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Ben Carson has withdrawn from the GOP race for the presidency of the United States.

 

I'll refrain from saying I told you so.   But I guess some people have an urge to help their country, but don't know how to go about it.   Dr. Carson is a good man, a good Christian, and has had a full career as a successful neurosurgeon.  I guess for him to spend all those thousands of dollars on a futile campaign was something he felt he had to do.   And maybe the spent money isn't the biggest issue; maybe giving more citizens the right to speak out for their beliefs was a good result of all this.   I wish him well.   I'm sure he'll find other ways to use his talents from here on out. 

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I think he'll have done pretty well out of it, money-wise. I'm not saying that's his primary motivation: I agree that he saw a way to serve the country. But most of the money spent campaigning came from donors, and his book sales and speaking fees will have done very well out of this few months.

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One would hope his 5% of the vote doesn't go to Trump, but there seem to be no guarantees this year.

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Wait I thought God Told Ben to be President!

I think that is what I heard.

Maybe I misunderstood.

God did tell Rick Santorum  and Perry to be Prez.

And they dropped out too!

All three going against God's express will?

 

#no clarity

#SDA cluster.. n  bad witness

 

:o

God told Ted Cruz the same!

Oh no ..more disobedience from His Saints coming for the worldlings to see?

 

:tomato:

 

 

 

 

For all Eternity God waited in anticipation for  You  to show up to give You a Message - YOUR INCLUDED !!! { a merry dance }?️‍?

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You will never come at all "   .. "I Will Rise" by the late great saved  Glen Campbell

If your picture of God is starting to feel too good to be true, you're starting to move in the right direction. :candle:

  

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My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."

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C'mon, Gay,

If these guys thought God told them to do something and they acted upon it, they were exercising their faith in spite of the fact that they may have been wrong about God's "revelation".  I have frequently acted on my assumed faith in what I thought God was telling me, only to find out in hindsight I was wrong.  God bless them for trying; and in doing so just maybe inspired a few people to consider Jesus.

Anything people of faith do to publicize the Kingdom can't hurt.  Let's face it - the whole idea of what Christians believe sounds crazy to 70% of the world.  If these candidates, though their witness in their campaign, touched anyone's heart for the Kingdom, then they did a good thing.  Even though I agree that he probably wasn't presidential material this time around, I think Dr. Carson touched a soft spot in many hearts with his campaign.  I wish him nothing but the best.

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2 hours ago, JoeMo said:

C'mon, Gay,

If these guys thought God told them to do something and they acted upon it, they were exercising their faith in spite of the fact that they may have been wrong about God's "revelation".  I have frequently acted on my assumed faith in what I thought God was telling me, only to find out in hindsight I was wrong.  God bless them for trying; and in doing so just maybe inspired a few people to consider Jesus.

Anything people of faith do to publicize the Kingdom can't hurt.  Let's face it - the whole idea of what Christians believe sounds crazy to 70% of the world.  If these candidates, though their witness in their campaign, touched anyone's heart for the Kingdom, then they did a good thing.  Even though I agree that he probably wasn't presidential material this time around, I think Dr. Carson touched a soft spot in many hearts with his campaign.  I wish him nothing but the best.

I was being tongue n cheek

as well as observing the irony

hence my emoticons

:P

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appreciate your thoughts on the Christian Walk

sooo true

 

For all Eternity God waited in anticipation for  You  to show up to give You a Message - YOUR INCLUDED !!! { a merry dance }?️‍?

" If you tarry 'til you're better
You will never come at all "   .. "I Will Rise" by the late great saved  Glen Campbell

If your picture of God is starting to feel too good to be true, you're starting to move in the right direction. :candle:

  

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."

Romeo and Juliet

 

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I think that either Cruz or Rubio, or maybe even Kasich might make acceptable Presidents, so we could hope that the dropout's delegates will go to one of these men. Every newly-elected president has a learning curve to boost them up to, regardless of their campaign promises, what is real. 

Trump is more like a fascist clown dictator with a forked tongue who is mainly the star of his own reality show, "Who Wants to Be President?"

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Surprise!  I am becoming more positive about Trump, as this mess goes on.  Why?  Because I am coming to the idea that we cannot trust Trump to do what he says he will do.  he just may be to smart for that.  The Republicans may be correct in telling us that we cannot trust him.

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In the morning after Super Tuesday, Carson posted on his Facebook page that he was not discouraged and would stay in as long as God continued to open doors for him.  In the evening of the same day he announced he was dropping out.  Sounds to me like he got a phone call.  A recent poll showed that he is the favorite among Republican voters to be a VP choice.  Posts about him on Facebook receive more "likes" than any of the other Presidential candidates for either party.  In an interview with Katy Couric, when asked what are his future plans, he said he plans to continue helping the nation.  When she asked how, he reminded her that before becoming a Presidential candidate, he was working on the speaker circuit and writing articles which he plans to return to doing.  I think David is right, Carson's run for office probably has not hurt his bank balance too much.  In fact, from what I have read, he didn't run out of campaign donations and still had money to keep going.  His books are selling more and he will probably increase his speaking fee now.

I am not a conspiracy theorist but sometimes certain events make one scratch his head.  The radical right-wingers like Sean Hanity, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh talk about the "establishment" but I am not convinced there is an "establishment".  I suspect there are just different groups of allied people.  Certainly there are influential people that, when working together, have an incredible amount of power.  These groups are made up of currently-elected politicians, members of the media and business people with a lot of resources.  They made sure that Nwet Gingrich didn't get the nomination.  Such a group is now working to make sure Trump doesn't get it.  Grassroots candidates like Carson do not stand a chance because they don't have people in these influential groups pushing for them.

It will be an interesting election season this year for sure.  Whatever happened to keeping political threads out of Town Hall?

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Gregory Matthews Grand Master

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Jeannie43 said:

 

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I'll refrain from saying I told you so.  

 

As I understand the English language, you just did say it.

 

Gregory

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7 hours ago, Gregory Matthews said:

Jeannie43 said:

 

 

As I understand the English language, you just did say it.

 

 

 

Okay, Gregory, I admit it.   I started this thread.   Sorry.

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This thread is fine where it is.

 

I was just pointing out that when you said you would refrain from saying something and give us an exact quote of what you are not going to say, you have said it.  :) 

:)

Gregory

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