the roles here. It's actually far easier being president than heading up a department. In the case of the latter, you have to really know what you're doing, manage things to meet targets and expectations, whereas as president you're essentially just a figurehead who takes occasional instructions from Israel whilst spending most of your time on the golf course.

What a pity this isn't true. It is true that Reagan worked that way, but he was glove puppet from the start. Trump is too egocentric and too wilful to take direction - he went through several changes of campaign staff in his campaign for the Republican nomination, and changed a few more during the e lectoral campaign.

The inconsistent pontifications do seem to be real and unrehearsed. Regean was a trained and accomplished movie actor, while Trump was merely a realit y television star. 35 mm film is expensive, and you can only exposed it onc e. Reality TV goes onto rewritable media, which is a lot easier to edit.

We can only hope the electoral college does its editorial job.

Might also be a principled man's way of politely declining to work with someone whose stand on moral issues is too far from his own.

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Phil Hobbs

Another Democrat racist

Plausible. But he was a successful brain surgeon.

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he was glove puppet from the start. Trump is too egocentric and too wilful to take direction - he went through several changes of campaign staff in hi s campaign for the Republican nomination, and changed a few more during the electoral campaign.

n was a trained and accomplished movie actor, while Trump was merely a real ity television star. 35 mm film is expensive, and you can only exposed it o nce. Reality TV goes onto rewritable media, which is a lot easier to edit.

They won't, they're political hacks, and the electors chosen to vote Trump are the lowest of the low. The rest of the world "ain't seen nothing yet!"

Yes, I'm sure the past Presidents were all figureheads. lol!

That certainly is a possibility. Carson just has a funny way of expressing himself... as usual.

??? You know nothing of my politics and you certainly can't support a claim I am a racist.

Trump doesn't seem to be especially immoral. He seems like a decent guy. Carson did endorse him and helped him campaign.

Trump's views were formed by Norman Vincent Peale, iiuc.

Trump's pro-choice, so running the NIH (for example) would face Carson with either trying to shut down fetal stem cell research with no backup from his boss, or being complicit in the murder of millions of innocents.

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Phil Hobbs

What makes you think Dr. Carson would want to shut down fetal stem cell research?

Anti-late-term abortion doesn't make you anti-everything.

I'm anti-late-term abortion but I'm not anti-abortion... it keeps the heathen birth-rate down >:-} ...Jim Thompson

What part of "being complicit in the murder of millions of innocents" didn't you get?

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Phil Hobbs

At what point between one second after conception and one second before birth does a fetus become a person?

Please provide scientific justification for your answer.

The point I'm trying to make is that I'm also against late-term abortions in any but the most exceptional circumstances. But I certainly don't consider a four cell cluster to be a human in any way.

But I then have to acknowledge that means that I must implicitly believe there is a precise moment in time, like 4:37 PM on October 24th, where the act of abortion changes from not-murder to murder.

Which is a very strange notion.

Like I say, I'm libertarian, so a woman's right to an abortion is her choice. It just seems to me that choice should be before the third trimester when the fetus is definitely viable... THEN I would call that murder. ...Jim Thompson

That's the problem.

No, that's your job.

How about other inconvenient family members, such as grandfathers with mone y?

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Phil Hobbs