MORE “HOPE AND CHANGE”
By Rick Manning || “I’ll be a President who ensures that America serves our men and women in uniform as well as they’ve served us, and that’s why I’m proud to have the support of these veterans advising me on the issues facing our troops and veterans. After seven years of an Administration that has stretched our military to the breaking point, ignored deplorable conditions at some VA hospitals, and neglected the planning and preparation necessary to care for our returning heroes, America’s veterans deserve a President who will fight for them not just when it’s easy or convenient, but every hour of every day for the next four years.”
-Senator Barack Obama, November 12, 2007
If only President Obama had taken these words seriously and acted on the Inspector General report detailing problems within the Veterans’ Association (VA) Health System that was published just prior to his inauguration in 2009.
But he didn’t.
On this Memorial Day weekend, the President finds himself entrenched in a scandal that he cannot duck by claiming partisanship. A scandal that either will show casual indifference by Obama to the plight of our veterans’ health care, or a blatant political cover up that has burst into the public eye, tragically worsened by the deaths of veterans around the nation.
What we do know is that what Americans hoped was an isolated instance of local VA officials choosing to deny health services to veterans based upon the severity of their illness has metastasized into a 26 facility probe.
The breadth of the VA denial of service practice can only point to a systemic policy throughout the Department, a web that reaches at least the Cabinet Secretary level.
The news and implications of the real live decentralized death panels at VA facilities across the nation have left the nation stunned. And the implications for the rest of us — as we await the full implementation of Obamacare — are truly frightening.
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Rick Manning is communications director of Americans for Limited Government. This column – which originally appeared on NetRightDaily.com – is reprinted with permission.
12 comments
At this stage in the game, anyone who doesn’t take everything Obama says with a grain of salt is a mental midget.
I would have to include all politicians, not to mention news outlets and internet blog sites. Call me skeptical, figures don’ lie but liars figure.
Yep, nailed it. Not many die hard Obama supporters can give you any substantive reasons that they think he’s a great president. Even if they were informed, it would be difficult for them to conjure a singular positive effect of his tenure.
interesting thought. though why does any president have to be great and how would they do it? the country is an established entity, not a start up.
We’ve had a pretty long run of presidents that weren’t great at all. Granted this country isn’t a “start up”, but you’d think someone worthy of the role would come along sooner than later. Silly idealism, I know.
Yep, nailed it. Not many die hard Obama supporters can give you any substantive reasons that they think he’s a great president. Even if they were informed, it would be difficult for them to conjure a singular positive effect of his tenure.
One thing the VA needs to do is pick up speed in processing all the disability claims at the Regional Office in Columbia. The wait times are terrible. Speed it up !
If OBummer were white — he would have been impeached by now.
How many times can he lie to faces of America — and get away with it? A lot, it seems…
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Obama 2008: VA will be ‘leader of health care reform’
WASHINGTON — It’s one of those promises the president would probably like to forget.
In vowing to make the Veterans Administration the model of national health-care reform back in 2008, the outlook for scandal-plagued Obamacare suddenly seems even worse.
During his transition into the White House in 2008-09, President Obama proposed
in his plan to “make the VA a leader of national health care reform so that veterans get the best care possible.”
However, instead of fixing the VA, the administration has had to defend its role in the death of veterans by neglect
Comment:
In March 2009 Obama tried to push through a bill to make all veterans pay for
their own Health Coverage even in combat… Does this really sound like a man
the cares about veterans?
And you’re surprised????
Remember Obama – who spoons w/ foreign terrorists- wanted returning combat Vets profiled as security threats in their own country…I’m guessing it was the ones he spied on, and they did not vote democrat…(see IRS targeting and Obama persecutes his political enemies)…
You cannot be so naïve that you believe Obama gives a $#!t about our soldiers….
decentralized death panels? isn’t that a good thing? commie russia has centrally controlled death panels.
New rule that should be effective asap: if one running for the office of President has never served in the military they can not run for office. How can one be Commander In Chief if they are clueless about the military as obviously Obama is just as old Clinton was and his wife. Wake Up! America
It should be a rule that if one has NEVER served in the Military then one can not run for office of the President of the USA….how can anyone be the Commander In Chief with absolutely no experience……