Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Hillary Using Racism Template to Weaponize Sexism? David Limbaugh | Mar 31, 2015

David Limbaugh

If Hillary Clinton survives her myriad real scandals and becomes the Democratic presidential candidate for 2016, are we going to be bludgeoned with sexism the same way Barack Obama's supporters have exploited "racism"?

If recent rumblings from Clinton supporters are any indication, I'm afraid this could be the case.

New York Times reporter Amy Chozick recently received an email from a Clinton-supporting group, called HRC Super Volunteers, warning her, "We will be watching, reading, listening and protesting coded sexism." How feminist of that group. You know, that sure sends a signal that its gal can fend for herself without any John Wayne character's clearing her path before her, doesn't it? "I'm a thin-skinned woman. Hear me purr."

John West, director of HRC Super Volunteers, says that sexist media coverage is everywhere and that he aims to eradicate it. His email to some 120 journalists said he and his group "will not tolerate any form of sexist news coverage of any woman who chooses to break through glass ceilings; whether as a CEO or running for president of these United States." He continued, "Already we have seen the coded language of sexism and innuendo used by major news outlets and we are not happy."

What he's really trying to do is intimidate, just as proponents of political correctness do with their list of forbidden words and topics and just as Obama supporters have done with race for six years.

West and company probably have observed Obama's success in pre-emptively silencing his critics and figure the same tactic will work for them -- honesty, integrity and gender relations be damned, just as Obama's demagogues have selfishly exacerbated racial tensions in the United States.

I'm serious about this. How can honest observers deny that Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder's weaponizing of the race issue has not set back race relations? Using the standards they've established, how does their whining about race every time someone disagrees with their outrageous actions contribute to the image of minorities and their self-sufficiency?

I've always believed that this shameless tactic has been insulting to minorities and abundantly counterproductive. In fact, Obama and his supporters have abused the race card to the point of absurdity, but they are impervious to shame over it because it still works to insulate them from scrutiny and accountability, no matter how preposterous it has become.

So let's get one thing straight out of the box. For Hillary and her henchmen, this isn't about glass ceilings, respect for females, gender relations or even her faux defensive sensitivity, which would be bad enough. It's a calculated offensive move to put her critics off balance and deflect heat over the misconduct she's engaged in and the noxious policies she'll be endorsing.

I doubt seriously that the self-absorbed Hillary has genuine concerns about enhancing respect toward women generally, as her evil quarterbacking of the "bimbo eruptions" operation to defame her husband's female victims into silence firmly attests. What manifestly drive Hillary, like husband Bill, are raw political ambition and every delicious morsel that would accompany her coveted elevation to the White House.

Hillary can be as tough and heartless as any male chauvinist, as witnessed by her callous utterance on the cause of the terrorist attacks in which four American diplomats were murdered in Benghazi, Libya: "What difference, at this point, does it make?" Her excusers have said that was taken out of context. Well, put it in any context you want, and throw in her defiant attitude. Then tell me it was a tactful, sensitive, acceptable thing to say. Dare to tell me it was decent or honest of her to pretend that it makes no difference that she and others in the Obama administration fraudulently blamed a video for the attacks. You can't.

But along with her real heartlessness come her manufactured gender sensitivity and embarrassing, self-generated weakness. Remember when she and her chivalrous protectors decimated Rick Lazio for daring to approach her lectern during a debate in the campaign for Senate?

She can't have it both ways. She's either tough as nails or a helpless wallflower.

I guess her HRC Super Volunteers group is opting for defenseless damsel, as West issued this threat: "You are on notice that we will be watching, reading, listening and protesting coded sexism this time around in words and phrases like polarizing, calculating, disingenuous, insincere, ambitious, will do anything to win, represents the past, out of touch, inevitable, entitled, over confident, defiant, inserting snide comments on her looks like tired, haggard, worn out...the list goes on but I trust you get my point."

Isn't it interesting that these bullying buffoons unwittingly happened on descriptors that so precisely pinpoint Hillary's aura? Or was it intentional? That would be bizarre.

If I were more worried about the likelihood that Hillary will become our next president, I'd probably take this stuff more seriously. But if she gets the nomination and her enablers inject sexism in this way, maybe her opponents will enjoy the ironic gratification of seeing the sordid tactic fall on its face -- largely because her ideological and narcissistic soul mate Barack Obama cried wolf one too many times on race and people will be on guard against it regarding gender.

