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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBen Carson's Staff is So Stupid they Can't Even Recognize a US Map!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/18/ben-carsons-campaign-made-a-u-s-map-and-put-a-bunch-of-states-in-the-wrong-place/It's the New England States....and they messed up the Maryland boundary...come on, how can you not simply copy some damn map!
Happy Geography Awareness Week! Recognizing that "too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens," National Geographic created this annual observance to "raise awareness to this dangerous deficiency in American education."
Ben Carson's presidential campaign inadvertently underscored this point Tuesday night, when it took to social media to share a map of the United States in which five New England states were placed in the wrong location. The campaign deleted the Twitter and Facebook posts Wednesday morning after media outlets and social media users pointed out the error.
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Ben Carson's Staff is So Stupid they Can't Even Recognize a US Map!!! (Original Post)
joeybee12
Nov 2015
OP
"When I am President, I will move some misplaced states back where they belong!"
struggle4progress
Nov 2015
#4
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)1. ZERO=ZERO in all fields with Carson.
Geography, history, math, science-he's equally dumb in all of them.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. Guess he's written off New Hampshire.
Well played!!
underpants
(182,829 posts)3. It looks like America is waving a shrimp
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)4. "When I am President, I will move some misplaced states back where they belong!"
treestar
(82,383 posts)11. lol
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)5. How do you even do that?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)6. Hire some Faux News staff, perhaps? n/t
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)7. The Lord told him that King David moved Connecticut ...
and turned it into a great big great big grain storage facility.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)9. Carson's official mapmaker will be issuing a statement shortly...
...to explain the situation to all U.S. Americans.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)10. The stupid is strong with this one.