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TexasTowelie

(112,114 posts)
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 10:31 AM Mar 2014

Ben Carson resistant to voters' campaign pleas

[font size=3]Noted former neurosurgeon will speak at Operation HOPE banquet in Lubbock on Saturday[/font]

Dr. Benjamin Carson has had a busy year since retiring June 30.

The former neurosurgeon’s day-to-day schedule is filled with public speeches and appearances throughout the country, but campaigning for president is not on the agenda, he said.

“That’s the things that people are doing on their own,” Carson said via phone Wednesday, March 26. “I have no desire personally to run for office.”

But despite his desire to avoid politics, thousands of people are encouraging his run for office through social media and online petitions.

More at http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/2014-03-27/ben-carson-resistant-voters-campaign-pleas .

[font color=green]Republicans believe that having a black man run for president will cause blacks to turn out in droves for their eventual nominee in the general election. Once again, Republicans fail to learn from history as proven by Alan Keyes and Herman Cain.[/font]

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Ben Carson resistant to voters' campaign pleas (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2014 OP
All I ever hear out of that guys mouth is hate and fear of other people Johonny Mar 2014 #1

Johonny

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1. All I ever hear out of that guys mouth is hate and fear of other people
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 10:49 AM
Mar 2014

He has no ideas, no hope for the future and no idea how to produce a governing body that would be effective. He'll fit right in on the tea party ticket.

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