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Ben Carson's meeting with top army general in Detroit reportedly doesn't match records
MLive ^ | November 07, 2015 | David Muller | dmuller@mlive.com

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.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carson; elections; liar; scholarship; westmoreland; westpoint
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To: MHGinTN
No
You could appear to be a astroturfer too .

You never answered my question why you support the Pro massive amnesty, anti gun ,
Pro treason TPP treaty candidate , candidate ?
You dodge it?

I just don't fall for the latest scam artist like Ben Carson .
The media hates all Goper but finds some like Carson or Rubio useful to get the weakest option to battle Comrade Hillary beast .

You won't even answer my f

81 posted on 11/10/2015 6:05:41 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force the)
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To: ncalburt

You will be waiting a long time before I dance to your little smear tune medley. Get over yourself dweeb.


82 posted on 11/10/2015 6:12:32 PM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: MHGinTN

Ok


83 posted on 11/10/2015 6:24:43 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force the)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

You see; Dr. Carson is a REAL black man who has accomplished
REAL things in his life; unlike the current half white
community organizer guy occupying that position now. As such, Carson cannot be allowed to mess up Obama’s magical story nor hinder Hillary’s equally magical ascension &”rightful” claim as heir to the throne.


84 posted on 11/10/2015 6:40:23 PM PST by Twinkie (JOHN 3:16)
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To: Yardstick

I think his real name is Neville.


85 posted on 11/10/2015 7:38:37 PM PST by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: NKP_Vet

Phew. You’re a real hard-ass.


86 posted on 11/10/2015 7:47:02 PM PST by miss marmelstein (I support Trump but refuse to engage in the lynching of Ben Carson.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

“In 1985 I met and talked with Gen Jimmy Doolittle for almost an hour. Definitely a highlight of my life.”

According to Doolittle’s calendar, you are a liar and disqualified for being POTUS.

It cracks me up. This whole episode reminds me of what they did to Clarence Thomas. Nothing but a high tech lynching knocking that uppity N word down. How dare he leave the Plantation! Just you wait, they’ll find an Anita Hill in his closet next complaining about pubic hairs in her drink.


87 posted on 11/11/2015 6:10:33 AM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

It is not about taking a shallow look and calling what you see “evil” at the level you have been calling it, either.

Forget “putting liberals in cages.” How about setting people free to be righteous.

And you act like you don’t have the first clue why Christ went to that Cross.


88 posted on 11/11/2015 7:16:41 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Frankly you are acting like there already is a class of good people, without need of any ministration of the Lord to get them that way, but simply of their own awesome nature. And so the only need is to get the broom out and sweep away the others.

BIG problem here: the bible flatly denies there is any such class. I got where I am by the ministration of the Lord. I never walked to Christ at the cross as a righteous person, and neither can you.


89 posted on 11/11/2015 7:21:05 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; RitaOK

Here’s another for your Troll count Rita.


90 posted on 11/11/2015 7:21:16 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: MHGinTN
The Left must destroy Ben Carson ... not because he's the "wrong kind of negro" because he is running as a Republican (that is, the Democrat Socialists know that the Republicans can never "out-negro" them ... and they're right!).

No, it's because that every time Carson speaks there's an excellent chance that he will entice some in the Democrat Socialists' black constituency (i.e., "black herd") to pick themselves up as individuals and move off the welfare plantation Democrats have controlled them in. Until the Democrat Socialist Party can import enough mexicans (legal or illegal -- doesn't matter right now) to form an even larger voting bloc, they cannot afford to lose even a small proportion of blacks or they'll never win a national election.

91 posted on 11/11/2015 7:32:39 AM PST by glennaro
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To: conservativejoy

The Politico took several events and stuck them in one paragraph to make it look like they all happened on the same day. You have fallen prey to the Politico’s deliberate lie.


92 posted on 11/11/2015 11:50:26 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

The inconsistencies in Carson’s stories are peripheral issues that don’t amount to much.

His problems with supporting amnesty, gun control and TPP are more dangerous and troubling.

Also, every debate he changes his position on something. Third debate he changed his position on subsidies. Last night he changed his position on minimum wage.


93 posted on 11/11/2015 12:26:32 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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