Ben Carson lied about getting full scholarship to West Point...He's Toast

The pundits going after any little thing, but will not touch the left. Incredible.

Hillary is a habitual liar and it has no effect, cause no one cares.

Hillary lies all the time and she'll be the nominee for the Dumbos. Ben is okay.

This opens the door for George W. Bush to make a serious run at a third term.

The elites are in a quandary.

They still wish to use Carson to say Trump is dropping in the polls, but they want one of their puppets -- Rubio is Adelson and Singer's boy so he will do -- to actually secure the nomination.

So they have to bring Carson down -- but Trump with him.

What's a Zi*nist to do?

Puppet Hillary vs. puppet Rubio would suit them fine.

How is he toast?

He was the top ROTC student in all of Detroit. He was African American. It's pretty safe to assume if he'd applied to West Point he would have been accepted and received a full scholarship as all people at West Point do.

Joe Biden has admitted to plagiarism in law school and he's VP.

Barack Obama's own biography has stuff that is mythology as well. It makes for a better book.

As the NY times wrote:

Or as Buzzfeed wrote:

rojo wrote:

He was the top ROTC student in all of Detroit. He was African American. It's pretty safe to assume if he'd applied to West Point he would have been accepted and received a full scholarship as all people at West Point do.

Seriously? What could have happened doesn't matter. What matters is what did happen and his acceptance certainly did not.

Snet wrote:

This opens the door for George W. Bush to make a serious run at a third term.

Ha. I was thinking the other day, "Does the 22nd Amendment prevent Bill Clinton from running for a 3rd term? He'd be way better than Hilary."

But alas it does. It doesn't prevent just 3 consecutive terms. It prevents 3 terms period. Just because you sit out 8 or 16 years doesn't mean you can come back for term #3.

rojo wrote:

Snet wrote:

This opens the door for George W. Bush to make a serious run at a third term.

Ha. I was thinking the other day, "Does the 22nd Amendment prevent Bill Clinton from running for a 3rd term? He'd be way better than Hilary."

But alas it does. It doesn't prevent just 3 consecutive terms. It prevents 3 terms period. Just because you sit out 8 or 16 years doesn't mean you can come back for term #3.

lol, I know! Yes, Clinton would be better than Hillary, for sure.

BTW, I'm still banned from posting on my other computer. How do I get unbanned? Thanks.

Yep. Obama got a complete pass on his entire academic career. The MSM whitewashed everything and refused to do ANY investigative journalism into his very sketchy past. Obama admitted he was a pot head and a mediocre high school student, yet he got into a competitive college. How?

How did he get into Harvard? What were his grades? We should know by now.

He was editor of the Harvard Law Review, but no one can find a single thing he wrote. Why not? ... and don't tell me editors don't write. You should never get to be an editor if you haven't written anything. How did that happen?

He supposedly taught law at the University of Chicago. OK. Do we have any examples of any of his lessons? Why not? What did he teach?

Who is it that has the power to completely erase the past of someone, and why would they do it?

So now we're talking about something that happened in a Republican's background in 1969. Last election we were talking about how Romney teased a student in college.

Meanwhile, Hillary violated her confidentiality agreement regarding sensitive national secrets, which is a crime and should be prosecuted as one.... and the MSM acts like it's just another cattle futures scandal.

The bias and double standard is so glaring that even the casual observer has to take notice.

rojo wrote:

Snet wrote:

This opens the door for George W. Bush to make a serious run at a third term.

Ha. I was thinking the other day, "Does the 22nd Amendment prevent Bill Clinton from running for a 3rd term? He'd be way better than Hilary."

But alas it does. It doesn't prevent just 3 consecutive terms. It prevents 3 terms period. Just because you sit out 8 or 16 years doesn't mean you can come back for term #3.

The longest you can serve as President is 10 years.

But what if Hillary chose Bill to be VP, and then resigned?

22nd amendment reads:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

...

So if Bill were VP and ascended to the throne via Hillary's demise, then he WOULDN'T be "elected" to the office, and it appears that the 22nd would allow such a thing. He could do this indefinitely with various proxies running as temporary placeholders.

Hmmm. I wonder what the USSC would think of this.

I was a cadet at the USAF Academy in 1969, so I know the climate of the service academies at the time. They were looking for minorities. I only remember one black guy in my squadron. I don't remember the percentage, but it was probably one a couple of percent or so.

Carson was the #1 ROTC cadet leader in the city of Detroit and African American. Realistically, approval of his application to West Point (or USAFA/USNA) would have just been a formality. If he had applied, he would have gotten in and everyone would have known it. I'd guess someone in ROTC leadership would have told him that at the time.

Great right-wing options this election.

rojo wrote: He was the top ROTC student in all of Detroit. He was African American. It's pretty safe to assume if he'd applied to West Point he would have been accepted and received a full scholarship as all people at West Point do.

Given that this is self-reported by Carson and many things in his autobiography are a lie or exaggeration, I would be skeptical that he was the 'top ROTC student in all of Detroit.' Student coordinator of ROTC for Detroit, sure, but 'top ROTC student', I need to see some rankings and test scores. Similar to Obama being editor of Harvard Law Review not making him the 'top law student at Harvard' (which Obama never claimed).

Wouldn't you think the religious right would *not* vote for a proven serial liar?

Strange group of people, them.

agip wrote:

Wouldn't you think the religious right would *not* vote for a proven serial liar?

Strange group of people, them.

That appears to be a major difference between the parties. Republicans value truth from their reps, Democrats do not.

Carson is disputing Politico's story, and claims the whole thing is a lie:

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/06/team-carson-politico-story-is-an-outright-lie/

Do we have another Bush national guard story here?