No, he didn’t go to West Point. He said he was offered a full scholarship to that institution, which does not have scholarships, and from a person who was in no position to make that offer.
It’s a lie! The Sumerians left it in the fridge after the party and said the Egyptians could keep it because they didn’t feel like lugging it home.
On a date when the person was not in the same city. Other than that, though, totally legit.
In your list of why people support him, you left out his honesty and genuineness. But with the blatant lie about endorsing Mannatech, the different versions of his teenage gangsta days, and now the West Point thing, it looks like he’s just another guy who will say whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear.
And more of these things will turn up. They may not bother his hardcore supporters, but they will make him lose his lead.
I get that he attended a dinner with heroes, and that he dined with and spoke to Gen Westmoreland. Is there a direct statement that these took place at the same time?
You understand correctly. Service academy graduates repay the costs of their education at West Point, Annapolis, and Colorado Springs by serving a minimum of five years in the Army, Navy, or Air Force.
So, he will be POTUS?
Not necessarily. But he’s got the qualifications.
Eh, tempest in a teapot, the “he didn’t apply”. He misremembered, or his ghostwriter embellished.
To me, Carson is a loon, however, I find it unlikely that he wasn’t “recruited” or given lots of attention at whatever ROTC function that happened more than 25 years before he made the claim.
A couple more of Carson’s background stories are phony.
I’m beginning to doubt he’s really a surgeon.
At this point, I’m not sure I can trust that he’s black.
But he had that rap ad! Anyway, by the one drop rule that some of his supporters use, he’s as black as the ace of spades. But then, so are they, if they dig far enough.
For some unexplained reason, Carson’s voice triggers an incipient laugh track in my head. Sort of a poor man’s Arron Sorkin political comedy on CBS.
Ben is good for comic relief but the 27% rule seems to be holding. No how matter how dumb a candidate; he/she will get around 27% support with a shrill enough message. I’m going back to the Obama vs. [del] Ryan the child molester [/del] Alan Keyes senate election in Illinois. 2004 United States Senate election in Illinois - Wikipedia
Keyes was a carpetbagger from Maryland (at that time) imported to oppose Obama. With zero name recognition, total outsider status, half-assed party backing, a complete jerk (cite needed-whoosh), and being black also - he still got 27% of the vote. That’s about how many go into the booth and hit the one party lever.
I’m seeing the same trend with Carson and Trump. They resonate with a certain whack job electorate but the climb to 50% seems precipitous.
The past 2012 Republican clown car had various leaders such as Palin, Crazy eyes Bachmann, pizza guy, the huckster, scrotum with around the same percentages while in the early media spotlight.
“I’m not saying it was Aliens” guy: ALIENS
Ben Carson: GRAIN SILOS
We have? Why didn’t we tell us that we did?
Human/vertebrate gender is a fluid spectrum, I should think that has been well known ever since the Kinsey research.
I’m about a quart low on gender fluid. Remind me to pick some up at Walmart.