{"id":9266,"date":"2015-05-11T02:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9266"},"modified":"2015-05-11T02:51:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:51:17","slug":"welcome-to-politics-dr-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9266","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to politics, Dr. Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Ben Carson is a famed neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n<p>He gave up that profession and now he&#8217;s taking on another one: politician.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s going to learn that politicians have to be as careful with their words as surgeons have to be with their scalpels. You say the wrong thing, you&#8217;re potentially finished as a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Carson is running for the Republican presidential nomination. This morning he showed up on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; and got grilled by host Chris Wallace for some things he said about the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/05\/10\/chris-wallace-ben-carson-fox-news-sunday_n_7252994.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013<\/p>\n<p>When a GOP candidate gets hammered by a Fox News host, well, the planet might be on the verge of spinning off its axis.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace challenged Dr. Carson&#8217;s comparison of the Obama administration with the Nazi Third Reich.<\/p>\n<p>Does he really mean that? Wallace asked.<\/p>\n<p>Carson said during Adolf Hitler&#8217;s reign of terror, people didn&#8217;t challenge him. Wallace asserted immediately that people are challenging President Obama all the time.<\/p>\n<p>How about ending any Hitler references? It is ridiculous and insulting in the extreme to equate modern political activity with anything that was done during the Third Reich&#8217;s dozen years of existence.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to admire Dr. Carson&#8217;s work and the brilliance he exudes when talking about medical procedures and his hopes for cures to deadly brain diseases and disorders. That work is a long, <em>long<\/em> way from the political rough-and-tumble he&#8217;s entering.<\/p>\n<p>Careless and overblown statements do have a way of lingering and biting the speaker of those words where he doesn&#8217;t want to be bitten.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Carson is a famed neurosurgeon. He gave up that profession and now he&#8217;s taking on another one: politician. He&#8217;s going to learn that politicians have to be as careful with their words as surgeons have to be with their scalpels. You say the wrong thing, you&#8217;re potentially finished as a candidate. Carson is running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to politics, Dr. Carson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[152,588,973,1788,1791,3229,3370,3708,4789],"class_list":["post-9266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-ben-carson","tag-chris-wallace","tag-fox-news","tag-fox-news-sunday","tag-nazi-germany","tag-obama-administration","tag-president-obama","tag-third-reich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266","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=9266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}