The Joke's On Us

Amazing....

“But I’m particularly impressed with Thomas Jefferson, who seemed to have very deep insight into the way that people would react and tried to craft our Constitution in a way that it would control people’s national tendencies and control the natural growth of the government,” Carson said.

The problem: Jefferson crafted the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. In fact, Carson noted Jefferson’s absence in his book, “A More Perfect Union,” writing that he was “missing in action” during the birth of the Constitution as he served abroad as ambassador to France.

Carson's latest gaffe comes after a week in which he used an analogy likening Syrian refugees to dogs and had his foreign policy acumen questioned by advisers to his own campaign.

Now, before you go saying it's an honest gaffe (on the right) or that he's irrelevant and can't win (on the left), just stop for a second. About a fifth of one of our two major party's voters are telling pollsters they are going to go to the polls and vote for this guy. This guy who gets basic government and political facts wrong, but wants to be President. I'm starting to be puzzled on how a man who can practice surgery on a brain perfectly would be unable to learn really basic facts, but that's kind of the point. He's a great surgeon, he may even be a smart man, but he knows nothing about the job he's applying for. The Presidency is a job for people that know and understand government. The GOP base is trying to vote for anything but that.

I have no use for the current GOP, except to say that I live in America, and they are a major political party here, one that controls most of our legislatures in the nation. I may find them to be a joke, and they are, but that joke is starting to be on us. We have to live with the results of elections where Ben Carson supporters vote. That is alarming to me.

Boo-Hoo- Ben's Feelings are Hurt

This is way too much, I can't stop laughing:

This press conference was the most awake I’ve seen Ben Carson in…. well, ever. I half expected him to pull out a hammer and go after that guy on his left who kept asking him the uncomfortable questions.

Don’t miss the section where he runs through a selection of choice anti-Obama conspiracy theories — Frank Marshall Davis, Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, sealed college records, etc. — in a voice that keeps getting higher and more querulous, like a child throwing a tantrum.

But the best part is when he says, “I don’t remember this level of scrutiny for one President Barack Obama, when he was running.”

He's kidding, right? For most of President Obama's Presidency, the majority of Republicans have questioned if he was a citizen, and the media has covered that as a somehow legitimate conversation. He's been called a closet Muslim, a Kenyan, a terrorist sympathizer, and all other forms of lunatic fringe language. These are all illegitimate conspiracy theories, but they got covered. Hell, Donald Trump even wanted to see his college transcripts. That's how ridiculous this got.

Ben Carson's little feelings are hurt, he got caught being a liar. You know if you applied to West Point or not, that's not a minor detail. You know if you attacked people violently in your past or not, most likely. Ben Carson's problem is that his odd life's story has holes in it, and it's really the only reason he's in this race. He has no experience, he's not qualified to do the job of President. He's biography based in his appeal, and he makes up parts of his biography. I'm having a lot of trouble feeling bad for him. Usually people who lie about their biography don't just lie about a part or two....