A year before the first GOP presidential debate, the thought that retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson could be anything more than comic relief in the 2016 contest was purely delusional.
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The former neurosurgeon ate at the Silver Saddle Steakhouse on the south side’s East Benson Highway, a day after speaking to thousands of people at the Phoenix Convention Center. “We have laws and we need to be able to pay attention to our laws and what I have said consistently is we need to seal our borders-but not just the southern border, the northern border, the Pacific border, the Atlantic border, every border“.
Fellow presidential candidate Donald Trump also had to move his Arizona rally in July to a larger venue due to increased popularity.
In January, comedian/actor/director/screenwriter Adam Sandler stopped in to the Silver Saddle to have dinner with his sister.
Through his memoir, Gifted Hands, which told the story about how Carson went from an impoverished youth in Detroit to the height of the medical profession, he became a role model in the African American community. “We have the ability to stop this…we have got to get the economic engines functioning once again”.
Some 6,000 people showed up to Ben Carson’s rally in Phoenix Tuesday.
Carson proposed an efficient way to eliminate makeshift drug cartel “scout sites” that can be found as far as 70 miles north of the border – blow them up.
Throughout his campaign for president, Carson has touted his social conservative bona fides, portraying himself as an uncompromising hardliner on issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion, in particular, even though his record on the latter is actually somewhat mixed.
Although the sheriff had made it clear he considered the idea of drone strikes in his jurisdiction a bad one, Carson persisted in an interview with an ABC15 news team: “Well here’s the bottom line”, he said. While drones might be useful against drug dealers, they have also been used to strike against U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism in Yemen in 2013.
Dr. Carson emphasized that hopes to “save our nation”, unlike other presidential hopefuls who simply “want to get re-elected”. Another nutball comes to the border and loses his mind.
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According to the website AZFamily, Carson spent time addressing rival candidate Donald Trump’s plan to round up and deport illegal aliens currently in the country, and said that the cost of that action would be prohibitive, possibly as high as $200 million. Getting them here is vastly preferable to committing what could be considered acts of war against Mexico.
