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Just about the dumbest thing ever said by a politician/pundit (outright dumbest or close to it).
Calling Johns Hopkins "some hospital" is like calling Harvard, some college.Greenbeard said:He spent his career at a hospital in Maryland, the only state in the country today where the government sets reimbursement rates for hospitals. That's a much more heavy-handed system than anything Obama's cooked up. How did Carson feel about working under that system for decades?
Great point, except that he is a world famous neurosurgeon, credited with his pioneering work on the successful separation of twins conjoined at the head. Doesn't seem all that dumb to me. Of course, despite all his success, he is still no community organizer.
Good thing he's neither.
You've never heard George W. speak, eh?
That's an excellent point, and one that makes Carson's statement look even more absurd.He spent his career at a hospital in Maryland, the only state in the country today where the government sets reimbursement rates for hospitals. That's a much more heavy-handed system than anything Obama's cooked up. How did Carson feel about working under that system for decades?
Dr. Carson: Obamacare The Worst Thing That Has Happened Since Slavery « CBS DC
Yes, it is that bad...
None of that happened in America.I did not say he is dumb, but what he said is very dumb.
Off the top of my head (things that are worse):
holocaust
killing fields of the Khmer Rouge
first world war
second world war
What Carson said is disgusting, and especially coming from a black man ... but from what I've seen, the man so desperately wants conservative white folks to love him that he's willing to say and do anything ... that's too bad ... there's nothing wrong with him criticizing ACA or the president, but to liken ACA to slavery? ... Maybe he needs to go see 12 Years a Slave ...
None of that happened in America.
We were involved in WWI and WWII.rof
You think 500,000 dead Americans in WW2 is better than Obamacare? So you'd sacrifice 500,000 American troops to repeal the law?
You mentioned four things, have narrowed it down to one, and now are using 'involved' instead.
Adolescents like yourself get in the way of genuinely enjoyable debate.
I think you've started Thanksgiving a little early. I never mentioned four things, never narrowed it down to one, and "involve" is actually a pretty hefty understatement seeing as we lost 117,000 soldiers in WWI and 416,000 soldiers in WWII.
You are correct and my apologies. It was Peter King who mentioned those four things he believed happened in America. All leftists sound much the same.
WWI and WWII did not happen in America either.
Or maybe you need to read what he actually said before making a comment. If you are going to get your information from other sub-literate leftists then you'll never know anything.
What he said was actually worse than "the worst thing since" ... "You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery," Carson said Friday. "And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control." he actually said it was like slavery ... it's especially disgusting to hear a man with his education saying something like this ... but let's take it in another direction ... worse than the near extermination of Indians, putting Indians in reservations, Jim Crow, lynchings, the internment of Japanese Americans? Worse than that? Everyone should be disgusted by what he said ... whenever I see him on T.V., my stomach turns ...
No, everyone should not be disgusted by what he said. He spoke the truth. What is disgusting is the fact that the US Government did it to us.
If you mean, "on American soil," then I'm sure that would have been of great comfort to the 533,000 American soldier who died in those wars. When you find yourself dismissing half a million deaths on the basis of what soil they happened on then you have to consider that it may be time to throw in the towel.
Why does it have to be continually pointed out to you that this thread has nothing to do with any world war? What part of that do you not understand? Have you actually read what Dr.Carson had to say?
So basically, nothing that refutes the comments of a historically illiterate person has anything to do with the thread. Right. Time to throw in the towel, big guy, unless you want to be known as one of "those conservatives." You know, the kind of conservative that the more respectable ones around here don't directly confront, exactly, but sure as hell don't associate themselves with either.
Still haven't read his speech and think it's all about WWII? Okay.
What are you reading and what are you quoting?
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