{"id":16759,"date":"2016-08-26T20:34:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16759"},"modified":"2016-08-26T20:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T20:34:23","slug":"listen-to-the-doctor-mr-trump-on-second-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16759","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the doctor, Mr. Trump … on second thought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ben Carson knows what bigotry looks like.<\/p>\n

He also knows that using the term “bigot” in a battle between candidates for the highest public office in the land is counterproductive in the extreme.<\/p>\n

The former Republican candidate for president has advised his party’s nominee, Donald J. Trump, to cease calling Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a bigot.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Carson said this about Trump’s name-calling:<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of left that behind in the third grade. I certainly don\u2019t encourage it because the issues that we\u2019re facing are incredibly important\u2014for us and for the future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you think Dr. Carson, the surgeon who’s also African-American, will be able to persuade Trump to cool it with the bigot talk?<\/p>\n

Probably not.<\/p>\n

As Trump’s campaign continues its flailing ways, the candidate is left to say things about Clinton that have nothing at all to do with policy differences he might have with her. Oh, but wait!\u00a0Trump doesn’t have\u00a0any policies of his own, which leaves him to rely on the insult machine he oils daily.<\/p>\n

Carson, of course, isn’t going to let Clinton off the hook, either. \u201cThat\u2019s what people do who don\u2019t have anything to talk about,\u201d he said while referring as well to Clinton’s use of the term “racist” to describe Trump’s statements.<\/p>\n

While the Democratic nominee attacks the words that come from her opponent’s mouth, Trump has decided to define his foe’s character by accusing her of being an outright\u00a0bigot.<\/p>\n

This campaign should proceed on a much higher plain.<\/p>\n

I fear that it won’t.<\/p>\n\n

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Ben Carson knows what bigotry looks like. He also knows that using the term “bigot” in a battle between candidates for the highest public office in the land is counterproductive in the extreme. The former Republican candidate for president has advised his party’s nominee, Donald J. Trump, to cease calling Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a … Continue reading Listen to the doctor, Mr. Trump … on second thought<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[588,623,1424,2139],"class_list":["post-16759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-ben-carson","tag-bigotry","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16761,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16759\/revisions\/16761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}