Dodging Ben Carson's Knife

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL DARLING Dr. Ben Carson is on a roll, threatening to trump Trump. Rejoice, right wingers of America, you finally have your own viable black candidate, to offset B. O.. Your very own conservative African-American, of which there are about five nation wide, to make you right wingers look open minded, tolerant, inclusive. Its all smoke and mirrors, of course, since any gathering of tea party or republican conservative types anywhere in real space and real time is real, real white. Your best bet is that the eventual republican nominee will also be real white. Dr. Carson, like the rest of us, has a proclivity to exaggerate his own experiences, for the same reason why Thomas Jefferson did and the rest of us do; to excite wonder and get attention. No harm in that. Like mark Twain said, never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Then too, we love it when our celebrity exaggerators get caught, have to confess, and promise to reform, before our very eyes. It gives us a chance to be self righteous, noble, forgiving, tolerant, and it gives the offending celebrities a bit more face time, which is what they dearly love. Dr. Carson's whopper about getting accepted at West Point does no harm, because it merely stretches the truth a mite, in the grand tradition of Mark Twain, Davy Crockett, and Brian Williams. Th Carson whopper about stabbing somebody in the belt buckle while trying to stab him in the gut is very alarming; whether its true or not. People change remarkably little, fundamentally, in their late childhood and adulthood. Obama's sister claimed that she has never seen her brother angry at anyone. That's just what we need in our presidents; tightly controlled emotions, subdued by the intellect. We don't need some wild animal in the White House throwing things and breaking things. A quick, hard to control temper can lurk just beneath the surface of the most soft spoken, gentle person. Beware candidate Carson; either he once had a murderous impulse, or he wants us to believe that he did. In either case, watch out.