Ben Shapiro of Truth Revolt has written an article on how Shinseki’s resignation represents a beautifully-played political manipulation by Obama.
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| Obama’s Pathetically Manipulative Shinseki ‘Resignation’ |
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On Friday, President Obama accepted the resignation of Secretary for Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki. “With considerable regret, I accepted,” Obama stated, continuing “We don’t have time for distractions.”
Of course, Obama was firing Shinseki to distract from the actual problems at the Veterans Administration, just as he visited troops this week to distract from the fact that under his watch, the military budget has been slashed and veterans have been dying on waiting lists. Distraction is the name of the game for the Obama White House.
Shinseki’s resignation represents a beautifully-played political manipulation. It is truly first class. In response to accusations that the VA had created false waiting lists, and that veterans had died while waiting for care, Obama first suggested that he learned about the scandal from the news, then suggested that it had existed for decades; he visited the troops in Afghanistan to use them as a photo op; he expressed support for Shinseki, then accepted his resignation.
Obama’s politically Machiavellian acceptance of Shinseki’s resignation came along with rhetoric about how Shinseki wasn’t the problem – but neither was the VA. “He is a very good man,” Obama stated, as though the question being asked was whether Shinseki was an alcoholic child-beater. “He’s a good person who’s done exemplary work on our behalf.”