Ben Carson Dodges Question on Muslim President Comment
By Michael Barbaro. Ben Carson is riding a wave of frustration with politics as usual. But on Sunday he employed a time-honored tactic of those elected officials: dodging direct answers to specific questions.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon whose popularity is surging in the Republican field, was asked if he stands by his controversial opinion that a Muslim should not be president of the United States.
“Well, first of all, you know, what I said is on a transcript and it’s there for anybody,” he replied, avoiding the question of whether he stood by the remark.
The host of the show, Martha Raddatz, interrupted: “I’m reading the transcript, Dr. Carson, that’s exactly what you said.”
In his original remark, made last Sunday on “Meet the Press” when he was asked about the relevance of a president’s faith, Mr. Carson said: “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.” (Read more from “Ben Carson Dodges Question on Muslim President Comment” HERE)
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Ben Carson: ‘Democrats Tend to Look More at the Color of Their Skin’
By Eugene Scott. Ben Carson said Wednesday that Republicans are more colorblind than Democrats when it comes to race.
“I find black Republicans are treated extremely well in the Republican Party. In fact, I don’t hear much about being a black Republican,” he said Wednesday at an event in Michigan. “I think the Republicans have done a far superior job of getting over racism.”
Carson was a Democrat for years, but said he’s found the Republican Party to be more welcoming.
“When you look at the philosophies of the two parties now, what I have noticed as a black Republican is that Republicans tend to look more at the character of people. And Democrats tend to look more at the color of their skin,” he said Wednesday.
Carson, the only African-American running for president, spoke at an event in Jackson County, Michigan, which boasts itself as “the birthplace of the Republican Party” — a party whose history the presidential hopeful referenced. (Read more from “Ben Carson: ‘Democrats Tend to Look More at the Color of Their Skin'” HERE)
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