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Ben Carson's latest claims - he was homeless, hungry and saw segregation at water fountains
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 11/05/2015 5:47:06 PM PST by TigerClaws

Newly minted Republican presidential front-runner late Wednesday night went online to further a narrative that he has been using for weeks on the campaign trail, describing a childhood filled with homelessness, hunger and hard times.

The retired surgeon used his Facebook page sometime after 11 p.m. to post a rambling defense of his lack of political experience, his pride at his years as a neurosurgeon, and a hard-luck boyhood in which he says he witnessed segregation first-hand.

'I grew up poor. I know what it is like to be homeless and hungry. I know the pain of poverty... I know what it is like to see water fountains you are not allowed to drink out of because of your skin color,' Carson wrote.

'I also know that once you peel back the skin, the brain is the same no matter what your skin color or continent you live on.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3305727/Ben-Carson-s-latest-claims-homeless-hungry-saw-segregation-water-fountains.html#ixzz3qfivSrqK Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
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To: Artemis Webb

I think he’s going for the black vote. Trump said Carson’s donors are totally running his campaign, right down to his appearances.


21 posted on 11/05/2015 6:06:34 PM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: TigerClaws

22 posted on 11/05/2015 6:06:46 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: TigerClaws
The "surging surgeon"...I'm surprised that phrase hasn't caught on more than it has.

For those who remember, it was exactly four years ago at this time that Herman Cain reached the apogee of his campaign. Like Carson, he came out of nowhere and knocked off the frontrunner - at least for a short time.

But then in early November, the "bimbo eruptions" began to happen and by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, Cain folded up his campaign like a cheap suit and made haste for the hinterlands. But he also had some rather bizarre behavior towards the end. Almost like he felt he got himself in over his head and was looking for a reason to quit.

I guess it must be scary running for president as a lark and then suddenly realizing that you might just win.

23 posted on 11/05/2015 6:07:09 PM PST by SamAdams76 (It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
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To: OSHA

Snopes said that Hillary’s MAMA must’ve lied to her about the Sir Edmund Hillary claim.


24 posted on 11/05/2015 6:07:14 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: Smedley

Bill Clinton’s a Jerk.


25 posted on 11/05/2015 6:08:20 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: TigerClaws

Well, that didn’t take long.

I wonder whose race card he borrowed...Sharpton’s or Armstrong’s.


26 posted on 11/05/2015 6:09:36 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Kenny

Is John Phillip Sousa IV still collecting the funds for Carson’s PAC?


27 posted on 11/05/2015 6:11:49 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: skeeter


"Barry, the garbage man's here."
"Good.  Tell him to leave two cans."

28 posted on 11/05/2015 6:11:51 PM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: TigerClaws

They’re trying to PALINIZE him.

The idea of a prominent, conservative BLACK man is huuuuuugely threatening to The Left.


29 posted on 11/05/2015 6:12:13 PM PST by gaijin
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To: TigerClaws

Sounded more like book selling pitch to me.


30 posted on 11/05/2015 6:12:48 PM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: tennmountainman
I am very stunned that a man of his education can think grain was stored in the Pyrimids.

There probably was grain included for the dead pharaohs trip to the afterlife.

31 posted on 11/05/2015 6:15:07 PM PST by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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To: TigerClaws

I might care about this if and when the MSM go back and find those churches that Bill Clinton saw burn down, or discuss Hillary’s being named after Sir Edmund, or even discuss anything about Obama’s boyhood, eating dog and worshipping in mosques.


32 posted on 11/05/2015 6:16:49 PM PST by Defiant (I wouldn't have to mansplain if it weren't for all those wymidiots.)
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To: TigerClaws

I’m not so sure he’s old enough to remember white and colored water fountains. He may have seen pictures or films.


33 posted on 11/05/2015 6:17:27 PM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: Jane Long

I had my first-of-the-upcoming-election robo-campaign call today. Yeah, you guessed it, right at dinner time.
It was from Dr. Ben.
I hung up immediately, so I have no idea what he had to say.
I wish these people would realize the robo calls just turn people off.


34 posted on 11/05/2015 6:20:06 PM PST by Radagast the Fool (At my signal, UNLEASH PALIN!!)
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To: VerySadAmerican

I saw them here in nc. They even had glazed tiles that said “white” & “colored”. 1965.


35 posted on 11/05/2015 6:24:59 PM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

He is totally unvetted and there will be dozens of these nuggets out there.

I wonder where his voters will go.


36 posted on 11/05/2015 6:25:16 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: VerySadAmerican
I’m not so sure he’s old enough to remember white and colored water fountains. He may have seen pictures or films.

I'm only a year older than Carson and I sure saw "Whites Only" bathrooms and "Colored" water fountains on a trip to Texas with my parents in 1962. I was 12 and remember it well.

37 posted on 11/05/2015 6:32:08 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: TigerClaws

You can make ANYONE look dumb—even you. Carson can’t be “dumb”.

So what is the point? Perceptions? How about what GW did in his Skull and Bones rituals-—the sodomy in coffins and the overt worship of Lucifer? How about Kissinger in his robes and hood as they sacrificed boys to their Owl and sodomized them (Bohemian Grove) for the she/he “god”. He gave us *great* military advice and promotes One World government LOL.

What about Clinton on Epstein’s island molesting the children? Who is “more” rational? Someone molesting women and children???? or someone who thinks grain was stored in pyramids? How about Charles Dawkins who stated that “aliens seeded the earth”?????????? LOLOLOLOL He’s quoted and idolized at Yale and Harvard.

How about Stephen Hawking when he stated “Philosophy is Dead”....LOLOLOL How STUPID these people are!!!! yet endorsed and NEVER ridiculed.

There actually has been grain found in pyramids-—and it still can germinate. LOL

I would rather have a Mind like Carson’s in the Oval office than any creepy thing in it now. Cruz, Trump or Carson would be a 500% improvement and I would trust him to put moral, smart people in positions of power.


38 posted on 11/05/2015 6:33:55 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: Jane Long

I don’t know. Hard to get info on his individual donors.


39 posted on 11/05/2015 6:34:51 PM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: TigerClaws

He is old enough to have seen segregated water fountains. But did MD have this kind of segregation: it had segregation in schools until c. 1954?


40 posted on 11/05/2015 6:37:16 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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