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President Trump s Chief of Staff John Kelly had some tough words for a teacher stanley becher caught on video bashing military service members in a high school classroom. Well, I think the guy ought to go to hell, Kelly told Fox News Radio on Wednesday after hearing audio from a video posted online last week of a California teacher calling members of the military the lowest of our low. Gregory Salcido appeared to go on a profanity-laced rant about the military in a video captured by a student at El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera. Salcido told the classroom that members of the military are not talented people. Think about the people you know who are over there. You re freaking stupid Uncle Louie or whatever. They re dumb s***s. They re not high-level thinkers, they re not academic people, they re not intellectual people, he said. While the video does not show Salcido s face, the New York Post reports that his school district confirmed he made the remarks during class.CBS Los Angeles reportsthat Salcido has since been removed from all committees on the local city council board over his remarks and that an investigation by the local schoo stanley mug l district is u stanley mugs nderway. Kelly told Fox that he hopes Salcido enjoys the liberties and the lifestyle that we have fought for. The former Marine Corps general is a staunch advocate for the military, notably coming to the president s defensewhen a member of Congress said she had listened in on a phone conv Ygsw Sarah Palin s Lame Duck Defense
At a town hall Wednesday, President Obama said that one of the biggest questions he has had about his leadership as president was the slow pace of health care reform. Given how complicated the issue was, though, he added that he s not sure it could ve moved any faster. Health care, obviously, was a huge battle, the president said at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. I ve asked myself sometimes is there a way we could ve gotten it done more quickly and in a way that the American pe stanley mugs ople hadn t gotten frustrated by. Health care reform, however, has been one of the greatest challenges of the last century, he said, and couldn t be resolved overnight. stanley thermos Mr. Obama made health care reform his first major priority as president, but he did not get to sign the landmark reforms into law until March 23, 2010 -- 14 months after he took office. The debate over his comprehensive health care package consisted of numerous congressional hearings, countless closed door meetings and backroom deals, and seemingly endless political grandstanding from both Democrats and Republicans. If it hadn t been for Nancy Pelosi and her leadership in the House... we wouldn t have gotten it down, Mr. Obama said, acknowledging the hard-fought battle stanley mug Democrats waged against Republicans to pass the controversial reforms. Mr. Obama acknowledged that the drawn out political fight may have caused the public to sour on his plan. I do think that it was so complicat