Posted on 11/10/2015 4:10:32 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
DETROIT, MI - Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's account of being offered a full scholarship at West Point was called into question this week after the military academy said he never applied to the school.
Carson admitted Friday that he never applied to West Point. Rather, the neurosurgeon from Detroit said he was informally offered a scholarship by a top U.S. Army general, but decided not to pursue it.
However, The Detroit News reports that the encounter Carson was referring to, and that is described in his best-selling 1990 autobiography "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story," does not match historical records.
Carson's book says he met with the U.S. Army's chief of staff, Gen. William Westmoreland, on Memorial Day 1969, after marching as a top ROTC cadet for Detroit's former Southwestern High School. But Westmoreland's schedule says he was in Washington that day.
You traded a win for the lives of unborn babies... and lost. They are still dying because your lesser evils not only refuse to defend them, but funded more of their killing. And you defend your devils bargain 3 years later.
Good luck with that.
It's strange how someone who was involved in such a life changing event can't be found ..?...
I was trapped in a car in St Pete during one with my cousin and I tell the story to my kids as a reminder to never take short cuts thru iffy locations even during the day.
Yet no one has come forward or even recalls the event but Ben ?.
Odd !
Right, like your pal Obama is a friend of the unborn.
Get in your cage.
Carson is such an audacious liar, it’s hard to know what’s true. His Mannatech whopper was one of the biggest public lies I have ever seen....and the biggest that didn’t result in a candidate withdrawing. Politico’s young liberal reporter got his story wrong on his scholarship claim. But Carson’s story about the “magic belt buckle” that can repel hunting knives, and this Westmoreland take just don’t add up.
The media completely fabricated this ‘scandal’ and now you want to trust yet another fabrication? amazing herd instincts that
Must be nice to lie as you do and not ride lightning. When you produce my ballot with a check near Barry’s name, please share it.
Otherwise all you are is a person too stupid to understand Civics who is lashing out like a spoiled child because someone called them on their bullsXit.
I voted for a conservative. You didn’t. You tried electing a man that helps kill children with his cash. I didn’t elect Obama. I voted for someone else. If you have a problem with that, I don’t care.
TPA was written my these traitors to insure that TPP will pass .
First TPA destroyed the 66 majority votes required for treaties !
Second ,TPA can be passed with simple majority vote of 51 !
Third , if TPP is not voted on it will go into law anyways.Fail safe passage. We are screwed . Thanks Carson Rubio and Cruz and Ryan . All traitors
You enabled Obama, because there’s no free lunch and a protest vote has the negative consequence of enabling the Democrat. Nobody’s buying your bonehead logic to the contrary.
I’ve given quite a bit of financial support to the most conservative candidate in the primaries. How about you?
And what would that "record" be called?
His book is full of pure bs.
But more importantly ,
Carson is more of a Democrat anyways
Carson wants to give 30 million illegals Amnesty.
Do you ?
Carson want that treason TOP to pass ?
Why ?
Do you support that ..?
Do you support Gun control like Carson ?..
Why do you support the guy ?
Because he is a victim ?....
He is milking the situation to sell books !
You KNOWINGLY gave your vote support, which is the only support that matters, to a guy that BBQs the evidence of murdered children for profit.
All your donations don’t wash their blood off your hands.
You post like a trained Internet operative in the astro-turfing mode. I will put you on ignore hereafter. Dupe others, I won’t give you any further credulity.
Your vote helped elect Barack Obama and his administration which is stacked to the gills with pro aborts.
I’’ve given quite a bit of financial support to the most conservative candidate in the 2016 primaries. How about you?
The media is pathetic, Absolutely pathetic.
A black man can’t make it is a lilly-white leftist world. Not unless they tow the line and do what their masters tell them to do.
Doesn’t wash any blood off your hands. Did you buy something nice with your 30 pieces of silver Judas?
Get in your cage, Judas.
And I repeat: I’ve given quite a bit of financial support to the most conservative 2016 primary candidate. How about you?
Doesn’t wash any blood off your hands. Did you buy something nice with your 30 pieces of silver Judas?
1 the right to stop a treaty by not getting 66 votes !
2 replaced the 66 vote rule with a simple 51 votes
3 you can not a change or even debate the treaty .
4. Guess what , if the TPP is not voted on and stop within 90 days it's goes into law anyways . fail safe !
Cruz should be ashamed of himself for lying to everyone and for mocking the people that told the Truth .
The Truth that Cruz and Ryan mocked with their insulting ‘ Dont believe the Internet ‘ spin !
I rest my case.
Thanks for playing, Norm.
Your only case is defending a liberal on a conservative website.
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