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42 November 12 • 2015

any times as a lawyer, I
still exist today. I am passionate about
seek to defend a claim
issues, and when I see injustice or
by going on the
encounter reprehensible
offense. We sue first or coun-
behavior I still react. In fact, I
tersue the opponent. It's a
find at times that I am angry.
strategy to change the focus.
When terrorists attack moth-
We've seen Dr. Ben Carson
ers and children with knives,
employ such a strategy.
I get angry. When I see on TV
Remember the old presi-
the heinous acts of groups like
dential debates? The mod-
ISIS, I get angry and express
erators would ask a straight
a strong desire to remedy the
forward question, such as,
injustice; hoping our govern-
"Senator, tell us your position
ment's leaders will be strong
on Iran and how you differ
Ken Gr oss
enough to act affirmatively
from your opponents."
and aggressively to crush
From there, the candidates
the cancer cells before the
would answer and then attack
malignancy threatens our very
each other. A debate, in some ways, is
existence.
like a hockey game. A few good fights
Our DNA is set before we arrive, and
between the players are part of the
our persona grows from child to adult.
entertainment. The problem with the
We mature and we make our mark in
recent debates is that the moderators
the world — but the person we are at 5
are the ones dropping the gloves and
have lost sight of their role as referees.
The candidates then went on the
offense — and as to the debate process
they have a point. But Dr. Carson has
taken the offense a step too far by
challenging the media to curtail the
vetting process. Outside the debate,
the vetting process by the media is fair
game.
While it may be intrusive, each
candidate, when he decides to run for
the presidency — the most powerful
position on the globe — knows that no
stone will go unturned. It is a part of
the process.
We see rising stars come and then
or 15 is part of the person we become
vanish as past issues and events the
at 50 and 60. Our persona and temper
candidate believed would go unnoticed don't vanish or instantaneously change
are revealed by the media. We no lon-
over an epiphany to become a doctor
ger live in the Kennedy and prior eras.
or a lawyer. We simply mature with
Since the days of Gary Hart forward,
age.
every politician knows there are no
We entrust to our presidents the
limits on the vetting process.
largest nuclear arsenal on the globe.
I had a temper as a young boy. Don't We must question whether we want
get me wrong; I wasn't sticking knives
the security of the world vested with
into my childhood friend's guts. I was
what appears to be a mild-mannered
just temperamental. My grandfather
individual when he admits that as a
used to try and bribe me to gain some
child he was so out of control he drove
level of self-control. He'd say, "Count to a knife into the gut of his friend.
five before getting mad:'
Worse yet, if he didn't really do it,
I learned from this experience. I
what does it say if he's so brazen to
learned how to count fast, so I could
have claimed he did? *
get to five quickly, then lose my tem-
per, but still capture the reward of
Ken Gross is an attorney with Thav Gross and
a quarter from Grandpa. Over the
host of Law and Reality that airs Tuesdays from
years, I stopped acting like a child and
noon to 1 p.m. on WCHB 1200 AM/99.9 FM and
matured as an adult.
11 a.m. Sundays on TV20.
The seeds of my youth, however,