Meet Candy Carson: The Anti-Michelle Obama

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Townhall:

After nearly eight years of the East Wing's politics of mope and complain, it's refreshing to see a presidential candidate's spouse who is always smiling.

 

Candy Carson -- wife of GOP 2016 hopeful Dr. Ben Carson, mother of three sons, and grandmother of two -- is the anti-Michelle Obama. She's a quiet but confident ray of sunshine: down-to-earth, devoutly Christian and proudly patriotic.

 

While Mrs. Obama first gained notoriety carping about racism and trashing America, Mrs. Carson helped kick off her husband's 2016 bid by playing the violin with a gospel choir as they performed a joyful, rousing rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner.

 

I met the couple, who recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary, a few weeks ago during a campaign stop in Colorado Springs. Dr. Carson's dazzling career as a Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon is well known. But Mrs. Carson's own personal story is remarkable as a standalone exemplar of the American Dream achieved.

 

 

The daughter of a teacher and a factory worker, Candy Carson grew up poor in inner-city Detroit with four siblings. She earned a scholarship to attend Yale University, where she met her future husband and fellow Detroit native. Mrs. Carson triple-majored in music, psychology and pre-med. She played violin for the Yale Symphony and Bach Society. Just as her church-organist mother insisted that all her children learn to play instruments, Mrs. Carson formed a string quartet (two violins, cello and viola) with her own three sons dubbed the "Carson Four."

[Valin]

politics of mope and complain Love It!

 

Talking out my broad brush it appears this shows the difference between the 2 parties campaigns.

 

Also if you are the spouse of a candidate (particularity Republican) you are going to get everything you have ever said and done scrutinized by the MSM. It may not be fair...but it is what it is. Its gotta be rough.

[nickydog]

Wow -- a triple major at Yale! This was so good to read.

[Geee]

Wow -- a triple major at Yale! This was so good to read.

And a Masters in business from Johns Hopkins! Such a refreshing comparison.

[righteousmomma]

I was just talking today with someone who is not normally a conservative - more an Independent with some liberal leanings on social issues - but he was saying how much he likes Dr. Carson. He also likes John Kasich. We both agreed that Dr. Carson is too kind and great a man to be stuck with the garbage that is coming with a new President but we 'll see how it all pans out.

[Valin]

We Could do (a lot) worse than Ben Carson sitting in the Oval Office.

[Geee]

We Could do (a lot) worse than Ben Carson sitting in the Oval Office.

We HAVE done a lot worse than Ben Carson sitting in the Oval Office

[Valin]

 

We Could do (a lot) worse than Ben Carson sitting in the Oval Office.

We HAVE done a lot worse than Ben Carson sitting in the Oval Office

 

 

That's a given!

 

Jimmy Carter is no longer the worst President in modern times......and hes giving James Buchanan a run for his money.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Speaking of James Buchanan (From The You Never Know What You'll find File)

 

Sink Hole: How Kansas Crises Undid the Presidencies of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan

Michael F. Holt
February 26, 2014

MICHAEL F. HOLT is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Virginia where he taught for 37 years. A specialist on 19th-century political history, and especially pre-Civil War political history, he is co-author or author of eight books, the most recent of which is The American Presidents Series’ Franklin Pierce. He has delivered the Fleming Lectures at LSU, the Fortenbaugh Lecture at Gettysburg College, and the Allan Nevins Memorial Lecture at the Huntington Library. In 1993-1994, he was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge.

 

 

(Audio/Video At Link) Good Stuff!

[Valin]