 
 
David Limbaugh

David Limbaugh

David Limbaugh, brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, is an expert on law and politics. He recently authored the New York Times best-selling book: "Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel."

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"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
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"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
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Repeal, Don't Reform the IMF! Ron Paul | Mar 30, 2015

Ron Paul
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A responsible financial institution would not extend a new loan of between $17 and $40 billion to a borrower already struggling to pay back an existing multi-billion dollar loan. Yet that is just what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did last month when it extended a new loan to the government of Ukraine. This new loan may not make much economic sense, but propping up the existing Ukrainian government serves the foreign policy agenda of the U.S. government. ??

Since the IMF receives most of its funding from the United States, it is hardly surprising that it would tailor its actions to advance the U.S. government's foreign policy goals. The IMF also has a history of using the funds provided to it by the American taxpayer to prop up dictatorial regimes and support unsound economic policies. ??

Some may claim the IMF does promote free markets by requiring that countries receiving IMF loans implement some positive economic reforms, such as reducing government spending. However, other conditions imposed by the IMF, such as that the country receiving the loan deflate its currency and implement an industrial policy promoting exports, do not seem designed to promote a true free market, much less improve the people's living standards by giving them greater economic opportunities. ??

The problem with the IMF cannot be fixed by changing the conditions attached to IMF loans. The fundamental problem with the IMF is that it is funded by resources taken forcibly from the private sector. By taking resources out of private hands and giving them to IMF bureaucrats, government distorts the marketplace, harming both American taxpayers and the citizens of the countries receiving the IMF loans. The idea that the IMF is somehow better able to allocate capital than are private investors is just as flawed as every other form of central planning. The IMF must be repealed, not reformed.

??The IMF is not the only U.S. institution that manipulates the global economy. Over the past several years, a mysterious buyer, identified only as "Belgium," so named because the buyer acts through a Belgian-domiciled account, has become the third-largest holder of Treasury securities. Belgium's large purchases always occur at opportune times for the U.S. government, such as when a foreign country sells a large amount of Treasuries. "Belgium" also made large purchases in the months just after the Fed launched the quantitative easing program. While there is no evidence this buyer is working directly with the U.S. government, the timing of these purchases does raise suspicions. ??

It is not out of the realm of possibility that the Federal Reserve is involved in these purchases. The limited audit of the Federal Reserve's actions during the financial crisis that was authorized by the Dodd-Frank Act revealed that the Fed actively intervenes in global markets. ??

What other deals with foreign governments is the Fed making? Is the Fed, like the IMF, working to bail out Greece and other EU countries? Is the Fed working secretly to aid U.S. foreign policy as it did in the early 1980s, when it financed loans to then-U.S. ally Saddam Hussein? The lack of transparency about the Fed's dealings with overseas central banks and foreign governments is one more reason why Congress needs to pass the audit the fed bill. ??

By taking money from American taxpayers to support economically weak and oftentimes corrupt governments, the IMF distorts the market, enriches corrupt governments, and harms both the American taxpayer and the residents of the counties receiving IMF "aid." It is past time to end the IMF along with all instruments of American interventionist foreign policy.

 
 
Ron Paul

Ron Paul

Ron Paul is a former congressman from Texas and a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute.
 
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"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
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"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Who Trashes Liberal Arts? Thomas Sowell | Mar 31, 2015

Thomas Sowell

An op-ed piece titled "Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts" appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal. But it is not conservatives who trashed the liberal arts.

Liberal professors have trashed the liberal arts, by converting so many liberal arts courses into indoctrination centers for left-wing causes and fads, instead of courses where students learn how to weigh conflicting views of the world for themselves. Now a professor of English, one of the most fad-ridden of the liberal arts today, blames conservative critics for the low esteem in which liberal arts are held.

Surely a professor of English cannot be unaware of how English departments, especially, have become hotbeds of self-indulgent, trendy fads such as trashing classic writings -- using Shakespeare's works as just another ideological playground for romping through with the current mantra of "race, class and gender."

Surely he cannot be unaware of the many farces of the Modern Language Association that have made headlines. And when our English professor uses a phrase like "critical thinking," he must be at least dimly aware of how often those words have been perverted to mean uncritical negativism toward traditional values and uncritical acceptance of glittering catchwords of the left, such as "diversity."

