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August 08, 2015 Ben Carson , Gentle Virtuous Rhetoric 1 Comments

Ben Carson's Gentle Virtuous Rhetoric Elevated The Debate


By David French, Aug 07, 2015 National Review

The first half of yesterday’s GOP debate was not kind to Ben Carson. Ignored for long stretches, his soft-spoken demeanor sometimes contrasted unfavorably with his more intense and passionate opponents. But then came the second half, when Ben Carson said this:

Megyn Kelly asked him what he would do, as president, to heal the nation’s racial divide — a divide that’s grown during President Obama’s two terms. Carson began by rightly noting the power of the “bully pulpit” — the pulpit Obama has used to such divisive effect — and decried the “purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people.” This is all true and right to say, but what came next was truly unexpected:

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