Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Listening to NARN, you quoted someone saying an adult writing a book should know that no students at West Point have scholarships, they have commissions, and failure to clearly say this makes one unqualified for President. Similarly, an adult writing a book about his life should know where he was born – Africa or America – and failure to clearly state the truth he later chooses, disqualifies him for president. Unless, of course, it’s a form of simplification for explanation, or dramatic license, or hyperbole, or…
Carson could simply, a la Obama, say it was a “composite” of several schools, military and civilian…
…and then have his transcripts sealed. After all, it worked for the Kenyan Klown.
Listening to NARN, you quoted someone saying an adult writing a book should know that no students at West Point have scholarships, they have commissions, and failure to clearly say this makes one unqualified for President.
The problem with saying that is that West Point has referred to offering “full government scholarships” in their advertisements to prospective students.
https://books.google.com/books?id=e14EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA153&dq=%22west%20point%22%20tuition%20scholarship&pg=PA153#v=onepage&q=%22west%20point%22%20tuition%20scholarship&f=false
Or Hillary saying she was turned down by the Marines and also received a letter from NASA saying they don’t accept girls.
And the pyramids comment. If you watch the video….its an off the cuff remark he made in 1988. Its incredibly trivial.
OK, this is worse than Hilliary claiming to be named after Sir Edmund (who only scaled Everest and became famous when she was six), or Algore claiming to have heard a union song as a young boy that was composed when he was a teen?
And what Thorley says about USMA. There would also be some confusion about whether the commission would be issued upon entry, or upon graduation, as a commissioned officer must be, except for battlefield promotions, a college graduate in most cases.
My suspicion; the Army called a West Point appointment a “scholarship” in its (for lack of a better term) “marketing” to couch the whole thing in very civilian-friendly terms.
Just a guess, but I’d bank on it.
You mean the Army might have downplayed the military nature of the United States Military Academy at the height of protests against the Vietnam War? :^)