Posted on 02/08/2013 10:32:46 AM PST by caseyn
Dr. Benjamin Carson, a black pediatric neurosurgeon with Johns Hopkins Hospital, gave this amazing speech at Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
@ $600 a copy and rights to the projectile cannisters I'll be a gazillionare, and that'll be a good thing because then I won't have to worry about money anymore.
Now THAT is what an insperational speech sounds like!
I thought he was very Reagan-esque, too. Wonderful speech. Obama looked at the table half the time, then raised his Mussolini chin the other half. I bet that was a really long 20 minutes for The O. The Good Doctor skewered him at every turn - no, not him, just every stupid thing O believes in.
Is he any good at trimming down ears big enough for three sets of twins?
Bump for later
ATF is on their way.
Enjoy your stay in Club GITMO.
I listened to the speech, and then listened again and made an audio copy to email to my adult children, and excerpeted the part about reading being the key to the kingdom, his escape from poverty.
Too many of our childrens’ children spend too much time on Wii and Xbox. I am making this message known, hope it does some good.
I said to myself as I listened, THIS is the guy that should be President on that dais.
Our government was meant to be led by business men, farmers, shopkeepers and professionals from the real world, who would do a few years of public service, then return home to live under the laws they enacted.
Our system of government being captured by lawyers is a huge mistake.
Our system paying well-enough that being an elected representatives can be a LUCRATIVE CAREER is an even greater mistake!
Senators becoming a super-house by direct election of the people, instead of the Senate being the legislative body representing the interests of the State Governments, was a Huge Mistake!
Carson for President!
AND I do not care if he is a Seventh-Day Adventist.
He is a good and honest man, a hard worker, truthful and honorable, intelligent and inspiring by his example.
He would be a great President.
He could make Romney head of the Dept of Commerce AND of the EPA - a dual portfolio - because I think he WOULD do a great job in getting us headed back toward creating business and job opportunities instead of killing them. And during his first term, maybe they even close the EPA and make its “legitimate” function just a part of Commerce, but not its own cabinet-level position.
President Ben Carson? - hmm, interesting...
Excellent, thanks
Yea, he didn’t look too happy to be shown up by a very intelligent black man that came from poverty to produce something in this world talking about fair tax and healthcare solutions.
He was sitting one person away from the DR. and did not applaud or crack a smile. He did not appreciate the good DR’s comments at all.
I don’t see him as skewing Obama so much as...
The Cliche.
Speaking Truth To Power.
THAT is what he did!
LOL, I bet Obama was wishing those big ears didn’t have to hear what the good Doc had to say.
My favorite segment:
But you know, my mother couldn’t stand the fact that we’d been doing poorly in school. And she prayed and she asked God to give her wisdom, what could she do to get her young sons to understand the importance of developing their minds, so that they could control their own lives. And you know what - God gave her the wisdom, at least in her opinion. My brother and I didn’t think it was that wise. (laughter)
‘Cause, it was to turn off the TV, let us watch only 2 or 3 TV programs during the week, and with all that spare time read two books apiece from the Detroit public library and submit to her written book reports, which she couldn’t read but we didn’t know that. (laughter) She put check marks and highlights and stuff...
But, you know, I just hated this (reading), and my friends were out having a good time. Her friends would criticize her, they would say “You can’t make boys stay in the house reading books, they’ll grow up, they’ll hate you.” And I would overhear them and I’d say “Mother, you know, they’re right.”
But she didn’t care, you know. And...
But after while I actually began to enjoy reading those books. Because we were very poor, but between the covers of those books I could go anywhere, I could be anybody, I could do anything. I began to read about people of great accomplishment. And as I read those stories, I began to see a connecting thread. I began to see that the person who has the most to do with you and what happens to you in life is you. You make decisions. You decide how much energy you want to put behind that decision. And I came to understand that I had control of my own destiny.
And at that point, I didn’t hate poverty anymore. Because I knew it was only temporary. I knew I could change that. It was incredibly liberating for me. It made all the difference.”
A few years ago, I coached a young black kid on my basketball team. He wasn’t the best player on the team, but he was certainly the most impressive from a character standpoint. He knew my son from advanced math classes at school; the kid was one of the brightest kids in the school and everyone knew it. His goal (which I have no doubt he will succeed at) is to study at John’s Hopkins under Dr. Carson. He picked the right role model.
I wish our media did a better job of promoting Dr. Carson as a role model than the gangsta thugs they routinely portray. Of course, if they did, the whole race game is over, so I guess there’s no incentive for that.
The Baltimore Sun does not have one word about his appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast - and Dr Carson is Very Popular with Baltimore residents. One of the major philanthropists in the city. Still lives in the city and pays city taxes which are double what one would pay in the surrounding county.
I have found a new Hero. Dr. Carson is truly amazing and a Godsend. His intelligence and wisdom are phenomenal. How have I missed knowing about him until now?
I wonder if the White House Prayer Breakfast planning committee knew about his motivational and American-people loving speeches. I have been privileged to hear him several times and he really connects with his audiences.
I'm sure that having to be at a Prayer Breakfast must have felt like waterboarding to our Prez. He likes to sleep in and he does not like prayer.
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