Politico admits to fabricating story about Carson

http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/06/politico-admits-fabricating-a-hit-piece-on-ben-carson/#.Vj0_0zQmMeo.twitter

Racists

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

Yeah and Hillary said she was named after sir Edmund Hillary....whoops.

After taking in this whole story about the scholarship,  what Carson did is not actually "lying" to me.   Not in the same way so many other politicians have been caught lying.  What he put in his book was more like bragging than lying,  although he was careless with the truth.
I now accept the fact that he would have been able to enroll in West Point and he would have received financial aid which he deserved. 
Since there is no such thing as a "scholarship" to West Point is what makes him careless with the truth.  But since scholarships are routine to most all univerisities,  I can even see myself being unaware that West Point is the exception and inadvertently using that word incorrectly.  But it wouldn't be lying.

So I no longer see the problem with Carson as being "lying".

However,  the thing I'm concerned about is an individual who has a history of  attempting to knife someone to death and attempting to murder his mother by hitting her in the head with a hammer.
That means a lot more to me than obsessing on the word "scholarship".

Just as I'm more apt to obsess on Clinton's statement that his China Trade Agreement would "create a one way street of trade to China from the U.S.";
than I am his statement "it depends on what the meaning of is is".

Politico did interviews with people who knew him growing up. It's possible that he fabricated much of what he says about those incidents. Maybe he wants to appear "tough", because he comes across as wimpy, despite his ROTC background.

Floridatexan wrote:

Politico did interviews with people who knew him growing up. It's possible that he fabricated much of what he says about those incidents. Maybe he wants to appear "tough", because he comes across as wimpy, despite his ROTC background.

Wouldn't that be the rational when obama described drug dabbling and seeking out the fringe intellectual elements?

I assume you are prepared to give carson the benefit of the doubt then? Especially when you consider both of their upbringings. Carson truly lived the struggle... public housing, education, environment. While obama lived in private gated communities, private schools, and some mysterious benefactors that PUT him through the finest educational facilities. But look at which of the two you would defend without limit... and look at the one that you are so easy to disparage and malign. Try to explain that to yourself.

Floridatexan wrote:

Politico did interviews with people who knew him growing up.  It's possible that he fabricated much of what he says about those incidents.  Maybe he wants to appear "tough", because he comes across as wimpy, despite his ROTC background.  

It's a FACT that POLITICO rescinded their story batwinger. Get over it. Carson doesn't lie like Obama and Hillary.

What kind of wimpy background does Obama and HIllary have? Carson grew up in the hood. Obama and Hillary had sheltered lives.

PkrBum wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:

Politico did interviews with people who knew him growing up.  It's possible that he fabricated much of what he says about those incidents.  Maybe he wants to appear "tough", because he comes across as wimpy, despite his ROTC background.  

Wouldn't that be the rational when obama described drug dabbling and seeking out the fringe  intellectual elements?

I assume you are prepared to give carson the benefit of the doubt then? Especially when you consider both of their upbringings. Carson truly lived the struggle... public housing, education, environment.  While obama lived in private gated communities, private schools, and some mysterious benefactors that PUT him through the finest educational facilities. But look at which of the two you would defend without limit... and look at the one that you are so easy to disparage and malign. Try to explain that to yourself.

I don't need your warped input to explain things to myself. I first heard Obama speak at the DNC in 2004. I knew then that he was destined for greatness, although at that point I didn't consider that he would be President only 4 years later. Carson did "live the struggle", but he had government benefits to help him through that...benefits he would now like to deny to others. He doesn't have the support of many other blacks because he has placed himself politically in opposition to their wants and needs. He may be a brilliant surgeon, but his politics reek of self-serving narcissism. And he lies.

"wants and needs" Therein lies the biggest racist trap of all. All a citizen should require is a fair shot. Humans don't need layers of safety nets and redistributed free shit. At most the govt should provide temporary unemployment and severe disability.

Obamasucks wrote:
It's a FACT that POLITICO rescinded their story

When I first spotted your thread,  I googled to find a Politico page which has them rescinding the story. 
I can't find it.  Can you link us to it?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/wage-theft-comes-to-ameri_b_8398150.html



Ratio of Average Worker Pay to CEO Compensation -- 1970 to Present

Level playing field? Hahahahaha.

And of course Obama was an i n s i d e r...fully trained to deal with a world full of hostility, disaster and bad stuff....O K A Y.....Yeah that community organizer stuff is head and shoulders above military or business training ....