Posted on 10/19/2014 8:36:40 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
A Conversation With Dr. Ben Carson About Ebola
Hugh Hewitt A Conversation With Dr. Ben Carson About Ebola
Dr. Ben Carson joined me on Friday’s show to discuss the Ebola cases.
HH: I am joined by Dr. Ben Carson. Dr. Carson, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. BC: Thank you. Always good to be with you. HH: Dr. you’re such a well-established and well-regarded national figure, the professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. You’ve won the Presidential Medal of Freedom. You did the National Prayer Breakfast. You wrote One Nation. If President Obama called you up right now and said Dr. Carson, we need a surgeon general who will command respect and will generate calm, would you please serve, would you accept that? BC: No. No, because I would, if I were going to serve in that position, I would have to serve under someone that I trusted. HH: If he said I will not interfere with the guidance you give, we need someone to rally the country around being calm and appropriately prepared, you really, you’d say no to the president of the United States? BC: Yes. Absolutely. HH: I’m shocked.
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Shocked? I assume Hugh is being very sarcastic?
Good management:
You find Subject Matter Experts, you let them say and do what they think is best. That's why you chose them. If they screw up, the Leader should take the hit and say, "I chose the wrong guy: that's my fault."
Bad Management:
Obama knows everything. He just chooses people who say what he wants to be said. The Subject Matter Experts? Meh! What can they really add to any discussion??? A bunch of "Yes Men" will do fine, thank you very much.
What about the people that just plain die without treatment and their bodies are simply found? Couldn’t some of them have died of ebola?
And you are correct sir save for one thing... what would you do if you wanted to create a disaster with plausible deniability?
If I were a terrorist who hated the United States I’d be feeling pretty smug right now. I might even go out and enjoy a fine fall day and play a few rounds of golf in celebration of my good fortune and cunning.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you can’t put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we don’t have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isn’t this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: “Stopping travel from Africa won’t do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola.” “You can’t get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others.” “Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies.” What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
For further reference:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3216461/posts
I could not take the job either even if I was qualified. It is a fool’s errand. The power comes from the top and so does the resistance to success. Obola does not want this Ebola response to succeed. He hates us but not nearly so much as I hate him but I am powerless to act on that hatred. He is not powerless. The 50% who are desperate, entitled, selfish, lazy, ignorant, stupid, dishonorable, gullible and otherwise foolish gave him that power to destroy us and them.
Hugh is the Moderates Moderate.
He’s not being sarcastic.
GJMY! If Hewitt was not being sarcastic, I’d be extremely disappointed with him.
Photo reminds me of some taken of “IL Duce” (sp)........the Italian dictator Mussolini.......
Exactly.A good move would have been to appoint a medical school graduate as "czar".Obola appointed a law school graduate.
“Hey Obama, be a MAN - Implement a travel BAN!”
He should have been named - Benito Obama!
If I may suggest a variant, how about El Douche?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
And after you have done that, call the airlines and tell them that you have canceled plans to travel by air until people from those countries are banned by the airline.
Several weeks back, the authorities stated that airlines have a right to determine who is allowed on the plane. Airlines are more likely to respond than congress, especially when it hits their bottom line.
The audio of his (Pastor Lawson) sermon on the 1st Amendment is posted already; the video usually takes a day or two.
Thank you!
Thanks for the ping!
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