No. I’m saying that he could not know that he would actually have been admitted if he didn’t apply. Just because positions are available at West Point and someone says you should go for it, “I think you could be admitted” and even if that person says they would help (this is conjecture because its not clear even that much happened),
you were not admitted unless you followed through, applied and got the acceptance. Deciding not to pursue the opportunity and not apply is not the same thing at all.
I despise our current leadership exactly because their truth is a tissue of lies. Giving Carson the pass on this because others have lied is giving up the battle for truth, justice and the American way. We are under siege but I’m not giving up. There are honest men with integrity; we don’t need to settle for a nice man with shifting stories just because others have lied too.
No women need to be offended, I was using men in the inclusive sense of human being...
As far as he knew at the time the official who
encouraged him regarding West Point had the power
to authorize what Carson thought (or thinks) to be a
scholarship. We can’t fairly assume Carson knew that there was any difference between the admittance process to West Point and any other higher learning
institution. What we do know about Carson is he was
a poor black kid who was bright and motivated. At
17 yrs of age the word “scholarship” was important
in his lexicon.
Yesterday, a Limbaugh caller who said he attended
West Point while Carson was a high school senior
indicated that at the time there was quite an
effort to increase the number of black cadets and
midshipmen so I could imagine an enthusiastic
pitch to Carson by significant representatives.
I think what you and other sincere people are doing
is imposing a “what Carson should have known” standard
on the issue. Since Carson apparently already knew
what he wanted to do he didn’t spend a lot of time and
effort as a seventeen year old learning the ins and outs
of gaining acceptance to WP. And, he hasn’t thought enough
about it to spend the effort to learn how the process
of entry actually works. I think he was/is complimented
he was offered an opportunity.
I think there is zero there.