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Obama Campaigned On The Backs Of Waiting-List Veteran Heroes In 2008
Guess Obama’s 2008 promised ‘Hope and Change’ included everyone other than America’s courageous war vets
Canada Free Press
By Judi McLeod (Bio and Archives) Tuesday, May 20, 2014
President Barack Obama did not, as the White House claimed yesterday, only learn of the VA wait-list scandal on TV, just as he claimed to learn of the IRS, Fast and Furious and AP reporting snooping scandals.
“Speaking at a campaign rally in Charleston, W. Va., then Senator Obama promised veterans he would fix the problems plaguing Veterans Affairs hospitals: (grabien.com)Obama campaigned on the VA scandal while still a senator in 2008, got elected president and then forgot about it—until the scandal came back into the light of publicity this month.
“At a time when we’re facing the largest homecoming since the Second World War, the true test of our patriotism is whether we will serve our returning heroes as well as they’ve served us,” Obama said:
“We know that over the last eight years, we’ve already fallen short of meeting this test. We all learned about the deplorable conditions that were discovered at places like Fort Bragg and Walter Reed. We’ve all walked by a veteran whose home is now a cardboard box on a street corner in the richest nation on Earth. We’ve all heard about what it’s like to navigate the broken bureaucracy of the VA – the impossibly long lines, or the repeated calls for help that get you nothing more than an answering machine. Just a few weeks ago, an 89-year-old World War II veteran from South Carolina told his family, “No matter what I apply for at the VA, they turn me down.” The next day, he walked outside of an Outpatient Clinic in Greenville and took his own life.
How can we let this happen? How is that acceptable in the United States of America? The answer is, it’s not. It’s an outrage. And it’s a betrayal—a betrayal—of the ideals that we ask our troops to risk their lives for.
“But it doesn’t have to be this way. Not in this country. Not if we decide that this time will be different.”
And there is undeniable proof that Obama referred to the VA scandal only two years ago.
Through diligent research top talk show radio host Mark Levin’s producer, Rich (Sementa) unearthed a July 23, 2012 clip right off the White House website with Obama claiming new veterans wouldn’t be piled onto the backlog, saying: “I will not rest until we’ve got this right”.
“White House Press Secretary Jay Carney wound up with egg on his face Monday as he told reporters that President Barack Obama first learned from a TV news report that his Veterans Administration was denying medical care to vets with secret off-the-books waiting lists. (Daily Mail, May 19, 2014)
“But new evidence emerged this morning that his transition team was notified five years ago about how VA medical centers’ official wait-list times bore little resemblance to reality and risked denying military heroes critical health care.
Reposted with permission
He did the same thing in 2012 be serious in he changed the Rules of Engagement to create many more American casualties! He told the Muslim world when he would start the Surge in order to have Islamics flock for Killing and maiming of US forces. The VA are American Veterans he does not like America or it Veterans!!
Americans are the most deceitful nation in the world. They now surpass Nigerians.
I was in Beijing the other day and as I ordered a coffee at Starbucks airport heard two idiotic Americans behind me talking bad about the Chinese and how unethical they are. I turned around and gave them a good piece of my mind. The Americans were shocked and I asked them to leave. My wife whom is chinese was ready to kick their freakin butts.
Americans are stupid, no tact and rude.