Top Twenty Obama Scandals and Coverups
 

1. IRS targets Obama’s enemies: The IRS targeted conservative and pro-Israel groups prior to the 2012 election. Questions are being raised about why this occurred, who ordered it, whether there was any White House involvement and whether there was an initial effort to hide who knew about the targeting and when.

2. Benghazi: This is actually three scandals in one:
◾The failure of administration to protect the Benghazi mission.
◾The changes made to the talking points in order to suggest the attack was motivated by an anti-Muslim video
◾The refusal of the White House to say what President Obama did the night of the attack

3. Watching the AP: The Justice Department performed a massive cull of Associated Press reporters’ phone records as part of a leak investigation.

4. Rosengate: The Justice Department suggested that Fox News reporter James Rosen is a criminal for reporting about classified information and subsequently monitored his phones and emails.

5. Potential Holder perjury I: Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress he had never been associated with “potential prosecution” of a journalist for perjury when in fact he signed the affidavit that termed Rosen a potential criminal.

6. The ATF “Fast and Furious” scheme: Allowed weapons from the U.S. to “walk” across the border into the hands of Mexican drug dealers. The ATF lost track of hundreds of firearms, many of which were used in crimes, including the December 2010 killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

7. Potential Holder Perjury II: Holder told Congress in May 2011 that he had just recently heard about the Fast and Furious gun walking scheme when there is evidence he may have known much earlier.

8. Sebelius demands payment: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius solicited donations from companies HHS might regulate. The money would be used to help her sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare.

9. The Pigford scandal: An Agriculture Department effort that started as an attempt to compensate black farmers who had been discriminated against by the agency but evolved into a gravy train delivering several billion dollars in cash to thousands of additional minority and female farmers who probably didn’t face discrimination.

10. GSA gone wild: The General Services Administration in 2010 held an $823,000 training conference in Las Vegas, featuring a clown and a mind readers. Resulted in the resignation of the GSA administrator.

11. Veterans Affairs in Disney World: The agency wasted more than $6 million on two conferences in Orlando. An assistant secretary was fired.

12. Sebelius violates the Hatch Act: A U.S. special counsel determined that Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made “extemporaneous partisan remarks” during a speech in her official capacity last year. During the remarks, Sebelius called for the election of the Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina.

13. Solyndra: Republicans charged the Obama administration funded and promoted its poster boy for green energy despite warning signs the company was headed for bankruptcy. The administration also allegedly pressed Solyndra to delay layoff announcements until after the 2010 midterm elections.

14. AKA Lisa Jackson: Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used the name “Richard Windsor” when corresponding by email with other government officials, drawing charges she was trying to evade scrutiny.

15. The New Black Panthers: The Justice Department was accused of using a racial double standard in failing to pursue a voter intimidation case against Black Panthers who appeared to be menacing voters at a polling place in 2008 in Philadelphia.

16. Waging war all by myself: Obama may have violated the Constitution and both the letter and the spirit of the War Powers Resolution by attacking Libya without Congressional approval.

17. Biden bullies the press: Vice President Biden’s office has repeatedly interfered with coverage, including forcing a reporter to wait in a closet, making a reporter delete photos, and editing pool reports.

18. AKPD not A-OK: The administration paid millions to the former firm of then-White House adviser David Axelrod, AKPD Message and Media, to promote passage of Obamacare. Some questioned whether the firm was hired to help pay Axelrod $2 million AKPD owed him.

19. Sestak, we’ll take care of you: Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel used Bill Clinton as an intermediary to probe whether former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) would accept a prominent, unpaid White House advisory position in exchange for dropping out of the 2010 primary against former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.).

20. I’ll pass my own laws: Obama has repeatedly been accused of making end runs around Congress by deciding which laws to enforce, including the decision not to deport illegal immigrants who may have been allowed to stay in the United States had Congress passed the “Dream Act.”

Unless the OP wrote the above post word for word, according to forum rules, the OP must post the source.

Posting another's comments as your own is called plagiarism and is punishable with up to five years in prison.

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Who exactly is going to care that 22 people on a geezer forum saw this? I mean come on. Bad OP! Give proper credit… :p

That's all this hater has is everyone else's ideas!

Well, if you watch news you would of seen reports on about all of this.

A mindless cut and paste job. Come on.

Let me take a guess at which channel you're watching.

Dear Guest: If you went to college then you would know that stealing one word is called plagiarism while stealing the whole account is termed research.

What I find disheartening here is most posters complained that the OP did not identifying the source but conveniently ignored responding to the charges made against the most deceptive, racially motivated and dishonest Administration in the history of this country. And given that politicians are a motley crew lot at that makes this Administration's acts that much more egregious.

What also is of great concern is that those making excuses for, agree with and defending this Administration's actions either don't know or don't care that these sort of actions are taken by countries that desire to control their population. The activities taken by this Administration are by any measure illegal and unconstitutional. so if you don't care if a government tells you how, where, why, and when to live then please go to North Korea and leave the heavy lifting to American patriots

Using Google, it's just as easy to find the same or worse scandals from previous administrations.

