It's not what he has done but what he has stood up for and what the broken system has kept him from doing.
Do you understand the label of "progressive" in the definition of progressive liberal ?
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Bernies biggest accomplishment in my opinion is not selling out to Corperate interests.
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"but what he has stood up for"

Nebe, the easiest thing in the world, especially in times of despair and stress (like now), is to tell people what they want to hear. And what most sheep want to hear is, "it's not your fault. That white guy over there, in the Brooks Brothers suit with the big yacht, HE stole your birthright! Elect me and I'll make damn sure it doesn't happen again".

What these snake-oil salesmen never do, is tell you how they are going to do it, in a way that doesn't destroy everything.

Do you really believe that Bernie is the first one to figure out how to make college and healthcare "free"? No one else has been able to pull that off until he came along?

"Do you understand the label of "progressive" in the definition of progressive liberal ?"

I know what it is. I can't quite say that i "understand" it. I can't quite "understand" an agenda that places convenience ahead of human life, which would rather let illegal aliens with convicted felonies roam around killing Americans than locking them up, which refuses to say that white cops kill far fewer black people than fellow black citizens, and can't even bring themselves to say "if you have a wee-wee, you go to the boy's bathroom, and if you have a vagina, you go to the girls' bathrom".

When a large group of educated, seemingly normal people can't even agree on that for Christ's sake, then no, I cannot say I understand it. My brain's ability to fantasize has its limits.

No, he sells out to union interests. They give him money, he uses that union money to get elected, and then is beholden to the unions, so he rewards unions with pork.

Now, if you take out the word "unions" and substitute "corporations", what's the difference, exactly?

If not selling out to corporate interests is so vital to you, you should be equally impresed with Dr Carson. He made his own way, he hasn't sold out, right?

Carson has said some strange things that make me wince in the way I did with Sarah Palin, though he is obviously far more intelligent and serious. Has carson ever said anything as crazy, as suggetsing that women fantasize about being gang-raped? Because that's what Bernie said.

How about we stop digging through the entire life history of every candidate, looking for some embarassing quote on a non-issue, in the hope that we find something to club them with?

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...ection-mannat/

Ben Carson said it’s "total propaganda" to suggest he had any connection to Mannatech, a maligned nutritional supplement company.

At the Oct. 28 Republican presidential debate, hosted by CNBC in Boulder, Colo., moderator Carl Quintanilla asked Carson about his involvement with the company.

"This is a company called Mannatech, a maker of nutritional supplements, with which you had a 10-year relationship," Quintanilla said. "They offered claims they could cure autism, cancer. They paid $7 million to settle a deceptive marketing lawsuit in Texas, and yet your involvement continues. Why?"

"Well, that’s easy to answer: I didn’t have an involvement with them," replied Carson, a former pediatric neurosurgeon. "That is total propaganda. And this is what happens in our society -- total propaganda. I did a couple speeches for them. I did speeches for other people. They were paid speeches. It is absolutely absurd to say that I had any kind of relationship with them. Do I take the product? Yes. I think it’s a good product."

Mannatech sells nutritional supplement pills made from larch tree bark and aloe, ingredients with disputed health benefits. The company in 2009 settled the lawsuit, which stemmed from claims that the company was deceptively pitching cures and treatments for illnesses such as cancer and even Down Syndrome.

For Carson to say he "didn’t have an involvement with" Mannatech is a stretch. While he was not any sort of employee for the company as far as we can tell, it’s hard to see the speeches he’s delivered, as well as other promotional work, as anything but a full-throated endorsement of the product. Further, Mannatech appears to view Carson as a product promoter.

First, the speeches. Carson has delivered four to Mannatech, according to the Wall Street Journal. Carson has written these paid remarks off as just several of many diverse speeches the Washington Speakers Bureau have booked for him. But in the speeches, he talks about his personal fondness for the product, which he started taking in conjunction with cancer treatment years ago.

For example, Carson delivered remarks to Mannatech sales associates in 2004. In the speech, he talked about his introduction to Mannatech’s supplements and a personal conversation he had with the company’s lead doctor.

"I started taking the product, and within about three weeks, my symptoms went away," adding that he toyed with the idea of using only the supplements, rather than undergoing cancer surgery. He said in the remarks that it would be inappropriate for him to be an official spokesman or sales associate, but he does refer people to Mannatech.

