Obama's VA "Distraction"

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According to President Obama, VA Secretary Shinseki is not just a very good, accomplished man and outstanding soldier, he has "done exemplary work on our behalf.”

Obama accepted his resignation only because he has become a "distraction".

Really?

Obama believes Shinseki has done not just decent work but exemplary work, but lets him go because he's become a "distraction"? When the leader of the free world can't even handle a distraction you know the office has been greatly diminished.

Unless of course this is just empty rhetoric.

And that's the way the Ball bounces.

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