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You're simply rationalizing a smear. Dr. Carson is a Seventh-Day Adventist, a branch of the Protestants. They're vegetarians--a low-carbon healthy lifestyle--and have among the longest lifespans reported. I guess that's your definition of "fundamentalist" fanatic.

You think that because you're stuck with pre-historic totalitarian theories of government. But our system gives a president no power over abortion, nor is the federal government supposed to have it--their personal beliefs don't matter.

Those issues are meant to be left to the states, just like France and Denmark and Ireland likely all have different laws on it. That's Dr. Carson's view as well.

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Cheers, James Arthur

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Bwuahahahahahaha!

Not according to Steven Colbert!

Yes, I do.

"Yes, you can use contractions with proper names when you report a conversation or speak informally. We don't use this form of contraction in formal writing, though."

But thanks for the pointer.

Cheers, James Arthur

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

True, but he's not speaking in sound bites, and doesn't intend to.

The expectation we can communicate the day's momentous issues in sound bites surrounded by vapid commentary is unrealistic, which expectation Dr. Carson is quite intentionally challenging.

Why do you assume that? I've spoken to him a couple times superficially, heard his presentations, read his writings. I gave him a book.

I've followed his evolution over the last two years into a citizen-statesman.

I know and talk to a lot of politicians. There's never a guarantee, but Dr. Carson is one of the best. He believes in getting along as a country, in a country that respects the citizens' many views, and emphasizes the core functions we created the federal government to perform. Nothing wrong with that.

None of that should be controversial. But the left can't afford a black man in office who'd elevate the poor and disadvantaged rather than trap 'em with subsidies--that doesn't fit *their* narrative.

I've heard them all, and heard the source material. These "punchlines" are grade-school taunts from mean-spirited Hillary-hacks, plain and simple. They're juvenile, manufactured nonsense from juvenile, non-serious people.

And yet three unarmed Americans just did exactly that rushing a gunman in a Paris train, saving countless lives. And an unarmed guy did that in Oregon too, blocking a door IIRC. He got shot seven times, but he's alive, and so are others.

The Oregon gunman lined up his victims, asked each one their religion, shot them in the head or elsewhere based on the answer, then moved to the next in line.

So count me with Dr. Carson and the three Americans in Paris--I don't see how it makes sense to simply wait in line to be shot.

Or maybe it's not a narrative at all, maybe it's just a set of earnest beliefs arrived at by diligent study. That's what I see.

Dr. Carson isn't a politician and isn't trying to be. He's an adult, a citizen-statesman making an extremely important contribution to the national discourse, despite the Democratic Super PAC (the mainstream media) and its best attempts to smear him. They're Democrats, and he's not.

If Dr. Carson does nothing more than that--elevating the national discourse and puncturing the politically-correct bubble--he'll have done us a great service.

We have several excellent choices this time, and Dr. Carson is just one of them. He's my 2nd choice, but I'll gladly vote for him given the chance.

Cheers, James Arthur

That depends on what one's feeding him.

Cheers, James Arthur

While that's interesting... well, hope springs eternal. I can't say I know anything of him, other than watching one of his BookTv appearances. I remember none of it. But TV is hard on soft-spoken people.

Ah, I stand corrected then.

He says some thing that seem to pander to the evangelicals that hit the bottom of the bucket pretty hard.

People should know enough by now not to say "the world is 6000 years old" in public. How is that worth it?

I don't think that's even relevant to their calculations. He's just not pushing that line.

They're only "cheap" shots in that they are easy. That's kind of my point.

I hadn't considered this being a possible strategy - we'll see how that works out. I'm not sure how it's supposed to work out.

People aren't interested in facts; they want blood sport.

Indeed they did. Not saying it won't happen; just that you can't predict how you'd react. It's a considerable investment being competent at that sort of thing.

Yep. Although ... well, I'll leave that for now.

Frankly, I can't either.

Exactly.

Quite true, then. I'll believe it when I see it. He seemed decent enough but again, nothing stuck out about him.

Many of those guys are, frankly, just hacks. But much of that is the nature of the process now.

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No. It's the anti-abortion, anti-evolution and anti-climate change part of the Carson package that places him in the fundamentalist camp. He can be as vegetarian as he likes - he's rich enough to afford the kind of food that lets a vegetarian diet be adequate, but the anti-science fruit-cake content is objectionable.

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James Arthur specialises in dishonest reinterpretation - "fundamentalist" b ecomes Christian, and a within-lab difference of opinion becomes a dispute that got worked out in the peer-reviewed literature, none of of he bothers to identify with a literature reference.

He's spent too much time debating opponents who are not quick enough to spo t that they are being lied to, and he's developed some very unattractive ha bits.

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You are free to delude yourself as enthusiastically as you like - and considering the rubbish you post, you'd be an Olympic athlete if self-delusion were a competitive sport.

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Still not admitting that you did not see the debates.

I might be an Olympic athete at self delusion, but I can not compute with a professional athlete as your self.

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That I can admit to. I get enough out of my subscription to the New Yorker to ensure that I'm not clueless. In fact the local newspaper - the Sydney Morning Herald - publishes enough on US politics to keep me better informed than you seem to be. Americans tend to find that hard to believe, since on ly the very up-market US newspapers publish anything on foreign politics, b ut when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold.

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I'm not into self-delusion, and it's not a skill one gets paid for, so ther e aren't any professional self-deluders. You may be so rigidly devoted to y our delusions that you can't believe that anybody who doesn't share them is n't either deluded or lying - krw makes that claim a lot - but the fact tha t I don't share your half-baked ideas doesn't make me deluded, much as you like deluding yourself with that comforting (but incorrect) idea.

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