This is just more right wing hysteria [the sky is falling] for no good reason.

Ok, I'll take a stab at one.
Who is the highest ranking government official to who the ambassador to Libya complained in person about security issues in Benghazi? And what did that official do about it?

Dear guest: Stop the Alinsky tactics please . We are not talking about any other Administration we are talking about THIS Administration but then given the depth nature and scope of their unlawful actions one can see why you would want to deflect. Beside which even Nixon's action which force him out of office were never as egregious as this Administration and "but for" the liberal media's protection Obama and many of his sycophants would have been booted out long ago.

So far not one poster who disagreed with the OP has offered one single cogent argument but all offered charges, name calling or ridiculous jabs at Fox News. So bad is it that even a well educated people like Josh Earnest, Jen Psaki can cover for this Administration bust blunders scandals and incompetence

Personal Best Regards:

P.S. I suspect some of these posts may be being made by trolls. If so thank you because it gives me the opportunity to respond more and more broadly about this immature and incompetent Administration

Dear Guest: the sky is falling - the sky is falling - the sky is falling.

Alinsky tactics; that's all you got?

The point of my post was that any intelligent person can go to the internet and cherry pick a 100 different sources to make their slanted point. However, only some on here are able to do that effectively. The rest are using Alinsky tactics, if they post an opposing view.

By the way, you don't have to be a troll to oppose some of the views and hatred spewed on here.

Oh yeah, Personal Best Regards

This site is permeated with hate. There is no reason. It's the same affliction our country has suffered for six years and continues today. The same six to eight people are simply demonstrative of the tea party infested politics on this forum. They have absolutely no room for compromise, just say no at any cost to our nation as was demonstrated yesterday and continues. Gerrymandered districts have given these power not rightfully deserved and this is the result of bought and paid for state representatives, the real problem in this country. We don't pay enough attention as the koch brothers and others such as the Morses buy and install personal state representatives that have no purpose other than represent their( uber rich) personal and corporate values!

What a cute post. :icon_bored:

We're 6 years into an 8 yr attempted socialist takeover and the patriotic citizens of this nation simply won't stand by and allow the inmates to take over the asylum!

Thank GOD for the TEA PARTY! :crap2:

This nation was founded on Warren G. Harding's "rugged individualism", not Marx's socialism. Your comments of class warfare and accusations of illegality by noted conservatives is right out of the far-left handbook (predictable and always good for a hearty chuckle - thank you!) :1rotfl:

Yes you're correct. It's all the Tea Party's fault. Mea culpa.

The atmosphere of "hate" has absolutely nothing to do with our glorious leader Baracko who has labored mightily in the vineyard of truth, toiling ceaselessly to make the loony rubes in Flyover to see the wisdom of his closet Stalinist ways. Nea ... the hayseeds are too hopelessly dumb to appreciate his gifted non-leadership. Why verily simply looketh at the benign state of the world in ISIS-land, as but one of multitudinous examples. and yet the haters still fail to see his narcisstic genius.

No one can deny that the Dear Leader has been a model of dispassionate honest outreach doing everything in his godly power to heal the wounds, bridge the gap of hate, and while he's at it, lower the sea levels at the same time. No one -- I mean no one -- can ever deny that Baracko loves his country, even though he knows it's rotten thanks to European " culture" that dates back to the Crusades.

Mea culpa, new culpa, mea maximum culpa.

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Alinski or not, your president is a Markist and should be impeachied for his treasonous acts of not having a birth certificate or allowing the mexicans to stay in the USA illegally.

This was reported on news and at the Tea Party Tricounty.

Its unfortunate that so many do not appreciate the current state of our country and feel so much hate and discourse. So many more people are now employed, so fewer men in uniform are not dying, so many of our citizen's portfolios have regained their losses from years back based on the record profit margins of our recovering industry. I guess sometimes nothing will make anyone happy. You have my sympathy.

Like I said, it's all about hate. The right wing is trying to resurrect mc Carthyism. They see a commie around every corner and are so living in the past. I also believe there is a great bit of good old fashioned racism that this generation has practiced for decades, especially from the right wing that permeates the villages through selective marketing by the villages!

I will pick on one and could easily do any one of the above.
I would like to know what it is that one thinks Obama or his team did to facilitate the recovery of the market?
I will grant that the interest rates have been held low and that in itself does induce many more to invest in the better returns in the market.

Other than that there is no influence of significance by the current administration to cause the improved and improving performance.
The world markets determine direction and results. For example the price of oil, the value of the dollar, the profitability of companies....happen without influence by the current administration.

As for unemployment. Let's be honets there are still more people out of work than the record portrays. The numbers do not reflect those who have given up. The definition of full time employment has been changed from 40 to 30 hours to affect a number. The ACA has caused employers to play games with headcount numbers.

No hatred or sour grapes. Just do not share the way the numbers are being pushed around to suit a report.

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Rest my case. This is dillusional on a grand scale and I'm not surprised at all that your beloved tea party spreads these lies and of course hate. Send money to the Koch brothers, they need all they can steal!

