{"id":18374,"date":"2016-12-05T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T13:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18374"},"modified":"2016-12-05T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T13:59:34","slug":"dr-carson-changes-his-mind-he-is-qualified-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18374","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carson changes his mind; he is ‘qualified’ after all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Was I hearing things a week after the presidential election?<\/p>\n

I could swear I heard — and read — something from Dr. Ben Carson and his closest associates in which he declared he didn’t want a job in Donald J. Trump’s Cabinet because, in Carson’s view, he wasn’t qualified to run a federal agency.<\/p>\n

That’s not his skill set … supposedly.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2016\/11\/carson-opts-out-of-cabinet-post-but-why\/<\/p>\n

Carson ran for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination and was one of 16 pretenders to get crushed by the Trump juggernaut.<\/p>\n

So, what precisely\u00a0is Dr. Carson’s skill? He’s a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon. He has performed what amount to medical miracles on children in need of them. His brilliance as an MD is beyond reproach.<\/p>\n

Now, though, he’s being tossed into a brand new arena. Trump has nominated him to\u00a0run the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n

I don’t understand this choice.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-taps-former-campaign-rival-carson-as-housing-secretary\/ar-AAl9QAE?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n

As The Associated Press reported: “In a statement, Trump says he’s ‘thrilled to nominate’ Carson, saying he “has a brilliant mind and is passionate about strengthening communities and families within those communities.” Great! Does\u00a0the passion\u00a0qualify him to manage a massive federal agency? Time will reveal that in due course.<\/p>\n

If the president-elect were to ask me, I’d say Carson would be a better fit as secretary of health and human services or as surgeon general.\u00a0Trump seek my advice.<\/p>\n

As for his ability to run HUD, I’ll just suggest that managing a massive federal bureaucracy ain’t exactly brain surgery … if you get my drift.<\/p>\n\n

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Was I hearing things a week after the presidential election? I could swear I heard — and read — something from Dr. Ben Carson and his closest associates in which he declared he didn’t want a job in Donald J. Trump’s Cabinet because, in Carson’s view, he wasn’t qualified to run a federal agency. That’s … Continue reading Dr. Carson changes his mind; he is ‘qualified’ after all<\/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":[11,13,14],"tags":[588,1424,2118,2207,4476],"class_list":["post-18374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-ben-carson","tag-donald-trump","tag-hhs","tag-hud","tag-surgeon-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18374","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=18374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18377,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18374\/revisions\/18377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}