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To: i-node who wrote (900225)	11/11/2015 6:02:02 PM
From: locogringo	1 Recommendation Recommended By John Respond to of 1575542

I just really don't know how a person who thinks he is politically aware cannot know this.

To: i-node who wrote (900225)	11/11/2015 6:13:37 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575542

Do you REALLY not realize SS is broke and on the way out? Do you REALLY think that the politicians will let it go broke????? If so, you are terribly naive....... Ditto for Medicare.........

To: i-node who wrote (900225)	11/11/2015 6:24:20 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1575542

Here's Why Other Candidates Are Giving Ben Carson a Pass —By Kevin Drum Wed Nov. 11, 2015 2:29 PM EST Why didn't any of the other candidates go after Ben Carson last night? He's a frontrunner, isn't he? Yeah, he is. Here's my guess: when you see a guy digging himself into a hole, why get in the way? More and more, as the stress of the campaign gets to him, Carson is freely exposing himself as an honest-to-God crackpot. Not just a hardcore conservative like Ted Cruz or an ego-driven windbag like Donald Trump, but a true Glenn Beck/Michele Bachmann/Alex Jones type who really and truly believes in fever swamp conspiracy theories. Criticize his past and he goes full frontal on every bit of listserv crankery about Barack Obama—and he does it pretty fluently, too. He obviously knows this stuff cold. Push him on his odd world view and he starts spouting off about how "secular progressives" are destroying America and probably trying to kill him. Ask him about his theory that the pyramids were built by Joseph to store grain, and he doesn't blink. Sure he still believes that. Put him in a friendly setting and he'll give you the full nine yards about how political correctness is responsible for everything from drug addiction to persecution of Christians to Marxist tyranny and gun confiscation. This is a guy who's set to implode all by himself, so why waste energy attacking him? Eventually he'll suggest that the pope is actually Satan or something, and then he'll be forced to slink back to the rubber-chicken circuit—with a higher speaking fee to soothe his pain. In the meantime, better to worry about the folks who might actually pose a real threat.