Some people just don't want peace and prosperity. They are always looking for the next war to send someone else's sons and daughters.

Can you imagine the outrage toward the president if 9/11 had happened on his watch? Or Katrina? Or if he had lied us into a war with Iraq, which costs hundreds of thousands of people their lives and costs the US over two trillion dollars and still counting? Or if the economy had totally collapsed under his watch, and we were shedding 750,000 jobs per month, and the Dow was under 7000?

He would be called every name in the book like he is now for no other reason than pure hatred.

To state that conservatives ie your political opponents "don't want peace or prosperity" is genuinely deranged yet mixed with a blind arrogance that only a liberal can espouse so readily.

By the way it's not hatred we feel. Rather it's a mixture of disgust, disappointment and regret that this guy appeals to so many with his mindless empty words of class warfare and his obvious hatred of what use to be the greatest country on earth.

Unfortunate indeed ...

Did your tea party group also tell you that when Obama is impeachied Joe Biden becomes president. Joe could then select Hilary as his VP, then Joe could resign and Hilary would become president. There would be no need for election in 2016, and the Kochs could save one billion dollars.

personal best regards

So tell me this..... what is the greatest country on earth now? Just curious.

Apparently it remains the USA, in spite of Obama's incompetence and continual violatiions of the Constitution, because this is where everyone is still trying to illegally immigrate to.

“CAUTION: This post contains references to the Koch Brothers. May cause some viewers to go INSANE or start FROTHING at the Mouth. Viewer Discretion ADVISED”

I’m always amused at the way liberals react to the Koch Brothers “boogeyman.” I have to give credit to the Democrat leaders … they have done a masterful job at making many of their credulous follower generally fearful of the dreaded duo, and in some cases, have been able to turn fear into a near blinding hatred. It’s simply brilliant.

Thus, in the spirit of fair play, from now on before any of us include “Koch Brothers” in a post, I think it’s only fair to precede it with a warning, like I did.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us...aign.html?_r=0


do you dispute the fact that the Koch brothers announced in January that they would be spending 900 million dollars on the 2016 election. just use the google and choose your favorite source.
personal regards

“CAUTION: This post contains references to the Koch Brothers. May cause some viewers to go INSANE or start FROTHING at the Mouth. Viewer Discretion STRONGLY ADVISED”

Hey, you forgot to use the warning label!!

I’m concerned your oversight may have inadvertently caused 5-10 liberal readers’ heads to explode. Please, try to be more careful.

The irony in this is that even with Koch Bro's money, the Repubs can't even "buy" an election.

I'm sure this is another Alinsky tactic I just used....

They haven't been able to gerrymander the districts with the large population. They are after the state's reps and the courts. They are trying to go backwards. Any day now they will want separate water fountains again. The problem is there are too many ethnicities to deal with so they plan on throwing all the Mexicans out. Next it will be the Italians, then the Irish. Wait, no one is left!

Republicans Re-Elect Party Chair Reince Priebus for 2016 Campaign

It's difficult to see how any party could expect to win a national election while alienating so many groups of people. The RNC chairman, Reince Priebus, said shortly after winning re-election, that the republican party will not exist as it is today, if they don't win the 2016 election (paraphrasing).

How can they win with no support from Hispanics, blacks, LGBT, young voters, and women? There just are not enough old white people to carry them across the finish line.

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When the "old white people" die out, the vast majority of the personal income tax revenue dries up. Strange coincidence, huh? :wave:

In case you're tempted to immediately call me a racist, sexist, bigot and homophobe, you might want to spend 30 seconds doing a bit of research on income tax demographics. Some of you libs might be surprised at how LITTLE you contribute and how MUCH you take! It just might be enlightening, but then again, I'm sure you feel entitled and it'll fall on deaf ears and eyes. :icon_bored:

Oh well, I've got mine. I'll have another martini at the Ritz and chuckle! :wave:

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Is it then that the top conservative states, Texas being number one, take in more federal money (welfare) than they pay in taxes? The truth is the south pays very little in taxes but are on the federal dole far more than the northern, liberal, states. Once again your confused, but of course not by facts!

"Your [sic] confused"? My guess is you don't have a clue what I wrote. :pray:

Anyway…how about you let your fingers do the walkin' and check out personal income tax demographics as I previously suggested versus your DNC talking point of red versus blue states. I think you'll be pleasantly enlightened, but I'm not holding out a lot of hope based on you're <--- hey, that's funny!… lack of reading comprehension. 1rotfl:

Take a deep breath, count slowly, and book a ticket back to Planet Earth

This thread makes me wish there was a visible ID so we can tell who is posting what.

But even more important it would bring with it the ability to block the select obnoxious postings (like we were able to do in the past).

The other aspect of everybody being a guest is the opportunity for devisive activity. One guest can have their own point and counterpoint taking both sides of an issue to allow the catharsis post that gets their message out.

What we know from experience? It is the handy work of a very few.

At this point it is annoying but tolerable...kinda like poison ivy:a20:

Somebody needs a hug... and a Xanax! :loco: