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The Carson Drama

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We all know that I find Carson to be pathetic and vomit – inducing but the following is just plain crazy:

Nine friends, classmates and neighbors who grew up with Carson told CNN they have no memory of the anger or violence the candidate has described. That person is unrecognizable to those whom CNN interviewed, who knew him during those formative years.

Yes, people have different facets to their personalities that might surprise even those who think they know them extremely well, let alone their neighbors or classmates. Trying to find out anything about me as teenager on the basis of what my neighbors have to say would be utterly futile. And I just died of boredom just writing all this.

And since I’m on the exasperating subject of Carson: pyramids, really? That’s the greatest objection we have to this fellow? He said something dumb about sodding pyramids?

This electoral cycle is so ADD that I’m getting dizzy. People don’t seem to be able to stay on point for longer than 2 seconds. Carson is a horrible candidate but not because his neighbors weren’t privy to everything he did as a teenager and not because his grasp of egyptology is poor.

5 responses to “The Carson Drama”

  1. Evelina Anville Avatar
    Evelina Anville

    I’m with you about the teenage behavior comments (although apparently Carson is the one that made that story blow up.) But I do find the pyramid story troubling– not completely scandalous– but troubling.

    The reason I find the pyramid story troubling is because it suggests that Sanders bases his world view on a literalist interpretation of the bible and steadfastly refuses to believe expert or scholarly research. To me, biblical literalists are frightening and should be kept as far away from the political arena as possible. I also find it troubling when adults completely ignore scholarly expertise in favor of religious fanaticism.

    I would rather see policy discussions of course. But I still think evidence of insane religious fanaticism is worth reporting.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Carson, not Sanders. 🙂 What a really scary is his belief that the taxation system should be based on the Biblical idea of tithing. He was absolutely lost and incoherent on that subject during the last debate. It was scary.

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      1. Evelina Anville Avatar
        Evelina Anville

        Ooops! Too many names. Yes: Carson not Sanders! I agree: Carson’s ideas about “Biblical taxation” are exceptionally troubling. And to me, it’s actually related to his weird pyramid notions. But the taxation ideas are worse of course.

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    2. cliff arroyo Avatar
      cliff arroyo

      “To me, biblical literalists are frightening and should be kept as far away from the political arena as possible”

      I feel the same way about literalists of any religious stripe. Interpreting any holy text (whether the bible, koran, constitution or das kapital) in a literal way divorced from the context in which it was written and is being read in leads to nothing but misery and dysfunction.

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      1. Clarissa Avatar
        Clarissa

        GOOD point.

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