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niyad

(113,587 posts)
Thu Nov 5, 2015, 01:35 PM Nov 2015

Ben Carson Not Ready To Be President Of Cuba, Either

All Policy Is Foreign To Him


Ben Carson Not Ready To Be President Of Cuba, Either

Facts all come with points of view / Facts don’t do what I want them to

Brilliant neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson is being beaten up by the Liberal Media again with their “gotcha” questions and all that unfair stuff. In the latest outrage, Ben Carson was asked a whole lot of questions about American policies toward Cuban refugees in an interview with the Miami Herald, which is totally unfair because Dr. Carson hasn’t even met any Cubans named Harold. When are the Media Elitists going to realize it is unfair to expect a presidential candidate of Ben Carson’s stature to know things?



Carson, who’s currently taking time off from campaigning for the Republican nomination to sell a “book” he “wrote,” probably shouldn’t have allowed any questions that weren’t about his book, but those sneaky Miami reporters slipped some policy questions in anyway, even though he very clearly stated that he doesn’t “do” detail:
“I’m a little different than most of the candidates,” Carson the author told the Miami Herald in a phone interview Wednesday. “I’m looking more nationally at everything that’s going on across the country.”

Even so, Herald reporters insisted on asking him questions about stuff that might matter to people in Miami, which seems awfully parochial of them. Not that Carson knows that word.
In the Herald interview, Carson appeared stumped by questions about the so-called wet-foot, dry-foot policy, which allows Cubans who reach U.S. soil to remain here, and about the Cuban Adjustment Act, which allows Cubans who arrive in the U.S. to apply for legal residency after 366 days.


He was candid about not being up to speed.
“You’re going to have to explain to me exactly what you mean by that,” Carson said, asked about wet-foot, dry-foot. “I have to admit that I don’t know a great deal about that, and I don’t really like to comment until I’ve had a chance to study the issue from both sides.”

Ummm … Look, we don’t claim to be running for president or anything, but even Yr. Doktor Zoom, who lives in landlocked Boise Goddamned Idaho, knows what the “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy is, for chrissakes. Hint: It isn’t related to galoshes.

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Read more at http://wonkette.com/595646/ben-carson-not-ready-to-be-president-of-cuba-either#5Zk7ZDlyU7rMc5sI.99

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Ben Carson Not Ready To Be President Of Cuba, Either (Original Post) niyad Nov 2015 OP
Dr. Carson hasn’t even met any Cubans named Harold. underpants Nov 2015 #1
I was just glad I wasn't drinking anything. niyad Nov 2015 #2
It's about vision underpants Nov 2015 #3

underpants

(182,910 posts)
3. It's about vision
Thu Nov 5, 2015, 02:48 PM
Nov 2015

“I’m a little different than most of the candidates,” Carson the author told the Miami Herald in a phone interview Wednesday. “I’m looking more nationally at everything that’s going on across the country.”

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