{"id":5383,"date":"2008-11-19T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2008-11-19T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:44:29","slug":"cleland-for-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5383","title":{"rendered":"Cleland for VA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2008\/nov\/19\/obama-eyes-posts-for-cleland-holder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Times<\/a> speculates this morning that former Senator Max Cleland might be in line for an appointment to the VA Directorship in the new administration;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A source familiar with transition planning said Mr. Cleland, a Vietnam veteran and triple amputee, is under consideration for either secretary of Veterans Affairs or secretary of the Army in an Obama administration, and liberal grass-roots support is building for his selection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That just might make sense &#8211; a combat-injured veteran who has, most likely, spent the last forty years in the VA system knows what veterans need and he&#8217;s probably going to do the right thing more often than someone off the street looking for a cushy job. But if they&#8217;re considering him to be Army Secretary, not so smart &#8211; it would be waste of his expertise.<\/p>\n<p>He voted more often with Conservatives on Homeland Security issues, but as the Army Secretary, he&#8217;d only be charged with implementing policy rather than making policy. I&#8217;d prefer to see him doing the most good for the troops in the role of VA Administrator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times speculates this morning that former Senator Max Cleland might be in line for &hellip; <a title=\"Cleland for VA?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5383\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cleland for VA?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}