Ben Carson, gifted fabulist

[struggle4progress]

By Richard Cohen
November 9 at 8:07 PM

I have come to the conclusion that Ben Carson is a bit nuts. I say that .. because he doesn’t seem to know what the truth is ... He gives me the willies ... He did not, as he has written, turn down a full scholarship to West Point ... He said he was urged to do so by Gen. William Westmoreland, the former commanding general in Vietnam. This meeting took place in Detroit. There is no record of Westmoreland being in Detroit that day ... Carson has written that he once attempted to stab a friend in the belly ... but the man .. cannot be found. Carson says he protected white students in the .. riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., but these students, too, have evaporated ... The accumulation of exaggerations, fables and inventions is troubling — or would be if Carson were .. suitable for the presidency. He is not. He has no political or government experience, and his knowledge of foreign policy comes down to this: He has none ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ben-carson-gifted-fabulist/2015/11/09/7a92c3d6-8712-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html

[daybranch]

1. Your attention to republican crazies is serving to distract us

the real differences on issues between Bernie Sanders and Clinton. You are being manipulated by the MSM at the behest of the oligarchy. Go Bernie!

[struggle4progress]

2. Carson now most favorable GOP candidate

November 10, 2015, 08:17 am
By Mark Hensch

... Over seven in 10 Republicans in a Washington Post-ABC News survey view the retired neurosurgeon positively. Carson earns a 71 percent favorability rating, pollsters found, with 39 percent of that total “strongly” favorable toward him ...

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/259633-poll-over-70-percent-of-gop-voters-like-carson