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Fascinating what they were really like what i do in the book. president obama wanx2:uz be a leader. i now believe president obama vastly underestimated just how difficult the job really is the blunt truth is mr. obama's leadership skills are simple prix not providing prosperity for the nation. that might be because president obama is a massive leader a man who avoids. doesn't make judgments about behavior. even when that behavior is destructive to the nation. president obama is still on the job after screwing up the obamacare rollout in a major way. she will be gone soon but she is still there...

>> are you members, the disabled veterans, are they getting the kind of treatment from the va they need and expect? >> veterans that get access to va are getting quality health care. our members tell us the health care they received is the best. the problem here is an access problem. and i can tell you for a fact, going back to 2003, presidential task force at that time found that there were 236,000 veterans waiting six months or longer for health care, and they identified a mismatch between demand and funding, and said that mismatch wasn't addressed, we would have problems with access, and th...

Facilities and apologized to his fellow veterans and to the american people. a few minutes ago, secretary shinseki offered me his own resignation. with considerable regret, i accept it. rick shinseki has served his country with honor for nearly 50 years. he he did two tours of combat in vietnam. he's a veteran who left a part of himself on the battlefield. he rose to command the first cavalry division, served as army chief of staff, and has never been afraid to speak truth to power. as secretary of the va, he presided over record numbers of veterans. enrolling them in health care and deliverin...

Disappointed that bad news did not get to him. i think the president should be equally disappointed, as he was with the affordable care rollout, that the bad news did not get to him sooner. i think you have to sort of raise some questions about if the bad news did not get all the way to the top, given what a priority this is for this administration, you have to ask the question why. >> yes, disastrous rollout of the health care website, that was a surprise to the president, top aides at the white house, and now all of these blunders at the department of veterans affairs that shouldn't have bee...

At the pittsburgh va have been waiting for appointments since 2012. >> we're not finished by a long shot. we still have a long ways to go. if this is a systemic problem which many fear it is, we need a review from top to bottom and people need to be held accountable. we need to make sure our veterans get the health care they've earned. >> the audit found the biggest barrier to getting care was a lack of doctor variability. a close second was trying to shoehorn vets into the 14 day appointment window. the two combined really made it difficult for vets to get the care they needed, wolf. >> this ...