Ben Carson

[BlueRaiderFan]

Caught LYING...The moral fiber of conservatives is terrible. What a bunch of liars...disgusting.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/ben-carson-admits-key-part-his-biography-not-true

Ben Carson Admits He Made Up a Key Part of His Biography
Carson said he was given a full scholarship to West Point. But he never even applied.
—By Pema Levy

| Fri Nov. 6, 2015 12:38 PM EST

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Ben Carson admitted Friday that a key piece of his storied biography—his oft-told tale of transformation from a poor kid with anger problems in Detroit to a world-famous neurosurgeon—was made up.

The Republican presidential candidate conceded Friday that he never received a full scholarship to the US Military Academy at West Point, after an investigation by Politico. In his book Gifted Hands, Carson recalls having dinner in May 1969 with Gen. William Westmoreland, who had just been in charge of US forces in Vietnam. Carson said that meeting led to a "full scholarship" offer from West Point.

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But as West Point told Politico, the academy has no record of Carson ever applying to the school. Presented with this evidence, the Carson campaign admitted the story was false.

"Dr. Carson was the top ROTC student in the City of Detroit," Carson's campaign manager, Barry Bennett, told Politico. "In that role he was invited to meet General Westmoreland. He believes it was at a banquet. He can’t remember with specificity their brief conversation but it centered around Dr. Carson’s performance as ROTC City Executive Officer."

Bennett continued, "He was introduced to folks from West Point by his ROTC Supervisors. They told him they could help him get an appointment based on his grades and performance in ROTC. He considered it but in the end did not seek admission."

The circumstances of Carson's meeting with Gen. Westmoreland are also unclear. Politico found that at the time Carson believes he had dinner

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[TeKEraider]

Yes but they will bury their heads in the sand or somewhere more smelly and pretend it's the media's fault. Facts have never mattered to these guys. Don't expect it to start know.

 

[ToddMalone]

Too bad the media doesn't show the same scrutiny regarding our collectivist-in-chief, huh? I mean, good grief, can you imagine all the sh*tted bricks in the pants of "news" reporters if Carson or any other individualist had their academic records sealed the way President O-Blame-A had his sealed and kept secret?

Talk about heads in the sand. SMH.

Democrats are for the little guy, though, so they get a pass. How do we know they're for the little guy? Because they say so.

 

[BlueRaiderFan]

Well let's see; You bitch and moan because of a corporate tax that is really about 22% after "deductions," all the while more and more corporations are going to temp employees to save a few bucks. You support them under the guise of "stimulating the economy." Which is idiotic because when people don't have money, they don't spend money (Duh). Then you go on a rant about Obama's sealed records, which is WRONG. It is illegal under the Educational Privacy Rights Act of 1974 for any school to release records to the public, just like your medical records. Also, MANY other presidents have kept MANY of the records out of the public eye. His selective service registration is public. His Illinois public voting record is public. He released his law firm records and the list goes ON AND ON. Here, I'll just post a little educational link for you Todd, since you've been drinking the Fox News kool aid. Educate yourself so you aren't quite as ignorant:


http://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/

• Claims #1, 2 and 4, college records. Obama’s college records are not “sealed” by a court order, as this graphic would have you believe. It would be illegal under federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard Law School to give any former student’s records to reporters or members of the public without that person’s specific, written permission. Obama hasn’t released them, but neither have other presidential candidates released their college records. George W. Bush’s grades at Yale eventually became public, but only because somebody leaked them to the New Yorker magazine. Bush himself refused to release them, according to a 1999 profile in the Washington Post.
• Claim #3, thesis paper. Obama did write a paper on nuclear disarmament for an honors course in American foreign policy during his senior year, but it wasn’t the sort of “thesis” that some colleges require for graduation and keep on file in their libraries, like those that Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama released. During the 2008 campaign, reporters were told that Columbia had not retained a copy of Obama’s 1983 paper, and that Obama didn’t have a copy, either. NBC News contacted his former professor, Michael Baron, who said he looked for his copy but couldn’t find it, and thought he probably tossed it out eight years earlier in a move.
  NBC quoted Baron as saying the paper likely would have disappointed Obama’s critics. “The course was not a polemical course, it was a course in decision making and how decisions got made,” Baron told NBC. “None of the papers in the class were controversial.”
• Claim #5, Selective Service registration. Obama’s Selective Service registration is public. A copy has been posted publicly, and the Selective Service confirmed that Obama registered for the draft on Sept. 4, 1980, and was given registration number 61-1125539-1.
  Worth noting is that nobody in the U.S. has been drafted for military service since 1972, the year Obama turned 11. Obama, like other young men turning age 18 since then, was required to register on a standby basis, in case Congress ever resumes an active military draft. Failure to register is technically a crime, and disqualifies a man for federal student aid or from holding certain federal jobs.
• Claim #6, medical records. During the 2008 campaign, Obama released summary medical information from his personal physician, who pronounced him to be in “excellent health” with routine test results for such things as cholesterol all within normal levels. (McCain, who is a cancer survivor and was 71 at the time, let reporters see his records for three hours to show he was cancer-free.)
  Since taking office, Obama has followed the practice of earlier presidents. He released results of his first “periodic” physical exam on Feb. 28, 2010. Results of his second “periodic” exam were released Oct. 31, 2011. His physician described him as being “in excellent health and ‘fit for duty.'”
• Claims #7 and 8, Illinois state Senate records. Obama’s voting record in the Illinois state Senate is a matter of public record, and about as far from being “sealed” as one can imagine. Reporters extensively went over his votes in 2008. Transcripts of Senate debates in which Obama took part while in office (1997 – 2004) can even be found online, at the website of the Illinois General Assembly.
  Obama’s personal appointment calendar as a state senator may still be private — if it still exists — but we’ve seen nothing to suggest that would add much to what is already public. As president, Obama has released records of visitors to the White House (2.4 million so far). There are some exceptions. Personal information about visitors, such as Social Security numbers are not released. And there’s an exemption for “particularly sensitive” information, which might include a visit by a potential Supreme Court nominee, for example. But that’s still more disclosure than any previous president has made, by far.
  
  
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[BlueRaiderFan]

Some of you guys need to do a little more research before you open your mouths.