The Shocking Scandals of the Obama Presidency

Oh, simpler times!

Geoist said:

Oh, simpler times!

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:lol:

I've got to watch the whole thing later, but I skimmed through and thought "remember that. Remember that. Yup. That too. Yup. And that one....."

And to think Trumpists call knowingly receiving electoral interference by a foreign nation considered "our greatest geopolitical foe" (when useful to attack Obama as "weak") and not even telling intelligence agencies about it, since that would mean less interference in Trump's favor, a "nothingbruger."

14 instances of blatant obstruction of justice, a "nothing burger".

Admitting withholding congressionally approved funds for an ally, to be used against that "greatest geopolitical foe", in order to strong-arm them into announcing sham investigations into a potential rival for office in the next election. Not even pursue them, but just to announce them, so that they could be spun to give an appearance of credibility to Trump's anti-Biden Bursima hoax, a "nothingburger."

That, even though (1) there is nothing criminal about accepting free money because a company wrongfully believed it was buying influence, (2) Trumpists have no problem with Trump putting unelected, unaccountable, inexperienced family members/friends/donors in important positions, (3) Trumpists have no problem with Trump steering government spending to his properties, (4) Joe Biden acted with GOP, Dem, and foreign approval in removing the corrupt ukranian prosecutor, (5) removing and replacing that corrupt prosecutor would have the effect of exposing Hunter to criminal liability had he done anything since the corrupt one was not investigating Bursima or other companies as parts of his own corrupt schemes, (6) Hunter, again, did not do anything wrong, and oh yes, (7) Hunter isn't a candidate.

Every accusation of sexual misconduct against a right winger is called a "hoax" and every one against against a left winger God's Own Truth. And remember, if they claim one liberal said "believe women", that means every liberal has to believe every woman no matter what. That means that if they vote Biden they are hypocrites, even though in our binary system doing something else helps Trump - with 25 accusations of sexual assault - is a hypocrite. Even though Trump admits to being a straight-up pedo peeping tom, busting in on naked fifteen year olds.

Donald Trump boasted about meeting semi-naked teenagers in beauty pageants | The Independent





All that and more, but when it was Obama in office, so much as asking for spicy or dijon mustard a hamburger place was a big deal. Who held an umbrella and how was a big deal. The color of a suit or the lack of a suit jacket was a big deal. On and on. Yet everything Trump and GOPers do, that's all a "hoax" designed to victimize right wingers.

Can't make this depressing **** up.





While Fox bears a huge part of the blame, its viewers bear more. They wanted Gingrich's permanent Republican majority, but they also needed to feel like victims. Only that way could they justify all their unjust and hateful acts against their supposed enemies on "the left." They knowingly embraced Fox's lies. And now they appear too dug in to ever admit fault, to ever be part of fixing American democracy.

Geoist said:

Oh, simpler times!

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This **** that they went after Obama for. My goodness. I think there was plenty of actual critique and criticism to throw at Obama, but they just went after the most petty of things. And now, these are the same folk defending Trump at every turn of the way. Had Obama done 1/10th of the crap Trump has...their heads would have exploded!

You can't trust the Trumpeteers and the Cultists. They have no integrity, absolutely none. So the best you can do is chuckle at their current outrage and defense knowing how many gaskets they would have blown had it been a Democrat doing it instead of Trump.

Ikari said:

This **** that they went after Obama for. My goodness. I think there was plenty of actual critique and criticism to throw at Obama, but they just went after the most petty of things. And now, these are the same folk defending Trump at every turn of the way. Had Obama done 1/10th of the crap Trump has...their heads would have exploded!

You can't trust the Trumpeteers and the Cultists. They have no integrity, absolutely none. So the best you can do is chuckle at their current outrage and defense knowing how many gaskets they would have blown had it been a Democrat doing it instead of Trump.

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If you haven't seen it, there is a great sketch by Bill Maher on getting an Obama impersonator to say what Trump has actually said. It's hilarious and makes the point about the double standards really well. (He comes on at 2:38).

You want to play this game? Really? :shrug:

Here's a list, mostly underplayed by the MSM:

1. Benghazi Controversy.

2. IRS Scandal: The 2013 Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it had targeted conservative and Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny leading up to the 2012 presidential election.

