On this 2014 Commemoration of D Day — It Should Be Obvious that General Shinseki’s Resignation Alone Will Not Fix Veterans Affairs — So What Is Our Self-Involved Commander in Chief Going to Do about It?

© 2014 Peter Free

 

06 June 2014

 

 

President Obama’s lackadaisical non-attention to major issues is beginning to seriously grate — and his second term is not even half over

 

On this 2014 commemoration of D Day, an event that exhibited the historic impressiveness of American leadership and courage, I am increasingly irritated with the failure of the same qualities in our current Commander in Chief.

 

President Obama’s welcome strength in dealing with the aftermath of his Taliban for Sgt. Bergdahl trade has been sadly buried by his unproductive lassitude in addressing the Veterans Administration problems that prompted retired General Eric Shinseki to resign as Secretary for Veterans Affairs.

 

One would think that a national leader with energy would have waded into the VA mess with meaningful action, what with the matter so recently in full public view.  But no.  The President seems to have contented himself with being admirably obstinate over the Taliban for Bergdahl trade and virtually nothing else.

 

My guess is that Barack Obama, our first and most welcome (in my eyes) African-American Commander in Chief is now content to sit on that laurel of achievement and abandon us to the machinations of the selfish nitwits who run Congress and the rest of this nation’s plutocrat-oriented superstructure.

 

In my book, that qualifies as either political cowardice or bland incompetence.

 

The President’s performance compares poorly with the many Americans, not to mention Commonwealth and Allied forces, who gave their lives and futures on France’s beaches on 06 June 1944.

 

 

The moral? — Mr. President, compare your hapless performance with those of America’s World War II leaders and start energetically fixing the things that you do have some control over

 

Like the VA.

 

It would not be at all difficult to unite the entire American public behind the idea of treating our vets with the respect and meaningful support that they deserve.  That the President has made no visibly meaningful effort to get this done speaks poorly of him.

 

The inept and cowardly contrast with D Day’s beaches makes the matter personal.