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Who is the Ben Carson, GOP darling-of-the-week? A Tale of Two Carsons...

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A tale of two Ben Carsons - CNNPolitics.com

"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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It will be interesting to see if this gets any more traction.... :shock:
 
Because we are talking about a Republican candidate, I am sure it will get some traction.
 
This has no traction.

There's no story here.

I'll say right now, I was a very, very different kid than the man I am today, when people are young they do all sorts of weird and wonderful things... if you really think about it there's many things in your past that would make you cringe.

Even just a few years ago I think as a father, husband and manager, wow... there were things I did as night security that were very reckless and I endangered myself far beyond my mandate.

Now that doesn't quite relate to Carsons story per-say... but people change.

I don't believe in holding everything a young man did against them forever.

There's plenty of reasons not to vote for Ben Carson, but this is one of the stupidest and trivial things to get upset about.
 
Jetboogieman said:
I don't believe in holding everything a young man did against them forever.
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thats not the point..... the point he is lying about his past, the actual stories aren't that bad, and are actually part of his narrative of being a "bad dude who converted to jesus and turned his life around" hardly a story that would get anything short of raucous applause if he told it to an evangelical crowd.

its the fact that this "bad boy ben carson" never existed. None of his stories are true. Nobody from his past remembers anything but a nerdy church going quiet kid, which is not too far off from what he is today.

So why is he lying?
 
dimensionallava said:
thats not the point..... the point he is lying about his past, the actual stories aren't that bad, and are actually part of his narrative of being a "bad dude who converted to jesus and turned his life around" hardly a story that would get anything short of raucous applause if he told it to an evangelical crowd.

its the fact that this "bad boy ben carson" never existed. None of his stories are true. Nobody from his past remembers anything but a nerdy church going quiet kid, which is not too far off from what he is today.

So why is he lying?
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**** sorry I misread the story.

Hadn't had my morning coffee yet.
 
dimensionallava said:
thats not the point..... the point he is lying about his past, the actual stories aren't that bad, and are actually part of his narrative of being a "bad dude who converted to jesus and turned his life around" hardly a story that would get anything short of raucous applause if he told it to an evangelical crowd.

its the fact that this "bad boy ben carson" never existed. None of his stories are true. Nobody from his past remembers anything but a nerdy church going quiet kid, which is not too far off from what he is today.

So why is he lying?
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the article certainly raises questions... it does not declare it a FACT that Ben did not have a temper problem as a kid... the articles does not show these are "lies"
those are conclusions you've made based upon your own bias.

as a kid , I had a bad temper problem myself... I hid it for most of my childhood.
I didn't have a "Jesus cured my temper" moment though... I just stopped hiding it.
 
SlevinKelevra said:
A tale of two Ben Carsons - CNNPolitics.com



It will be interesting to see if this gets any more traction.... :shock:
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They didn't prove anything so they wrote an article saying that they didn't prove anything. Pretty typical.

This reminds me of a sniper situation and Hillary. That was actually proven that she lied about the sniper incident. If I recall her version changed about 3 times until she had to recant the whole incident.
 
dimensionallava said:
thats not the point..... the point he is lying about his past, the actual stories aren't that bad, and are actually part of his narrative of being a "bad dude who converted to jesus and turned his life around" hardly a story that would get anything short of raucous applause if he told it to an evangelical crowd.

its the fact that this "bad boy ben carson" never existed. None of his stories are true. Nobody from his past remembers anything but a nerdy church going quiet kid, which is not too far off from what he is today.

So why is he lying?
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They inferred that he was lying because they didn't prove that he was telling the truth. They didn't even say they couldn't prove that he was telling the truth. Big difference. There is a whole lot of text saying that they didn't prove anything but since they didn't prove anything he must be lying. Pretty weak.

Just two words, Hillary, sniper.
 
OrphanSlug said:
Because we are talking about a Republican candidate, I am sure it will get some traction.
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I doubt it. Republicans live in a fact free environment, believing what they want to believe, regardless of the facts.

In October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Lebanon 241 American servicemen were killed by suicide bombers because they had been pointlessly placed in harms way by order of Ronald Reagan. By every criterion this was worse than Benghazi. Nevertheless, it did not effect Reagan's popularity at all.
 
He's a magnificent credit to humanity! As it says in his book.

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