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Posted on 11/05/2015 5:39:41 AM PST by jimbo123
Ben Carson, the soft-spoken, Yale-educated brain surgeon who has surged in the GOP presidential race, has written and spoken powerfully of divine intervention at several pivotal moments in his life.
At the core of his narrative of spiritual redemption are his acts of violence as an angry young man - stabbing, rock throwing, brick hurling and baseball bat beating - that preceded Carson's sudden transformation into the composed figure who stands before voters today.
In his 1990 autobiography, "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story," Carson describes those acts as flowing from an uncontrollable "pathological temper." The violent episodes he has detailed in his book, in public statements and in interviews, include punching a classmate in the face with his hand wrapped around a lock, leaving a bloody three-inch gash in the boy's forehead; attempting to attack his own mother with a hammer following an argument over clothes; hurling a large rock at a boy, which broke the youth's glasses and smashed his nose; and, finally, thrusting a knife at the belly of his friend with such force that the blade snapped when it luckily struck a belt buckle covered by the boy's clothes.
"I was trying to kill somebody," Carson said, describing the incident -- which he has said occurred at age 14 in ninth grade -- during a September forum at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
But nine friends, classmates and neighbors who grew up with Carson told CNN they have no memory of the anger or violence the candidate has described.
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He is quite the low-talking storyteller...
Herman Cain, meet Ben Carson.
It is not uncommon for Christians to exaggerate the depths of sin from which they came in order to exalt themselves.
yeah - a youthful temper disqualifies him (sarc) - how many women have accused him of rape, boorish behavior, molesting them with cigars or jacking off in the oval office sink
No surprise the media would be suspicious of these childhood stories. Why, they were just as eager to investigate all the tales Obama told about his youth, weren’t they?
CNN did not make Ben Carson. I doubt they can break him.
The premise of this piece is weak as water. It states that “everybody would have known.” That assumption cannot be proven.
Why would you use an argument that Dr. Carson’s flaws are nothing compared to Clinton’s? The behavior of the Clintons is beneath us to use for comparison. It gives an “anything better than debauchery” defense for your guy.
If I had a child with a brain tumor there is nobody in this world I’d rather have operating on them than Ben Carson. But there is no way I want him as president of the United States.
The circular firing squad nevervruns out of ammo, does it?
Go with CNN FReepers, they’ll tell you who the real enemy is. /s
“.....attempting to attack his own mother with a hammer following an argument over clothes....”
Wonder if hammer control would be more appropriate in cities or in rural areas? Perhaps only rubber or rawhide mallets should be allowed in those areas where regular hammers are banned.
What I find interesting is the “media” think Carson is exaggerating his own personal darkness. Meanwhile, they twist themselves into the wildest contortions to paint the Clintons and Obamas as sainted beings.
“Everybody would have known”.
If everyone should know about Dr. Carson shouldn’t at least one person remember obama at Colunbia?
We here at FR all know the answer to that question.
Of course the media are hyprocrites. But we should hold our candidates to a higher standard than Obama and Clintons.
The moral equivalency tactic is tiresome.
Oh, please... we've read countless stories in which the acts of even the most violent among us are met with complete surprise by friends and family who "never had any idea" such acts would happen. People deal with personal demons all the time, out of sight of those who believe they know them.
Somehow it wouldn’t surprise me if I learned that CNN only used the interviews that ripped Carson. Most of these people only say they went to the same schools or they ‘knew’ him. They don’t say they were his friends.
OK, so to take your point and extend it...
If Gentle Ben was good at hiding his inner rage then, what’s to say he isn’t doing that now?
Hmmm?
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