Dr. Ben Carson stepped into the national spotlight recently when, as speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast, to an audience that included President Obama, he was openly critical of the President’s approach to health care and his overall management of the nation’s economy.
Carson, who is director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is a hero to many. His life story, rising from a Detroit ghetto to a life of accomplishment and distinction, is a story of American ideals on steroids.
Those ideals say that America is about merit not circumstance. Your life, your achievements are the result of what you do and how you live, not where you came from.
The hard history of blacks in America has always made it a challenge for them to accept this credo. Many still carry a sense that those ideals may be true for whites, but they never were true, and still aren’t true, for blacks.
So in this context, Ben Carson’s story is particularly important. It’s making liberals nervous, and the attacks on him are starting.
He’s now pulled out, under pressure, from giving the commencement address at Johns Hopkins University because some are unhappy with how, in an interview on Fox, he expressed his views regarding the importance of maintaining the integrity of traditional marriage.
Blacks have known about Carson for years. I gave his book Gifted Hands to my daughters to read when they were little girls. A highly acclaimed made-for-TV movie about his life aired in 2009, with Dr. Carson played by Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr.
But this story of personal responsibility, hard work and traditional values is becoming a political story. It is becoming political because Ben Carson’s American dream story, according to the liberal script, is not supposed to work for blacks.
Ben Carson is the biggest threat to liberals since Bill Cosby got out of line at an NAACP banquet in Washington, DC in 2004.
Cosby had the temerity to deliver tough, critical talk about what too many blacks are doing with the freedom that civil rights activists of the 1960’s fought to achieve.
He contrasted the sixties generation with the new generation of black youth sitting in jail. “…..these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake.”
Cosby attributed the chaos to breakdown in values, family, and personal responsibility. It’s the last thing the NAACP crowd wanted to hear that night and he paid a price. He was vilified and marginalized until he backed off.
Liberals never take on what black conservatives actually say because they can’t. So the attacks become personal.
Trillions of taxpayers’ dollars have been poured into black communities over the last half-century producing virtually no change in the incidence of black poverty.
Yet, Ben Carson, through diligence and traditional values, achieved on his own what those trillions of dollars of government programs were supposed to deliver.
Liberal black writer Ta-Nehisi Coates put the cards on the table in an article about Cosby which appeared in 2008 in The Atlantic magazine. The typical black conservative votes for Democrats, he notes, “not out of love for abortion rights.... but because he feels…. that the modern day GOP draws on support of people who hate him.”
So stoking paranoia about racism has always been the strategy of liberals to fend off the political threat of conservative values that so many church-going blacks embrace.
Predictably, Coates has produced a New York Times column on Carson, reducing this great man to the usual caricature of a black empty suit manipulated by white conservatives.
Ben Carson is an accomplished and wealthy man. Americans, certainly black Americans, need him in public life more than he needs to be in public life. Let’s hope the left wing and the haters of traditional morality don’t succeed in making him conclude it’s not worth it.
Wow, I thought George W. Bush was the worst man ever to walk the earth. Now, according to the Leftists, it’s Mitt Romney? Geez, what are all the mannish looking lesbians going to do with all that anti-Bush schwag? Maybe they can recycle it into a tricycle and ride that three-wheeler down to Uglytown and offset the mega carbon footprint their BS on Mitt has transmitted to mother earth. Make sure your Dockers don’t get caught in the spokes, ladies!
This week, in a further attempt to hide Obama’s disastrous presidency and thereby afford BHO four more years to entrench us further in an economic maelstrom, an Obama Super PAC attempted to paint Romney as an evil rapscallion who gives old ladies cancer.
Hey, Stupor PAC, why stop there with giving granny the scourge? Why don’t you sell even more loopy crap to the vacillating voting morons who’re beginning to wake up from the Obama voodoo juice you seduced them with four years ago? You’ve got to shoot for the moon, you stump shooters. Tell the goobers who watched and believed your “hope and change” schlock some doozies so they’ll stay corralled within your anti-American crab trap.
Yes, if you’re going to keep your constituents from making the savvy leap from Barack’s Marxism into more of an American free market system you’ve gotta ramp up the rhetoric, or they could officially wake up and leave your loser for Mitt.
So, I suggest that if you’re going to paint Mitt as Iron Maiden’s mascot, Eddie the Head, you need to get more creative with your bollocks.
For instance, tell your beholden sheeple that …
· Romney hates cute kittens and ring-tailed lemurs.
· Romney makes dogs ride on top of airplanes. Screw the cars. Say airplanes. It’s more terrifying.
· Romney wants poor people to drink mud and breathe secondhand smoke.
· Romney enslaves orphans and makes them pull his sled during leopard seal hunts. Naked. In the dead of winter.
· Romney purposely runs over manatees when he’s boating in south Florida.
· Romney thinks you ought to keep more of the money you’ve made versus giving it to lazy government sponges.
· Romney has five sons. Who does that?
· Romney was the third man on the grassy knoll. Lee Romney Oswald.
· Romney hates apples, eggs and pie.
· Romney gave a kid spinal meningitis.
· Romney pulled the spine out of a puppy once.
· Romney’s granddad killed Abraham Lincoln.
· Romney has a third nipple.
· Romney and his wife were at OJ’s house the night Nicole and Ron Goldman were killed. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Some of you are asking, “What if people check to see if the aforementioned sputum is true and find out it is all bunkum like they did with the Super PAC’s super specious cancer advert?” Well, I wouldn’t allow that to deter you. You’ve got one of the dumbest and densest constituencies known to mankind at your beck and call. Take courage because a little bit of hocus-pocus goes a long way with your serfs, and your lies will be reinforced within the echo chamber which is the lamestream media, so … I’d let ‘em rip. Shoot from the hip. Blast the gobbledygook into the airwaves. Say whatever and do whatever it takes to retain your power because if people ever get on to you (and your ruse is discovered to be lies wrapped in mysteries and covered with Marxist sauce) then you are done. Therefore, stay busy, stay hopeful, and remember, as Adolf once said, that the big lie works better than the small ones.
Dr. Ben Carson stepped into the national spotlight recently when, as speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast, to an audience that included President Obama, he was openly critical of the President’s approach to health care and his overall management of the nation’s economy.
