In Iowa, Carson calls for phasing out agriculture subsidies in 10 years

As of this evening, 14 presidential candidates from both political parties will have stepped onto the fairgrounds and all but two stepped up on The Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox to deliver a speech to fairgoers.

“The last thing we need in Syria is a repeat of Libya, with its planless aftermath, where the end of a dictatorship was only the beginning of more terrorist violence including the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi”, Mr. Bush said Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

He claimed that “politicians” don’t want to talk about the country’s fiscal problems, but that he would.

He later said he favored setting term limits for elected officials and federal judges – including the U.S. Supreme Court – with future presidents serving one six-year term and members of Congress also limited in years of service to prevent them from constantly focusing on their next election rather than solving the nation’s problems. “We have a deal with Iran that guarantees that they’re going to have a unsafe weapon and the ability to strike this very city before a decade is out”.

“Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill had a drink every night”, he said.

“People are dying to be led”, Graham said. “And we’re not going to leave until the job’s done”.

Graham was introduced by his younger sister Darline Graham Nordine, who accompanied him throughout his daylong visit to the fair and described their early life growing up in a one-room apartment behind the pool hall, bar and liquor store their parents owned.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina offered a different plan to combat the Islamic State, breaking from the more hawkish bent of some of her rivals by saying the U.S.is not at a time when ground troops are needed.

“If I’m president of the United States, we’re going back to Iraq and we’re going to pound these guys into the ground”, Graham said. “In medicine we call that a form of schizophrenia, a form of craziness”, Carson said.

“(As) the governor of Iowa, I think it can’t get any better than this”, Branstad says.

“We have to take advantage – we have so much talent”, he said. “I know I can do it because I did it in New York”. “And I would take care of them”, Mr. Trump said on “Meet the Press”.