Let's give Ben Carson another shovel, because the one thing he and his campaign have proven adept at is digging deeper and deeper holes. Like stumbling over pretty basic questions about the Middle East. Such as naming some of the countries of the region. Carson advisor Armstrong Williams is now explaining that Carson gets foreign policy just fine. It's just that the man is above having to answer the media's "silly" questions. Like being able to name countries in the Middle East.
"Dr. Carson is very dismissive of the question," Williams said Tuesday on Bloomberg's With All Due Respect. "It was a hypothetical, and Dr. Carson does not like answering hypotheticals and so he intentionally did not answer the question."
Armstrong took the blame offering the Times the wrong word when describing how the interview transpired, claiming that in a conversation with Carson Tuesday morning, the candidate told him "he just thought it was a silly question."
Questions about what Carson would do as president are, by definition, hypothetical since he's, um, not the president. Which is remarkably handy, come to think about it. Carson now has an out for not being able to answer any question posed to him. He's just above them.