He’s a Seventh Day Adventist; one of the tenets of that faith is a commitment to the lifestyle, which includes vegetarianism.
Kinda weird that he was ever a chickentarian, as he appears to have been born into the faith. Maybe it was a sort of rumspringa-type thing for him.
I doubt his story, but not because of his being a vegetarian in a Popeye’s. I’m a vegetarian, and I sometimes drop into a fast food place for a soda or something.
When Carson’s spokesperson said that Carson wasn’t a vegetarian at the time of the incident, I thought that was probably BS. It would have been a much simpler and more believable lie to say he just wanted a Coke.
SDAs also don’t drink caffeinated beverages. 
There’s also pacifism.
From Wiki.
Maybe he’s an apostate.
From that Snopes link:
Popeye’s patrons chased an armed man? :dubious:
Would you believe Sprite? Or do SDAs also abstain from lymon?
Sort of like how Nixon was a Quaker?
Well there you have it Carson’s charisma and leadership actually can convince the people around him to rush a gunman!
“Get myself shot?”
“Or hang with Ben Carson?”
“Where are my running shoes?”
I read this post.
It looks like a haiku.
The syllables are wrong.
Carson and his ilk really need to know what they’re talking about when they talk about Nazis and gun control. The Nazis actually loosened the gun control that were in place under Weimar Germany.
Since when has Republicans knowing what they are talking about been important?
Regardless of the status of gun ownership in Nazi Germany, the majority of Germans a) supported the Nazis wholeheartedly until at least '43 and b) didn’t give two shits about the plight of the Jews, let alone give enough of one shit to be willing to take up arms in their defence.
Neither did an overwhelming majority of the people in Allied countries, for that matter.
Ben Carson says Mahmoud Abbas, Ali Khamenei, Vladimir Putin knew each other in 1968 Moscow
When Putin was 16 and going to elementary school. Rated pants on fire.
Ben: When making up a whopper, you really should try to make it impossible to check on.
Should have thrown Xi Jinping and Kim Jung Un in for good measure. When you’re making shit up, go big or go home I say.
Doesn’t matter. Many will believe it. Mostly because they want to.
I wonder how adaher will spin this as positive for Dr. Carson.
Can a medical school retroactively withdraw a degree award? I’ll bet UMich is just tickled to death with this fucking idiot.
What is the punchline? Why on earth would Carson feel the need to say this?
To show off his foreign intelligence chops, apparently.
:dubious:
Sadly, you’re exactly right. Most of the candidates know next to nothing about foreign policy, and in spite of what Donald Trump thinks, it can’t be learned in a few days, but they desperately want to look smart. Perry proved that glasses didn’t work, so they learn the name of a foreign leader or two, and then shoehorn it into every interview they have. Fiorina mentioned some Iranian general about a dozen times a day for a while. Carson evidently has worse advisors, and more laughable “facts.”
At least he didn’t say the three of them met at a Popeye’s.