Ben Carson has no idea what he's doing

Ben Carson is a quiet neurosurgeon from Detroit Michigan who has had one of the most uniquely American stories in recent history. His mother and him lived in the ghetto of Detroit and against all odds, he became the chief pediatric neurosurgeon at John Hopkins. Despite his success and skills in the medical field, Ben Carson is one of the craziest presidential candidate in recent history.

Ben Carson shows a lack of ability to grasp foreign affairs. This report comes from one of his top advisors who was hired to give Carson weekly briefs on foreign policy in order to "make him smart". Carson is also a hardcore Christian who takes the bible literally. He came out the other week to stand by his 1998 comments that pyramids were made so Joseph could store grain and not as tombs. Being a Christian is a great commitment, one that I personally admire. However, Mr. Carson's faith effects his politics to a degree unprecedented around modernized countries.

Carson would like to use tithing instead of a income tax, using the bible as a point. However, there's a problem with taxing everyone only 10 percent. That leaves a 1.1 trillion dollar deficit. To gain perspective of this, our current deficit is near 500 billion dollars a year. If Ben Carson was able to put forth his tax plan he would raise the deficit 200%. This is coming from the current runner-up in a party whose values used to be fiscal responsibility. When the moderators called out this at the CNBC debate the right complained of media bias and a misunderstanding of the actual plan. I truly believe that not only did the moderators not understand Carson's plan; Carson himself doesn't understand his plan.

Fox Business Debate

I've done it. I've made it through this many Republican debates without losing any hair, but I see trouble going forward. At this point it's no longer fun, it's like watching a Browns game-I'm willing to accept how horrible and what a waste of time it will be, but I still watch hoping for something great to happen (maybe Carson will stab someone again). Something wonderful did happen, Donald Trump expressed his approval and made case for a US operation from the 50's called Operation: Wetback. During this Operation near 200,000 (although Trump said 1.5 million) illegal immigrants were moved south of the border. Trump stated that Eisenhower carried this out humanely and said that Operation Wetback was what we need today.

However, Operation Wetback was a very, very inhumane program and not just because its obvious racism. It caused chaos for Mexico, as 200,000 people were thrown into their economy, housing and country as a whole. Also, 88 people died from heat stroke as the American government dumped them off into a desert, 25 percent of the people transported by boat from Port Isabel were also in something resembling a "penal hell ship".

Trump was't the only controversy of the night. Senator Ted Cruz became the second statesman from Texas to forget the branches of government he wanted to modify (shoutout to Rick Perry, my favorite presidential candidate of all time). Trump yelled at former CEO Carly Fiorina for interrupting Rand Paul, someone who Trump has also bullied. Fiorina has now become known as the candidate who told the fake abortion video story. The current field of candidates is turning into a joke, this doesn't really mirror a debate at all. A debate involving ten people is impossible. Hopefully some of the current candidates drop out in favor of a more democratic debate process.

Are you ready for Hillary?

Hillary Clinton is an accomplished senator, Secretary of State, and businesswoman. Despite all her expertise she has trouble in one area:getting the American people to trust her. A Quinnipiac University poll suggests that Clinton's polls in both favorability and trustworthiness are falling. She has a hard time conveying to the American people that she genuinely cares for their problems and will fight for them. She's changed her opinion on a variety of issues probably because of the left-leaning candidate taking away from her poll numbers. If you can believe it, people rank Donald Trump as more trustworthy.

Many Liberals, myself included, don't get fired up to Clinton's speeches the same way we did to Obama's notoriously famous keynote speech at the 2004 DNC. I have yet to see a single speech of Hillary's that has gotten me fired up, even to the amount of Obama's worst speeches. I saw myself in Barack Obama, we were both raised by our mom and grandparents and worked hard to overcome obstacles despite lack of paternal leadership. In 2012 I went out with my grandfather and canvassed for Obama-informing people voting dates and taking policy questions. After he won the election my grandparents sent me a video of Obama addressing young participants. In the video when Barack speaks about how he realizes the impact he's made on getting kids to get involved he starts to cry.

The way that President Obama spoke and the way I got chills and tears (manly tears of course) from that video has never been reproduced by any Hillary speech I watched. While I think she has some great policy ideas, mostly because of the time she's had to prep for the 2016 election, I don't see her lighting a fire under people to get out and be active. Many people don't see her as a genuine person, she came out against the Keystone pipeline when she used to be for it and she came out against Obama's trade program that she was really the writer of. Many people feel ready for Hillary but are like me- will vote for her, but aren't willing to do the work they did for Barack to elect her. She's a calculating politician which will be a trouble spot for her in the future.