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Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship
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| 11/06/2015
| Kyle Cheney
Posted on 11/06/2015 8:33:42 AM PST by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004
Hi there.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:53:09 AM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: DoughtyOne
You can pay people to BUMP your Facebook. There are many small businesses who pay people to do this.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:53:25 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Zuben Elgenubi
Actually, it was Colombia where they can’t find one persosn who remembers Obama.
To: GIdget2004
The sad part is.. his story would’ve been compelling enough without the fabrications.
Damn, Ben... WTH were you thinking?
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:53:37 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(If you're not enraged...why?)
To: BuckeyeTexan
I think it probably went down something like what you say.
But, normally, we’d have to be talking about Junior ROTC (High School ROTC).
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:53:41 AM PST
by
xzins
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To: FreeReign
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:53:51 AM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I still think Carson could add value as a VP. Can you give some examples of what he would bring to the table? I just don't see it. He's as much of an empty suit as the current occupant of the oval office.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:54:00 AM PST
by
Go Gordon
(Barack McGreevey Obama)
To: afraidfortherepublic
To: GIdget2004
Q. Who defeated Ben Carson in the GOP 2016 primaries?
A. Ben Carson
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:54:39 AM PST
by
Yashcheritsiy
(It's time to repeal and replace the GOP)
To: GIdget2004
I knew their was something creepy about him. He’s the black version of Joe Biden, a pathological liar. Stick a fork in him, he’s done.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:54:39 AM PST
by
NKP_Vet
(In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
To: Tennessean4Bush
Have you read the accounts in both books you mention? I haven’t read his book to know what he said.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:54:46 AM PST
by
nclaurel
To: afraidfortherepublic
“Actually, it was Colombia where they canât find one persosn who remembers Obama.”
Why Obama sealed all his records.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:54:49 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: GIdget2004
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:55:27 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
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To: Timber Rattler
It’s too bad, but this may be the straw ...
Though when you think of all the made up stories and people in Obama’s books, who knows.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:56:00 AM PST
by
aquila48
To: frankenMonkey
One gets appointed to West Point.
I went to a military college and I got a “scholarship.”
Those attending with ROTC got ROTC Scholarships.
No West Pointer or West Pointer parent I have ever spoken to referred to it as a scholarship.
The process is pretty intense. You do not “forget” that stuff.
To: RoosterRedux
There are many far more important problems with Carson. He is a black Paul Ryan IMHO.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:56:21 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Tennessean4Bush
...and his story in both books is consistent with a casual conversation with Westmoreland where the General might have encouraged him to apply and with his grades and success in ROTC he probably would have earned an appointment, which is a full-ride but not technically a scholarship, I suppose.
It has already been reported in Business Insider that according to General Westmoreland's records, he did not have dinner with Carson on the day in question, and was in fact in Washington that day.
It doesn't mean Carson didn't have some sort of conversation with Westmoreland at some point, but the dinner angle looks kaput at this juncture.
I look for Carson to withdraw from the race no later than Sunday night, November 8th. (that's according to my Magic 8-Ball(c))
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:56:29 AM PST
by
mkjessup
("Politics Ain't Beanbag" - Finley Peter Dunne)
To: Tennessean4Bush
From the article:
"I felt so proud, my chest bursting with ribbons and braids of every kind. To make it more wonderful, we had important visitors that day. Two soldiers who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Viet Nam were present,â he wrote. "More exciting to me, General William Westmoreland (very prominent in the Viet Nam war) attended with an impressive entourage. Afterward, Sgt. Hunt" - his high school ROTC director - "introduced me to General Westmoreland, and I had dinner with him and the Congressional Medal winners. Later I was offered a full scholarship to West Point."
More: "When presented with this evidence, Carson's campaign conceded the story was false."
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:56:32 AM PST
by
Amntn
To: GIdget2004
Ben Carson's campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.Unfriggen believable.
I am stunned.
Stunned.
He's now the walking dead.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:56:41 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
To: sparklite2
Sounds like Ben is channeling his inner John Kerry.
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posted on
11/06/2015 8:57:03 AM PST
by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied, Otto von Bismarck)
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