Well you have to admit having to prove you tried to stab a relative with a knife only to have the blade break off on his belt buckle and seriously considering attacking your mother with a hammer are odd things to brag about.
Then there’s that claim that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain...
Well, Michael Jackson had to do the “Bad” video to get some “street cred”.
This might interest you:
“......I’m 15 years younger than the good doctor, but were you to scour the same time period of my life, I highly doubt anyone would remember me as a reprobate. Nevertheless, I had a helluva temper as a kid, enjoyed quite the shoplifting spree for a while, and got in more than a few fights (most of which I lost, thank you very much).
In fact, I spent 6th grade in an inner-city middle school named after my hero Jackie Robinson. After graduating high school, I lived in an inner-city for 2 years. Now I am in no way trying to pretend I’m Down With the Struggle. But unlike these white, liberal CNN anchors, I have walked a mile or two in at least one of Ben Carson’s shoes and can tell you that in an inner-city environment, violence is too commonplace to be all that memorable. Especially a half-century ago!
When you look back that far, all you are going to remember is your impressions of people. You don’t remember the usual-usual fights, scrapes, and other details. The fact that a certain impression of Carson is all the so-called “witnesses” CNN has talked to remember about Carson, is far-far-far from extraordinary.
The bottom line here is that CNN is on an obvious racist witch hunt to destroy a politically conservative black man who has dared to stray from The Leftwing Thought Plantation.....”
Those incidents ostensibly occurred when he was 13 years old, and he began telling them in 1997 or so in his first autobiography to illustrate the redemptive power of God. They were not bragging; they were illustrations of how God can reorder a disordered life.
Now they are being flung at him by the unChristian, unforgiving secular media, who completely miss the point of how a disadvantaged black kid could turn his life around, graduate from Yale, become a brain surgeon and seek to inspire other struggling youths. It really is a witch hunt.
I say this and he is not my candidate, but he is someone who has earned respect, and this Palinization is despicable. I'm disappointed in Trump's contributions as well.