Pic Of The Moment: Clueless Carson Wants Religious Test

[EarlG]

Ben Carson says he wouldn't want a Muslim president

No Religious Test Clause

"It's important that we get the best candidate"

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[SoapBox]

1. No!

Period.

Clueless doesn't matter to Pukes and Baggers...they want their radicalized crap and that's all they want.

[yuiyoshida]

2. I have the feeling that he wouldn't

care for a Presidential Candidate who was Buddhist, ...seems like that might ruin his day
as well.

[SoapBox]

3. Agreed.

[lark]

17. Hmm, what about Jehovah Witnesses, Mormon, Catholic?

How far does his rule out list go?

What a moroon. It's really hard to square the idiocy coming out of his mouth with his many accomplishments prior to becoming a politician.

[yuiyoshida]

21. Its so hard to believe he's a brain Surgeon

how the hell did he get through medical school, with the way he is??

[pangaia]

37. It's very easy how he got through med school.

It has nothing to do with a true connection with human beings. None whatsoever. It has nothing to do with studying one's awareness of one's self. It COULD, but HE is missing "that gene" to 'see.' He is a sleeping blind man.

He never ever considered the possible real meaning of "Sleepers, Awake !"

Or, as I said, "He is a stupid, ignorant, untutored bigoted fuck."

[Angry Dragon]

25. you forgot atheist

[lark]

33. Oops, also forgot agnostic too.

[Still In Wisconsin]

40. Watch out if a Lutheran is ever elected President, because

we will force-feed everyone bland casseroles.

[Angry Dragon]

45. tator-tot-hotdish

[barbtries]

4. this man has devolved.

he was a brilliant surgeon; how can he be so stupid?!

[jberryhill]

7. While "brain surgeon" is used colloquially in a certain sense

Have you ever stopped and thought about it?

The brain is (a) not fully understood, and (b) capable of re-organizing itself to a large extent to compensate for damage.

If the patient lives - and ancient people did brain surgery, typically to deal with lesions and swelling from trauma - then you don't know if it was the best outcome or not.

So, someone presents with a cancerous mass in their brain. You map it out, figure out how to remove it with the least damage to surrounding tissue, go cut it out, and seal off as few blood vessels as needed in that area. Unlike other organs, which will need resection and repair, you're done.

The patient may have profound challenges to overcome, but the brain will do its best job of compensating for whatever you've done to it.

That's my thoroughly-uninformed take, but if I had to do brain surgery or say heart surgery - I'd go for the brain. Way too many things can go wrong with heart surgery.

[Fritz Walter]

8. Greed and ambition

Clearly, he's pandering to a donor-base and eventually to a voter-base that love this kind of comment.

With such a strong backlash from everyone else, he's now trying to back-pedal his remarks: he was quoted out of context. On live network TV.

[yuiyoshida]

23. Thats funny cause I said the same thing

posted above. I mean, whats next? A stupid Rocket Scientist? I wonder if he shouldn't be looked into, how could this guy go through medical school and be so ignorant?

[pangaia]

38. See my reply to you above. :>))

THAT'S HOW !!!

[wordpix]

29. my question, also. He seems "slow"

But just b/c he has a word retrieval problem, it doesn't mean he's slow, right? Right?

I do not want anyone who's slow thinking as my president. I would rather have Trumpit.

[herding cats]

5. As a wise DUer pointed out to me recently when I brought up this very same issue.

"Christian conservatives use the Constitution the same way they use the Bible

They ignore the parts they don't like."

William Seger http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1212063

[Angry Dragon]

24. yes ............. makes sense

[BlueJazz]

6. Talk about somebody that needs some "Brain work"

[niyad]

9. benny boy, you are an idiot.

[stonecutter357]

10. K&R!

[gordianot]

11. Those poor Republicans and according to Huckabee Carson should be a slave via Dred Scott.

Of course media will not ask the embarrassing questions to any members of the clown car.

[arcane1]

12. "Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be"

ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head.

Kyle Mortensen would gladly give his life to protect what he says is the Constitution's very clear stance against birth control.

"Our very way of life is under siege," said Mortensen, whose understanding of the Constitution derives not from a close reading of the document but from talk-show pundits, books by television personalities, and the limitless expanse of his own colorful imagination. "It's time for true Americans to stand up and protect the values that make us who we are."

