{"id":135996,"date":"2018-03-28T20:41:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T02:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135996"},"modified":"2018-03-30T01:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T07:07:24","slug":"because-expertise-is-so-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/28\/because-expertise-is-so-overrated.html","title":{"rendered":"Because expertise is SO overrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no indication Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson is anything other than a hard-working, honorable, respectable and respected kind of guy.<\/p>\n

There’s also no indication that he has the ability to manage a massive and highly political bureaucracy like the VA.<\/p>\n

But he’s Trump’s nominee, apparently because he’s (a) a military doctor who (b) Trump knows who (c) did something Trump liked (giving him a clean bill of health at his physical).<\/p>\n

Because actual experience and proven pertinent ability is clearly not a priority for our president. After all, it’s never been something he’s<\/i> needed.<\/p>\n


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There’s no indication Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson is anything other than a hard-working, honorable, respectable and respected kind of guy. There’s also no indication that he has the ability to manage a massive and highly political bureaucracy like the VA. But he’s Trump’s nominee, apparently because he’s (a) a military doctor who (b) Trump knows … Continue reading “Because expertise is SO overrated”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,349,358,1071],"tags":[1077,1470],"class_list":["post-135996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-military","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-trump","tag-va"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ronny-jackson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132912,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/the-multi-cabinet-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":135996,"position":0},"title":"The Multi-Cabinet President","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Feb-17 12:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Tillerson's woes are not unique. 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