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Sometimes it is difficult to keep up with all the corrupt and sinister activities of the Obama administration. Fortunately
about once a week there's another opinion writer who includes a laundry list of Obama's scandals, just to drive home a related point.
The Obama administration has been immersed in scandals and sub-scandals from day one, and slightly before,
and some of the major scandals are covered on pages of their own, e.g.,
Obama's highly suspicious biography,
forged birth certificate,
and fraudulent Social Security number,
Fast and Furious,
Paying ransom to Iran,
Gun control,
Domestic surveillance,
Lies about unemployment numbers and job creation,
Lies about Obamacare,
Lies about taxes and spending,
Lies about energy production,
Lies about immigration and border security,
Lies about everything else,
Intentionally weakening the American economy,
Intentionally weakening America's defenses,
The use of the IRS as a weapon,
The use of the EPA as a weapon,
The use of the NLRB as a weapon,
The use of the Fish and Wildlife department as a weapon,
The heavily politicized Department of Justice under Eric Holder,
The heavily politicized Department of Justice under Loretta Lynch,
The VA hospitals,
Obama vs Gibson Guitar,
Lois Lerner's conveniently deleted emails,
Wholesale amnesty by executive fiat,
Acting like a Marxist dictator,
Changing the Obamacare law day by day,
and a number of miscellaneous scandals.
The articles on this page demonstrate that I'm not the only one keeping a list of those scandals.
Closely related topic: Grounds for impeachment of Barack H. Obama
Obama Scandal Scorecard. Updated as new stories appear.
Here Are Every Single One Of
President Barack Hussein Obama's 633 Scandals. Remember when President Barack Obama and senior adviser Valerie
Jarrett claimed that their administration has been devoid of any scandals? The brilliant, hard-working geniuses at
GRABIEN have compiled a list of 633 scandals — some of which are admittedly about as scandalous as Rosie O'Donnell
eating a salad — that proves otherwise.
Complete Guide to the 633 Scandals of the Obama Administration. As the news comes at us so quickly these days,
it's admittedly hard to keep track of everything that's happened over the last eight years. The administration seems to
recognize this. Whenever a scandal erupts, the strategy is delay, obfuscate, and punt until the matter fades into the
slipstream of yesterday's news. As Obama's approval rating inched up toward the end of his time in office, his approach
seems to be paying off. To help refresh everyone's memory, Grabien is now publishing what we think is the most
exhaustively researched, chronologically comprehensive collection of every scandal that struck the Obama Administration.
As of this publication — which we plan to continue updating — the tally stands at: 633.
Normalcy Is Revolution. Political correctness under the Obama administration led to euphemisms that no longer
reflected reality. Poorly conceived reset policy with Russia and a pivot to Asia both failed. The Middle East was
aflame. The Iran deal was sold through an echo chamber of deliberate misrepresentations. The national debt nearly
doubled during Obama's two terms. Overregulation, higher taxes, near-zero interest rates, and the scapegoating of big
businesses slowed economic recovery. Economic growth never reached 3 percent in any year of the Obama
presidency — the first time that had happened since Herbert Hoover's presidency. A revolutionary federal
absorption of health care failed to fulfill Obama's promises and soon proved unviable. Culturally, the iconic symbols
of the Obama revolution were the "you didn't build that" approach to businesses and an assumption that race/class/gender
would forever drive American politics, favorably so for the Democrats.
the 'End of an Error'. Obama is gone. Time to undo what the Community Organizer organized for America:
astronomically increased debt, a disrespected law enforcement and military community, numerous ticked off allies, newly empowered
enemies, erasure of borders, and demographic divisions aplenty.
Worst Perversion. The Obama administration was full of scandal, though we have a lazy and partisan news media
that is determined to see no scandal in it. The lame-duck columns have been nearly unanimous on the point: Barack
Obama is remarkable among recent presidents for having been utterly untouched by scandal, personal or political. [...] Not
only was the Obama administration marked by scandal of the most serious sort — perverting the machinery of the
state for political ends — it was on that front, which is the most important one, the most scandal-scarred
administration in modern presidential history. [...] The fact that the same people at CNN who were colluding with the Clinton
campaign cannot see a scandal in the Obama administration does not mean that no scandal was there.
Obama legacy
a big lie, let me count the ways. On fake news 60 Minutes tonight, Obama will make this incredible statement:
"I'm proud of the fact that with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that
hasn't had a major scandal in the White House." Can someone say "Big Lie?" There's not room enough in this
whole newspaper to list all the scandals, big and small, that have enveloped this most corrupt of all regimes in American
history, modern or otherwise. One website last week came up with 633, and they missed more than a few! And in
the true spirit of the "Big Lie," this isn't the first time these bums have floated the no-scandal whopper. Valerie
Jarrett, his Iranian-born Rasputin, was pushing it to the alt-left media just last month. Just for starters, Hillary
Clinton is probably beseeching President Soetoro right now for a pardon, given the crimes she committed as his highest-ranking
cabinet official — the next attorney general has already announced he'll be recusing himself from the inevitable
criminal probes against her.
Media Has Decided Obama Had Zero Scandals But We Found a Few. The scandals that never happened:
• Fast & Furious
• Solyndra
• Benghazi
• VA — officials got bonuses as veterans died
• IRS — Lois Lerner, targeted citizens
• Politicized press and agencies
• Stimulus theft for unions
• Obamacare — keep your doctor, your insurance, your hospital (he guaranteed it), premiums reduced by $2500 less for the average family, horrible website
• Hillary Clinton's private server — he sent emails to that address under a fake name
• The Pigford scandal
• Bowe Bergdahl — the scandalous handling of the court martial and the trade of this deserter for five vicious Taliban
• Iran nuclear deal and ransom payments
• GSA lavish parties
• Secret Service gone wild with idiots in charge
• Influencing Israeli elections
• Spying on journalists and Angela Merkel
• GM bailout — he violated the spirit of the law and precedent by putting the investors at the end of the line and paying off the unions.
• He told Medvedev he'd have more flexibility after his second election
We're 'Probably' First Admin 'In Modern History' Without 'A Major Scandal in the White House'. During a preview
of an interview set to air on Sunday's "60 Minutes" on CBS, President Obama said, "we're probably of the first administration
in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House." Obama said, "I'm proud of the fact that, with two
weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.
In that sense, we changed some things." [Video clip]
The Editor says...
If Benghazi is not a scandal and Fast and Furious is not a scandal, and the use of the IRS as a political weapon is not a scandal,
and the Secretary of State's secret email system is not a scandal, and the doubling of the national debt is not a scandal, I wonder what
Mr. Obama would consider a major scandal.
skewers Meryl Streep after 'baloney' Golden Globes speech. Liberal actress Meryl Streep's virtue-signaling
Golden Globes speech Sunday invoked the wrath of Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin. In a Facebook post
Monday [1/9/2017], Levin skewered Streep for professing solidarity with immigrants and the media — groups she
considers to be victims of the same hate-fueled conservative campaign that brought Donald Trump to power. He then
provided a long list of atrocities committed by the Obama administration that the 30-time Globes nominee neglected to speak
out against: [...]
WH Chief of Staff: I'm Proud That We've Been 'Historically Free of Scandal'. On CNN's State of the
Union today [1/15/2017], White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough reflected on the past 8 years and said the thing he's
"most proud of" is how their administration has been "historically free of scandal." This talking point echoes the words of
President Obama, who said last week, "We are probably the first administration in modern history that has not had a major scandal
in the White House." McDonough also argued that the White House cooperated with every single investigation Congress
investigated them for. Jake Tapper pointed out a lot of people (particularly Republicans overseeing those investigations)
would take issue with that characterization.
Scandals That Valerie Jarrett Overlooked. While [the implementation of Obamacare] was going on, the scandals Jarrett
overlooked were brewing. Operation Fast and Furious, which began in the George W. Bush administration, exploded under Obama,
when the guns the feds intentionally had let slip into the hands of Mexican gangs were used to kill one of their own. Then came
Libya, where heavy armaments the feds secretly had passed into the hands of terrorists masquerading as rebels were used to kill the U.S.
ambassador and topple a friendly government. Then came the seizure of telephone records of journalists critical of the administration
by the Department of Justice, which secretly convinced a federal judge that talking to a whistleblower and reporting on his questionable
behavior somehow involved reporters criminally in that behavior. Then came the targeting by the IRS of conservative advocacy groups
by denying them tax-exempt status for political reasons.
ignores facts with boastful 'greatest hits' list. [Scroll down] Obama credited himself with "the longest
streak of job creation on record" but forgot to mention all those would-be workers who were downgraded to part-time or left
the workforce altogether. "Today, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, another 20 million American adults know the
financial security and peace of mind that comes with health insurance," the president boasted. Meanwhile, Americans
have lost their doctors, watched their costs soar as services drop, and insurers flee the marketplace. But the greatest
communicator of our age was only warming up. "Over the past eight years, no foreign terrorist organization has
successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland." Where to begin? Perhaps with Fort Hood, the
Boston Marathon, San Bernardino or Orlando, but who's counting?
Obama's Disastrous
Legacy. Obama is proud of himself. He and his devoted followers believe he has left America in better shape than when he found it.
The Sickening, Stale, and Worn Out Narratives of the Left. Instead of picking apart mistakes by Trump, let's focus on the damage the Democrats
have done. It's legion. In the guise of economic "fairness," they gave us the worst economic recovery since World War II. They simply ground
to a standstill our economic engine, causing massive unemployment and a job market that gives no hope to Americans for the future. They ruined our
alliances and fed our enemies under a horrifyingly stupid, feckless president and secretary of state. They laid the groundwork for ISIS to become a
power and were virtually useless in dealing with that organization. They destroyed our borders under the idea that it is racist to have them, flooding
us with illegal aliens who don't care a whit about American values of the past, and they steal from our kindness. They were on the way to destroying
health care, paving the way for massive government control of doctors, insurance companies, and yes, us as patients. The evidence is in:
Obamacare was a failure. They lied to get it passed, they lied to keep it, and they are lying about how good it is now. Thankfully, most
people understand they now have a pig in the poke that costs a ton, and they can't use it.
Failed Presidency. The president is correct that the largest issue in the election was the Obama legacy: the
125 percent increase in federal debt while the national work force shrank by 10 percent, the shameful Iran nuclear and
sanctions giveaway, the shambles of the "red line" and other flip-flops and miscues all over foreign policy, the haughty
disparagement of large sections of the electorate (in which he was almost outdone by Mrs. Clinton), the immigration policy
of proudly admitting to the U.S. whomever might be seized by the ambition to enter, and the slavish adherence to the most alarmist
versions of the faddish climate apocalypse, whatever the cost in American jobs and the current-account deficit, and without waiting
for evidence adequate to justify radical measures.
Major Scandals in Obama's 'Scandal-Free' Presidency. President Obama and his mouthpieces have embarked on a
bizarre scheme to hypnotize America into forgetting the many scandals of his presidency. They seem to think that
intoning "this administration hasn't had a scandal" over and over again will make history disappear. It's the lamest
Jedi Mind Trick ever, and is being pushed on people who know Star Wars is just a movie. Here's a short list of the
many scandals Team Obama thinks it can make America forget: [...]
closest adviser says president has been scandal-free. President Obama has been squeaky clean, according to his
closest adviser, Valerie Jarrett. "The president prides himself on the fact that his administration hasn't had a
scandal and he hasn't done something to embarrass himself," Jarrett said in an interview broadcast on CNN Sunday [1/1/2017].
10 Ways Barack Obama Broke the American System. Obama sought to transform America, and believed that the ends
would justify the means. Republicans, hypnotized by race and cowed by the media, put up little fight. So voters took
matters into their own hands. Here are ten of the most serious ways Obama broke the system.