According to Mortensen—an otherwise mild-mannered husband, father, and small-business owner—the most serious threat to his fanciful version of the 222-year-old Constitution is the attempt by far-left "traitors" to strip it of its religious foundation.

"Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: 'one nation under God,'" said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. "Well, there's a reason they put that right at the top."

-snip-

http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-c-2849

Still my all-time favorite Onion article

[Sunlei]

13. So 'thoughtless' a remark. I wonder why he quit Neurosurgery for Republican RW politics.

people just don't up and quit, walk away from a career they love

[wordpix]

30. maybe he wasn't such a good doc? Very strange he'd make the switch

although some pols have

[NonMetro]

14. That's What The Media Is Going With, Too, But...

They're wrong, and they're sort of letting him off the hook here, and dignifying it by changing what he said into a constitutional question. But Ben didn't make the connection between what he said and the constitution until it was pointed out to him. So, when he says he didn't mean it that way, that's true, 'cause all he really meant was he doesn't want a Muslim for president!

[SheilaT]

15. Too bad passing some sort of basic test to show

a candidate actually understands the Constitution isn't a requirement to run for higher office. Or even for county clerk.

[stage left]

31. It should be.

Looking at Trump and Kim Davis, the standards one has to meet must be mighty low.

[valerief]

16. His brain has been Jesusified. He can't see beyond his Jesus. nt

[stage left]

18. Brain Surgery

It's obviously not rocket science.

[NewJeffCT]

19. Everybody knows

that the the 21st century teabagger knows WAY more about original intent than those silly Founding Fathers.

[d_legendary1]

20. These Cons keeps quoting the constitution without reading it

kinda like they do the bible...

[shenmue]

22. I are a bad

[W T F]

26. I'm surprised that right wingers aren't saying that Ben Carson "Looks like a Muslim"

[Shoonra]

27. Carson is in the Republican mainstream

Ben Carson might suppose that a Muslim cannot hope to be President, in this election cycle, with the country at war with a number of Muslim enemies (Al-Qaeda, Taliban, ISIL, etc.). I bet a lot of Republicans - and even a lot of Democrats - feel that way although, soothingly, there is no Islamic contender in view.

But in the previous election cycle, 2012, other, more established Republicans - Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee - trotted out preachers to tell us that a Mormon (namely Mitt Romney) should not be President because of his religion. More to the point, they told us that only the right kind of Christian was qualified, a comment that deeply stung Jewish voters.

In 2008 there was, besides a whispering campaign that Obama was a secret Muslim, a much louder campaign that he was attending the wrong kind of Christian church, whose pastor, Rev. Josiah Wright, would say things like "God Damn America" -- this from some Republicans who associate with preachers who tell us that God does damn America for allowing same-sex marriage and affordable health care.

Back in 2000, some propaganda against Al Gore's choice for VP, Senator Joe Lieberman, because he was an orthodox Jew.

Back in 1984, the Republicans also trashed Fritz Mondale, in part because his brother was prominent in the Ethical Culture religion altho Fritz himself was not a member.

[3catwoman3]

28. Oughtn't one who aspires to be POTUS...

...know at least a little bit about the constitution the he/she will be swearing to uphold and defend?

[SHRED]

32. Carson speaks like he's on a narcotic

[pangaia]

34. Carson is a stupid, ignorant, bigoted, dumb fuck.

"When moderator Chuck Todd pressed him further, asking, "Do you believe that Islam is consistent with the Constitution?" Carson responded, "No, I don't."

"I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that," he said."

[kacekwl]

35. So sharia law is ok

if it's religion you worship.

[liberal N proud]

36. Crazy asshole says Muslims don't separate religion and state...

Isn't that what him and his fundamentalist Christians want a theocracy.

[Still In Wisconsin]

39. I know a LOT of physicians, and here is an observation:

All of them are bright. If they weren't they would have never gotten into med school. HOWEVER, while some/most of them are versatile intellectually and are good at a lot of different things, others know a lot about their narrowly defined field of medicine, and outside of that they can barely use the restroom without pissing down their own leg.

Guess which kind I suspect Carson of being.

[Herman4747]

41. Earl G ANNIHILATES Ben Carson! nt

[stonecutter357]

42. K&R!

[GeorgeGist]

43. This is your brain on bad drugs ...

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[meow2u3]

44. I'm also tempted to impose a religious test

No right-wing evangelicals need apply.