Diversity of political ideas is not to be found on most college campuses, where the range of ideas is usually from the moderate left to the extreme left, and conservatives are rare as hen's teeth among the faculty -- especially in English departments. Academics who go ballistic about an "under-representation" of ethnic minorities in various other institutions are blissfully blind to the under-representation of conservatives among the professors they hire. On many campuses, students can go through all four years of college without ever hearing a conservative vision of the world, even from a visiting speaker.

The problem is not political, but educational. As John Stuart Mill pointed out, back in the 19th century, students must hear opposing views from people who actually believe them, not as presented by people who oppose them. In the 18th century, Edmund Burke warned against those who "teach the humours of the professor, rather than the principles of the science."

During my years on the lecture circuit, I liked to go into college bookstores across the country and see how many of their courses assigned "The Federalist" among the books students were to buy, as compared to how many assigned "The Communist Manifesto" or other iconic writings on the left.

"The Federalist" is a classic, written by three of the men who were among those who wrote the Constitution of the United States. It is a book of profound thoughts, written in plain English, at a level aimed at the ordinary citizen.

It might even be called "The Constitution for Dummies." There are Supreme Court Justices who could benefit from reading it.

My survey of college bookstores across the country showed "The Communist Manifesto" virtually everywhere, often required reading in multiple courses -- and "The Federalist" used virtually nowhere. Most college students will get only the left's uncritical negativism toward the American form of government, under the rubric of "critical thinking."

The liberal arts in theory could indeed make valuable contributions to the education of the young, as our English professor claims. But the liberal arts in practice have in fact done the opposite, not just in the United States but in other countries as well.

The history of the 20th century shows soft-subject students and their professors among the biggest supporters of extremist movements, both fascist and communist -- the former in central and eastern Europe before World War II and the latter in countries around the world, both before and after that war.

Those who want liberal arts to be what they were supposed to be will have to profoundly change them from what they have become. Doing that will undoubtedly provoke more denunciations of critics for "trashing" the liberal arts by criticizing those who have in fact already trashed the liberal arts in practice.


 
 
Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of The Housing Boom and Bust.

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"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
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"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
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"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Monday, March 30, 2015

I bid you good afternoon. I am at dialysis and up. I have three hours and 53 minutes left. I will come off around 5:30 PM.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Amendment by Consent Judge Andrew Napolitano | Mar 26, 2015

Judge Andrew Napolitano

Here is a short pop quiz.

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress earlier this month about the parameters of the secret negotiations between the United States and Iran over nuclear weapons and economic sanctions, how did he know what the negotiators were considering? Israel is not a party to those negotiations, yet the prime minister presented them in detail.

When Hillary Clinton learned that a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives had subpoenaed her emails as secretary of state and she promptly destroyed half of them -- about 33,000 -- how did she know she could get away with it? Destruction of evidence, particularly government records, constitutes the crime of obstruction of justice.

When Gen. Michael Hayden, the director of both the CIA and the NSA in the George W. Bush administration and the architect of the government's massive suspicionless spying program, was recently publicly challenged to deny that the feds have the ability to turn on your computer, cellphone or mobile device in your home and elsewhere, and use your own devices to spy on you, why did he remain silent? The audience at the venue where he was challenged rationally concluded that his silence was his consent.

And when two judges were recently confronted with transcripts of conversations between known drug dealers -- transcripts obtained without search warrants -- and they asked the police who obtained them to explain their sources, how is it that the cops could refuse to answer? The government has the same obligation to tell the truth in a courtroom as any litigant, and in a criminal case, the government must establish that its acquisition of all of its evidence was lawful.

The common themes here are government spying and lawlessness. We now know that the Israelis spied on Secretary of State John Kerry, and so Netanyahu knew of what he spoke. We know that the Clintons believe there is a set of laws for them and another for the rest of us, and so Mrs. Clinton could credibly believe that her deception and destruction would go unpunished.

We know that the NSA can listen to all we say if we are near enough to a device it can turn on. (Quick: How close are you as you read this to an electronic device that the NSA can access and use as a listening device?) And we also know that the feds gave secret roadside listening devices to about 50 local police departments, which acquired them generally without the public consent of elected officials in return for oaths not to reveal the source of the hardware. It came from the secret budget of the CIA, which is prohibited by law from spying in the U.S.