Vast Cognitive Gulf between the Left and the Right. When Barack Obama won his second term, conservatives were distraught about the
certainty that the damage already done by Obama would continue for another four years. Obamacare would continue to destroy what was once the
best health care in the world. The EPA would continue to destroy jobs and businesses with pride and glee, without a moment's thought for those
devastated by their thousands of new regulations. Iraq was already a disaster because, by removing all US troops, Obama left it as an open
invitation for Al Qaeda and ISIS to take over. Libya was gone, our ambassador dead. Syria was being systematically destroyed by its
own barbaric leader. [...] Obama, despite his "red line" threat, did nothing. So subservient to Iran, he did nothing to stop the murder
of all Christians in the Middle East.
The Progressive Regression. An Affordable
Care Act whose premiums just exploded by more than 20 percent despite massive deductibles, a Nobel Peace Prize-winner meddling in Syria, Libya,
and points beyond, and a post-racial presidency coinciding with Ferguson, Baltimore, and Dallas all give lie to the promise of hope and change.
the Obama Legacy — Against His Own Mileposts. [For example,] "Promoting immigrant and refugee integration and citizenship
awareness." The southern U.S. border is largely unenforced. Immigration law is deliberately ignored. The president's refugee
policy was unpopular and proved a disaster, as illustrated by the Boston Marathon bombings, the San Bernardino attack, the Orlando nightclub shooting,
and the recent Ohio State University terrorist violence. Note what Obama's staff omitted: his doubling of the U.S. debt in eight years, the
unworkable and soon-to-be-repealed Affordable Care Act, seven years of anemic economic growth, record labor nonparticipation, failed policy resets
abroad, and a Middle East in ruins.
Reasons Barack Obama Will Be Viewed As One Of The Worst Presidents of All Time. Compiling a list of reasons why Barack Obama is a
terrible president seems like a project for a book rather than a column. However, when we start looking at the catastrophic mistakes he's
made that may reverberate for years to come, it's clear that he's been a disaster for America on a scale that few other Presidents can match.
Just look at his record.
Obama's Leftovers. The sun never sets on
President Obama's leftovers. He entered office promising to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He leaves it
with those wars still taking the lives of American servicemen. Wars that didn't exist in 2009 — Syria,
Libya, and Ukraine — continue at the pace prescribed by our enemies. The first American was killed in Syria
on Thanksgiving Day. America has been at war for fifteen years in Afghanistan and thirteen in Iraq. Obama ran as
a "peace now" candidate, but — as Gen. James Mattis is quoted as saying — the enemy gets a vote
in when a war ends. Worse, as in the Afghanistan conflict, Obama specifically disavowed victory. He continued
those wars seeking only to avoid the blame for losing. Obama has engaged us in new unnecessary wars, such as in Libya,
and refused to take timely action to topple Bashar Assad in Syria. His refusal to act created the opportunity for
Russia and Iran to seize control of Syria and propel their influence across the Middle East.
White House: Obama
Proud No 'Major Personal Scandal' Occurred in His Administration. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said
Monday that President Obama is proud that no one in his administration has suffered a "major personal scandal" during his
time in office. The comment came at the White House daily press briefing during a discussion about former CIA Director
David Petraeus' past guilty plea of mishandling classified information.
The legacy
Mr. Obama imagines. President Obama is indulging himself only a little more than usual. He boasts in
an interview that his pride swells when he regards his eight years in the White House as "scandal free." It's true that
no one was jailed for taking a bribe, but calling his administration "scandal free" is more than a stretch. All
presidents live in a bubble, but Mr. Obama appears not to have subscribed to a newspaper, not even The Washington Post
or The New York Times, over these past eight years. If he had, he could have read about scandals.
Says He's Had A Scandal-Free Administration. Here Are 11 of His Scandals. Obama's presidency has been
mired with numerous scandals that would be blared on the news 24/7 if he were a Republican. But because he's a Democrat,
too many people buy Obama's argument that his presidency has been scandal-free. Here are 11 of Obama's scandals.
Jeff Sessions Will Be the Restorative Attorney General We Need. The Obama Justice Department has been the most
politicized in the nation's history. It has weaponized the law against the president's political adversaries and
scapegoats, while insulating the president's allies against investigation and prosecution. It has made progressive
political activism the touchstone of Justice Department hiring, stacking various departmental sections with social-justice
warriors who see the law as their arsenal to achieve fundamental societal transformation. It has exploited the legal
process as an extortionate tool to shakedown deep-pocketed institutions for the purpose of funding progressive
rabble-rousers. It has used law-enforcement to craft political narratives that, for example, propped up Obama's "blame
the video" fraud after the Benghazi massacre; framed the nation's financial institutions for the mortgage meltdown, to the
exclusion of reckless government policies; and undermined Second Amendment rights while getting federal agents killed (see
the "Fast and Furious" debacle, over which Holder was held in contempt of Congress). It has injected racial discrimination
into the enforcement of civil-rights laws in blatant violation of the equal-protection principles those laws are supposed to
assure. It has exhibited a contempt for Congress and a propensity to obstruct legislative oversight that would have
made the Nixon administration blush. It has repeatedly engaged in appalling prosecutorial misconduct and then lied to
federal judges to cover it up. It has not only refused to enforce the immigration laws and sued to prevent sovereign
states from enforcing them, but has also endorsed the president's claimed power to ignore congressional statutes. It is
abetting a war on the nation's police departments, seeking to nationalize them under the guise of baseless and ruinously
divisive smears that cops are hunting down African-American men, and that the justice system is rigged against black people.
Tyranny in Trump's Crosshairs. We have a VA that purposely lets vets die without medical care. We have an
EPA at war with the energy industry. The Department of Education threatens public schools with loss of federal funds
and mandates progressive lies about American history, teaching generations of schoolchildren to be ashamed of America and
ignorant of our Constitution and our forefathers. Universities are forced by the DOJ to hire feminist and racialist
thought police under an Obama bureaucrat's interpretation of the Civil Rights Act. We have an IRS that has a political
enemies list its employees punish at the behest of Democrats. Homeland Security and FBI are under a gag order that
forbids them to use the term jihad or Islamic extremism. Everywhere we look, regulations are strangling
business, intruding into the personal lives and property rights of ordinary citizens.
'Free' Obama. Well, let's start with the IRS scandal — or is there another word for what happens
when public officials in one of government's most sensitive departments make decisions based on ideology. Let's see,
how about when any organization with the words "tea party" in its name applies for tax-exempt status? Lois Lerner, who
headed the tax exempt division resigned. But guess that's only a "significant scandal" for those groups still waiting
to hear back from the IRS.
Shocking Intolerance of Anti-Trump Liberals. [Scroll down] What are the rights that supposedly Trump is
going to take away? We've been living in a country where, as The Weekly Standard's Mark Hemingway tweeted, "Obama did
sue nuns over birth control for crying out loud," where religious bakers and florists have been told they have to participate
in same-sex weddings, where an African-American fire chief lost his job over a book he wrote about his religious beliefs that
included passages on same-sex marriage, and yet, the real threat to rights is from Trump?
It's Gloves Off in Obama's Final Two Months.
Barack Obama has demonstrated great contempt for Rule of Law during his eight years in office. From the Iran nuclear
deal to the Paris climate agreement — and myriad other executive actions and unilaterally enacted regulations far
too numerous to list — Obama perennially stretched and breached the boundaries afforded the executive branch.
Election Day also means Obama
administration is likely to skate free of misbehavior. What are the consequences, if any, for these recent
years chock-full of so much misbehavior, both public and private? Do those people widely seen as cheating, lying and
abusing a sacred public trust pay any public price for their moral malfeasance? Or do they skate free of penalty to
enjoy the perceived rewards of power? We are, of course, talking mostly about the Obama administration and Clinton
crowd. Let's look at a few examples: [...]
Times that Barack Obama Blamed Other People for His Own Failures. As he campaigned for Crooked Hillary today, Barack
Obama went on the corrupt Liberal news outlets — CNN, Time Magazine and New York Times — and told Donald
Trump to "stop whining" about a "rigged election". That kinda struck me as funny because for the past 8 years Obama
has done nothing but whine and blame others for his own failings. From the moment he first began to occupy the Oval Office,
Barack Hussein Obama has had failure after failure as president. Throughout it all, he has never once accepted the blame
or taken responsibility for his failures, but instead sought to lay blame elsewhere.
'We Have Not Had a Major Scandal in My Administration'. President Obama told a fundraiser in California Sunday
night that there has not been a "major scandal" in his administration, according to a White House transcript of the
event. He made the remark while criticizing Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) at a fundraiser for congressional
candidates, including Issa's Democrat challenger, Doug Applegate. Obama said Issa's main contribution to the U.S.
Congress has been to "obstruct and waste taxpayer dollars on trumped-up investigations that have led nowhere."
Controversies Obama Didn't Mention When He Denied Any 'Major Scandals'. President Barack Obama discarded eight
years of controversies surrounding his administration, including the targeting of conservative groups, veterans lacking
health care, the administration's response to a terrorist attack weeks before the 2012 election, and a botched gun
sting. During a Democratic fundraising event in San Diego Sunday, Obama attacked Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the
former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, for the various investigations into the administration.
"Here's a guy who called my administration perhaps the most corrupt in history, despite the fact that actually, we have not had a major
scandal in my administration," Obama told Democratic donors.
Claims He Didn't Know About Hillary's Private Email Server — But WikiLeaks Just Dropped a Bombshell! President
Obama has lied for 8 years about major topics: Benghazi, Iraq, Obamacare, and illegal immigration. But this is a smoking-gun
proof of a coverup. He would end up endorsing Hillary Clinton for President, and he didn't want his candidate to face criminal
Dirty Talk versus Hillary's Corruption. In the past week:
• [The Department of] Justice drops the case against a gunrunner from Hillary's Libya fiasco whose testimony would certainly have harmed Obama and
• Evidence surfaced that the White House participated in the cover-up of Hillary's violation of national security laws with her
private server even though they said they absolutely knew nothing about the server and would not interfere with an investigation.
• We have learned more this week about how the investigation of Hillary by the Justice Department and FBI was a pure sham as
they gave immunity to so many, took so much stuff off limits, and even carried out the destruction of evidence. The email
investigation was pretend, just like the IRS investigation and any supposed investigation of the Clinton Foundation. It is clear that
the White House, Justice Department, State Department, and IRS are working specifically to protect Obama and Hillary instead of
working for the American people.
• Aleppo and Syria are deteriorating rapidly despite Obama and Kerry being extremely tough and telling Russia and Assad to stop
• Obama partially blamed the Civil War in Syria on a drought he says was caused by humans. That is one of the most ignorant
statements ever. The war is because Assad is a tyrant, and the Mideast is essentially a desert that has had continued droughts for
• An NBC News man topped Obama's stupidity by saying the worthless Paris climate agreement would stop hurricanes.
• Obamacare is collapsing rapidly. The multiple lies to pass the law are more obvious every day. The law is greatly harming the
middle class and small employers and reducing the potential for full-time jobs.
• An NSA contractor who committed the same crime as Hillary by keeping classified documents at home on several nonsecure
devices is under arrest. Why isn't Hillary?
obsessed with Trump's buildings, hates John Wayne. Barack Obama can't stop talking about presidential candidate
Donald Trump. [...] Obama's obsession is understandable. Trump embodies the socialist's worst nightmare. In 2008,
Obama, like all socialists, promised his followers a land of milk and honey. Eight years later, he's delivered
unemployment, poverty, food stamps, violence in the streets, open borders, drug cartels, heroin overdoses, terrorist attacks
on our own soil, $10 trillion more debt, no economic growth, and radical Supreme Court judges. He has generally
corrupted all three branches of government. Along comes Trump, threatening, in Obama's own words, to "reverse progress"
of Obama's last two terms. Trump, the unapologetic, affluent, determined, and tough-minded individualist, is everything
Obama is not.
