To be charitable to the good doctor, I assume he means that those committing the prison rape are choosing to be gay. Still, I wish I could challenge Carson to produce some stats on straight inmates who have raped other same-sex inmates and later self-identified as gay. My guess is the number is ~zero.
I wonder what his position is on treating gay patients.
He’s not a prison doctor, silly.
I have no reason to doubt his medical skills, but the more I hear of his worldview, the less I want him anywhere near the Oval Office.
What if the POTUS needs a craniotomy?
Find a brain surgeon who doesn’t himself want to be President.
The utter idiocy of his comment on homosexuality, unfortunately, seems to obscure the utter ignorance he displayed when he spoke as if the Fourteenth Amendment was not part of the Constitution. (Civil rights should be determined at the state level.)
He probably thinks anything “exploratory” involves surgery.
Well, technically, he said 'Civil issues of that nature should be determined at the state level." He doesn’t think gay rights are civil rights.
OK, before it was arguable that Carson is merely stupid. Now it appears he’s tinfoil-hat crazy.
That seems like more craziness from WND than Carson.
A non-crazy response to the question asked would have been, “There is no evidence that President Obama would seek to stay in office for a third term; why are you asking me such a silly question?”.
His response indicated that he was willing to buy into the conspiracy theory.
Idiot and nutcase.
Eh, don’t fight the hypothetical. I don’t think Carson’s answer there was particularly crazy. It’s probably what I’d say, at least. “The 22nd amendment says you can only have two terms. If he tried it, people wouldn’t let him.” I don’t think that’s an idiotic or nutty answer.
They didn’t ask him if there was evidence that Obama will seek a third term. They asked what would prevent him from doing so. It’s a stupid question, and an accurate answer. There are plenty of stupid Carson statements to be going on with.
Yeah, that’s a non-starter, BrainGlutton.
Clifton protested against the War & used his student deferment.
Bush & Cheney were chicken hawks. Cheney had5 deferments. Bush had his daddy get him a place in the National Guard.
Assuming you meant Clinton, not quite. It was after his student deferment was up that he got his influential friends and family members to postpone his physical, and arrange a number of stalls on his behalf. Clinton then tried to avoid the draft by promising to enter Arkansas Law School (he did not, he went off to Cambridge for a second year) and by promising to enter an ROTC program for which he was not eligible. Here is a fairly good timelineof the various lies, deceptions, and political pressures brought to bear on the lying and cowardly Clinton’s behalf. He dropped his efforts to dodge the draft when he drew a high lottery number.
Cite.
If Clinton used his student deferments, he must also then have been a chicken hawk, or perhaps just a chicken. The difference between Bush and Clinton is that Bush did actually go into the Texas Air National Guard.
The part about Clinton protesting the Viet Nam war is true. He organized two small protest marches in London (in coordination with the KGB-backed World Peace Council) and played a smaller role in a larger protest in the US.
Regards,
Shodan
PS - no, Bush didn’t go AWOL.
I agree with all of this, and I don’t think it conflicts with my assertion that Clinton was a poor draft dodger, and Bush and Cheney were rich draft dodgers.
Eh, he said the constitution prevents Obama from seeking a third term. Which is accurate enough.