Carson's comments read like a seventeen year old not really understanding the conversation he had with someone very important who knew nothing about a teenage kid he just met and fifty years later believing that conversation was somehow notable or relevant to his life. The conversation with General Westmoreland sounds like the conversation Dustin Hoffman had in The Graduate. The guy simply suggested plastics (West Point) was a good move, not roll out the welcome mat. I know one has to have an enormous ego to run for president, but Carson's seems bigger than most.
Not only that, but the guy seems to fit somewhere fairly close to autistic on the ASD spectrum. Below, I pulled something from the NIMH "A Parents Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder": -Make little eye contact -Tend to look and listen less to people in their environment or fail to respond to other people -Do not readily seek to share their enjoyment of toys or activities by pointing or showing things to others -Respond unusually when others show anger, distress, or affection. I'm not saying that he fits in with emotionally unresponsive three or four-year olds, but comparative to other candidates Ben Carson fits the bill.
it's funny because the people you don't like need to be mentally ill