What's going on here?

What's going on here is government's fixation on spying and lying. Think about it: The Israeli Mossad was spying on Kerry while the CIA was spying on the Mossad. Hillary Clinton thought she could destroy her emails just because she is Hillary Clinton, yet she forgot that the administration of which she was an integral part dispatched the NSA to spy on everyone, including her. And though it might not voluntarily release the emails she thought she destroyed, the NSA surely has them. The police have no hesitation about engaging in the same warrantless surveillance as the feds. And when Hayden revealed a cat-like smile on his face when challenged about the feds in our bedrooms, and the 10,000 folks in the audience did not reveal outrage, you know that government spying is so endemic today that it is almost the new normal.

Yet, government spying is not normal to the Constitution. Its essence -- government fishing nets, the indiscriminate deployment of government resources to see what they can bring in, government interference with personal privacy without suspicion or probable cause -- was rejected by the Framers and remains expressly rejected by the Fourth Amendment today.

For our liberty to survive in this fearful post-9/11 world, the government's lawless behavior must be rejected not just by the words of dead people, but by the deeds of we the living. When the president violates the Constitution and the Congress and courts do nothing to stop him, we have effectively amended the Constitution with a wink and a nod -- by consent, if you will. Its guarantees of liberty are only guarantees if the people in whose hands we repose it for safekeeping honor them as guarantees and believe and behave as such because the Constitution means what it says.

Where is the outrage? If you knew the feds were virtually present in your bedroom or your automobile, and your representatives in Congress did nothing about it, would you buy the nonsense that you should have nothing to hide? Would you send those weaklings back to Congress? Or would you say to a lawless government, as the Founders did to the British, "Thou shalt not enter here"? Does the Constitution mean what it says in bad times as well as in good times?

These are not academic questions. They address the most important issue of our day. For nothing will destroy our personal liberties more effectively than the government refusing to honor them and Americans sheepishly accepting that. And without freedom, what are we?


 
 
 
 
Judge Andrew Napolitano

Judge Andrew Napolitano

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. He sat on the bench from 1987 to 1995, during which time he presided over 150 jury trials and thousands of motions, sentencings and hearings. He taught constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School for 11 years, and he returned to private practice in 1995. Judge Napolitano began television work in the same year.
 
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"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
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"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Hey, Pretty Boy: Do You Actually Know What's In The News? Ann Coulter | Mar 25,

Ann Coulter

When "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams crashed and burned over all the tall tales he had told, there must have been mirth in the hallways at ABC.

In the highly competitive world of TV news, finding the right anchor is crucial to a network's brand. After running through a few pretenders, ABC had finally filled the iconic Peter Jennings' seat on "World News Tonight" just months earlier with David Muir. ABC was perfectly poised to snatch the top spot from NBC.

During his first six months as "World News" anchor, the newly minted Muir had beaten Williams only a half-dozen times. But after Williams' fall from grace, ABC sailed to the most-watched evening news program.

ABC executives could go for long lunches and look forward to cashing their bonus checks. Muir is young, dashing -- one of People magazine's 2014 "Sexiest Men Alive"! -- and the proud recipient of the Walter Cronkite journalism award.

The vanquished Brian Williams had told most of his fictions off air. The only thing ABC execs had to worry about with Muir was that the new guy would tell fairy tales ON AIR, which is so much less important.

Last week, Muir began the news with a story about the retraining of New York City police officers under Commissioner Bill Bratton. To fulfill the new policy of not inconveniencing criminals, cops are being taught to subdue violent suspects without harming them, requiring the officers to learn a series of Bolshoi ballet moves.

This would work great if American cops were London bobbies arresting public school louts, but we have a somewhat different urban reality in the U.S. There's no question but that the "retraining" will get cops killed.

Muir led off his broadcast with a recap of the event that led to the retraining: "Ferguson, Missouri: An unarmed black man, Michael Brown, is shot to death. The officer is not indicted."

And that was it: "The officer is not indicted." Nothing about how the "hands up, don't shoot" hysteria was a bald-faced lie invented by Brown's ex-con co-conspirator Dorian Johnson. No mention of the police officer being fully exonerated in two separate investigations. No recognition of the fact that Officer Darren Wilson was an exemplar of good police work.

