The 2016 Presidential Election Trainwreck

[il Padrino Ute]

are you dumb or

You said that being a senator and a Sec. of State qualifies someone to POTUS. All I'm asking you to do is to explain why it qualifies anyone for that position. If you can't back up your words, don't say anything.

[frank ryan]

It's okay. Given that she never accomplished anything of note while in the Senate it's hard to remember that she ever served there. I'm still waiting for someone to point out an accomplishment of hers while in political office. The silence is deafening.

Contrast Hillary with John Kerry. Kerry comes in and all of the sudden the US has an embassy in Cuba

You wish we didn't work toward normalizing relations?

[Omaha 680]

You wish we didn't work toward normalizing relations?

[Moliere]

You wish we didn't work toward normalizing relations?

Is that a question or a response to an earlier question?

[Northwestcoug]

I don't think he's a fool at all. I don't see anyone disagreeing that he has very limited political executive experience.

Outside of neurosurgery, I think that's a debatable point...

What makes Carson any different than Dear Leader in this regard? Carson at least did something in his life before running for POTUS.

OK, if we're judging people on interesting stories, yes, Carson edges out Obama. If we're judging them on political experience, there's no question that Obama was the better candidate. And yes, I do think he was pretty inexperienced, which makes Carson an even worse candidate.

[Moliere]

I saw my first Carson 2016 bumper sticker yesterday

[YOhio]

I saw my first Carson 2016 bumper sticker yesterday

Ha. I did too! At church?

[Moliere]

Ha. I did too! At church?

No, on my way to church. Most members in my ward are part of the Cruz Crew.

[il Padrino Ute]

OK, if we're judging people on interesting stories, yes, Carson edges out Obama. If we're judging them on political experience, there's no question that Obama was the better candidate. And yes, I do think he was pretty inexperienced, which makes Carson an even worse candidate.

Obama's political experience was insignificant. He was no more qualified than Carson.

I don't want Carson near the White House, but he's no worse a candidate than Obama ever was. The only thing Obama did was graduate from law school, but he's demonstrated time and time again that he has no idea that the US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.

Besides, Carson's career as a neurosurgeon shows us that he is a divider and we need a uniter.

[imanihonjin]

Here's my problem with Carson (and likely with the majority of voters should he do the impossible and win the GOP nomination): other than an interesting personal story, is there anything else of substance that would help him be a good president? Or, put another way, is his personal story interesting/inspiring enough to cover for his complete lack of political experience? If so, then just barely.

Now if there are questions concerning the veracity of his autobiography (and it seems like it's just more than the West Point story), what do voters have to support him? That he's a decent person? Great. Because he really is a subpar politician who tends to whiff on a lot of softballs. And if he's embellishing his story, then he should get his Fox News Channel gig secure, because voters won't take to kindly to allegations of lying.

Unless your name is Hillary Clinton.

[Northwestcoug]

Obama's political experience was insignificant. He was no more qualified than Carson.
I don't want Carson near the White House, but he's no worse a candidate than Obama ever was. The only thing Obama did was graduate from law school, but he's demonstrated time and time again that he has no idea that the US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.

Besides, Carson's career as a neurosurgeon shows us that he is a divider and we need a uniter.

Experience as a state and US senator is completely insignificant???

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Experience as a state and US senator is completely insignificant???

I would think that Carson's experience, whatever it is, is the equivalent or better than Obama's experience as a state legislator where he seemingly had no accomplishments. Carson at least has some professional accomplishments. Obama wrote a book about himself. Obama started running for President two years after he became a US Senator where he compiled a wholly unremarkable record. His experience wasn't his strong point. Carson doesn't even have that.

Carson's experience isn't his strong point. Obama has been a terrible president in no small part due to his lack of experience, so drawing upon Obama's experience as a line of delineation doesn't hold much water for me. I don't care that since we elected someone with no experience already, we should just go ahead and elect Ben Carson. If anything, that should be an argument against Carson.

[il Padrino Ute]

Experience as a state and US senator is completely insignificant???

He did nothing as a state and US Senator.

[frank ryan]

I would think that Carson's experience, whatever it is, is the equivalent or better than Obama's experience

No his political experience is not superior. Carson can't even fluently address basic foreign policy questions. Being a brain fixer doesn't make you knowledgable or qualified to lead groups off people.

[old_gregg]

He did nothing as a state and US Senator.

if none of serving as president of the harvard law review, state senator, us senator, community organizer or secretary of state qualify a person to be potus, what in the world would?