Since then, he has appeared in Mannatech-produced videos that appear to be promotional materials. In 2011, he answered questions in an interview with Mannatech’s co-CEO and chief science officer. In a 2013 Mannatech video, Carson described his experience with nutritional supplements.

"The wonderful thing about a company like Mannatech is that they recognize that when God made us, he gave us the right fuel. And that fuel was the right kind of healthy food," Carson said in the 2013 video. "Basically what the company is doing is trying to find a way to restore natural diet as a medicine or as a mechanism for maintaining health."

Carson also talked about his use of nutritional supplements on PBS in 2014, and Mannatech promoted the interview on its homepage. While it’s no longer accessible, the Mannatech website had a specific tag for all articles about Carson.

Carson’s campaign requested that Mannatech remove some videos and articles featuring Carson from its website. And since media outlets have started poking around this question, Mannatech has taken down even more, according to reporters at the Wall Street Journal.

Our ruling

Carson said, "I didn’t have an involvement with" the nutritional supplement company Mannatech.

As far as we can tell, Carson was not a paid employee or official endorser of the product. However, his claim suggests he has no ties to Mannatech whatsoever. In reality, he got paid to deliver speeches to Mannatech and appeared in promotional videos, and he consistently delivered glowing reviews of the nutritional supplements. As a world-renowned surgeon, Carson’s opinion on health issues carries weight, and Mannatech has used Carson’s endorsement to its advantage.

We rate Carson’s claim False.

I haven't really followed the pyramid story but unless I'm missing something, I don't view it as that big a deal. so what he believes that? I know the pyramids where contrusted in such a way it wouldn't make sense to story grain there but so what.

Sort of how we never discuss where Pres. Obama went to church in Chicago?

Here is why it is different.......

Yous story about the nutritional company, makes his claim that he had no relationship, seem like b.s.

Not the same. We have all said embarassing things that should not be used to try to define us. Rev Wright wasn't a one-night stand for Obama, it wasn't a one-time slip of the tongue. That was a close relationship that lasted for decades (lasted until, in fcat, it was politically expedient for Obama to dump him). Obama called him his "spiritual mentor". And Wright is a bat-sh*t crazy, white-hating, anti-Semite.

I view Obama's regular attendance at that church, no different than I view a white candidate who went to peaceful KKK meetings every Sunday for 20 years. Same thing. No one, and I mean no one, can sit in that church for 20 years, actually believe th ebile being spewed, and not hate white people.

Spence, these things are bothersome to me as a Republican. If he was lying, he needs to go away.

Now, here is a test. Will you say the same thing about Hilary and her sniper fire claim?

if he's a liar, you won't find me defending him, parsing words, making up chit the way that you do to defend your rats :yawn:

if only you held your idols to the same standards....rather, you make a game out of condoning their behavior...all the while acting shocked at others

If I were Eben, I'd dismiss and say they all do it and provide some pretty solid examples :heybaby:

Apples and oranges.

Carson will be labeled a liar and the Clinton's will march on with their noses up :claps:

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Please explain.

Looks like they both lied to improve their resume.

Good god, man.

He's a sharp and accomplished guy, his life story is incredible, and he comes across as sincere, soft-spoken and thoughtful. All very attractive qualities.

But he says some strange things. And there are several claims of lying, but as you pointed out, the liberals probably aren't above fabricating that in attempts to discredit him, because his existence spits in the face of half of the current liberal agenda.

Chris Mathews said the other night that Carson's rise is tied to "the return of simpletonism" in America. In which, Matthews refers to the former head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, as a "simpleton". Because as we all know, pediatric neurosurgery is simple. Liberals like to focus on complicated things, such as which bathroom a person is supposed to use. That's a real head-scratcher.

Yet whever anyone says anything critical about Obama, it's painted as thinly veiled racism.

Guess what. He is a liar!
Just admitted to lieing about receiving a West Point scholarship.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/1...t-point-215598

Boom! As spence says.
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Slow down there, cowboy.

Read Scottw's post just above.

Should be easy to check out, either his book claims he was accepted to West Point, or it doesn't.