That summary -- "Ferguson, Missouri: An unarmed black man, Michael Brown, is shot to death. The officer is not indicted" -- is nothing short of Goebbels-like propaganda.

Muir's statement of the facts would be wrong-headed and lefty if done before the Department of Justice issued its report on the Ferguson shooting. But Muir gave his summary well after the DOJ's months-long, ridiculously expensive investigation had found that Officer Wilson had shot Brown in justifiable self-defense. There are more beefcake photos of David Muir on Google than there are unjustifiable shootings of unarmed black men in Ferguson.

To be sure, Muir is new on the job, young, callow, a little insecure about his lack of experience. Maybe he didn't know any better.

So we need to know from Dave which of these is true:

(A) You knew that Big Mike never had his hands up, and the cop wasn't indicted because there is no more reason for him to be indicted than for you to be indicted in the shooting, but you just didn't give a crap.

Or:

(B) You didn't know any of that.

If Muir didn't know his summary was a lie, then he doesn't even have a passing familiarity with the news. In fact, after all the Sturm und Drang over Ferguson, it would mean that ABC's evening news anchor has managed to keep himself so astonishingly ignorant of current events that he really should be filing reports about seat cushions in America.

But it's also possible that Muir knew his Ferguson recap was a complete lie and decided his best course was to promote the left-leaning agenda of ABC News. A prettier face, but the same old propaganda.

We're dying to know which it is. When you have a moment, Dave, drop us a tweet and let us know.

 
 
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Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
 
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"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
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The Learning Curve of a Candidate Dr. Ben Carson | Mar 25, 2015

Dr. Ben Carson

As we stand about 20 months out from Election Day 2016, I have much to learn in terms of becoming both a better candidate and a better potential president of the United States. I do not take the opportunity lightly. In fact, the decision to explore a candidacy for president was one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make.

There was a lot on the line for my family and myself when we started this process. My family supported me wholeheartedly through an extremely busy and rewarding career as a medical surgeon for more than 30 years. I also enjoyed widespread public respect and admiration for my work. Why, at the end of what most would term an extremely blessed career, would I risk a lifetime of goodwill in order to run for president?

The answer came down to whether my family and I felt there was a call to do something of service to the nation on a broader level. We knew going into the process that I am not your typical politician. I was primarily a doctor and a scientist used to dealing with facts in a clinical and dispassionate manner in order to heal people with rare and life-threatening abnormalities. I was far from a talking head or a political pundit or even a local politician with aspirations of one day making it to the political big leagues.

And so we knew there would be a significant learning curve in terms of developing greater skill in communicating to a broad cross-section of the American people. We knew that certain issues we feel strongly about -- faith, family and the role of government -- might seem controversial when exposed to the 24/7, 365-day spin cycle that drives American media these days. It would have been easier to have spent some time in politician school taking spin classes, so to speak.

But that's not really what we set out to do in creating this campaign. We felt strongly that the process of seeking a leadership mandate was something we needed to do publicly. We would engage the American people openly and seek feedback based on our ideas. We would also seek to develop a deeper understanding of the issues as they affect the lives of everyday citizens and reflect American values around the world. We would make mistakes, of course, but we would learn from them and grow stronger as a campaign.

My basic framework on foreign policy, for example, is to meet our various treaty obligations head-on and send a clear message to our allies that we stand ready to defend them. Although I have visited the Baltic Rim and more than 57 other countries around the world, I am still in the stage of rapidly learning the intricacies of global politics. And those dynamics themselves are changing at an ever-increasing pace.

I do not believe you can have too much knowledge. I do, however, believe that wisdom is every bit as important as knowledge and perhaps an even more important qualification for the job of president. Being able to choose trusted and capable thought leaders on foreign affairs and other matters and rely on them to inform critical decisions is more important to a president's job than an ability to regurgitate minutiae.

One thing is clear. For the past six years, the United States has been moving in the wrong direction on a number of important issues, and we must look at the big picture and understand what big moves need to be made to correct our course. Though the learning curve is steep, I am doing everything I can to acquire more knowledge about critical issues and surround myself with capable and wise advisers as I consider this monumental step.

 
Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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