Of all presidential candidates of either party, Ben Carson has the highest favorable rating among American adults, And he has a large favorable advantage among fellow Republicans.
No doubt he’s a nice guy. Too bad he’s also something of a nut.
The most recent evidence for this neurosurgeon’s strange views is the r built the pyramids in Egypt to store grain.
Not only has a 1998 video surfaced in which he offered this thesis in a commencement speech, but Carson reaffirmed his belief with CBS News this week.
Carson’s eccentric claim is not even a literalist take on the Bible. It’s a personal explanation for the existence of structures whose origins and purpose are not even mysterious. And the casual dismissal in his speech of archeologists and other scientists is downright weird coming from a man of medicine.
Carson is also the candidate who said Obamacare is “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery” — which, whatever your view of the Affordable Care Act, seems a little daft.
Carson’s curious views and ignorance of public policy have become an embarrassment. Indeed, he’s beginning to make Donald Trump sound like Socrates.
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