And Spence doesn't say it, won't say it, can't say it, about Hilary, when there is zro ambiguity about whether or not she is a liar.

you are hours behind the rest of the world...c'mon buddy...catch up :wave:

Sorry. I was busy watching gay porn and having an abortion.
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well....at least you are enjoying yourself :jester:

You were awesome in that one scene with the Latino bell hop !
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:hihi: Sorry. :hihi:

can't believe you recognized me

:rotfl:
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didn't even have to go to FOX NEW for this

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/06/medi...int/index.html

http://www.dailywire.com/news/960/no...ts-ben-shapiro

He's still crazy ;)
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Politico got most of the story right but tried to push it too hard. Ben Carson looked terrible at his press conference tonight trying to defend all these mounting accusations. Note to self...if you're going to run for president don't talk about trying to hit your mom with a hammer.
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Yes, other than their headline, where they said Carson admitted fabricating the West Point offer. Which they got 100% wrong, and changed their headline. But other than what was stated in the headline, they got most of it right.

"if you're going to run for president don't talk about trying to hit your mom with a hammer"

But apparently lying about coming under sniper fire, when in reality you were being greeted by smiling children, says nothing about one's ability to be POTUS. Nor does blaming the GOP when your husband gets caught with his pants around his ankles and lies about it. Why is that so different from Carson's lie, exactly?

I can't imagine being so partisan that when I found out the frontrunner for my party is a confirmed liar, I could somehow try to turn it into a negative for another party.

I know I read Hillary was shot at by a sniper 1,000s of times but how many times did she actually say that?
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what exactly did he lie about?

you call crazy someone who has odd notions about the pyramids...

I call crazy someone who has odd notions about our system of government and the proper role of it in our lives...

in terms of being President of the United States the former is harmless and the latter is dangerous...:uhuh:

"the frontrunner for my party is a confirmed liar"

It's not nearly as clear as POLITICO made it seem. And POLITICO is no longer claiming that Carson's camp admitted a fabrication.

What we know, I think, is that his book claims that Gen Westmorland offered him a scholarship to West Point at a dinner they had together. Carson is claiming that Westmorland encouraged him to apply, and that he would certainly get in.

If that's what happened, is Carson lying about being offered a scholarship? Probably.

He's not my candidate, he lost me a short while ago when he aid he would not have invaded Afghanistan. He says some strange things. And he may have some problems with the truth. We've had enough of that.

Why did I bring up Hilary? Because Spence claims that her lie (and there is zero doubt about that) isn't morally equivalent to Carson's lie. I am asking him to elaborate, but he won't. I just want to see his reasoning, maybe I am judging her too harshly, and I want to be fair.

"how many times did she actually say that"

Once that I know of. She couldn't repeat the claim, because immediately after she made the claim, the video surfaced showing that instead of being shot at by a sniper, she was hugged by smiling children.

Her excuse? She was tired.

Think of the contempt she has for the sheep she wants to lead, if she believes we would all buy that as an excuse. Let's assume she is telling the truth about why she lied. If she becomes delusional when she is tired, what's going to happen when she gets woken up at 3 AM and has to deal with an emergency?

I will not vote for Carson in a primary. If he wins the primary, I would gladly vote for him over anyone on the other side. If my choice is between two liars, I'll plug my nose and vote for the liar who (1) is staunchly pro life, and who (2) has a sufficient grasp of 5th grade arithmetic to know that we cannot ever raise taxes high enough to cover our upcoming entitlement obligations, and (3) is honest enough to say out loud that white people aren't the cause of most problems that plague the black community today, and (4) is sane enough to say out loud "boys use the boys' bathroom, and girls use the girls' bathroom". I still can't get my head around the fact that liberals are making an issue out of #4, they have gone that far off the deep end.

so the only people who can possibly know about the scholarship offer and whether or not it occurred are Carson and Westmoreland...right?:kewl:

Pyramids!!!!!!!!!!
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Neurosurgery!!!!...what exactly is Bernie's skill set again?

I think it's well established now that he never applied and therefore couldn't have been offered admittance let alone a "scholarship."

In the grand scheme it's not a huge deal compared to his other beliefs.

Fair enough and agreed.

POLITICO went way over the line in their zeal to discredit him. POLITICO reported that Carson's camp admitted a lie, then POLITICO had to take that back. If no one from Carson's camp admitted anything, why did POLITICO report otherwise?

There seems to be exactly zero basis (other than the desire for to do Hilary's dirty work) for politico to claim, in a headline, that Carson's camp admitted to lying.

He's a black conservative, and he's doing well, so he must be destroyed.

They're doing the same to Rubio. Hilary claimed she was "broke" when she left the White House (despite all the stuff they stole on their way out), and nobody said anything. Yet if Rubio's finances are less than stellar, it says something about his ability to be president.

It's a joke.