Posted on 11/08/2015 1:35:43 PM PST by conservativejoy
As the Republican candidates life story comes under increasing scrutiny, it has become clear that Carson is missing an essential value I learned in the army.
As a private in basic training, I learned the Army Values. We were issued a plastic card, on which they were listed: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage. For any inspection, until I left the military as a sergeant, that card was a required item.
The US army still teaches the Army Values to every soldier. Its a cheesy, motivational speaker esque acronym that spells 'LDRSHIP'. But it is also useful for teaching new troops, many of whom enter the military with little direction or understanding of what soldiering requires.
The Army Values can be learned in any walk of life. Even running for the presidency. But one such value, integrity, seems to have escaped one Republican candidate altogether.
Ben Carsons personal story is in question, and rightly so. There was the Popeyes stick up in Baltimore that likely never happened, according to Baltimore police. The snake oil company Carson claimed he never shilled for, despite readily availably video evidence of Carson schilling for snake oil. The brutally violent attacks he committed during his childhood that no one who grew up with him can seem to remember. And, of course, a claim that he was offered a 'scholarship' to the United States Military Academy by General William Westmoreland, but turned it down to go to Yale.
'There is no such thing as being 'offered a full scholarship’ at West Point,' recalls Frederick Wellman, a West Point alumnus who served for 22 years, obtained a graduate degree from Harvard University and now leads ScoutComms, an agency advocating for veterans. 'You apply. You get in. Meeting a general doesnt get you in.'
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I’m really liking Carson lately. Sleeper candidate. How much of the black vote can he get…maybe 30-40%?? Game changer. He’s really black, not half.
Mr. Smith should have a terrible problem with the Army recuiters who led a 17-year old boy with an illiterate single mom to believe that a future doctor... going to Yale... who was the top student in his ROTC class could go to West Point.
Time Magazine too.
Integrity is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.
So much for the authors proclaimed "integrity". Honestly my experience is that the person in a room who claims they have the most "integrity" is usually the person with the least of it.
“Obama for America” March-November 2008
mmm lets look at your candidate Cruz's integrity. Magically once he started running for President, his positions changed. Hnmmm how we we suppose to Trust Cruz to keep his word?
Sen. Cruz Presents Measure to Strengthen, Improve Legal Immigration
From his Senate office website
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=137
Offers amendment to increase H-1B visas to help improve, retain high-skilled labor force
May 14, 2013
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press@cruz.senate.gov / (202) 228-7561
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today presented an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would improve our nation’s legal immigration system by increasing high-skilled temporary worker visas, called H-1B visas, by 500 percent
Ted Cruz Was For Birthright Citizenship Before He Was Against It
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/317794_Ted_Cruz_Was_For_Birthright_Ci
Cruz reverses support for TPA trade bill, blasts GOP leaders
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/ted-cruz-no-support-tpa-trade-bill-119319#ixzz3qv2CoiJ8
Hmm curious that you have one standard for Cruz and a completely different one for Carson.
Why is that “Christan Conservative”?
and considering the writer supported in 2008 he would probably feel right at home in an organization like Vietnam Veterans against the war.
It is the Guardian. A far left publication, even for England.
Well the facts refute you on Carson, yet you continue repeating the slander?
Given that you demonstrated you are willing to lie about Carson, why should we take anything you say seriously?
I am for Trump, Cruz 2nd as well. But these supposed purveyors of “wisdom” need to be not so obvious because we are on to them
Richard Allen Smith is a former Army sergeant. He served five years on active duty, including a deployment to Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division from February of 2007 to April of 2008. Smith is a communications strategist in Washington DC and holds a masters degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter:
“Honestly, I don’t think Carson ever even spoke to Gen. Westmoreland.”
There was a story out yesterday that said Carson could not have spoken to Westmoreland when he said he did. Carson could have the date wrong which would be easy to do.
The problem as I see it is that when you write a book like this, and promote it during your Presidential campaign run, you should know it is going to be gone over with a fine tooth comb. I hope he is able to back everything up. If not he is going to get steam rolled.
Richard Allen Smith is a former Army sergeant. He served five years on active duty, including a deployment to Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division from February of 2007 to April of 2008. Smith is a communications strategist in Washington DC and holds a masters degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter:
Really amusing watching you two spin desperate accusations about “Carson’s Integrity” while ignoring your candidates record of flip flopping
Sen. Cruz Presents Measure to Strengthen, Improve Legal Immigration
From his Senate office website
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=137
Offers amendment to increase H-1B visas to help improve, retain high-skilled labor force
May 14, 2013
|
press@cruz.senate.gov / (202) 228-7561
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today presented an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would improve our nation’s legal immigration system by increasing high-skilled temporary worker visas, called H-1B visas, by 500 percent
Ted Cruz Was For Birthright Citizenship Before He Was Against It
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/317794_Ted_Cruz_Was_For_Birthright_Ci
Cruz reverses support for TPA trade bill, blasts GOP leaders
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/ted-cruz-no-support-tpa-trade-bill-119319#ixzz3qv2CoiJ8
This is a hard choice here. Shall we destroy one person’s credibility to save another’s?
You’ll probably like it even better when we have amnesty, gun control and TPP. Sharpton and Farrakhan will still be shaping policy.
The source that linked to this was Hot Air. That’s where I read it.
“Hillary is our enemy.”
Yes she is and any dimoKKKRAT. However I believe the GOPe aka “the establishment” is also the enemy. Any candidate that supports the GOPe is fair game as far as I am concerned.
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