A week after the 2016 election, Obama boasted that there were no scandals in his administration.

The video above gives us not only his comment but an immediate response from news programmes on various scandals that did indeed occur between January 2009 and early January 2017.

Obamacare and Benghazi came immediately to mind. But what about Fast and Furious? Hillary’s emails, anyone? What about the uncontrolled unrest in Baltimore or Ferguson, near St Louis?

Everyone should read ‘The Complete Collection: Obama’s Scandals, Gaffes and Power-Grabs’ at Grabien News. It must have taken some time to put 745 incidents together by department, complete with sources.

Grabien News readers are a tough lot. Some picked over spelling errors. This one is amusing:

… you need to clean up your own Loisiana spelling on item #40.

The man went on to say:

Obama is a disaster but some of this is nit picking. Should stick to the real issues. When you get so deep in the weeds it detracts from the meaningful and many transgressions of the Obama Years.

Another reader said:

This entire article is biased against Obama in a way which undermines it’s [sic] analysis. This is not to say that Obama is without blame. Far from it. The Obama Administrations [sic] expansion of drones and the killing of civilians, the persecution of whistle blowers, the lack of care at the VA, Libya, etc. are all examples of where the President and his administration has failed us. However, presenting straw men, inflating incidents and dividing them up into dozens of points to increase the number, and injecting your bias to create ‘scandal’ where none exists is a serious problem.

Well, that is exactly what is happening to Donald Trump’s administration. I cannot help but wonder if the same people will be as critical of a list about his administration when the time comes. They will probably add to it.

Anyway, here is but a small sample of Grabien News’s compilation. They have everything in a neat tidy table, by the way. I’m just going to summarise a few in a list:

US Dept of Defense, January 20, 2017:

Ran on promise [since 2008] of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; didn’t.

US Dept of Homeland Security, March 25, 2014:

The DHS/TSA missed multipled chances to detain [Boston Bomber Tamerlan] Tsarnaev, including once when he was supposed to be pulled aside at JFK Airport.

US Dept of Labor, September 26, 2016:

After technologist Peter Thiel endorsed Donald Trump, Obama’s Department of Labor sued his company Palantir over “racial discrimination” for not hiring enough Asians, despite disproportionately hiring Asians.

US Dept of the Treasury, January 13, 2009:

Obama’s pick to head the Treasury Department, Tim Geithner, was himself a tax scofflaw. He ended up sending an amended return upon being nominated.

US Dept of Transportation, July 1, 2009:

Obama launched the “cash for clunkers,” which aimed to replace existing cars with newer, cleaner cars, but ended up incentivizing the destruction of thousands of perfectly good used cars, thus pricing millions of Americans out of the market.

US Dept of Veterans Affairs, October 20, 2013:

VA hospital delays — which were scrubbed from official records — resulted in the deaths of at least six veterans, but potentially more than 20.

US Supreme Court, January 27, 2010:

Claimed during his 2010 State of the Union that foreigners could finance American campaigns; as Justice Alito mouthed from the audience, “Not true.”

There are hundreds more things — great and small — to enjoy.

Let it never be said, though, that Obama had a scandal-free eight years.

And, let’s remember, his personal records have always been sealed from public view — and remain so today.