21 Things Less Bad Than Obamacare, According to Dr. Ben Carson
Speaking at the Values Voters Summit in Washington Friday, conservative commentator Dr. Ben Carson declared that "Obamacare is, really I think, the worst thing that's happened in this nation since slavery."
Carson, a retired prominent neurosurgeon, rocketed onto the conservative scene in February when he lambasted President Obama -- who was sitting just a few feet away -- at a prayer breakfast. Since then, he's inked a columnist deal with the Washington Times and earned buzz as a longshot presidential candidate.
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Carson has never shied away from rhetorical bomb throwing, and Friday was no different when he made his slavery remark. Carson, who is African-American, explained that Obamacare "was never about health care, it was about control" and making Americans "subservient." Given that logic, here a few things that have happened since the abolition of slavery that are apparently, according to Dr. Carson, less bad than Obamacare:
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9/11
AIDS
Hurricane Katrina (and all other hurricanes since 1865)
The Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Pearl Harbor
The assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The attempted assassinations of Ronald Reagan and Theodore Roosevelt
The sinking of the Titanic
Every tornado since 1865
World War I
World War II
Black Hawk Down
Jim Crow
Japanese internment
The Challenger space shuttle disaster
Watergate
The Vietnam War
The Crack Wars
Nickelback
For more, we'll let Billy Joel take it away.
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