Things turned tense quickly today between President Obama and Bill O'Reilly in their Super Bowl pregame interview. "OK, Bill, you've got a long list of my mistakes," Obama said to The O'Reilly Factor host near the start of their 10-minute live interview on Fox.
That remark -- in response to a question from O'Reilly whether it was the biggest mistake of Obama's presidency when he told Americans no one would lose their healthcare under Obamacare -- was one of a number of points on which the two butted heads. The duo sparred almost from the beginning in the interview live from the White House this afternoon. Obama also took on Fox News Channel when O'Reilly asked him about reports the IRS was investigating Tea Party-related groups for political reasons.
"These kind of things keep resurfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them," Obama said. "When you look there have been multiple hearings."
Obama denied any corruption, just some "boneheaded decisions."
Earlier, the Fox News host interrupted Obama with a "you're not going to answer that?" as the President replied to a question about why he didn't fire Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius after the botched online launch of Obamacare.
By now he has realized that the IRS scandal had no negative consequences for his side. Some Republicans and conservatives have been constantly whining about it but they have been powerless to do anything substantial.
Obama is throwing down the gauntlet now. What was called the 'IRS scandal' is the new normal.
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"These kind of things keep resurfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them," Obama said.
Um... isn't that what the press is supposed to do? That's why they have special privileges (freedom of the press). Oh I get it - Obama doesn't believe in freedom of the press - and the MSM is only to willing to accommodate him.
Nero fiddling. Most administrations face a 'black swan' moment or two. That's when having friends and allies counts to keep the mob at bay. However, when you hit the low 30's in the polls and you've given your opponents and opportunistic hangers-on more than enough fuel to burn you if they need to, it's delusional to think you can keep racking up impeachable crimes and issuing fiat as you might find yourself the one being thrown under the bus.
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The Clintons have undoubtedly tutored him on plausible deniability, cutouts, and speedy interments. I'd be beefing up my security detail, using frequent SDR's [surveillance detection routes], and avoiding air travel, if I were Roger Ailes.
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Change the thrust, It's not a lie, only a "Mistake" (Regardless of how many times he said it).
Bullshit, You make a "Mistake" and you don't repeat it publicaly and loudly over the News media, alsso you DON't Say it again,and again.
It's no "mistake", Just another lie, and a cover up. (Again)
THe only "Mistake" was trying to minimize it so publicly.
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It's always someone else who is to blame. First it was George W. Bush, then conservative Republicans, then anyone who disagreed with him, and the Tea Party, and now Fox news. Man up Obama and take some responsibility. What a whining cry-baby.
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He's getting away with it because the people who are supposed to hold him accountable aren't doing their job. The media is a lost cause, but the Republicans in Congress have no excuse.
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Thought I was watching a pre-game sports show when this damn liar appears on the TV. I watched him equivocate a for a few seconds about if and when Leon Panetta told him Benghazi was a terrorist attack and then I switched the channel. It's bad for my blood pressure.
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I don't know who to be angrier at anymore-- the lying, scheming, power-mad, leftwing totalitarian monster in the White House, or the fifty million clueless, drooling submorons who not only voted him into office in 2008, but voted to RE-elect him in 2012 as well. Or, for that matter, at the RINOs who seem determined to cement the Republican Party's reputation as the "Stupid Party" firmly in place.
Frankly, I think we're f*cked. Seriously, irredeemably f*cked. It wouldn't surprise me at all if in 10 years, America resembled 1970's Cambodia or 1970's Argentina, depending on whether the left or the right comes out on top. Either way, IMO we're headed for a disaster that ordinary politics cannot prevent.
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"It wouldn't surprise me at all if in 10 years, America resembled 1970's Cambodia or 1970's Argentina"
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...imho, the most amazing thing is that the President thought he needed the on-screen appearance badly enough to give another set off screen <LINK to NBC analysis> to .
Also, the Hillary tweet, if read the "right" way could be seen to be quite a swipe at Mr. Obama...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has linked the recent deaths of at least 19 vets diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and 2011 to appointment backlogs and delays at VA hospitals and clinics and resulting hindrances in care, according to an internal document.
Specifically, those 19 deceased veterans are reportedly part of a larger group of 82 vets who have either died, are now dying or have sustained serious health consequences from the VAs failure to conduct medical screenings like colonoscopies and endoscopies in a timely, or prompt, fashion.
One South Carolina veteran described to CNN how he had begged his local VA hospitals for months for a colonoscopy appointment after suffering painful rectal bleeding in 2011.
"I took it upon my own self to call the department that scheduled that and ask them about it. And they said this was the earliest appointment that I could get, Barry Coates, a 44-year-old Army veteran, told CNN about the appointment he finally receivedset for roughly a year after he first saw a doctor about the symptoms.
And I explained to the lady what I had already been through and how much pain I had, and I said if I wait this long there might not be ... (anything) we can do about it then. I could be even dead by then. And the only thing she could tell me was 'I understand that, sir, but I don't have any control over that.'"
