Dr. Ben Carson for president? “I’ll leave that up to God”
“I don’t think it was particularly political,” Carson, the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, told ABC’s Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl during an interview for ” This Week.” “You know, I’m a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I’ve diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.”
With an audience that included President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Carson spoke out about political correctness, health care and taxes at the breakfast. In his roughly 23-minute address, Carson called for a private health care savings plan and a flat tax for all Americans. His address has since gone viral, racking up more than two million views on YouTube…
He also offered his diagnosis for today’s political environment.
“What I would like to see more often in this nation is an open and intelligent conversation, not people just casting aspersions at each other,” Carson said on “This Week.” “I mean, it’s unbelievable to me the way people act like third graders. And if somebody doesn’t agree with them, they’re this and they’re that and, you know – it comes from both sides. And it’s just so infantile.”
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I really love and respect Dr. Carson. I feel he would make a great president if he should be ‘moved’ to go for it!
BTW hannity will have Dr. Carson on for a hour at 9ct and they take questions from the audience.
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letget on February 17, 2013 at 12:41 PM
I look forward to hearing more from Dr. Carson. Whether he is presidential material remains to be seen. I’m not discounting him simply because he has never held office. Doers do. Most politicians and lawyers can only talk.
There are few people of the caliber of this man and I personally owe him great thanks. His research and treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, otherwise know as “suicide disease” has changed my mother’s life.
Good luck to you, sir.
CTSherman on February 17, 2013 at 12:55 PM
There’s RINO under that crust! I just knew it.
Marcus on February 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM
Am I the only one who thinks this is Herman Cain 2.0?
vegconservative on February 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM
Love this guy.
Kataklysmic on February 17, 2013 at 1:29 PM
“I think a lot of people resonate with”
Um, “I think resonates with a lot of people.”
Welcome to public scrutiny, Dr. Carson.
Dusty on February 17, 2013 at 1:32 PM
Unless Dr. Carson jumps on the amnesty bandwagon and changes his last name to Rubio or Bush, the GOP will never give him a chance.
Pork-Chop on February 17, 2013 at 1:34 PM
Am I the only one who thinks this is Herman Cain 2.0?
[vegconservative on February 17, 2013 at 1:28 PM]
Since he’s a newbie, yeah, I’m reserving opinion somewhat until the cauldron heats up. I’m not interested in backing another whose melting point is that of water.
Dusty on February 17, 2013 at 1:36 PM
A guy gives one speech, and some swear HE SHOULD BE PRESIDENT. Where have we seen this show before?
That, and more in the latest episode of We Found a Not-White Guy.
Welcome to the internets. Many of us are supposedly being paid by someone. I haven’t got a dime yet. Paypal me already.
BTW Doctor, you just lost the socon vote.
Moesart on February 17, 2013 at 1:42 PM
How did he do that?
Dusty on February 17, 2013 at 1:51 PM
A truly Great Man! He just secured the Social Conservative vote.
Bmore on February 17, 2013 at 2:15 PM
I didn’t get the impression that he wanted to run for Prez. My guess is his aims are slightly lower.
He was born in Michigan, and worked at John Hopkins in Maryland. The Republicans lack candidates for Senate in Michigan, or for Governor in Maryland.
He could also be an excellent Surgeon General/ HHS Secretary in the next Republican administration.
Mister Mets on February 17, 2013 at 2:20 PM
Nope, because Cain had major skeletons in his closet and though he was a good man, was not a particularly thoughtful man and for the most part winged it. Dr. Carson is a very thoughtful person who has written many books about how to achieve in life and the state of our nation. He is very accomplished and highly educated. That automatically will shut down the whole dumb conservative meme the media likes to promote. So, he would be everything that made Cain effective, without everything that destroyed Cain.
This has to be a joke. You can’t get more socially conservative that Dr. Carson.
milemarker2020 on February 17, 2013 at 2:25 PM
Bingo! Under Jindal or Rubio or even Christie, he would be effective.
milemarker2020 on February 17, 2013 at 2:28 PM
Let’s just calm down on the “President” talk.
So far, I like what I see, and I’m prepared to find things we disagree on. Hopefully those things won’t be fundamental. If they are, it won’t be the first time I’ve been lured into disappointment.
That said…I watched the speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, and there are many reasons to believe that Carson can lead and fight.
Time will tell.
Saltysam on February 17, 2013 at 2:55 PM
Hell, I’d venture to gamble he’d be a far better Chief Justice than the one we have now.
Saltysam on February 17, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Why not run for senate or congress? I dont get it
Flapjackmaka on February 17, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Dr. Carson Obama Slayer.
Bmore on February 17, 2013 at 3:33 PM