Dr. Carson hints a White House run, exciting
conservatives
Published March 16, 2013
FoxNews.com
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Dr. Ben Carson -- who during his speech at this year’s National Prayer
Breakfast criticized some of President Obama’s economic policies -- hinted
Saturday that he might be interested in a 2016 presidential run.
Speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, Carson
resumed his sharp critique of Washington and the rest of the United States,
including his vision on how to fix the country’s problems.
“Let's say you magically put me in the White House,” Carson, a Johns
Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon, said to a loud applause.
The remark was a bit unexpected, considering Carson has said his prayer
breakfast speech -- critical of higher taxes and Obama’s new health-care law --
was to “serve God” and was not political.
However, Carson has since become so popular among conservatives that his
name is on the ballot for CPAC’s straw poll for a 2016 presidential candidate.
The 62-year-old Carson, whose prayer breakfast remarks were within
earshot of Obama, said Saturday he is retiring from surgery within roughly the
next three to four months. He said his immediate focus will be on “educating
the next generation," then “once we get that taken care of who knows.”
Carson, raised in poverty, returned to his concerns including the
decline of education in America, Washington overspending and the importance of
God in American life.
“We continue to spend ourselves into oblivion,” said Carson, adding the
country’s younger generations have become “uniformed” and “ignorant.”
Carson also seemed to imply Obama’s agenda is destroying the country.
He said if somebody was in the White House and “wanted to destroy this
nation,” then “that person might create division among the people …
undermine the financial stability of the country … weaken the military ...
.Coincidentally, those are the very things that are happening right
now.
Ben Carson
Benjamin Solomon
"Ben" Carson, Sr. is a neurosurgeon. He is the Director of Pediatric
Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Wikipedia
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Education: Southwestern
High School, Yale University, University of
Michigan, University of
Michigan Health System
Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom
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