Posted on 05/20/2014 11:03:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
North Carolina Democratic Congressional candidate Clay Aiken declined to say whether Secretary of the Veterans Administration Eric Shinseki should resign Tuesday on NBC.
The former American Idol runner-up offered a somewhat bizarre rationale, telling the Today Show because he was not in the publicly broadcasted Senate hearing and “hasn’t paid attention to those details” he could not say whether Shinseki should go.
“I think we have a lot of people who are making decisions without being in the room,” he said. “I’m not going to be one of those folks who wasn’t in the hearing and hasn’t paid attention to those details and wasn’t privy to that stuff and making decisions for that.”
The major Army installation Fort Bragg is in the North Carolina Congressional district Aiken hopes to represent.
Aiken also employed the vague platitude “we’ve got to do a better job of funding the V.A. [and] we’ve got to do a better job of organizing the VA.”
Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) blasted the implication Congress has been derelict in funding the VA last night on Fox News, noting appropriating additional funds is no good if the administration is falsifying data.
“So [when the liberals suggest] Congress just ‘nickeled and dimed them,’ that’s an outright lie,” McCain said.
“I’m gay, that’s all that matters.”
Liberalism is a mental disorder, proof positive, ya think?
“I don’t know that tune..can you please hum a few bars?”
The perfect candidate. Name recognition and an 87 IQ. Congratulations, America.
If it’s not Gay he stays away
Reminds me of when Gary Coleman was running for President and couldn’t name the sitting Vice President.
This is a prime example of the dumbing down of American politics. He was on a TV show so he should be our Congressman, even if he’s dumb as a rock and doesn’t keep up on any current issues. Its not just him. Every time I see some Congressman’s wife take his seat, I cringe too. I used to laugh at countries like Italy where a porn actress was elected to their legislature. I don’t laugh anymore.
What a dunce.
If the citizens of VA are so ignorant that they want to send this Watter ‘s World candidate to Congress, they deserve to be ridiculed by their betters.
He’s running in North Carolina. VA in this case, is not Virginia, it’s “Veterans Administration”, as in VA Hospitals.
There is way too much Gay Porn out there to be viewed by Aiken. Why would he want to pay attention to the VA scandal?
Aiken is NOT off to a good start.
Does he not have a family member, a friend somebody he knows that
has served this country honorably?
Hard to watch what is going on if you are stupid. Typical liberal reply.
I don’t know nothng about nothing but I’m gay so elect me and shut up.
A democrat resume...
I’m sorry, but I thought Clay Aiken was a baseball/ football/ soccer star. He’ just an uneducated asshole with some kind of name recognition? Who’d know?
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