The Ugly Truth
Of Leftist "Heroes". [Scroll down to Barack H. Obama] Huge chunks of the life of this tremendously overrated
"community organizer" are shrouded in mystery, all the way back to his birth. Thus, all those low-information voters had little
idea who they were electing. [...] While a junior Senator with an unremarkable legislative record, he entered the 2008 Presidential
race and got sold by the media as a messiah figure. He broke a whopping number of campaign promises about what he'd do in his
first year: heal the economy, halve the deficit, withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, close Camp X-ray, etc. He continued
many of Bush the Younger's policies, but got praised for doing the same things that got the Shrub condemnation. His major
legislative triumph was a socialized medicine scheme which caused healthcare prices to skyrocket, even though all those politicians
swore up and down that wouldn't happen.
The House That Barack Built.
Dismissive of Western civilization and what went before, the president seemed to believe that history started on the day of his
inauguration. Shortly thereafter, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by a gushing European coterie — something
grand, which he did not earn. A former community organizer from Chicago, he set out to apply the art of creating
unrest — to incite men against women, straights against gays, whites against blacks, Hometown U.S.A. against Wall
Street, Democrats against Republicans, and the so-called 1% versus the 99%. Skeptical of the capitalist system, he
nonetheless pitched to Silicon Valley, the grandees of Hollywood, and professional athletes. Playing the race card in
situations such as the death of Trayvon Martin in Florida and the riots of Ferguson, Missouri, he aggravated societal tensions.
the Worst President Ever, Except Maybe for Hillary. [Scroll down] Liberals scoff at our supposed sensationalism in depicting
Obama's record, but they are the ones in fantasyland — not us. Their judgment is so skewed that they wouldn't
recognize a disastrous, perennially sluggish economy if it hit them in the face — because it has. They wouldn't see
it if Islamists were waging war on the United States, because they are and they don't. They wouldn't be alarmed if the
Constitution and rule of law were under ongoing assault, because they are and they aren't. They don't care that the
nuclear family is in peril, because they favor diluting traditional and gender distinctions. And they wouldn't care
if the federal government were deliberately fostering dependency addiction among its citizenry and demonizing work, the work
ethic, productivity and business, because it is and they enable it.
Giant Scandals That Barack Obama Just Couldn't Keep Undercover! From Benghazi to Fast and Furious.
Grows Amid The Weaponized Media. Unfortunately when the wider U.S. electorate voted the Fresh Prince of Bill
Ayers to be the president of the United States they were, perhaps unwittingly, ushering in a new era of fundamental
change, governmental weaponization. Events and outcomes ceased to be determined by laws, and the politics of any given
event became the overriding filter through which all action, or lack thereof, would be determined. The last seven years
have provided numerous examples for points of reference. The IRS investigation of conservative groups was driven by
politics, not legality. The investigation of officer Darren Wilson was driven by politics, not evidence or
legality. The arrests of the Baltimore Six were driven by politics, not factual, substantial evidence. The FBI
decision not to recommend an indictment of Hillary Clinton was driven by politics not evidence. These are just a few
examples of manipulated common law principles that have been overridden by considerations of political benefits.
So Much for Experts.
So fifty Republican "national security experts" have disavowed Trump as a candidate for the presidency. [...] Where were these men these
past eight years, while President Obama's policy of "leading from behind" has caused chaos around the world? When Hillary took on
Libya as her personal project, thinking it would boost her into the presidency? Have they written a group letter about her endangering
of our national security with her unsecured server? Is her irresponsibility the cause of the Benghazi attack and the death of those
four Americans? For the death of nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri in Iran, whose name she revealed in an unsecured email?
Everything they say about Trump is already true of Obama and Hillary!
the Frightened Child. We hired Barack Obama as our chief executive and with any amount of hope in our hearts
went down his dreary road with him. He insisted that his trillion-dollar stimulus would jumpstart the economy; we tried
it, and the economy tanked. He promised us we could keep our own doctor and every American family would save $2,500 a
year on medical insurance premiums with Obamacare; we tried it, and the exact opposite happened. He promised us that
things would be okay if we ran from Iraq; we did, and our retreat produced one of the worst horrors in human history.
Now he insists we have never been stronger militarily, but when we look, we see that the Marine Corps has been hollowed out,
the Air Force is flying half the number of planes it used to, the Navy keeps shrinking, the Army is approaching its lowest
level since before World War II, and the Russians are laughing at us as the Chinese build better aircraft carriers.
Last but not least, there's the issue of racial animosity, something Obama was supposed to help the nation transcend.
Indeed, it was his biggest selling point — some would say (and I do) his only selling point. Yet instead of
improving with his time in office, the animus has increased.
Alphabet Soup Corruption.
[Scroll down, past the first eight scandals] To the above alphabet scandals could be added the a number of scandals involving the Secret Service; the General
Service Administration debacle of lavish conferences and unauthorized government junkets; the abrupt post-election resignation of CIA
Director Gen. David Petraeus under mysterious circumstances; the likely forced resignation of Secretary of Health and Human Services
Kathleen Sibelius after the promises of the Affordable Care Act proved fantasies and its website unworkable; and the diminution of
National Security Advisor Susan Rice, who falsely assured the public on five Sunday morning news outlets that the Benghazi terrorist
attacks were the fallout from an obscure video maker (subsequently jailed) — when both she and Secretary of State Clinton already knew
that an al Qaeda affiliate was responsible for the killings and that such terrorism proved inconvenient to the pre-election narrative
of an "al Qaeda on the run."
White House Correspondent Explains "How Obama Gets Away With It". Usually when an incumbent president is
leaving office and a slew of candidates are battling for his job, that departing chief executive's record is a major campaign
issue. But not this year, even though two of three Americans say the country is on the wrong track, job creation is
sluggish, income inequality continues to rise and Mr. Obama's job approval barely tops 50%. Moreover, approval of his
handling of the war on terror and Islamic State is underwater, and a majority of Americans — white and
black — say race relations are getting worse, not better.
Incompetent Failures in the Obama Administration. Throughout his eight years, President Obama has elevated to high
office a long list of incompetent people, or people who revealed themselves to be utterly unsuited for the public office assigned
to them. Here is PJ Media's list of the 13 most egregious examples of failure in the Obama administration. This is
by no means an exclusive list, and who knows what our president will cook up in his last few months.
Obama: The Unspoken Issue In This Year's Campaign. [Scroll down] There are many people who tell
pollsters they approve of Obama, while simultaneously saying they disapprove of just about everything he does. I think
the reason is the one suggested by Glenn — reporters put everything the first black president does in a favorable
light, and voters are inclined to give him, personally, the benefit of the doubt, even though his foreign policy is a
disaster, he has repeatedly flouted federal law and the Constitution, and he has overseen the weakest economic recovery of
the modern era. This means that the support we see for Obama in polls is largely illusory.
Transparent Abuse of the Law. When Loretta Lynch succeeded Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General a year ago,
some harbored the tiniest hope that she wouldn't be quite as radical. After all, Holder had done his best to gin up
racial resentment, dismiss a clear case of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party, attack voter photo ID laws,
refuse to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, threaten a congressman trying to get to the truth of the Fast and Furious
Mexican gun-running scandal, and ignore the Internal Revenue Service's mob-like persecution of conservative groups.
Bathrooms are latest diversion
from Obama's and Clinton's troubles. In yet another executive overreach to redirect public discussion, Obama
arbitrarily ruled that every public school receiving federal funds must allow the minute fraction of society who are
transgender to use the restroom of their choice, not their biological gender. We're being played again, folks.
Here's what's really at stake: Obama's heir-apparent and legacy protector, the 68-year-old Hillary Clinton, is getting
shredded in Democratic primary after primary by a 74-year-old socialist, Bernie Sanders. [...] Obama would also like to
distract you from the slipping new-job creation rates. Obama Care and its artificial state exchanges are crumbling
beneath the weight of their own costs and disincentives. [...] Disturbing reports of the military's poor readiness mount,
including planes being cannibalized for parts to keep half the jets flying.
Congress Mysteriously Became a 'Small Business' to Qualify for Obamacare Subsidies. It seems that federal
officials have worked overtime to undermine public trust. Benghazi, the IRS abuses, the "fast and furious" gun-running
fiasco, the solar power boondoggles, and the seemingly endless implementation problems of the Affordable Care
Act — all these scandals have common themes: arrogant and abusive bureaucracy, double dealing, lame excuses, and
legal hairsplitting. The outrages listed above can be placed squarely at the doorstep of the White House.
Inside the Gate. President Obama came into office in 2009 promising "transformation" and he has delivered on
that promise. Over the past 7½ years we've witnessed billion dollar deficits and the establishment of a highly
politicized and inexorably failing health care system ("Obamacare"); the "weaponization" of government agencies (think, IRS,
EPA, DOJ) to intimidate and attack his political opponents; the calculated and feckless decline of American power and
influence throughout the world; relentless redistributionist policies; and the president's support (often with a wink and a
nod) of thuggish (and sometimes violent) radical groups like "Occupy Wall Street" and "Black Lives Matter." As a result,
America is "on edge" — socially, racially, economically — as it hasn't been for decades. Indeed,
many have reached the sobering insight that America's best days may now be behind her.
Run Against Obama. [Scroll down] Then
there's the felonious abuse of the IRS; the institutionalization of too-big-to-fail; the irresponsible release of terrorists from
Guantanamo; widespread flouting of the rule of law; and assaults on religious liberty. There's much more.
Muscle into the Restroom. Similar to ObamaCare, same-sex marriage, abortion on demand, and refugee resettlement, who uses what
bathroom is just another in a long list of unpleasant impositions the tyrannical minority plans to use to browbeat the majority into submission.
Escalates His War On Prosperity. Not since the New Deal's heyday in the 1930s has Washington waged such an
unrelenting assault against the private sector. [...] Banks have been reduced to the role of utilities. One group
victimized has been small and new businesses, which have been starved of reasonable and reliable lines of credit since Obama
took office. Hospitals and health insurers know who their real customer is these days — Big Government, not
the patient. The EPA's jihad against fossil fuels is well-known. Even the Internet hasn't been spared, as the
FCC, a supposedly independent agency, has meekly followed White House orders to hit the Net with 1930s' rotary-phone-style
regulations. This maneuver was illegal and will continue to suffocate new investment until the courts can adjudicate
the matter. Largely unremarked upon has been the Federal Reserve's extraordinary usurpation of power, notably its
seizure of nearly $4 trillion in financial assets.
Leftist Thinking Compares Trump With Hitler, But Ignores Obama's Dictatorial Actions. On February 21st,
Danielle Allen wrote an opinion article for the Washington Post titled "The moment of truth: We must stop Trump". [...] In
the [second to last] paragraph she states that "Donald Trump has no respect for... constitutional democracy, nor for the
requirements of decency necessary to sustain democratic citizenship". So, with this quick and late entry in her article,
Ms. Allen shows how twisted her thinking is in wondering how a Hitler can come along in a modern state: she has ignored
the denial of a "constitutional democracy" under the Barack Obama administration, considering that he illegally and unconstitutionally
opened the borders of America to the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. And Obama spit on the idea of a "constitutional
democracy" when he denied Americans the right to select and pay for their own healthcare.
are implementing lopsided equity. [Scroll down] In the name of thoughtfulness toward minorities, fear of
offending some overly sensitive protected class has bestowed upon cultural diversity a power that has usurped the constitutional
right to free expression. And that's not the worst of it. Religious freedom is eroding as Islam is given deference
over the nation's foundational Judeo-Christian tenets. The reality of that forfeiture intensifies when taxpayers, who are
largely pro-life, are forced to fund abortion on demand, and Christian bakers and photographers pay penalties for refusing to
provide wedding services to same-sex couples. Let's not forget that these are the same progressives who manipulate thought
and opinion by elevating illegals to immigrant status, and doing so while referring to living human beings, growing within the
womb as clumps of cells. These misleading actions, words, and ideas are how the marginal have managed to gain despotic
dominance over the majority.
