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Carson's violent past: Bricks, bats, hammers
CNN ^ | 11/25/15 | Eric Bradner

Posted on 10/25/2015 8:18:46 AM PDT by jimbo123

Ben Carson says he's soft-spoken now -- but he hasn't always been so calm.

"As a teenager, I would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers. And, of course, many people know the story when I was 14 and I tried to stab someone," Carson said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"You know, fortunately, you know, my life has been changed," he added. "And I'm a very different person now."

Carson's comments came after Donald Trump, his leading opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, said at a rally in Miami on Friday that Carson has even less energy than Jeb Bush, who the developer has repeatedly called a "low-energy" candidate.

"Ben Carson is super low energy, right? He's super low," Trump said. "Super low energy. We need tremendous energy. We need tremendous energy."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2016election; amnesty; baseballbats; bats; bencarson; bricks; cantbepresident; carson; election2016; gentleben; hammers; iowa; lowenergyben; rocks; trump; violentman
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To: jimbo123

Yes!


21 posted on 10/25/2015 8:47:01 AM PDT by uncitizen (Trump: Saying what we are all thinking)
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To: jimbo123

Uh, say what?

Yeah, I didn’t know that Psycho Ben.


22 posted on 10/25/2015 8:51:21 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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23 posted on 10/25/2015 8:54:01 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Once Dr. Carson decided to run for office, his good name was sure to be tarnished. It’s a shame, but that’s the game of politics, especially for a Republican.

Somewhere else, in response to Trump, Carson also said:

>>> “As I’ve said many times, there have been many times where I’ve operated 12, 15, 20 hours, and that requires a lot of energy. Doesn’t require a lot of jumping up and down and screaming, but it does require a lot of concentration.” <<<

If only he’d stuck with that response...

A Democrat like Obama can talk openly about how he was headed down the wrong road as a young man, and the media will commend him. But a Republican must be careful of every word he speaks.


24 posted on 10/25/2015 8:55:09 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: jimbo123

25 posted on 10/25/2015 8:58:12 AM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: jimbo123
Carson is not my candidate but the fact that he was able to turn is his around and do the things he has done......... Is fantastic!
26 posted on 10/25/2015 9:02:18 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: jimbo123

I’m not a fan of Carson being President for many, many reasons, but his childhood is not one of them. Carson has long discussed that he was WAY on the wrong path as a VERY angry child and that his mother straightened him out. To me, this is a plus, not a minus, that he had parenting powerful enough to turn a potential gang-banger into a brain surgeon.

And the “malpractice” issue is a non-starter too. This is a neurosurgeon who performed as many as 400 surgeries a year, every year of his practice, and a surgeon to whom the most difficult cases were referred, including cases that other doctors had botched, and yet Carson has had only about a half dozen malpractice suits during his career, and this in a ridiculously sue-happy society.


27 posted on 10/25/2015 9:03:59 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: conservativejoy

Who has this potential to damage, Carson or Trump?
I suspect you mean Carson, because he seems profoundly repressed.


28 posted on 10/25/2015 9:08:41 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Not a fan of Ben Carson, but a handful of malpractice suits in his long career is not bad. I don’t think that will sink him.


29 posted on 10/25/2015 9:09:24 AM PDT by Abby4116
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To: lee martell

Absolutely Carson would damage the country.


30 posted on 10/25/2015 9:13:55 AM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: Abby4116

Leaving sponges in brains, leaving people half paralyzed after performing unnecessary operations, dunno, I think it’ll hurt him.


31 posted on 10/25/2015 9:16:44 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Stentor

“Bat guano crazy.”

Who?

You?

Trump?

Carson?


32 posted on 10/25/2015 9:18:42 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

That only happened a couple of times.

Give a brutha a break.


33 posted on 10/25/2015 9:19:23 AM PDT by jimbo807
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To: conservativejoy

“I have from the beginning believed that this man has the potential to be even more damaging than Obama.”

Based on what?


34 posted on 10/25/2015 9:19:38 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

This seems like the game of the Rhinos—first, take down all the other Republicans (think: Cain); then, with only Trump and Jeb left, push Jeb as the candidate of “reasonableness”.

Expect more attacks on Carson.


35 posted on 10/25/2015 9:20:27 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: catnipman

I agree fully with your post. Carson is to be commended for overcoming a difficult past, and the malpractice thing is also nonsense.

The main reason that I would never vote for Carson is that he does not have the faintest beginning of a vestige of a clue about the Second Amendment.


36 posted on 10/25/2015 9:20:55 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: jimbo123

While I’m not a Carson supporter, you have to go back and look at how he grew up, a mentally ill mother, told he was learning disabled, stupid, lived in the projects.

The man pulled himself out of all that to become a leading Neurosurgeon.

I can admire that. But he is to left for me. Nor do I like the fact he wants vaccines to be mandatory. When many of them should never have been marketed. Gardasil is one of them.

I’d take Cruz or Trump at this point. What I’m waiting for is who their VP choices are going to be. I want to see Lt. Col Allen West who we know is a good conservative in at least Sec. of Defense if not VP. We have to repair our Military.


37 posted on 10/25/2015 9:21:01 AM PDT by GailA (If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, thu won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: jimbo123

While I’m not a Carson supporter, you have to go back and look at how he grew up, a mentally ill mother, told he was learning disabled, stupid, lived in the projects.

The man pulled himself out of all that to become a leading Neurosurgeon.

I can admire that. But he is to left for me. Nor do I like the fact he wants vaccines to be mandatory. When many of them should never have been marketed. Gardasil is one of them.

I’d take Cruz or Trump at this point. What I’m waiting for is who their VP choices are going to be. I want to see Lt. Col Allen West who we know is a good conservative in at least Sec. of Defense if not VP. We have to repair our Military.


38 posted on 10/25/2015 9:21:13 AM PDT by GailA (If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, thu won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: RIghtwardHo

“I say again, Ben Carson is a dangerous man bordering on sociapathy.”

And you want to be taken seriously?


39 posted on 10/25/2015 9:21:50 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: GailA

Get rid of Carson. Trump and Cruz take the primary handily. That ticket is a landslide in the making.


40 posted on 10/25/2015 9:22:07 AM PDT by jimbo807
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