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jpak

(41,757 posts)
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 10:11 AM Jul 2016

Ben Carson defends connecting Hillary Clinton to Lucifer

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) Former presidential candidate Ben Carson said Wednesday that he linked Hillary Clinton to a prominent community organizer, Saul Alinsky, who once offered measured praise of Lucifer in a book, to provide "perspective" on what type of president the Democrat would be.

"Recognize that this is a very famous book -- 'Rules for Radicals' -- and on the dedication page, you acknowledge Lucifer in an admirable way saying he's the original radical who gained his own kingdom," Carson told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day." "What I am saying is that we are talking about electing to the presidency an individual who embraces someone who obviously is not someone who is consistent."

Clinton wrote her 1969 Wellesley undergraduate thesis on Alinsky -- though she's said in her own book that she had "fundamental" disagreements with him," according to an analysis of Carson's comments on Politifact.

At Tuesday's Republican National Convention, Carson asked attendees if they could elect Clinton given her relationship to Alinsky, who critics have long accused of harboring communist sympathies.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/ben-carson-hillary-clinton-lucifer/

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anoNY42

(670 posts)
1. Did you know
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 10:23 AM
Jul 2016

That Donald Trump is a fan of the Rolling Stones, who actually had an entire song about having sympathy for Lucifer?

Coincidence? Or DEADLY CONSPIRACY!

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)
5. PLEASE, PLEASE let this asshole keep TALKING!
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 10:44 AM
Jul 2016

The more he flaps his pie hole, the more he'll drive away people. Of course the Kool Aid drinkers will vote for anybody; it doesn't matter who it is or what they say.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
7. Suddenly, this all makes sense
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 11:13 AM
Jul 2016

Carson wants Drumpf to win because the Mangled-Apricot-Hellbeast is promising to negotiate with Big Pharma to lower prescription drug prices for US citizens.

Ben would then get his much-needed anti-psychotic meds at affordable prices.

JHB

(37,158 posts)
10. Some people make leaps of logic...
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 01:54 PM
Jul 2016

...some pole-vault their logic, and some achieve true teleportation: getting from one position to another without crossing the intervening space in any way.

andym

(5,443 posts)
11. Amazing, Hillary Clinton has been literally been "demonized" by the Right
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 02:49 PM
Jul 2016

and by some on the far Left. Take a look at Reddit or Yahoo comments for confirmation. Carson is just verbalizing the thoughts.

RAFisher

(466 posts)
12. Who the fuck was Saul Alinsky? The Right keeps talking about him.
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 03:01 PM
Jul 2016

I purposely didn't look up who he was because I was going to see if Carson could make some sort of compelling arrangement. Nah! Alinsky calling Lusifer the original rebel almost sounded satirical. Is this is best they got?

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