Just stumbled across this while searching Ben Carson on Youtube

bearkat42

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What did you get a degree in?

"It is no secret that the ranks of scientists and engineers in the United States include dismal numbers of Hispanics and African-Americans, but few have remarked about another significantly underrepresented group: Republicans.

No, this is not the punch line of a joke. A Pew Research Center Poll from July 2009 showed that only around 6 percent of U.S. scientists are Republicans; 55 percent are Democrats, 32 percent are independent, and the rest "don't know" their affiliation."

So the smart people vote Democrat, cool. ;)
Kinda hard to be a scientist AND a bible thumper.
 

Padawanbater2

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Ever notice how all the dumb shits are in the liberal art classes like poli sci and the smart guys are in science, eng and technical disciplines?



:mrgreen:

As for what qualifies someone to be president, IMO they should be rational, in that they derive their beliefs through sound logic and reason, they should be intelligent, geopolitically and diplomatically savvy, and I think they should have an excellent understanding of economics, world history, law and philosophy
 

ginwilly

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As for what qualifies someone to be president, IMO they should be rational, in that they derive their beliefs through sound logic and reason, they should be intelligent, geopolitically and diplomatically savvy, and I think they should have an excellent understanding of economics, world history, law and philosophy
I think they need to be comfortable in front of a camera, decently good looking, able to speak with passion about subjects that require emotion and be an excellent closer.

The finance guy at a big car dealership qualifies.
 

ginwilly

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Maybe in the libertarian utopia
Meh, you can read the studies that show how we vote or you can live in your fantasy world.

We grade our presidents by who is able to deliver a speech someone else wrote the best.

You think the president isn't the world's biggest salesman? You are not paying attention.
 

ginwilly

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If this were indeed actually the case, Dubya would have never held public office.
He went up against Gore and Edwards and studies showed his face was more symmetrical than both and his folksy delivery was a huge plus by a lot of people. Voted the president people would most like to have a beer with at one time.

I mean....
 

Padawanbater2

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Meh, you can read the studies that show how we vote or you can live in your fantasy world.

We grade our presidents by who is able to deliver a speech someone else wrote the best.

You think the president isn't the world's biggest salesman? You are not paying attention.
I don't give a shit how good looking the president is, that's not something I'm at all concerned with which was the question; what you believed the qualifications for the president should be
 

UncleBuck

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I think they need to be comfortable in front of a camera, decently good looking, able to speak with passion about subjects that require emotion and be an excellent closer.

The finance guy at a big car dealership qualifies.
you think they need to speak out against civil rights legislation that prevents you from refusing service to black people, according to your own posting history.
 

god1

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What did you get a degree in?

... So the smart people vote Democrat, cool. ;)

Ed: BS/MS in eng.. I won't disclose any more specifics.

Re dems: Every cloud has it's silver lining, unfortunately sometimes in life you have to pinch your nose, prioritize and go with what you believe will do less damage in the long term and live with the rest of the carp.
 

Flaming Pie

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that retarded line of shit only makes any sense if you make the racist assumption that blacks are somehow not trying to succeed for some reason.

is that really what you think? or do you have a fucking brain?
Why hasn't the free market solved racism?

I believe that if you push yourself you can get out of a bad situation. White or Black. I believe there are programs that can help you get a leg up.

I managed to pull us up from rock bottom. Ben Carson managed it, my husbands dad is doing it... so on and so forth.

I'm white, my father in law is arab, and Ben Carson is black.

Racist.
 
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Flaming Pie

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More than twice as many people...
Yes.

Their pollution is similar to what America was putting out in the late 1800s early 1900s. Mostly coal smog. Their cities have very poor air quality and it causes death of their citizens.

They account for 25% of the air pollution of the world.

I believe they signed an agreement to cut their emissions by 2020. I don't remember how much they agreed to tho. Have to look it up.
 

Flaming Pie

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In response to his fetal tissue research, he is a pediatric neural surgeon. I'm sure some babies have died while he tried to save them and then their remains were donated for research.

Carson denies any contradiction between his stance on Planned Parenthood and his former research. He told Buzzfeed, “Killing babies and harvesting tissue for sale is very different than taking a dead specimen and keeping a record of it, which is exactly the source of the tissue used in our research.”
 

Flaming Pie

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Found it. China signed an agreement to cut their emissions by 60-65% by 2020 and will be modeling their energy use and sources after america.
 

spandy

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As for what qualifies someone to be president, IMO they should be rational, in that they derive their beliefs through sound logic and reason, they should be intelligent, geopolitically and diplomatically savvy, and I think they should have an excellent understanding of economics, world history, law and philosophy
At this point, I'd take a president who simply got Americans excited to wake up and try that day.

I think they call those leaders, not politicians.
 
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