The VA noted scheduling delays previously reported to exist at its Augusta, Ga. and Columbia, S.C. hospitals sparked a national review that has since strengthened oversight and improved the system.
"As a result of the consult delay issue VA discovered at two of our medical centers, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) conducted a national review of consults across the system, reportedly wrote Dr. Robert Petzel, the VAs under secretary for health. We have redesigned the consult process to better monitor consult timeliness.
We continue to take action to strengthen oversight mechanisms and prevent a similar delay at another VA medical center. We take any issue of this nature extremely seriously and offer our sincerest condolences to families and individuals who have been affected and lost a loved one."
As for Coates, the colonoscopy he finally got reportedly revealed a baseball-sized cancerous tumor that now threatens his life - and for which he is now undergoing chemotherapy.
"I don't know what my outcome is going to be," Coates told CNN. I just try to live every day like it's my last day."
At 4:45 p.m., [July 28, 1932], commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, supported by six battle tanks commanded by Maj. George S. Patton, formed in Pennsylvania Avenue while thousands of civil service employees left work to line the street and watch. The Bonus Marchers, believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the troops until Patton ordered[citation needed] the cavalry to charge theman action which prompted the spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"
Shacks that members of the Bonus Army erected on the Anacostia Flats burning after the confrontation with the military.
After the cavalry charged, the infantry, with fixed bayonets and tear gas (adamsite, an arsenical vomiting agent) entered the camps, evicting veterans, families, and camp followers. The veterans fled across the Anacostia River to their largest camp and President Hoover ordered the assault stopped. However Gen. MacArthur, feeling the Bonus March was an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, ignored the President and ordered a new attack. Fifty-five veterans were injured and 135 arrested.[12] A veteran's wife miscarried. When 12-week-old Bernard Myers died in the hospital after being caught in the tear gas attack, a government investigation reported he died of enteritis, while a hospital spokesman said the tear gas "didn't do it any good."[16]
During the military operation, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, later the 34th President of the United States, served as one of MacArthur's junior aides. Believing it wrong for the Army's highest-ranking officer to lead an action against fellow American war veterans, he strongly advised MacArthur against taking any public role: "I told that dumb son-of-a-bitch not to go down there," he said later. "I told him it was no place for the Chief of Staff." Despite his misgivings, Eisenhower later wrote the Army's official incident report which endorsed MacArthur's conduct.
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The canary in the cage for your wonderful future world of Obamacare.
If they couldn't make the VA, military medical or Indian Health Care the model of medical care, why would anyone expect more for a nationalized health care system?
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I waited six years for back surgery caused by multiple helicopter shoot-downs in SE Asia. All the while getting only stronger and stronger meds until I was unable to function.
Recent inquiry about a simple hernia repair that has grown four fold since first reported, they couldn't tell me what YEAR it could be addressed.
Way to take care of the troops Champ!
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In what little I saw of the SOTU, they made a big deal of a wounded vet who had served in Afghanistan. Sorry, I didn't catch his name. But they all, Republicans and Democrats, gave him a standing ovation. FLOTUS was sitting beside him and she helped him to stand and led the applause. Well, of course he deserves their gratitude. But what made me mad as hell is they are all such a bunch of hypocrites. I believe there are very few if any of the people in that room who give a rat's ass about that brave young man or any of his fellow service men and women. If they really cared about that guy they would have pulled him and all of his buddies out of that worthless hell hole years ago. If they really cared about him they'd give him and all of the others like him who served so bravely and without question some decent health care instead of squandering the money on people who never lifted a finger to help this country.
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Delayed care and waiting lists resulted in an increased number of clinics in lower population centers, but they are unable to do more than push paper. Vets requiring care must travel to regional hospitals, where the backlog and lines are months, if not years, out. Often from out-of-state, out-patient care requires the vet gets a motel, transportation, and eat out and with the level of injury many have, family members must also take off work to care for them with handicap access. Motels do not have the specialty med devices that may be installed for a disabled vet at home. Many give up in frustration, unable to afford to temporarily leave home for extended cancer treatments that leave them so violently sick they can't get up to make it to the bathroom, with liquids and blisters on both polar orifices + the worry the family will be indigent and homeless, only to told there is nothing more they can do. Death by bureaucracy is a feature, not a bug.
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Multi-cult father of the Army Black Beret Retired General Eric Shinseki is the VA Chief who is supposed to be looking after these issues. Why do we never hear from him ?
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Denver is a regional center. Here VA is building a new hospital, $1B(est), only 40% over budget. Surprise, bigger hospital, same staff, same waiting list once it's completed.
New building looks good on paper only.
Future Headline: Old Man goes nuts at VA hospital with shotgun.
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Things turned tense quickly today between President Obama and Bill O'Reilly in their Super Bowl pregame interview. "OK, Bill, you've got a long list of my mistakes," Obama said to The O'Reilly Factor host near the start of their 10-minute live interview on Fox. 