Obama: The Lamest Duck.
President Obama is boxed in a state of paralysis — more so than typical lame-duck presidents. His hard-left politics
have insidiously eroded the Democratic Party, which has lost both houses of Congress and the vast majority of the state legislatures,
state elected offices, and governorships. [...] There is so far no Obama legacy, except the creation of Donald Trump, a $20 trillion
debt and zero interest rates — and the gift of flat energy prices that came despite not because of Obama's efforts.
Almost every major bureaucracy is awash in scandal or charges of incompetence. The common theme of the disasters at the GSA, EPA,
ICE, IRS, NASA, Secret Service, and VA is ideological subversion and ingrained hostility to meritocracy.
Brooks Misses A Lot More Than The Crease in Obama's Pants. As much as I loathe Donald Trump, I loathe Barack
Obama even more and would not miss him for a nanosecond. After all, if it weren't for Obama's deference to our enemies and
disdain for America and her Allies, there would be no chance that Trump would be a viable presidential candidate. Brooks
praises Obama's integrity for running an administration which has been "remarkably scandal-free." Well, how about Fast &
Furious, The VA, The IRS & Benghazi? If the Obama Administration is willfully giving guns to Mexican drug gangs, allows
veterans to die waiting for health care, makes a concerted effort to stifle free speech while refusing to help the four Americans
under assault from terrorists doesn't merit the word scandal in David Brooks' book, then he demonstrates no capacity for reason.
Then again, the New York Times only prints the news it sees fit printing and Fast & Furious, the VA, the IRS, and Benghazi
don't fit into their agenda.
Lawlessness Fuels Civil Disobedience and Record Government Distrust. [Scroll down] With this week's detention of American
sailors, we've witnessed another humiliating illustration of how badly Obama's lawless behavior has backfired to our
peril. Meanwhile, we have learned that the Obama Administration spied on our close ally Israel, as well as members of
Congress, a coequal branch of government, to advance its diplomatic opening to Iran. Obama has infamously behaved just
as lawlessly in other areas, such as unilaterally declaring the Senate to be in "recess" when only it has the power to do so,
the swap of hardened terrorists for deserter Bowe Bergdahl in violation of his explicit duty to inform Congress beforehand,
arbitrarily suspending and imposing ObamaCare regulations for political purposes, job-killing and punitive environmental
regulations, IRS persecution of conservative organizations and now a commitment to impose gun regulations that he could have
introduced into Congress back when he possessed overwhelming Democratic majorities. Throughout his presidency, Obama
has simply chosen to disregard constitutional and political constraints in order to impose his agenda.
The Left's Problem with Nature and Logic.
[Scroll down] We've noticed all the violence and racial animus created by the grievance peddlers in the Obama administration who stoked the fires of
Ferguson and Baltimore, all the while making villains of our nation's law enforcement officers. We've seen an administration that provided deadly weapons
to Mexican drug cartels while seeking to circumvent the Bill of Rights by denying such weapons to law-abiding Americans interested only in protecting their homes,
their families, and their God-given right to defend their liberty. We've watched our president ignore federal law by allowing criminal lawbreakers to enter
our country, effectively depressing wages for American laborers while the invaders reap benefits (like health care, education, welfare, etc.) that drown taxpayers
in liability. Food stamp rolls have swollen, the labor participation rate has dropped to the lowest level since the Carter years, middle-class wages have
seen no signs of improvement. Look, this litany of failures could go on and on — Cash for Clunkers, the IRS targeting scandal, the Benghazi lies, NSA
snooping, the VA scandal, etc.
No "Major Scandal" in Obama Administration? [David] Axelrod,
former senior advisor to President Obama, recently asserted something so patently untrue that it demands a response. "And I'm proud of the fact that, basically,
you've had an administration that's been in place for six years in which there hasn't been a major scandal," he pronounced at a University of Chicago event.
The Washington Post leapt in to defend Axelrod's claim by pointing to how President Obama's approval ratings did not shift in the wake of the potential scandals he
has faced since taking office.
The 'will of the people' means us — this time we must
enforce it. One of the most important consequences of misguided, uninformed voting is what Barack Hussein Obama has done to the black
community and racial relations in this country. He has turned the civil rights movement to shreds deliberately because he is following one of
Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." The targets being the Constitution,
Capitalism and racial harmony. The Obama administration is replete with black Marxists and it was clear from the very first moment that Obama
got away with anointing the first green Czar — Van Jones, a self-described 'communist' that this was his agenda. [...] Racial relations have never
been worse because there are so many black socialists in this administration, including the Justice Department. Their anti-military, anti-American,
pro-jihad, anti-capitalists, anti- second amendment, environmental whacko agenda has decimated every successful enterprise from healthcare, military
might to the space program that has made this nation so powerful.
No One Was Watching, Obama Took Control of the Courts. The New York Times wrote in 2014, "Democrats have reversed the partisan
imbalance on the federal appeals courts that long favored conservatives, a little-noticed shift with far-reaching consequences for the law
and President Obama's legacy." It didn't favor conservatives but there was a dramatic shift to the far left. The appellate is
under the control of leftists and ACLU types. They own the Court of Appeals. As he has done by ignoring Congress and the Supreme
Court of the United States, Obama has been eliminating voices not his own. He has been erasing the Separation of Powers and our
Constitution. He has been obliterating states rights. The judicial branch was also on the agenda. This is part of
Mr. Obama's fundamental transformation.
Obama's SOTU Versus Reality.
Obama claimed that there are no existential threats facing this nation, that his economy is robust, that his educational record is stellar,
that people who are skeptical that global warming is man-made are fools, that the United States is more respected internationally now than
it was before he took office, that Obamacare has lived up to its promises, that the military is overfunded, that ISIS members are just
fanatics and killers riding around in pickup trucks, that his "clean energy" programs are superior, that people who support entitlement
reform are the irresponsible ones — saying we should actually double down on these bankrupting boondoggles — that
proponents of an orderly immigration system are bigots, that Ted Cruz's pledge to aggressively pursue the Islamic State is code for
deliberately bombing innocent civilians, that he himself deserves praise for reducing the deficit, that he values bipartisanship and
compromise and ideas other than his own, that it's morning in America and that he's just getting warmed up and planning on
engineering further transformational change at the expiration of his term. Can you imagine having this record of failure,
bragging about it and promising to deliver more misery into the indefinite future? It would be like the owner of the Chicago
Cubs pledging to keep winning the World Series.
The Lamest Duck. We have entered a most
dangerous period of the Obama presidency. It's not just that every rogue actor from Kim and Putin and Castro to Maduro and Khamenei
and Xi knows he has one last year to behave badly without fear of reprisal. It's that the president and his team are isolated, aloof,
detached from reality. They think a climate deal is a rebuke to terrorism. They think the response to jihad in San Bernardino
is to 'close the gun-show loophole.' They think a new communications strategy will convince the public that the war against ISIS is
going well. I don't question Obama's sincerity. I question his sanity.
'Streisand Effect' Presidency. [Scroll down] So it's a wonder that the Obama presidency hasn't quite
figured out that denying the existence of the obvious actually doesn't help. When you say there's peace and security in
Syria, you're not convincing anyone that's the case. [...] Denial of the obvious has been a feature of the Obama presidency.
Recall that Obama told Bill O'Reilly in his Super Bowl interview a few years back that there was "not a smidgen of corruption" at
the IRS. Well, no. In fact, the IRS held a press conference to admit its own wrongdoing and the chief IRS official
involved is pleading the Fifth. What about "Obamacare is working"? We hear that a lot.
Marco Rubio: Another charming young man. We
are facing the near total transformation promised by President Barack Hussein Obama, one that has taken the USA from an exceptional
world power to a lawless corrupt nation and a joke among world leaders. Our national debt is near $20 trillion.
About 94 million Americans are out of the labor force. Our borders are not secured while sanctuary cities protect foreign
criminals. Our policemen are being demonized. Our Judeo/Christian values are being persecuted and humiliated. Our
national security is being threatened by admission of "Syrian refugees" even after the horrific terrorists acts in Paris on Friday,
November 13.
A True Scandal. From the IRS, to the
Department of Justice, to the Department of Energy, to Veterans Affairs, to the State Department managed by Hillary Clinton; this White House
has been implicated in a number of controversies and alleged transgressions. [...] Certainly, the alleged and still unresolved implication that
the nation's tax collection service was unduly targeting conservatives to limit their ability to participate in politics was a terrifying abuse of
authority. The VA scandal was a violation of the social compact and a matter of life and death for American servicemen and women. The
misallocation of taxpayer funds for boondoggles like Solyndra was an avoidable mess borne out of a myopic political imperative. All of
these scandals and more are deadly serious for those segments of American society that they affected, but the segmentation of those who suffered
narrowed the political impact of these affairs.
Obama Has Just Begun. In the 2016
election campaigns, most Democratic candidates in swing states will have distanced themselves from the last eight years. Otherwise, they would have
to run on the patently false premise that American health care is more affordable and more comprehensive today than it was in 2009; that workforce participation
is booming; that scandals are a thing of the past; that the debt has been addressed; that Obama has proved a healer who brought the country together; that
immigration at last is ordered, legal, and logical; that the law has never been more respected and honored; that racial relations are calmer than ever; that
the campuses are quiet; that the so-called war on terror is now over and won with al-Qaeda and ISIS contained or on the run; that U.S. prestige aboard has
never been higher; that our allies appreciate our help and our enemies fear our wrath; that Iran will now not go nuclear; that Israel is secure and assured
of our support; and that, thanks to American action, Egypt is stable, Libya is ascendant, Iraq is still consensual, and the Middle East in general is at last
quiet after the tumultuous years of George W. Bush.
Abdul-Jabbar Is Bad for All Americans. With a recent column in Time magazine entitled "Ben Carson is Terrible
for Black Americans," NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar decided to weigh in. Sounding like a bad Elaine Benes date,
Abdul-Jabbar begins his piece by asking and answering his own question — twice. He concludes that a Carson
presidency would "be an unmitigated disaster." I suppose that with record numbers of Americans on welfare, record numbers
of Americans not working, accumulating more federal debt than every other U.S. president combined, a perverse redefinition of
marriage, granting a "God bless you" to killers of children in the womb, promoting a culture of lawlessness, inspiring hostility
toward U.S. law enforcement, encouraging an invasion through our southern border, and on top of all of that, ruining school
lunches for millions of American children, for Mr. Abdul-Jabbar, the last seven years constitutes something other than an
"unmitigated disaster."
immense gratitude Republicans owe Obama. Obama's economic policies and regulations have created the worst
economic recovery and most sluggish job market in six decades. They've stifled the dreams of millions, chased them from the
workplace, limited their choices and increased widespread reliance on government handouts. His serial lies and cynical abuse
of authority and privilege through over-reaching power and over-blown language have corroded Americans' trust in their most
hallowed institutions. Obama's sequester suggestion helped hollow America's once dominant military to an enfeebled condition
requiring years to rebuild. Obama's stubbornly naive foreign policies, if you call them policies, have turned America into
the paper tiger once the wishful dream of communists. Obama's reluctance or inability to lead in anything other than
appeasement created vast vacuums of power abroad for eager opponents to expand as thousands perish in the conflicts.
