# Would you rather have Ben Carson as president right now?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 4, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-ben-carson-as-president-right-now/805867 "2018-01-04T20:40:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-ben-carson-as-president-right-now/805867/81 "2018-01-22T20:40:57Z")

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AFAIK Carson isn’t a thief and swindler. So yes, I’ll take Carson.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-ben-carson-as-president-right-now/805867/82 "2018-01-22T22:10:34Z")

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\*\*Would you rather have Ben Carson as president right now?  
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No, but I wouldn’t mind seeing him run and win after Trump’s second term.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-ben-carson-as-president-right-now/805867/83 "2018-01-24T22:00:02Z")

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I don’t think he’s strong enough to avoid being pushed around, and I think he would have made better, less corrupt choices for people who would be in the administration to push him around.

I think it’s likely we’d be the same place we are now politically, but in a safer world. And I don’t really expect anything to be fixed after Trump, so I can’t go with that stuff.

So, yeah, probably Carson. The fact that he wants to run something like a business is just normal Republican levels of not caring. It’s not the same as Trump’s.

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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-have-ben-carson-as-president-right-now/805867/84 "2018-02-02T18:05:52Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> AFAIK Carson isn’t a thief and swindler.

[”I’m not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou.”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/using-his-position-for-private-gain-hud-lawyers-warned-ben-carson-risked-running-afoul-of-ethics-rules-by-enlisting-son/2018/01/31/bb20c48e-0532-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?utm_term=.0c7d6d26c1b3)

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