Ben Carson considers return to Australia to lift his foreign policy game

[struggle4progress]

November 24, 2015 - 7:48AM
Nick O'Malley
Ben Carson, the retired paediatric neurosurgeon who with Donald Trump has dominated Republican primary polls, is considering visiting Australia as part of an international trip to bolster his foreign policy credentials ... A Carson campaign official reportedly told CBS that Dr Carson was considering a trip to either Australia – where he worked as a surgeon for a year in 1983 – Africa or Asia, to change the focus of his campaign before the crucial Iowa caucuses ... Dr Carson attracted criticism on foreign policy after a series of blunders. During one interview he said incorrectly that China was engaged in fighting in Syria, and in another he said he would combat Islamic State by forging a coalition of American regional allies, but could not name any ... Dr Carson, who says his life has been shaped at crucial points by the direct intervention of God, said he realised why God had sent him to Australia ...
http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/ben-carson-considers-return-to-australia-to-lift-his-foreign-policy-game-20151123-gl64kz.html

If his campaign could lose him in the outback for a year or so, he might generate less embarrassment: "Where's Ben? Oh, he's on walkabout, gathering foreign policy experience"

[redwitch]

1. I think Ben is living in the dreamtime.

And yes, he should go on walkabout for a very long time. It wouldn't do him any good but I would be relieved.

[lordsummerisle]

2. I'll be so glad when he has finally left the news cycle n/t

[Demit]

3. I can't tell if he thinks he's making a joke here—? From your link:

"The biggest problem we had was keeping up with all the dinner invitations," he said. "They love Americans and they like to hear your accent," Dr Carson said. "When I would dictate an operative, sometimes the ladies would call me and say 'Dactah Car-son! We can't understand your accent.'"

He said he would respond, "Excuse me, I'm the American. You have the accent."


He really does say the most extraordinary things.

[Lizzie Poppet]

4. Maybe he could visit that giant grain storage thing in Sydney harbor.

[niyad]

5. please go walkabout, benny, forever.

although, come to think of it, the aboriginals don't deserve it.

[spanone]

6. did he mis-see it?

[krispos42]

7. So we'll soon see him in Vienna...

...looking for the Sydney Opera House and wondering why the toilets don't flush backwards.