Flop: The Biggest Obamacare Disaster You've Never Heard About. It's an Obamacare story with every imaginable outrage —
blatant conflicts of interest, millions of tax dollars going to political cronies, thousands of Americans left without health insurance, lavish
pay for incompetent executives, federal funds diverted illegally, multiple congressional investigations, insider trading convictions and big
decisions made behind closed doors. Tragically, there is even a child abuser. But search the New York Times web site for "Obamacare
co-ops" and nothing comes up. Just three entries appear for the same search on the Washington Post web site.
Obama Scandals The Mainstream Press Is Ignoring. This list only scratches the surface. There's Obama's inept handling
of the BP oil spill. His intimidation of reporters who didn't toe the party line. The failed multi-billion-dollar ObamaCare
launch. The Solyndra collapse. The Fast and Furious scandal. Heck, even Obama's scandalous mishandling of the economy
should be the talk of the nation. All of these paint a picture of a president who is out of control, out of his depth, dangerously
out of touch with reality, and incapable of effectively running the government or protecting taxpayer money.
Obama: Nihilist or Just Incompetent? Where did
all the rogues and incompetents at the GSA, ICE, NSA, TSA, and VA come from? Did they simply come out of the woodwork once Obama set the tone
that bureaucrats are to be ACORN and SEIU-like community organizers? When did the goal of a 24-year-old college graduate become a sinecure as
a government bureaucrat, replete with de facto lifelong tenure, guaranteed pay raises, and a retirement system that pays out annually more than
does a private $4-million 401K without the worry? Was all this due to incompetence or nihilism?
The Poisonous
Obama Years. Barack Obama's administration is scandal-plagued. In its twilight years, this White House has
subordinated accountability and the preservation of faith in public sector competence to exculpation from the political press.
Has America Accomplished After Two-Terms Of A Barack Obama Presidency? If one was to take a step back and
objectively examine where the world finds itself today after only two-terms of an Obama presidency, logical thinking would
say that all of this must in some way have been planned! That the possibility at least exists that Barack Obama is the
Manchurian President who has systematically and methodically tried to bring the US to its knees and now, with tens of
thousands of non-vetted Syrian refugees about to arrive here, may be getting closer to his endgame!
Trump and the Revenge of the 'Low-Information' Voters. Ninety-four million Americans are out of work. Obama's
hiked up the debt from $10 to 18 trillion. He's dismantling our health care, legal, and educational systems; hired radical
activists to head up agencies; purged high-ranking officers in the military; targeted Tea Party members, Christians, and law enforcement
officers; and spent tens of millions on family vacations. He has given tax refunds and welfare benefits to illegals while veterans
lack basic necessities; ratcheted up regulations on small business; pinched the middle class black and blue; and ignored militant Black
Panthers calling for the murder of "white cracker babies" while calling out a whole police department for "acting stupidly." He has
held no one accountable for those in his administration who cracked a few eggs (the murders of Brian Terry, Jaime Zapata, and hundreds
of Mexican nationals) to "make an omelet" in the Fast and Furious gun-walking operation, played nice with dictators, and generally made
the United States a laughingstock around the world.
President Barack Obama's Complete List
of Historic Firsts. • First President to Refuse to Tell the Public What He Did For Eight (8) Hours
After Being Informed That a U.S. Ambassador Was Facing Imminent Death During a Terror Attack (Source: Mediate) • First
President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador's Death, Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case: the
Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.) • First President to Have an
Innocent Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After Lying About the Cause for a Deadly Attack on U.S. Diplomats, Using the Filmmaker as a Scapegoat (Source: CNN)
Obama? Rule of Law? "I will just say on
principle that the success of our democracy depends on the rule of law," Earnest deadpanned. [...] In case you are getting teary-eyed
with patriotic sentimentality at this point, remember that this White House has issued not a peep of concern about that its former
secretary of state may have broken federal records keeping and national security laws. And what's more ... [#1] that it
made recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was not in recess; [#2] that it effectively put
an end to the Defense of Marriage Act by simply deciding it wasn't going to enforce it; [#3] and that it tried to enact a
wholesale change in immigration laws by refusing to enforce those, too. The matter is now before the courts, which at least
temporarily put a stop to it.
Culture War Starts Claiming Victims. Everywhere we turn, American freedoms and free markets are under attack —
from Obamacare's insidious individual mandate to the IRS persecution of conservative groups to the NSA's warrantless mass surveillance
of all Americans. All the while, the national debt is soaring, our entitlements are on the verge of being exhausted, labor
participation is at four-decade lows, wages are stagnant, and America's status as the world's only superpower is crumbling every bit
as fast as the rule of law is eroding here at home.
From "Mainstreaming Dumb" To "Mainstreaming Crazy". If every conservative and moderate
in America disappeared tomorrow, liberals would party like they won the Super Bowl. Five years
later, the entire economy would collapse; Cuba, Mexico and Canada would be occupying parts of the
United States and President Bernie Sanders would be encouraging people to burn down the remaining
businesses that hadn't gone under to protest unemployment. They're pursuing both spending and
immigration policies that could fairly be called suicidal for America. On the international
scene, Obama has managed to restart the Cold War with Russia, throw away two wars Bush had already
won in Afghanistan and Iraq and has enabled the rise of ISIS. If there is a part of America
that's important or works, liberals are systematically trying to destroy it.
The Hell
That is the Obama White House. Every sentient human being whose brain isn't stuffed
with ideological fairy dust can see that Obama is behind every major scandal of his administration
from Benghazi to the I.R.S. disgrace. How can one know this? Because the culprits haven't
been fired. Moreover, if they are serial liars like Susan Rice, they've actually been promoted to
posts where their loyalty to the criminal-in-chief can do America and its citizens even more damage, if
that is possible. A president faced with a scandal created by underlings behind his back would be
naturally furious at their misbehavior, and want heads to roll. This didn't happen in any of these
scandals because their point of origin was the White House itself. Promoting the culprits is a way
of keeping them quiet.
Cultural aggression,
destructive policies, and ceaseless smearing are wearing out a great people. To the Democratic
Party, and specifically those of you responsible for shaping federal policies over the last seven years and
our cultural institutions over a far longer time... Great job. You've succeeded beyond your wildest
dreams in your efforts to, as the front man for your current operation called it, "fundamentally transform America."
Obama really doesn't want you to read. Today [7/2/2015], Obama travels to Wisconsin to
tout his amazing success with the economy that actually shrank in the first quarter. All of which
underlines a real presidential success, Obama's implementation of his public schedule to lead a
compliant media, a weak-kneed Republican Congress and inattentive public on a merry hunt for more
domestic distractions to keep public discussion away from Obama's unfolding foreign policy disasters.
They are legion — ISIS, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Russia. So many of Obama's actions, or
in-actions, confound common sense.
I see that birth certificate again, please? I believe any thinking person would say a disastrous caliphate
being stood up in the Middle East, Iran getting a nuclear weapon and threatening Israel's existence, increased
terrorist attacks in the United States, a refusal to call Islamic terrorism what it is, China hacking entire departments
of classified data and ripping us off blind, terrorists streaming across the southern border, illegal immigrants being
resettled in large numbers without the knowledge of the states or local communities, the American military on its way
to levels not seen since before World War II, et cetera, et cetera. It makes you wonder, doesn't it? What
could be the agenda allowing all of this to happen? Or should I say, encouraging all of this to happen?
Obama's Third Term. He has defied the Constitution in many areas since his first days
in office. He brazenly announced he did not like the Defense of Marriage Act and would not defend it
in court (or enforce it before it got to court). He has played fast and loose with U.S. immigration
law. His response to the GOP takeover of Congress has been to issue Executive Orders detailing how
he will not "take care that the law be faithfully executed." On Iran, he is proceeding to let the
mullahs — those inventors of suicide bombings — slip the noose of international
economic sanctions.
Can We Finally Stop Pretending? [Scroll
down] Can we finally stop pretending that they are not also lying to us about everything else? Can we stop pretending they are not
lying to us about guns, and abortion, and voter fraud, and voter ID laws, and taxes, and the economy, and the environment, and education,
and energy, and job creation, and national security, and international relations, and Islam, and their assault on Christianity, and amnesty, and
entitlements, and stimulus, and recovery, and Fast and Furious, and Benghazi, and the IRS scandal, and a war on women, and our borders, and domestic
surveillance, and weakening us militarily, and their supposed loyalty as Americans, [...]
In The End, It's Up
To Us. At Obama's direction, the IRS and the EPA have been used to selectively attack
his political opponents. The Veterans Administration has neglected the health care needs of
veterans, and Obama does nothing. Obama routinely ignores the counsel of his military leaders,
and has refused to acknowledge the threat of ISIS. He has imposed preposterous rules of engagement
that make the military's task much more dangerous, and much less effective. The media acts as a
shield for Obama's failures, and has abandoned all pretense of "professional journalism". [...]
does GOP assist an "agenda that is both diabolical and destructive"? It's hard to
trust a president who does not tell the truth, does not follow the Constitution, backs anarchists,
communists, and socialists in Ferguson and elsewhere as they demonize police, spends wildly and
uncontrollably, and has abandoned our allies to support an Islamist takeover in the Middle East
while negotiating a deal with the terrorist nation of Iran.
Obama Presidency — A Cacophony of Corruption. Obama apologists have recently been trotted out en masse
to absurdly portray the Obama presidency as an entirely scandal-free citadel of piety. [...] As Obama, himself, has insisted,
there is not a "scintilla of scandal" to be seen. If only it were so. In fact, however, both in scope and scan,
the Obama reign is arguably the most scandal-ridden presidency in American history.
Do Americans See Obama? Obama may well have been an unapologetic progressive wolf in centrist clothing,
but mostly he was a continuation of what he had been in the past: an unimpressive state legislator, a one-term
partisan senator without any accomplishments, a lackadaisical executive who in his own words had to worry most about
not appearing lazy and distracted. Obama as president simply pushed the right progressive buttons, all the more
easily once his own party lost the Congress and he was freed to sign executive orders that enraged his enemies and
moved the country leftward. He cares little about the scandals involving the IRS, VA, AP, NSA, GSA, TSA, EPA,
Benghazi, and the Secret Service, other than ensuring that they stay far away from his own godhead.
Brooks: 'Obama Has Run An Amazingly Scandal-Free Administration'. One doesn't know
what to do with the rubbish which follows beyond noting it and hoping that the ridicule which
results will somehow and in some way have some kind of impact. Despite 6½ years of
horrid governance and dozens of acknowledged scandals, several of which a few of the credible
remaining outposts of liberal thought have actually agreed are scandals, David Brooks, the New York
Times's resident fake conservative, asserted on Friday's [5/29/2015] PBS NewsHour, as if it's
an indisputable fact, that "President Obama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not
only he himself, but the people around him."
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Permanent Presidency of Barack Obama. Imagine if the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
was free to target conservatives at will for their political beliefs. Imagine if the IRS could
single out families who chose to adopt children in need for intrusive and abusive audits. Imagine
if the Veterans Administration (VA) could pick and chose which of our nation's war heroes receive
desperately needed medical care and which ones died, neglected by the nation they fought to protect.
Imagine if the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could mandate that nuns and Christian business
owners alike provide abortion pills in direct violation of their firmly held religious beliefs —
the very foundational principles on which they base their lives and livelihoods.
