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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpokesman says Ben Carson didn't live in govt housing
Last edited Tue Dec 6, 2016, 10:31 AM - Edit history (1)
Gov. Mike Huckabee @GovMikeHuckabee
Ben Carson is first HUD Sec to have actually lived in gov't housing. Fancy Nancy Pelosi says he's not qualified; is she racist or just dumb?
Michael Skolnik ?@MichaelSkolnik 19m19 minutes ago
Actually Gov, his spokesman said that Ben Carson did not live in govt housing. He had misspoken. Any other lies you want to peddle?
Eugene Scott ?@Eugene_Scott 1h1 hour ago
So if folks are saying 1 of the main things that qualifies Carson to be HUD Secretary is that he lived in public housing, but he didn't ..
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Spokesman says Ben Carson didn't live in govt housing (Original Post)
bigtree
Dec 2016
OP
I don't know how he less qualified or more concerning than the rest of the cabinet
BainsBane
Dec 2016
#3
WhiteTara
(29,732 posts)1. To good ole Huck, if you are black
you MUST have lived in govt housing.
rurallib
(62,478 posts)2. Misspoken? Isn't that a lie? Sure was when I was a kid
and repeating a lie is bad too. At least it was when I was a kid.
BainsBane
(53,127 posts)3. I don't know how he less qualified or more concerning than the rest of the cabinet
Trump has appointed some scary people. This wouldn't be the battle I'd choose.
bigtree
(86,016 posts)5. we shouldn't limit our opposition
...to the worst of the deplorables.
Carson should get zero support fronting for Trump 'housing' policy.
Soulgroup
(4 posts)4. They lie, They lie, They lie
Even the simplest of things, They lie
niyad
(113,860 posts)6. hey, fuckabee--just because one lives or works in a structure does not mean that one knows how
to build it, or run it.
3catwoman3
(24,109 posts)7. I can drive a car.
If the engine doesn't start when I turn the key, I am lost.
Can I be Secretary of Transportation?
Javaman
(62,534 posts)8. carson lived in imaginary gov't housing having imaginary knife fights everyday.
welcome to our new "reality", were nothing is real and the "truth" is subject to interpretation.
aka we are through the looking glass.
Cha
(298,021 posts)9. Got an answer!
Huckabee's a racist shite for brains. Next?