Thomas F. Schaller's analogy comparing Michael Jordan's attempt to play baseball to Ben Carson's qualifications to be president is asinine ("Carson, stick to medicine," Feb. 4). Why don't we just expand that assertion to dissuade political science teachers from becoming newspaper columnists?
Did not the founders write the Constitution so that anyone born a U.S. citizen has the opportunity to serve the people of this nation as president? What makes a lawyer or lifelong politician better able to govern than an engineer, or a rancher or a movie actor or a journalist?
Dr. Carson gets under Mr. Schaller's skin because he doesn't toe the line. He is not afraid to speak the truth, and if one listens to what he says, his arguments are more coherent and centered on facts than the carefully scripted doublespeak blathered by most career politicians.
Dr. Carson will no doubt face withering scrutiny from the media, as will all candidates who are not part of the established "polit-ocracy." His voice is rational, intelligent and truthful, exactly 180 degrees apart from the established potentates. The electoral process will play out, and the more candidates willing to stand on beliefs and principles rather than adhere to corporate harlotry, the better this nation will be for it. Unfortunately at this stage of my life, cynicism tells me we will get more of the same. There are too many disconnected idiots, "intellectual" brains replete with packing peanuts and media mesmerized fools who will go to the polls and vote for the marionettes with the shiniest bangles.
A small percentage of these idiots I'm sure have sat through the professor's classes getting their cerebrums turned to mush, which suits Mr. Schaller better than journalism. Stick to teaching, doc.
Tim Youngblood, Forest Hill