Think like a liberal —
or else. Extra-legal executive orders can help a president bypass supposed troglodytes
in Congress and among the public. Obama granted blanket amnesties, proposed rules that would
lead to the closure of many coal plants, and arbitrarily chose which health or labor statutes should
be enforced and at what times. A filmmaker was even jailed on a trumped-up probation charge after
making a video about Islam that was deemed unhelpful to the official administration Benghazi narrative.
The IRS hounded nonprofit groups considered insufficiently progressive.
America, Big Government Collide. [Scroll down] Think of the Department of Veterans Affairs failing
veterans who die from lack of care. Or the Justice Department, spying on reporters and seizing their
records. Or the Internal Revenue Service, targeting conservatives. And where do you even begin
with the mess that is the Secret Service, the CDC's incompetency during the Ebola outbreak, or the National
Security Agency program that collected millions of Americans' phone records?
Chicago Presidency. Obama has chosen to skip various widely attended anniversaries,
including the liberation of Auschwitz and the Battle of Gettysburg. He passed on the commemorative
march of world leaders who condemned the terrorist killings in Paris. Critics pounced. How does the
president have time to meet with GloZell, do his March Madness NCAA-tournament basketball picks, or
banter with Internet bloggers if he cannot meet with the current chief of NATO? Why does he jet out
to California to do Jimmy Kimmel, but refuse to fly to Paris to show solidarity against Islamic
violence? Why would Obama fly all the way to Denmark to lobby for a Chicago Olympics, but not attend
the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall? [...] The point is that it was his pleasure not to
attend any of them. The full Obama cares nothing about appearances. Indeed, he feels that such
disdain magnifies his godhead, as someone absolutely immune to tradition, protocol, and criticism.
Administration Scandal Bracketology. President Barack Obama's administration has been
one rife with scandals. Some pertain directly to the President himself and his own actions —
like the recent immigration executive order that some say unconstitutionally side-stepped Congress —
and some to members of his administration, like the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS and the Secret
Service's series of embarrassments.
for a Dictatorial Presidency. When Barack Obama was on the cusp of becoming president
in 2008, he gave a speech declaring to his supporters that they were days away from "fundamentally
transforming the United States of America." That was one promise he did keep. How has America
been transformed? America has unprecedented levels of national debt. The Obamas, like the
Clintons, will not feel the impact since they will all be vastly enriched from their "public
service." There have also been records set for food stamp and disability payments, record low
workplace participation rates and unparalleled weakness abroad. [...] Obama made recess appointments
when he alone declared Congress was in recess, and tried to load up government positions with
like-minded ideologues without bothering to abide by the Constitutional mandate that the Senate had
to approve these appointments.
or Bust! Most Americans believe that the era of adolescence is over, and the next
president will have to be an adult who puts away the golf clubs and ESPN monitors to clean up what
will be $20 trillion in debt and a collapsed foreign policy. The public seems to accept that taxes
can't go much higher. No one thinks that borrowing trillions was a sign of government austerity.
Too many, not too few, Americans appear to be hooked on entitlements. The borders are too porous, not too
well guarded. Spiking the stock market was not the same as creating well-paying middle-class jobs.
More gas and oil came despite, not because of, Obama.
Ongoing Assault on the Constitution. Throughout his tenure in office, Obama has been
exercising powers outside the scope of his constitutionally prescribed executive authority. [...]
People have probably forgotten by now Obama's radical czars, whom he appointed to serve with all the
power of Cabinet officers but without being confirmed by the Senate. Then there was Obama's planned
defiance of the Senate in moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to U.S. soil — in Illinois —
despite the Senate's having voted 90-6 against such a move. Also, don't forget his unilateral reversal
of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay service members, his Environmental Protection Agency's
regulatory end run around Congress to regulate carbon because Congress had refused to pass a cap-and-trade
bill, his lawless subordination of secured creditors in favor of his union allies in the Chrysler restructuring
scandal, and his defiance of a federal judge's order invalidating his imperious ban on deep-water drilling.
There are many more examples.
the media finally turned on the Clintons? Think about all those Clinton scandals in
the nineties — Travelgate, Cattlegate, Hillarycare, BedroomGate and, of course, "that
woman, Ms. Lewinsky." OK, don't think about all of them. They were mind-numbing.
But there were a lot. That pair just denies any wrongdoing. And they and their
minions talk each one to death until everyone is tired of trying to follow the complications they've
thrown up. And then Hill and Bill declare it's old news. That's what Obama is trying
to do with the IRS and Benghazi scandals. It worked on Fast & Furious, Solyndra and others.
Stall to make the details old. Then, point out they're old.
The Liberal Circus.
Attorney General Eric Holder came into office alleging racism and calling the American people
cowards, and six years later is exiting, still blaming racism for his own self-inflicted failures.
In between, Holder became the first attorney general to be cited for contempt by Congress. He
stonewalled the Fast and Furious investigations. His plans to try terrorists in federal civilian
courts were tabled almost immediately. He ordered electronic taps and surveillance on the
communications of Associated Press and Fox reporters for supposed leaks. He ignored wrongdoing in
the IRS mess, a scandal that continues to grow. He got caught using his government jet to take his
daughters and their boyfriends to the Belmont Stakes. But Holder will be remembered largely for
his racialist tenure. He dropped a strong case of voting intimidation by armed Black Panthers at the
polls. In congressional testimony, he referred to blacks as "my people"; anyone else —
except Joe Biden — who had said the same would have been asked to resign.
claims 'there hasn't been a major scandal' in the Obama White House. Longtime Obama
administration political insider David Axelrod claimed on Monday [2/16/2015] that the Obama
administration hasn't been tainted by a smidgen of scandal. [...] 'I'm proud of the fact that
basically you have had an administration in place for six years in which there hasn't been a major
scandal,' Axelrod said. 'And I think that says a lot about the ethical strictures of this
administration.' Audio and video of Axelrod's remarks indicate the audience's first reaction to
his insistence that Obama has presided over a scandal-free government was a chorus of laughs —
before friendly attendees quickly drowned them out with applause.
Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts. [For example,] • First President
to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use
the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list) (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by
Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending — Because The Notices
Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal) • First
President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit
donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures) (Source: Power Line)
• First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to
his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute. (Source:
Washington Examiner)
Obama's legacy:
Obfuscator-in-Chief. His approach is raw and brutal, but effective. Subpoenas are for
suckers, court orders for losers. Ignore the question, tell a little lie. Don't be afraid to
deny or defy. Ignore. Obfuscate. Give up nothing. Then, when the investigations
continue to flail, label them as partisan witch hunts and count on your friends in the media to amplify the
message. From the early days of Fast and Furious through last week, his administration has remained
largely untouched — though hardly untainted — by scandals far and wide. There
is Benghazi, the IRS, the EPA email scandal, monitoring of reporters' communications, and Operation Choke
Point. There are many more as well. But what they all have in common is we have not come close
to getting to the bottom of them and are not likely to before President Obama leaves office.
around terror. It should be painfully clear by now that no one of authority is in
charge at the White House, least of all President Obama. His government is running itself,
without any serious, detailed direction from the West Wing in the day-to-day issues and troubles
America faces at home and abroad. We saw that happen in the bungled, mistake-filled
rollout of Obamacare, where the left hand did not know what the right hand was doing. Many other
times since then in the deadly Benghazi consulate attacks, the incompetent Veterans Affairs scandal,
the politicization of the Internal Revenue Service that targeted voter groups who didn't support Mr.
Obama, and a long list of other management disasters over the past six years.
Worst Examples of Emperor Obama's Serial Desecration of the United States Constitution.
[For example,] [#1] The president's selective targeting of political opponents for
harassment and abuse by the IRS and obstruction and corruption of the resulting investigations[.]
[#2] Fraudulent claim that the Benghazi massacre was caused by a film, willfully misleading Congress
and the American people, providing false information to Congress, scapegoating an individual instead of
taking responsibility for waging a war under false pretenses and inadequately protecting Americans overseas.
[#3] Unlawfully granting amnesty to categories of illegal immigrants, pressuring states by expensive
litigation and the withholding of federal resources to not enforce laws against illegal immigration[.]
[#4] Refusal to enforce border security laws passed by Congress[.]
The President
as Pest. Moving on to scandals, we find another cornucopia. Fast and Furious! Lois
Lerner! Solyndra! Jonathan Gruber! The Muslim Brotherhood! Illegal executive orders!
Illegal ObamaCare changes! And going back, Obama's award of a trillion-and-a-half dollars to his friends in
the financial industry, for which he had no constitutional or legal sanction whatsoever. All this before the
last phase of Obama's tenure — historically the period when festering scandals begin to bubble up.
Loop' Obama's Peculiar Priorities. [Scroll down] There are only so many hours in
a day to clean up the planet and punish overachievers. Moreover, it's probably Barack Obama himself
who chases down and recruits former Democrat campaign staffers to play down-and-out housewives at State of
the Union addresses. And let's not forget — when he's not "fixing" our "broken" healthcare
system, Obama is actively about the business of decimating our military, upping the minimum wage on behalf of
the "hardest working people in America," waving millions of illegal immigrants with infectious diseases across
the border, and purposely contributing to racial unrest.
Media Celebrate Obama's "Audacity".
[Scroll down] With the notion that Obama is "unleashed from the hesitancy," the Times, in
essence, dismisses the controversial legacy of President Obama's far-from-hesitant nor un-noteworthy
six years, such as: the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservatives applying for
non-profit status; the deceitful packaging and passage of Obamacare; the manufactured border crisis;
the death of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 and the ensuing administration cover-up; the
trade of five Taliban commanders held at Guantanamo for one apparent deserter, Bowe Bergdahl; the
war on journalists; the overall decline in transparency; the embrace of the race-baiting huckster,
Al Sharpton, and the Department of Justice's "civil rights" investigations in Ferguson, Missouri and
Staten Island, New York; shutting down the World War II Memorial and national parks; and more.
I'm Not Proud
That We Elected Obama. I'm not proud of President Obama when he says we've entered a
new era of responsibility and then spends his entire presidency blaming President Bush, ATMs, the
Arab Spring and tsunamis and a myriad of other excuses for his woes. I'm not proud of President
Obama for his contempt for our allies whether through abandoning missile defense in Poland and the
Czech Republic, his unwillingness to secure Ukraine's sovereignty against Russian aggression, and
his vilification of the State of Israel. Nor am I proud of him for leaving Chris Stevens and three
other Americans to fend for themselves in Benghazi and then claim the attack was a result of a silly
Internet film about Muhammad rather than a well-coordinated terrorist attack that just happened to
occur on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
for Hope and Change. Never has a modern president been so pampered by the press, and
never has the press been so disrespected for its obsequiousness. After Obama, what will the press
do? Will it investigate some future Republican abuse of executive orders, deplore serial crippling
deficits, complain of a government hostile to the media, expose scandals in the IRS or VA, lament
the decline of U.S. prestige abroad, tally up "illegal" Predator assassinations, chronicle bombing
without congressional approval, talk of a McCarthy-like administration tapping reporters' communications
and computers, whine about an anemic "jobless" recovery, chart how a president deliberately misled the
country about health care, amnesty, or dangers in the Middle East? Will it demand that the next
presidential candidate release his college transcripts and medical records or details about his associates?
