Ben Carson Still Has No Idea Which One Thomas Jefferson Was
To Dr. Ben Carson, Thomas Jefferson is more than just the man on the $10 bill.
To wit, Carson this weekend cited Jefferson “as one of the most impressive of the Founding Fathers” who “tried to craft our constitution in a way that it would control peoples’ natural tendencies and control the natural growth of the government.”
Never mind that Carson acknowledged—in his own book about the constitution—that Jefferson was away serving as an ambassador when the constitution was drafted.
(Never mind that Carson incorrectly quoted Thomas Jefferson in the same book and then acknowledged in a footnote that the quote was incorrectly attributed.)
Because Ben Carson isn’t one to let facts get in the way of a good anecdote, and there’s a good lesson there, I think. Don’t settle for Thomas Jefferson, the man—aim for the man Ben Carson imagines Thomas Jefferson could have been.
