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What's wrong with Ben Carson?

  • He's stupid

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • He's full of crap

    Votes: 2 20.0%
  • He's insane

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • He's all three

    Votes: 8 80.0%

  • Total voters
    10

PoppaJ

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from Politico...Editor’s note:Carson never explicitly wrote that he had applied for admission to West Point, although that was the clear implication of his claim to have received an offer of a "full scholarship," a point that POLITICO’s initial report should have made clear.

Read more: Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point 'scholarship' but never applied

Here is the entire statement from politico.
Editor’s note: POLITICO stands by its reporting on this story, which has been updated to reflect Ben Carson’s on the record response. The original story and headline said that Carson’s campaign had admitted he "fabricated" a "full scholarship" from West Point, but now Carson denies that his campaign’s statement constituted such an admission, and the story and headline were changed to reflect that. POLITICO’s reporting established that Carson said he received a "full scholarship" from West Point, in writing and in public appearances over the years — but in fact he did not and there is actually no such thing as a "full scholarship" to the taxpayer-funded academy. And today in response to POLITICO he acknowledged for the first time that was not the case. Carson never explicitly wrote that he had applied for admission to West Point, although that was the clear implication of his claim to have received an offer of a "full scholarship," a point that POLITICO’s initial report should have made clear.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ben-carson-west-point-215598#ixzz3qpHdIVSC
 

PoppaJ

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From the Wall Street Journal. Ben Carson’s Past Faces Deeper Questions

The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968, Ben Carson’s black classmates unleashed their anger and grief on white students who were a minority at Detroit’s Southwestern High.

Mr. Carson, then a junior with a key to a biology lab where he worked part time, told The Wall Street Journal last month that he protected a few white students from the attacks by hiding them there.

It is a dramatic account of courage and kindness, and it couldn’t be confirmed in interviews with a half-dozen of Mr. Carson’s classmates and his high school physics teacher. The students all remembered the riot. None recalled hearing about white students hiding in the biology lab, and Mr. Carson couldn’t remember any names of those he sheltered.

“It may have happened, but I didn’t see it myself or hear about it,” said Gregory Vartanian, a white classmate of Mr. Carson’s who served in the ROTC with Mr. Carson and is now a retired U.S. Marshal.

In his 1990 autobiography, “Gifted Hands,” Mr. Carson writes of a Yale psychology professor who told Mr. Carson, then a junior, and the other students in the class—identified by Mr. Carson as Perceptions 301—that their final exam papers had “inadvertently burned,” requiring all 150 students to retake it. The new exam, Mr. Carson recalled in the book, was much tougher. All the students but Mr. Carson walked out.

“The professor came toward me. With her was a photographer for the Yale Daily News who paused and snapped my picture,” Mr. Carson wrote. “ ‘A hoax,’ the teacher said. ‘We wanted to see who was the most honest student in the class.’ ” Mr. Carson wrote that the professor handed him a $10 bill.

No photo identifying Mr. Carson as a student ever ran, according to the Yale Daily News archives, and no stories from that era mention a class called Perceptions 301. Yale Librarian Claryn Spies said Friday there was no psychology course by that name or class number during any of Mr. Carson’s years at Yale.
 

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Lake View Too

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I'm seeing this as a watershed election cycle. Up until now, we use to scrutinized our potential presidential nominees on their governmental domestic policies, there foreign policy credibility, their experience in either gubernatorial service, or faithful duty in the Congress. We debated their military service, their choice of higher education institutes, their stand on civil rights, women's issue, etc. Sometimes we debated about them for odd things, like their tax plans, or their likeability.

But this is the first time I can ever remember debating and discussing the degrees to which we perceive the two republican front-runners to being delusional! We are having comically great fun, but we are collectively admitting that there is an exceedingly probable chance that the next presidential election will involve someone who is delusional.

I will admit that I didn't like McCain or Romney, in the slightest, but they were completely sane, rational, misguided, people. The two front runners for the republican nomination are not. Both of them operate on a little voice, inside their heads, that I don't think has ever seen the light of day.
 

Jenksy

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I would never call McCain sane. He wants to fire a missile at everbody outside our borders. And I'm pretty sure Mitt is a robot. Or an alien. Or an alien robot.

Alien robots suck at politics.

I'm fairly certain Trump is just in it for Trump. He's laughing at us. He'll do and say things on SNL that should destroy his political career. And yet his poll numbers will probably go up.
 

Lake View Too

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I guess what I'm saying is McCain and Romney seem calculating rather than delusional. They are lying for financial gain for them and their cronies. The present bunch seem to have little grasp of the real world, truly believing their view is correct.
 

Leader of the Banned

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Delusional is unique. The problem with being unequivocally delusional is that it is indefensible on every level. You cannot defend delusion on differences of opinion, politics, ideology, or upbringing. If you try to defend a unequivocally delusional person, then it marks you as being just as delusional as the person you are defending. I'm talking about "earth is the flat center of the universe delusional". Also, the smarter you are, then the more likely your mental deficiencies are going to be chalked up to delusion rather than stupidity or ignorance. Don't get me wrong, I think Carson is overwhelmingly ignorant, and he's too stupid to keep his alternative reality to himself. I certainly do not view him as possessing a superior intellect to either myself, or anyone I associate with. There are a lot of smart accomplished people I might want to trade places with, and this stooge ain't one of them.
 

Bob

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I guess what I'm saying is McCain and Romney seem calculating rather than delusional. They are lying for financial gain for them and their cronies. The present bunch seem to have little grasp of the real world, truly believing their view is correct.
Romney never struck me as in it for financial gain. McCain lost all credibility for his choice of Palin and constant state of wanting war.
 

Bob

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the painting of Jesus and Carson in Carson's home is telling on several levels.
 
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