Media Remains Focused On The Manufactured "Crisis At Hand". Whatever happened to the
results of the Bowe Bergdahl investigation that was completed by the Army? What about that
Unaccompanied Alien Children crisis that Jeh Johnson was saying required the emergency $3.7 Billion
dollar "emergency" appropriations that never took place?
children are fair game, totally mockable; Democratic ones are sacred. [A] staff member
for a Republican representative wrote a mildly critical observation about the girls on her personal
Facebook page, and — pow! Forget the trivial, oh-so-well media-covered events in
Ferguson; Jonathan Gruber's admissions about the (Un-)Affordable Care Act; the Obama's administration
selling out to Iran over nuclear weapons; the Democratic debacle in the elections; the Obama's
administration's expensive carbon regulations; Obama's unilateral, unconstitutional illegal
alien amnesty; the horrors of the Islamic State; Russia's dangerous aggressiveness; etc.;
etc. — her Facebook remark is a serious, national consequential matter, the
liberal media decreed.
in Ruins. [Scroll down] Obama will go down in history as presiding over the most
corrupt administration of the last half-century, when historians finally collate the IRS, VA, GSA,
and Secret Service scandals; the erosion of constitutional jurisprudence; the serial untruths about
Benghazi, amnesty, and Obamacare; the harassment of journalists; the record shakedown of Wall Street
lucre in 2008 and 2012;and the flood of lobbyists into and out of the Obama administration.
unleashed: Defies GOP election wins, moves in opposite direction. President Barack
Obama has spent November acting with a defiant fury, moving with little regard for the message
voters sent at the polls. Instead of reaching out to Republicans who won control of next year's
Congress Nov. 4, he's charged ahead with initiatives that infuriate the victors, prompting critics
to label him a "king" or "emperor." Wednesday [11/26/2014], the Obama administration began an
effort aimed at easing smog-related pollution. Earlier this month, Obama took executive action on
immigration and climate change. The White House has suggested he would block the Keystone XL
pipeline. He's vowed to have the federal government regulate Internet access.
Explaining Away Obama.
The only mystery about the last six years is how much lasting damage has been done to the American
experiment, at home and abroad. Our federal agencies are now an alphabet soup of incompetence and
corruption. How does the IRS ever quite recover? Will the Secret Service always be seen as veritable
Keystone Cops? Is the GSA now a reckless party-time organization? Is the EPA institutionalized as a
rogue appendage of the radical green movement with a director who dabbles in online pseudonyms? Do we
accept that the Justice Department dispenses injustice or that the VA can be a lethal institution for our
patriots? Is NASA now a Muslim outreach megaphone as we hire Russia, the loser of the space race,
to rocket us into orbit?
Obama betters the tyranny of King George. Mr. Obama has exterminated American citizens
not accused of crime without due process of law on his secret say-so alone. He has initiated wars
against Libya, Syria, and the Islamic State without congressional authorization. He has imprisoned
persons indefinitely without accusation or trial at Guantanamo Bay — even detainees whom
the military has found to be innocent of international terrorism. He has used military tribunals
in lieu of independent courts for the prosecution of civilian offenses.
to Congress: It's My Way or My Way. It is always remarkable to me — which
is why I am remarking upon it — how the only way this president can be rescued from a bad
news cycle is if an even worse one comes along. This is a source of frustration for many on the
right who get outraged by the fact that "we" don't talk enough about Fast & Furious or Benghazi or
the IRS scandal or the VA scandal or Ukraine/Syria/Islamic State/China/Libya/Gitmo ... etc. The
reason some of these topics get pushed to the backburner, even on the right, is that another
controversy or scandal suddenly eclipses the previous one.
Does Amnesty. We've endured six years of "If you like your health-care plan, you can
keep your health-care plan," "How dare you call Obamacare a tax," "The video did it in Benghazi,"
"Of course we'd never let guns walk to Mexican gangs," "Workplace violence," "Kinetic military
action," "The IRS harassment is outrageous and intolerable," and "not a smidgeon of corruption" from
"the most transparent administration in history." Yet what so astonished the commentariat about
Obama's decree of amnesty for illegal aliens was the sheer audacity of hoax.
Mr. Obama, It Must Be Good to Be King. Incredibly, even after all of the scandals,
corruption, lies, and deceits; even after this past week when we learned about the depth of your
Obamacare deception; even after using the IRS to target your political opponents; even after letting
your ambassador die in Benghazi and lying about it afterwards; even after dividing the nation and
exploiting racial tensions for your own gain; even after six years of incompetence, dishonesty,
conspiracy, and illegality; even after every law you've flouted, promise you've broken, and lie
you've told, you still found a way to top yourself. In refusing to enforce our borders and uphold
our immigration laws, you are now guilty of the most profound presidential power grab since Abraham Lincoln.
A Moral
Primer. The last but long gasp of the Obama administration is characterized not so
much by deceit and incompetence as by growing chaos. Everything appears to be coming apart. The
chariot of state now veers up and down with a terrified Phaethon clueless at the reins. Whether it
is ISIS, Ebola, Putin, or Obamacare, the common strain is not simple incompetence, but a maladroitness born
of intolerant ideological fundamentalism. Have our government agencies ever seemed more corrupt or
useless or both, staffed by political cronies and leftist zealots? What ever happened to the old
IRS, GSA, VA, Secret Service, NSA, NASA, EPA, or Justice Department? All seem now mere appendages
to a larger agenda of fundamentally transforming America.
Doubling Down Right Out Of Radicals' Handbook. Bypassing Congress on amnesty, and the
rest of President Obama's double-down response to the voters' rejection of his policies, should
shock no one. "Never let up" is one of Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals." [...] •
Within days he is to issue an executive order that cannot be viewed as less than an
impeachable offense, giving at least 6 million illegal immigrants amnesty — as criminal
aliens taunt the law enforcement officials holding them in custody. • The
"landmark" greenhouse gas pact he brings home from Beijing asks the Chinese only to increase
emissions more slowly by 2030, while the U.S. commits to further decrease our output.
• He plans through regulation what amounts to a government takeover of the Internet.
• Aides warn that he will veto the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring crude
oil to U.S. refineries. • Perhaps biggest of all, he seems set this month to
agree to a deal that would let Islamofascist Iran keep its nuclear program, endangering the free
world in Neville Chamberlain-like fashion.
Irrelevant, Incompetent or Intentional? Now that the celebratory champagne has lost
its fizz, we need to soberly assess where we stand with this administration. President Obama can
veto any repeal of Obamacare. He still maintains control over college student loans. Common Core
(fairly dubbed "Obamacore") is still advancing despite fierce grassroots opposition. He is still
converting a severely weakened military into a laboratory for radical social experimentation. He is
packing the federal judiciary with radicals. He will rely on these black-robed rogue judges to force
the changes he wants but cannot achieve through legislation. He is staffing the federal bureaucracy
with his devotees — and creating new "Czars" not subject to Senate confirmation. He will
use Executive Orders to limit or even frustrate the intent of Congress on major issues.
Maybe Big
Data should play smaller role in our politics. In a sense, this is the last piece of
the puzzle to click into place for the president's Nixonian transformation. Spy on reporters?
Check. Bomb a country (or two) without authorization from Congress? Check. Issue dubious claims of
executive privilege to conceal embarrassments or prevent scandals? Check. Withdraw from —
and lose — an unpopular war he didn't start? Check. Corrupt IRS? Check. Imperial
presidency? Check. One of the last things on the list was to insist that the silent majority of
Americans is really on his side. Of course, Nixon's "silent majority" actually voted.
Here's the short list:
scandals GOP Senate must tackle: IRS, Benghazi, Fast & Furious. As President Obama
sits down on Friday with Republicans who will soon control the Senate and the House, there's no
shortage of issues lawmakers want to tackle when the new Congress convenes in January.
It's the Socialist Democrat Party
on Tuesday's ballot. [Scroll down] For the truth is, in all but name, the Democrat
Party is the Socialist Democrat Party that is giddily well on its way to completion of the Fundamental
Transformation of America. Even though half the country did not vote for him, this is what millions
of Americans, promised Hope & Change by Obama back in 2008 got to date: a vulnerable borderless country,
an all-but-gutted military, increased threats of Islamic terrorism and an Ebola pandemic. But the
biggest change notwithstanding all of the above in Obama's promise of change is that millions of
Americans no longer have jobs and little hope of ever finding a new one.
The Sayings
of Barack Obama. America may not be able to impeach Obama in the House but he has
already impeached himself by having done what he likes to do so much: talk.
Finally Falling From America's Obama-Obscured Eyes. In his first few years and beyond,
liberal funnymen sometimes complained that Obama was so flawless that he didn't provide them any
material. Of course, we knew at the time that this otherworldly caricature of Obama was wholly
mythical, but it was nonetheless very real in the eyes of its liberal beholders. They regarded him
with a quasi-idolatrous zeal — almost as though it would be sacrilegious to criticize,
much less mock, him. But on "Saturday Night Live," among other shows, the comics have grown
increasingly derisive.
Obama, bewildered bystander. Barack Obama reflexively insists on playing the shocked
outsider when something goes wrong within his own administration. [...] He's not simply protecting
his own political fortunes. He's trying to protect faith in the entitlement state by portraying its
repeated failures as shocking anomalies. Unfortunately, the pretense has the opposite effect. It
produces not reassurance but anxiety. Obama's determined detachment conveys the feeling that
nobody's home. No one leading. Not even from behind.
Even the comedians are reciting lists of scandals.
SNL Rips Obama
on Ebola. NBC's "Saturday Night Live" mocked President Barack Obama for his handling
of Ebola and other problems in his administration's second term. In the sketch, Obama says "some
people want to criticize the way our administration has handled this crisis, and it's true we made a
few mistakes early on. But, I assure you, it was nowhere near as bad as how we handled the ISIS
situation. I mean, our various Secret Service mishaps, or the scandals of the IRS and NSA. And I
don't know if you guys remember, but the Obamacare website had some pretty serious problems too. [...]"
Krugman's Indefensible Defense of Barack Obama. For now, let's bare the truth on this
truly execrable piece of writing: that it is so amatuerishly written that it could have been cobbled
together by a high-school student with only a rudimentary understanding of the economics, environmental policy
and the social dynamics of a highly complex nation; that its very self-impressed author fails entirely to
address foreign relations, where Obama's meandering policies have resulted in disaster upon disaster; that he
significantly sidesteps the rise of Islamic terrorism in places where the president only 24 months before
had declared it snuffed out; that he refuses to engage in any discussion of the mounting scandals —
the Benghazi sacrifice of an ambassador; the IRS debacle, wherein one of the most important public institutions
in the country was thoroughly corrupted by politics; or the Fast and Furious campaign, which placed American
firearms in the hands of terrorists and gangsters.
They Still Don't Get Who He is. Think of Obama as a cyborg programmed by
socialist/progressives, unfeeling, relentless and laser focused on his mission to transform America
as founded and dethrone her. And nothing, I repeat, nothing, including American lives, will deter
this machine from fulfilling its mission. Consequently, Obama's programming prohibits any
possibility of him banning flights from the Ebola hot zone, no matter how many Americans are
infected. Fundamentally transforming America as founded requires open borders and granting
amnesty to several millions of unskilled needy illegals.
Bad Apple: Obama and his Influence. [Scroll down] And look at the rest of his administration: a
DoJ that obstructs justice over and over and over. An IRS that can conveniently "lose" important
records. A secretary of state who has covered up her involvement in one of the biggest tragedies to
ever befall an American embassy. I could go on and on. Lying has become the way you play the game in
Washington. Has this falsehood-loving corruption flowed any further into American life? Take a
close look at Planned Parenthood and their willingness to hide what they're really up to. Look at
the quiet perfidy in the implementation of Common Core.
October Worries. Once-unimpeachable federal agencies now appear as 19th-century tribal
fiefdoms. No one much trusts the IRS anymore. Partisan politics seem to determine whether
Americans are audited. The Department of Veterans' Affairs covered up callous — and
occasionally lethal — treatment of scores of hospitalized veterans. The National
Security Agency lied about monitoring the communications of average Americans. Almost nothing in
Obama's lectures about the new unaffordable Affordable Care Act proved accurate. U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement cannot come clean about the nation's utter lack of border enforcement with
Mexico. The once-hallowed Secret Service seems incompetent and scandal-ridden. Attorney General
Eric Holder's Justice Department has picked and chosen which laws to enforce largely out of partisan
considerations. NASA is hardly recognizable. Its director said that the agency's first concern
was not our continued reliance on Vladimir Putin's space rockets, but Muslim outreach.
