The article I have chosen this week is called "Women who told Obama she was 'exhausted' loses job". Velma Hart, the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a veteran services organization based in Maryland, was fired from her job after telling the President that she was exhausted in a televised town-hall meeting in September. Hart told Obama "Quite frankly, I'm exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the man for change I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now." Obama goes on to say that the economy is very poor right now and that everyone is struggling and he understood her frustration. This article made me think of scapegoating. The book says "the scapegoat becomes responsible for all that's wrong, and the rhetor and the audience unite against this scapegoat and achieve a kind of redemption by purging the scapegoat from their midst" (Bell 109). I remember watching this on television and the audience was supportive and happy when Hart said this to our president which makes me think she was making Obama the scapegoat for all her problems. This is obviously ridiculous because Obama can not be directly to blame for not only one woman's problems but for the entire audiences as well. The book goes on to say that "the person or group chosen is not as responsible for what's wrong as the rhetor claims" (Bell 110). The article goes on to say that Hart still supports Obama and is trying to look at the positives right now. She may not have meant to blame Obama or make him a scapegoat but she certainly did during that meeting and maybe now the tables are being turned.