Obama's Woes With VA Problems Expand to a Lying VA Secretary

Only mere weeks into the scandals of Veterans Administration's improper handlings and bingo; the story gets more odorous when Obama's hand-picked Secretary of that federal agency admits he lied about his own military service.

I have to ask you, the general public, is there anything this usurper of America's highest executive, administrative, elected officer has done in a proper and legitimate way? I hear you now and I agree, he is the most incompetent, lying and untrustworthy, not to mention questionable ethics and suspicious dereliction of character ever to hold high office. He could put his hand into an unopened fresh bag of peaches and always withdraw a rotten apple. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, as recent as a few days ago, stated in a FoxNews.com column that President Obama is "incapable of being commander-in-chief of the United States of America." Governor Jindal was making reference to Obama's handling, or to be more exact, mishandling, of the ISIS military situation in the Middle East, a thorny situation where Obama insists he is correct in his wholesale blundering of how he will respond to ISIS, an Islamic terrorist group which Obama refuses to acknowledge. This negative pronouncement from the Governor of Louisiana was just more "icing on the scandal cake" that hit the newswaves during this past year as some of Obama's favorite and fawning news corporations also took up the criticism gavel such as this one from Rebecca Kaplan of CBS NEWS on May 21, 2014:

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"President Obama addressed the issue for the first time in three weeks Wednesday, saying he "will not tolerate" any misconduct at the facilities that serve the nation's veterans. "When I hear allegations of misconduct, any misconduct -- whether its allegations of VA staff covering up long wait times, or cooking the books - I will not stand for it. Not as commander in chief but also not as an American. None of us should," the president said. "If these allegations prove to be true it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it, period."

To explain a bit for CBS's Ms. Kaplan, she covered the above Obama statement saying he "will not tolerate" and misconduct at the VA; and if "I hear allegations of VA staff. covering up long wait times or cooking the books" he, not only as commander in chief but also as an American, 'will not stand for it.' And, he followed that with this declaration: "If these allegations prove to be true it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it, period." Well now, that tough stance of Obama's apparently does not pertain to anyone he has personally appointed to the VA, such as his hand-picked Secretary of the VA who admitted lying about his own military service to one of the veteran patients. But if that patient to whom Secretary McDonald lied had committed that grievous error, apparently the forgiveness factor would not apply to such a lowly minion. Get this: "The White House released a statement Monday evening saying that it had accepted McDonald's explanation. "Secretary McDonald has apologized for the misstatement and noted that he never intended to misrepresent his military service," the statement said. "We take him at his word and expect that this will not impact the important work he's doing to promote the health and well-being of our nation's veterans." (Speaker not identified - do you suppose it could be the all High and Mighty Messiah who previously had stated, "if allegations prove to be true it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it, period"?) As stated above, McDonald has apologized for the "misstatement." and it reminds me of an incident I heard about in remembrance of my own service in the Marine Corps where my first actual combat was the landing and seizure of Guadalcanal from the Japanese during the period August 7, 1942, to December 15, 1942. The campaign by December 15 was pretty much reduced to "clean-up" of stragglers and odd remnants of the Jap forces which was left to the U. S. Army infantry units. One dark night several weeks later in February 1943, the remaining Japanese contingent piled onto a transport vessel and deserted that island of death for them The legend and history became a matter of pride for the Marines who, with meager forces, withstood the more advanced numbers of Japs for over four months and succeeded in turning the Japanese juggernaut around and began chasing them home instead of landings and campaigns against Australia and New Zealand. During the remaining war years in the Pacific, Guadalcanal was used primarily for a jump-off point for other landings by Marines to many other Pacific islands then still in Japanese hands. New, green, and wet behind the ears recruit Marines, like us in mid-1942, got their first taste of combat readiness, up-close and personal on Guadalcanal. These new-to-combat troops in subsequent years were heard in various "Marine-watering-holes" proclaiming that they were on Guadalcanal, which without further explanation was not a lie, but it was meant to imply that they were the ones that landed there in August 7, 1942, and subsequently conquered the island and the Japs that were on it. As in Army Ranger/Sec'y. Veterans Affairs McDonald's case, I guess you could say it was a "mis-statement" but to them it was oh so nice when no one challenged them for pesky details such as 'truths'.