Enablers in the Senate. Is there a single Obama initiative that has actually worked as
advertised, or even one that has improved the lives of most Americans or improved the U.S.'s
standing in the world? [...] Obama has bungled disaster responses ranging from the BP oil spill to
Hurricane Isaac to the current, mind-bogglingly inept handling of the Ebola outbreak. He's been
mired in scandals: gun-running in Mexico; IRS abuses of conservative groups; racialism at the
Justice Department; mistreatment of inspectors general; spying on the press; trading terrorists for
a deserter; deliberately created chaos at the Mexican border; massive fraud at the Department of
Agriculture; and the ongoing lies and cover-ups about Benghazi. With repeated support from Senate
Democrats, Obama has gutted American defenses and radically undermined our diplomatic standing.
Lameduck's attorney general. President Obama announced this week that he plans to make
a very important decision, but not until after the Nov. 4 election. We're not referring to the
forthcoming executive order changing U.S. immigration policy without congressional input —
although Obama has also promised to do that after the election, because the public doesn't yet "understand
what the facts are on immigration" as well as he thinks he does. Nor are we referring to Obama's more
recent deferred promise to defy Congress by moving several Guantanamo terrorism detainees so that they can continue
to be held indefinitely and without trial or charges in prisons within close proximity to millions of Americans.
To Peace Through Strength. Less than three weeks from election day, the nation faces
threats as dangerous and more diverse than September 11, 2001. This predicament can be directly
traced to the misguided, reckless, and naive policies of the Obama administration. The threat of
ISIS arose from President Obama's abandonment of Iraq. In the vacuum that his own military
leadership warned him of, ISIS seized much of Iraq and moved into Syria. Americans are all too
familiar now with ISIS' barbarity in the form savage beheadings paraded over the internet.
Compounded by gross negligence at the nation's borders and immigration policies imposed by fiat from
the administration that subvert the will of the people, Americans find themselves facing everything
from the prospect of terrorists entering the nation illegally, to the spread of Ebola in the United
States from foreign travelers.
Email Conversation
with a Drone. I want you to consider the following list, then think about what this
means 5, 10 and 15 years down the road for your kids. [...] • Ebola.
• IRS targeting of political opponents. • Gun-running to
Mexican drug cartels with hundreds dead as a result. • Wiretapping 100
reporters. • Mass genocide in Syria. • Mass genocide
in Iraq. • The most powerful army of Islamic terrorists ever seen on Earth
(ISIS). • A nuclear Iran. • A U.S. ambassador
murdered by terrorists after all security was stripped from him. • Open
hatred of Israel. • Open love for the Muslim Brotherhood, a direct offshoot
of the Nazi Party. • Russia invading Ukraine.
The Unequal-Pay
Delusion. Voters are souring on the Democratic party. Apparently all it takes is six years of economic
torpor; the disastrous debut of the biggest new federal program in two generations; record levels of federal debt;
revelations of scandals and malfeasance at the Veterans Administration, the IRS, the Secret Service, and the Justice
Department; Russian revanchism on the march; a rampaging army of (literal) cutthroats gobbling up territory in the
Middle East; and the feeble and patronizing government response to a modern plague.
Could It
Possibly Get Any Worse? The U.S. has its lowest labor participation rate since women
went to work. The middle class is consistently losing ground. Race relations in the U.S. seem to
have gone backwards fifty years in the last six, African Americans overwhelmed with victimology and
picking on cops before there is any evidence. Critics of the president are constantly accused of
racism. Seventy percent of black children are born out of wedlock. No one trusts the word of the
president because he has lied so frequently about everything from health care to Benghazi. [...] The
U.S. Army is falling apart with only 12 of 37 brigades combat ready. Our Navy is disappearing.
Al Qaeda is NOT on the run. Just the opposite — it's everywhere.
The Obama Scandals. For those of you who may have
accidentally lost track of the scandals plaguing us since the beginning of this administration, below I offer you a brief timeline
of some of the most preposterous events endured by Americans during Obama's regime of deceit. I should caution everyone, though,
that the issues made reference to, are meant to simply outline some of the most boisterous scandals while it would probably take
volumes to script the unending list of travesties suffered by the American people under the Barack Obama presidency.
Obama is at Two Dozen Scandals and
Counting. President Obama claims that Republicans are busy probing "phony scandals." But the sheer number of
scandals suggests that misbehavior, abuse of power, and possibly corruption are not something being dreamed up by the GOP,
but a defining characteristic of the Obama administration. [This article includes] a full list of the administration's most
egregious scandals. The ones we know about, at least. I've added four since the last time we ran the list —
an increase of 20 percent!
Obama, the Teflon President. Back in the 1980s, the Democratic Party media dubbed
Ronald Reagan the "Teflon President." By this, they meant that their false, dishonest and trivial
attacks on Reagan didn't sway the public, which appreciated the most meteoric economic recovery in
modern history and restoration of America's status as not just a great power, but a competent one.
Something quite different is happening with Barack Obama. By any possible measure, he has been an
awful president. His administration has been good for hedge fund managers and "green" energy
scammers, but disastrous for working class Americans, especially African-Americans. Median income
and household wealth are down, and let's not even talk about foreign policy or the national debt.
Yet, Obama's approval ratings have a relatively high floor of around 40%.
The last comic standing.
Some will ask how is President Obama violating the Constitution? He made recess appointments to
the National labor Relations Board (NLRB) while the Senate was in session. This was found to be
unconstitutional by a rare unanimous Supreme Court decision. Obama Administration uses IRS to
target conservative, Christian and pro-Israel organizations, donors, and citizens. In an
unprecedented attack on the First Amendment, the Obama Justice Department ordered criminal
investigations of FOX News reporters for doing their jobs during the 2012 election year. President
Obama, throughout his Presidency, has refused to enforce long-established U.S. immigration laws. For
example[:] More than 300,000 captured illegal aliens had been processed and were awaiting
deportation. But, incredibly, Obama stopped these deportations and ordered the U.S. border
patrol to release many of these illegal aliens in violation of law and without explanation.
making fools of the media. When disastrous news emerges, Team Obama does two things:
refuses comment and charges its foes with playing politics. And because the news cycle streams on,
the media jump onto the next shiny thing they see and the disastrous news becomes old news replaced by
new news. There have been dozens of scandals, and most have simply slipped away, replaced by
newer scandals. The Fast and Furious gun-running scheme has never been fully explained, and Congress
was so fed up that it held Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt (another story that
disappeared). There was (and is) Benghazi, Solyndra, the IRS targeting conservative groups, the
"disappeared" hard drive, the Justice Department collecting AP phone logs, "Rosengate," the GSA
scandal, the VA mess, and on and on. None of them has resulted in a firing or even a mild
admission of wrongdoing by the administration.
Count Down to Impeachment.
While most of the smaller controversies may be chalked up to "business as usual" a few of Obama's scandals are truly beyond the pale:
• Trillions of dollars of new debt and hundreds of trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities
• Money printing gone wild
• NSA spying
• Benghazi
• The loss of Iraq
• Betrayal of Israel and other allies
• Bergdahl
• DOJ targeting conservatives
• DOJ's persecution of the press
• Extra-congressional changes made to Obamacare
• IRS targeting conservative groups and the cover-up including destruction of evidence
• Recess appointments
• The planned flood of illegal immigrant children and the expected mass amnesty
• Unprecedented quantity of executive orders
• Appointment of Czars
• Destroying NASA and nurturing the military through unilateral disarming in the face of growing terrorist threats
• The abysmal failure of the so-called "Arab Spring"
• The countless and lavish family vacations and fundraising on the public's dime
While the above list is a prosecutor's playground, the IRS scandal, recess appointments and failing to secure the border certainly qualify as impeachable offenses.
Things Barack Obama Has Done Wrong. As you get a refresher on the national nightmare that has been Barack
Obama's presidency, keep in mind that the biggest difficulty in compiling it was limiting it to just 50 examples of
corruption, dishonesty, and incompetence.
Street Artist Blasts Obama for 'Scandalous' Fundraiser. As President Obama arrives in
Los Angeles for his $32,000 per plate fundraiser at the home of Shonda Rhimes this week, a local
street artist is pointing out the irony of the producer of the hit TV show Scandal, a show about a
Washington public relations firm that specializes in managing political scandals, hosting the
producer of such actual scandals as the cover-up surrounding the Benghazi attack, the lost
hard-drives of IRS officials targeting conservatives, and the Fast and Furious gun running scheme.
Obama's America. The economy shrank last quarter. Record numbers of adult Americans
are still not working. Zero-interest rates have destroyed the tradition of passbook savings and the
very idea of thrift. No-interest financial policies ignited a stampede to the stock market that
has further enriched the one-percenters — an artificial boom that everyone believes will
soon bust. The borrowing of $7 trillion has proved no stimulus. A natural American recovery
was stymied by vast federal borrowing, by the addition of more incomprehensible regulations, and by an
Obamacare package that proved to be the opposite of almost everything that was promised. Inflation
is said to be manageable, but only by not counting soaring food, gas, and electricity costs that do
the most to erode family budgets. U.S. immigration law simply no longer exists. Incoming
foreign nationals more likely welcome arrest than fear it. [...]
Roost, Obama's Chickens. When a president occasionally fails to tell the truth, you get a scandal
like the monitoring of the Associated Press reporters. When a president serially fails to tell the truth,
you get that plus the scandals involving the IRS, the NSA, the VA, Benghazi, and too many others to mention.
All Obama's World's a Stage. "Have
you noticed," Jonah Goldberg recently remarked, "that basically the only way this White House can get out from under one scandal or
controversy is by getting crushed by another?" That cycle — scandal, outrage, subsequent rejection as "phony,"
followed by another scandal — has conveniently appeared throughout the Obama presidency. [...] "Scandal exhaustion,"
noted Tom Blumer, seems to be a part of the left's "Cloward-Piven attempt to overwhelm opponents. With so many scandals out
there, no single outrage can generate concerted, sufficiently visible opposition." It's "a scandal a month," Ben Shapiro
commented, "and then every so often, President Obama decides to replace one scandal with another, the media loses interest.
Scandal Playbook. Since Obama took office in 2009, we've witnessed Operation Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Department
of Justice spying on reporters and their families, IRS targeting of conservatives, the HealthCare.gov debacle, the GSA
conference scandal, Solyndra, veterans dying as a result of secret wait lists within the Department of Veterans Affairs,
and many, many more. [...] Obama's White House has not weathered these storms through luck alone. They have a
well-thought[-]out, well-used playbook designed to lie to the American people, protect administration officials,
and to avoid accountability or criminal prosecution.
Can't stop the music.
The Financial Times actually believes that a Veteran's Administration scandal may taint president
Obama in a way that Benghazi, IRS, the AP wiretapping scandal, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Libya, NSA,
Ukraine and Obamacare could not. In an article filled with outrage the writer thinks, this
time it sticks. Why should it?
Charges at VA Likely To Be But the Start Of an Even Worse Scandal. The nation was
shocked by charges that more than 1,400 vets lingered and 40 died on a secret waiting list at the
Phoenix, Arizona, Veterans Administration A medical center. The list was concocted to conceal long
waits for care. What you haven't heard is even worse. VA hospitals all over the country are
manipulating the official electronic waiting list, and the deadly cover ups have been going on for years.