Posted on 07/18/2015 1:40:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Dr. Ben Carson was asked about Donald Trump‘s comments today and ended up saying something odd about John McCain.
In case you still haven’t heard, Trump said today, of McCain’s status as a war hero, “He’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”
Pretty much all of Trump’s GOP rivals came out to scold him over those comments. As of yet, Carson hasn’t done that, but as Politico reported, this is what happened when he was asked:
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, whose appearance followed Trump’s at the summit, declined to comment on Trump’s remarks after leaving the stage. He also would not say when asked whether or not McCain was a war hero. “It depends on your definition of a war hero,” he said.
And that wasn’t all:
In case any of you are actually wondering whether McCain should be considered a war hero, he wrote a firsthand accounting of what he underwent.
Ted Cruz, meanwhile, praised McCain but also refused to say anything negative about Trump.
Look, McCain served. McCain was a POW. I don’t think that he should ever have to apologize about that. But McCain also started this verbal war with Trump, so I am not going to let him hide behind his war record.
LOL! LOL! Trump, you’re a nut! But it’s good to see the RINOs get b*tch slapped.
The only reason he got into flight school was because of his daddy.
He got shot down because he got drunk the night before and flew hungover.
Ben and Ted. Are doing the right thing
Non-answer of the day.
I honestly don't get what the media's doing, it is like they are going all stops out trying to get him votes from every quarter of the political spectrum. ‘Oooh, this story will tick off the conservatives!’ Umm, no, we cringed and caved and voted for McCain because he was only slightly better than Obama, maybe, for SCOTUS picks. We did the same for Romney (even knowing he was probably going to be worse than Obama for SCOTUS picks.)
He's right, and the definition of war hero was changed for Vietnam because reporting on the war was so negative and dishonest that the true combat heroes of that war never got the attention and publicicity they should have.
So, the country had a big celebration when the POWs were returned from North Vietnam and many began to view them as heroes.
Can anyone name POW war heroes from WWII or WWI or Korea? But those who know some history could name some combat war heroes, especially from WWI and WWII.
What Trump said is totally true, but not a wise thing to say.
Carson is dead on. Just because you serve, you are not a “hero”. In our world today everyone is a hero. Firemen, police etc. But they really aren’t. That is what they signed up for. McCain was never a hero.
At the same time I do not see these journalists running to Obama asking him why he is making the war heroes who were killed in Tennessee so helpless.
Obama is just on vacation right now not lifting a finger.
Should these same journalists give Obama a pass for ignoring these dead war heroes?
I listened to what Trump said and I did not hear what he is accused of saying. McCain did attack 15,000 Arizonans as crazies. Shouldn’t someone give McCain some grief about that? No one has.
This is a tempest in a tea pot nothing more. I live in Arizona and cannot stand McCain anymore. He is terrible for the sate and for the country and it is true. He cannot win re-election.
Trump is providing a lot of entertainment with his run. He is saying a lot of things and saying them very loud. Do I see him being the pick? No, its Bush vs Clinton, that’s where all the big money is going to be. Do you mater? No, you are all like Trump, disgusted by everything that has occurred over the years, and still unable to get DC to change. We are all being manipulated by the hidden powers to be via strong media control. Big Brother and Animal Farm are already here, isn’t that already obvious? (Reht.)
“In our world today everyone is a hero. Firemen, police etc. “
Ah, the so-called “first-responders.”
Well, the second responders never get any press. I’m here to advocate for them!
Louis Zamperini
Anyone who flies and lands on a carrier gets automatic hero in my book
Does Carson want to be Trumps VP?
No, it will be a two day flap. Because Trump isn’t going to apologize and give it legs. As for deferments and Vietnam, it didn’t hurt Bill Clinton twenty years ago, and now most voters aren’t even old enough to remember the draft.
We aren’t supposed to mention McCain’s plane crashes before he even left the country. If his father hadn’t been an Admiral, he would have been discharged.
The truth of what REALLY happened with John “Songbird” McCain in Hanoi is not what the American people were told at that lie-filled RNC tribute in 2008.
Juan’s also a traitor.
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