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Dr. Carson: Obamacare The Worst Thing That Has Happened Since Slavery

Just about the dumbest thing ever said by a politician/pundit (outright dumbest or close to it).

Great point, except that he is a world famous neurosurgeon, credited with his pioneering work on the successful separation of twins conjoined at the head. Doesn't seem all that dumb to me. Of course, despite all his success, he is still no community organizer.
 
Greenbeard said:
He spent his career at a hospital in Maryland, the only state in the country today where the government sets reimbursement rates for hospitals. That's a much more heavy-handed system than anything Obama's cooked up. How did Carson feel about working under that system for decades?
Calling Johns Hopkins "some hospital" is like calling Harvard, some college.

What are you reading and what are you quoting?
 
Great point, except that he is a world famous neurosurgeon, credited with his pioneering work on the successful separation of twins conjoined at the head. Doesn't seem all that dumb to me. Of course, despite all his success, he is still no community organizer.

I did not say he is dumb, but what he said is very dumb.

Off the top of my head (things that are worse):

holocaust
killing fields of the Khmer Rouge
first world war
second world war
 
He spent his career at a hospital in Maryland, the only state in the country today where the government sets reimbursement rates for hospitals. That's a much more heavy-handed system than anything Obama's cooked up. How did Carson feel about working under that system for decades?
That's an excellent point, and one that makes Carson's statement look even more absurd.
 

What Carson said is disgusting, and especially coming from a black man ... but from what I've seen, the man so desperately wants conservative white folks to love him that he's willing to say and do anything ... that's too bad ... there's nothing wrong with him criticizing ACA or the president, but to liken ACA to slavery? ... Maybe he needs to go see 12 Years a Slave ...
 
I did not say he is dumb, but what he said is very dumb.

Off the top of my head (things that are worse):

holocaust
killing fields of the Khmer Rouge
first world war
second world war
None of that happened in America.
 
What Carson said is disgusting, and especially coming from a black man ... but from what I've seen, the man so desperately wants conservative white folks to love him that he's willing to say and do anything ... that's too bad ... there's nothing wrong with him criticizing ACA or the president, but to liken ACA to slavery? ... Maybe he needs to go see 12 Years a Slave ...

Or maybe you need to read what he actually said before making a comment. If you are going to get your information from other sub-literate leftists then you'll never know anything.
 
None of that happened in America.

You think 500,000 dead Americans in WW2 is better than Obamacare? So you'd sacrifice 500,000 American troops to repeal the law?
 
We were involved in WWI and WWII. :prof

You mentioned four things, have narrowed it down to one, and now are using 'involved' instead.

Adolescents like yourself get in the way of genuinely enjoyable debate.
 
You think 500,000 dead Americans in WW2 is better than Obamacare? So you'd sacrifice 500,000 American troops to repeal the law?

Where are you coming up with this nonsense? Do you really not understand the topic under discussion?

It has become beyond dispute that Leftists are functionally illiterate, and I see the evidence of that every day.
 
You mentioned four things, have narrowed it down to one, and now are using 'involved' instead.

Adolescents like yourself get in the way of genuinely enjoyable debate.

I think you've started Thanksgiving a little early. I never mentioned four things, never narrowed it down to one, and "involve" is actually a pretty hefty understatement seeing as we lost 117,000 soldiers in WWI and 416,000 soldiers in WWII.
 
I think you've started Thanksgiving a little early. I never mentioned four things, never narrowed it down to one, and "involve" is actually a pretty hefty understatement seeing as we lost 117,000 soldiers in WWI and 416,000 soldiers in WWII.

You are correct and my apologies. It was Peter King who mentioned those four things he believed happened in America. All leftists sound much the same.

WWI and WWII did not happen in America either.
 
You are correct and my apologies. It was Peter King who mentioned those four things he believed happened in America. All leftists sound much the same.

WWI and WWII did not happen in America either.

If you mean, "on American soil," then I'm sure that would have been of great comfort to the 533,000 American soldier who died in those wars. When you find yourself dismissing half a million deaths on the basis of what soil they happened on then you have to consider that it may be time to throw in the towel.
 
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Or maybe you need to read what he actually said before making a comment. If you are going to get your information from other sub-literate leftists then you'll never know anything.

What he said was actually worse than "the worst thing since" ... "You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery," Carson said Friday. "And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control." he actually said it was like slavery ... it's especially disgusting to hear a man with his education saying something like this ... but let's take it in another direction ... worse than the near extermination of Indians, putting Indians in reservations, Jim Crow, lynchings, the internment of Japanese Americans? Worse than that? Everyone should be disgusted by what he said ... whenever I see him on T.V., my stomach turns ...
 
What he said was actually worse than "the worst thing since" ... "You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery," Carson said Friday. "And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control." he actually said it was like slavery ... it's especially disgusting to hear a man with his education saying something like this ... but let's take it in another direction ... worse than the near extermination of Indians, putting Indians in reservations, Jim Crow, lynchings, the internment of Japanese Americans? Worse than that? Everyone should be disgusted by what he said ... whenever I see him on T.V., my stomach turns ...

No, everyone should not be disgusted by what he said. He spoke the truth. What is disgusting is the fact that the US Government did it to us.
 
No, everyone should not be disgusted by what he said. He spoke the truth. What is disgusting is the fact that the US Government did it to us.

ACA is worse than Jim Crow, the near extermination of Indians, and internment? Wow ... I guess I now know what you celebrate on Thanksgiving ...
 
If you mean, "on American soil," then I'm sure that would have been of great comfort to the 533,000 American soldier who died in those wars. When you find yourself dismissing half a million deaths on the basis of what soil they happened on then you have to consider that it may be time to throw in the towel.

Why does it have to be continually pointed out to you that this thread has nothing to do with any world war? What part of that do you not understand? Have you actually read what Dr.Carson had to say?
 
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Dr. Ben Carson slammed President Barack Obama’s signature health care during his speech at the Value Voter’s Summit Friday.

“Obamacare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” Carson declared. “It is slavery in a way because it is making all of us subservient to the government.”

Carson said the implementation of the Affordable Care Act was never about health care, only control.

“That’s why when this administration took office it didn’t matter that the country was going off the cliff economically. All forces were directed toward getting this legislation passed,” Carson said.

Carson also made a comparison between Obama’s health care law to former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.

“Vladimir Lenin, one of the fathers of socialism and communism, said that socialized medicine is the keystone to the establishment of a socialist state,” Carson stated.
 
Why does it have to be continually pointed out to you that this thread has nothing to do with any world war? What part of that do you not understand? Have you actually read what Dr.Carson had to say?

So basically, nothing that refutes the comments of a historically illiterate person has anything to do with the thread. Right. Time to throw in the towel, big guy, unless you want to be known as one of "those conservatives." You know, the kind of conservative that the more respectable ones around here don't directly confront, exactly, but sure as hell don't associate themselves with either.
 
So basically, nothing that refutes the comments of a historically illiterate person has anything to do with the thread. Right. Time to throw in the towel, big guy, unless you want to be known as one of "those conservatives." You know, the kind of conservative that the more respectable ones around here don't directly confront, exactly, but sure as hell don't associate themselves with either.

Still haven't read his speech and think it's all about WWII? Okay.
 
Still haven't read his speech and think it's all about WWII? Okay.

Just educating the good doctor as well as anyone else who weren't aware that WWI and WWII have happened since slavery.
 
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