By Bernie Quigley
For The Hill on 2/12/13
State of the Union? The second greatest American president, Andrew Jackson, refused to give them, seeing only the posturing of the French courts and the royalist tendencies of the Colonials. And something far more important happened in the last week; the prayer breakfast in which Dr. Ben Carson made his public debut. Armstrong William’s review below is right on target. Dr. Carson brings an awakening and anyone who does not see the power and life force of this man take another look at the clip – the one in which he talks about the man with ten billion and the man with ten dollars. And look at the suddenly sallow and ashen faces; the creeping trepidation of President Obama, Vice President Biden and the others. (And the terror of liberal commentators following like Bob Bechtel: “Spewing bile . . . shame!”) To add a word to Armstrong’s review, there is even a trace of the holy in Dr. Carson’s delicate smile; like the man rarely sent to us to begin time and events again. There is something in him specific to the American journey that only we, the Americans, can fully understand and relate to. His journey is our journey and you feel it right away. Or not at all. He said that he would only run for office if the Lord grabbed his collar, but he should be grabbed first and drafted by the conservative rank and file (and the “legitimate press”!), looking desperately for a savior.
State of the Union? The second greatest American president, Andrew Jackson, refused to give them, seeing only the posturing of the French courts and the royalist tendencies of the Colonials. And something far more important happened in the last week; the prayer breakfast in which Dr. Ben Carson made his public debut. Armstrong William’s review below is right on target. Dr. Carson brings an awakening and anyone who does not see the power and life force of this man take another look at the clip – the one in which he talks about the man with ten billion and the man with ten dollars. And look at the suddenly sallow and ashen faces; the creeping trepidation of President Obama, Vice President Biden and the others. (And the terror of liberal commentators following like Bob Bechtel: “Spewing bile . . . shame!”) To add a word to Armstrong’s review, there is even a trace of the holy in Dr. Carson’s delicate smile; like the man rarely sent to us to begin time and events again. There is something in him specific to the American journey that only we, the Americans, can fully understand and relate to. His journey is our journey and you feel it right away. Or not at all. He said that he would only run for office if the Lord grabbed his collar, but he should be grabbed first and drafted by the conservative rank and file (and the “legitimate press”!), looking desperately for a savior.
In 2008 I devised a system of
choosing presidential candidates similar to that which they use to grade cheese
at county fairs here in New Hampshire, in an attempt to head off the American
Idol approach which is bringing us to ruin. At top was Governor of a Big State,
especially New York, Texas or California, and by all rights California Governor
Jerry Brown and Texas Governor Rick
Perry should lead the pack. Then Top Military Commander (Grant,
Eisenhower) and Governor of a Small State (Vermont’s Howard Dean and New Mexico’s
Gary Johnson) and spiralling down to
Stand up Comedian, Professional Wrestler and finally, Just Anybody (Glenn
Beck).
But at the top of the list, equal to
Governor of a Big State is the Indegeneous Outrigger; anyone who somehow
captures the imagination of the people almost overnight. Obama, for example, and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The world’s
greatest leaders always come from this crowd as if out of nowhere. Dr. Carson
might consider himself to be that leader in our times. We live in changing times
and it rare in times of change that the true leader comes from the rank and
file. She or he comes instead, from nature.
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