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Retired General: Obama “Put Every American in Danger”

America is facing dangerous times right now. The President has ignored the Constitution and is steadily expanding and assuming powers for the Executive branch.
Meanwhile, a fractured Congress is too busy fighting amongst themselves to do anything substantial to check and rein in the runaway Executive.
America is facing a potential economic disaster, our porous southern border has been thrown wide open, rivals Russia and China are gaining strength and influence, and terrorists are setting up a safe haven right smack in the center of the Middle East.

So it is obvious that America needs new people to go to Washington DC, to try and fix the messes that have been made. Enter retired Air Force Major General Bentley Rayburn, who is running for Congress in Colorado. He recently sat down for an interview with Dustin Stockton of Right Wing News, and didn’t hold back on how he feels about things.

I start by telling General Rayburn that I plan to ask him about his race, the VA scandal, the prisoner swap, and foreign policy in general. As soon as I say “foreign policy” he quips, “What foreign policy? I’m not convinced this administration has a foreign policy.”
On the recent death and coverup of veteran deaths waiting for the Veterans Administration in Phoenix and elsewhere the General talks about the failure of centralized planning and inflexibility of any bureaucracy as large as the V.A.. I asked him specifically whether he thought that the resignation of General Shinseki had been handled appropriately and he was careful to point out that the problems had likely started before Shinseki had taken over but that the firing was an important precedent to set, “it had to happen because the next guy will understand the consequence if he doesn’t get it fixed.”
At multiple points in the interview one of the primary motivations for his congressional run is clear, General Rayburn is unhappy with the committees in the House that handle military and veteran issues. “If you watch these hearings they usually last for a long hour and a half and the few members that bother to show up make it clear that they aren’t engaged in the important issues that are being discussed.”
Next I asked him what he thought of the prisoner swap that has been drawing so much attention. “It sets a bad precedent but it’s hard to tell what the real intel is. The real danger is that we still have two years left with President Obama making decisions.”

The General didn’t hold back in leveling harsh, yet respectful, criticisms of the job both the President and Congress are doing.

“Teddy said it, speak softly and carry a big stick, but with this guy (Obama) it’s blather on and don’t carry any stick”
“Putin is probably sitting there in his Lazy Boy, shirtless, comfortable knowing that he is playing the American President.”
“Under President Obama our stature in the world has been so badly diminished that it’s putting every American in danger.”
“The only explanation for the blundering decisions of not just Obama, but Hillary and the State department, is that our safety is in the hands of clowns and amateurs.”
After discussing the threat posed to America by radical Islam, North Korea, Iran, and Latin America, General Rayburn exhales and shakes his head, “two more years…”
“People don’t understand the danger being posed to them on a daily basis in foreign policy. It’s something we have to pay attention to everyday.”

The General is right, and while he doesn’t have big money support for his Congressional run, it is people like him that are desperately needed in positions that can effect actual change.
President Obama and Congress have an unrealistic view of what is happening in the world today. Unfortunately, that naivety and ignorance can carry serious and real consequences. It is time they wake up and take a sober and objective view of the world surrounding us, and the issues that are at hand right now.
We need a change in Washington, and people like General Rayburn could help make that change.
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