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.
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.
11 comments
February 12, 2017 at 9:55 pm
oldpoet56
Reblogged this on Truth Troubles: Why people hate the truths' of the real world.
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February 13, 2017 at 1:40 pm
churchmouse
Thank you for the reblog — much appreciated. I’m glad you and your readers liked the post.
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February 12, 2017 at 10:19 pm
John in cheshire
Mr Obama, Bathhouse Barry, had no saving graces. There is not one thing during his eight years of tyranny, even though as an Englishman it’s not my place to criticise another country’s leader, I can ascribe to him. He was a bad President and probably a bad person. I wonder what he’ll say to God when his time comes.
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February 13, 2017 at 1:48 pm
churchmouse
Thank you, John.
I agree that he did what he intended to do from the start. As he stated in his ghostwritten autobiography, as long as he was polite and presentable, people would like him.
Now we will see Obama Phase III as he returns to community organising via Organizing for Action. It was founded in 2013, time enough to give him an established base on which to work. (Main website, Facebook page, the Obamas’ website.)
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February 13, 2017 at 12:25 am
OIKOS™-Redaktion
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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February 13, 2017 at 1:49 pm
churchmouse
Thank you very much for the reblog, which is much appreciated. I’m glad you and your readers liked the post.
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February 13, 2017 at 10:51 am
georgeallen2007
…and deadly serious!
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February 13, 2017 at 1:53 pm
churchmouse
Agreed.
Most Americans do not realise that even diehard Democrats left the party during the 2008 campaign. The PR machine around Obama was such that no one could oppose him without being labelled a you-know-what. Ex-Democrats had too many unanswered questions about him, his capabilities and his identity.
It just goes to show how far Americans have sunk as voters. That includes my family on both sides. I cannot believe they were taken in by this man — twice. Yet, they were.
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February 13, 2017 at 2:30 pm
georgeallen2007
churchmouse, what’s the saying: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Of course, the second election was stolen–DEMONrats like that. Even with the help of Soros, shredding Trump ballots, multiple voting, trick-voting machines, dead voters, name stealing, and the mainstream media, they couldn’t steal 2016. They couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together–she was just too cracked and rotten. We won and we’re going to stay one. Violently protest, breed hatred all they wish, there’s more of us than them, and we don’t need to be indoctrinated or have filled pockets to stand for what WE believe in. Plus, there’s far more of us and we’ve the military, veterans, police, and everyday patriots on our side. I love the way Facebook (and their ilk) thinks itself clever in their goal to end conservative posting. Soon as they have their way, they’ll stick out perfectly for the attention of the NSA, the DHS, the FBI, perhaps even the CIA for the great- American-socialist, NWO roundup. “Yee haw!!! Move along little dogies! We’re gonna corral y’all into camp FEMA, just like you was us.”
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February 13, 2017 at 2:33 pm
churchmouse
Yes, all this will blow back on the Dems and the Left.
Oddly enough, my relatives don’t think they were fooled. However, other Obama voters saw the light, i.e. Democrats for Trump.
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February 13, 2017 at 10:53 am
georgeallen2007
It’s amazing he can spew such tripe and keep a straight face. He must eat alum before each spew.
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