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Ben Carson denies energy deficit and says as 'volatile' teen he 'went after people with hammers'
theguardian.com ^ | Martin Pengelly

Posted on 10/25/2015 6:09:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Ben Carson has answered critics who say he lacks energy for the Republican presidential fight, saying that in contrast to his softly spoken demeanour as an adult he was “very volatile” as a teenager, when he “would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers”.

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On NBC, Carson continued: “I am soft-spoken. I do have a tendency to be relaxed. I wasn’t always like that. There was a time when I was, you know, very volatile. But, you know, I changed.

“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. And, you know, fortunately … my life has been changed. And I’m a very different person now.”

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Asked by NBC host Chuck Todd if such statements would hamstring his aspirations to the presidency, Carson said: “…As people get to know me, they know that I’m not a hateful, pathological person like some people try to make me out to be. And that will be self-evident.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bencarson; cantbepresident; carson; elections; hammertime; trump
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Conventional Rules are still here, they are just being forgotten by some of those who are listening to some who are saying Conventional Rules are gone “this time”.


61 posted on 10/25/2015 9:14:58 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: jimbo807

Yep.


62 posted on 10/25/2015 9:16:19 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: rabidralph

Vampires Mummies & the Holy Ghost
Jimmy Buffett


63 posted on 10/25/2015 10:07:47 AM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana

LOL! Thanks.


64 posted on 10/25/2015 10:09:16 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

He projects like a lib grabber.


65 posted on 10/25/2015 10:09:26 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: RoosterRedux




66 posted on 10/25/2015 10:20:34 AM PDT by Heart-Rest ( "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)
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To: BRL

I would agree. Trump only accepts the money of the people he intends to support.


67 posted on 10/26/2015 5:15:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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