3. AP Phone Records Scandal: Department of Justice secretly obtained telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press wire service in 2012.

4. Keystone XL Pipeline Controversy: Initial approval of the $7.6 billion Keystone XL Pipeline to carry oil across 1,179 miles from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska. Later withdrawn under pressure from environmental groups.

5. "Misstatements" about the ACA: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

6. Obama's "apology tour" mentioned amusingly in that video.

7. Fast and Furious: (ATF) sold 2,000 firearms to smugglers hoping to trace the weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Then U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed in 2010 near the Arizona-Mexico border, and two of the weapons purchased under the Fast and Furious program were found nearby.

8. All that usage of "Executive Orders" (which included DACA) to work around an intransigent Congress. Funny how when Trump tries the same thing, it's "abuse of power."

9. Bill Clinton meets Loretta Lynch at airport. Hillary Clinton's server investigation downgraded to a "matter."

And let us not forget the newest set of scandals including:

1. Crossfire Hurricane and the entire fiasco known as the "Russia-Trump Collusion Conspiracy."

2. Other links (unmasking of Flynn) to try to further undermine a newly elected President?

One wonders what other skeletons may pop out of the Obama Administration's "closet of secrets?"

it had to be when he put his feet up on the desk. that really shattered the country into pieces.

Captain Adverse said:

You want to play this game? Really? :shrug:

Here's a list, mostly underplayed by the MSM:

1. Benghazi Controversy.

2. IRS Scandal: The 2013 Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it had targeted conservative and Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny leading up to the 2012 presidential election.

3. AP Phone Records Scandal: Department of Justice secretly obtained telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press wire service in 2012.

4. Keystone XL Pipeline Controversy: Initial approval of the $7.6 billion Keystone XL Pipeline to carry oil across 1,179 miles from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska. Later withdrawn under pressure from environmental groups.

5. "Misstatements" about the ACA: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

6. Obama's "apology tour" mentioned amusingly in that video.

7. Fast and Furious: (ATF) sold 2,000 firearms to smugglers hoping to trace the weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Then U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed in 2010 near the Arizona-Mexico border, and two of the weapons purchased under the Fast and Furious program were found nearby.

8. Bill Clinton meets Loretta Lynch at airport. Hillary Clinton's server investigation downgraded to a "matter."

And let us not forget the newest set of scandals including:

1. Crossfire Hurricane and the entire fiasco known as the "Russia-Trump Collusion Conspiracy."

2. Other links (unmasking of Flynn) to try to further undermine a newly elected President?

One wonders what other skeletons may pop out of the Obama Administration's "closet of secrets?"

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Really?!?

:lamo:lamo:lamo

I. 9 republican hearings no mismanagement uncovered.

2. Debunked, anti tax groups deserve higher scrutiny

3. Don't really remember it

4. A foreign pipeline should never be approved over America's largest water source, particularly when you're stealing Americans land to do it.

There has never been a pipeline that has not leaked...

5. You had a d have as much control over who your doctor is as you have under private insurance.

6. It's called diplomacy, you should look it up...

7. Fast and furious wash a Bush program...

8. Don't know what Bill has to do with Obama, but Hillary broke a policy put in place after her server was installed.

Every soc In the last several years had the same system, no laws broken...

Captain Adverse said:

You want to play this game? Really? :shrug:

Here's a list, mostly underplayed by the MSM:

1. Benghazi Controversy.

2. IRS Scandal: The 2013 Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it had targeted conservative and Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny leading up to the 2012 presidential election.

3. AP Phone Records Scandal: Department of Justice secretly obtained telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press wire service in 2012.

4. Keystone XL Pipeline Controversy: Initial approval of the $7.6 billion Keystone XL Pipeline to carry oil across 1,179 miles from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska. Later withdrawn under pressure from environmental groups.

5. "Misstatements" about the ACA: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

6. Obama's "apology tour" mentioned amusingly in that video.

7. Fast and Furious: (ATF) sold 2,000 firearms to smugglers hoping to trace the weapons to Mexican drug cartels. Then U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed in 2010 near the Arizona-Mexico border, and two of the weapons purchased under the Fast and Furious program were found nearby.

8. All that usage of "Executive Orders" (which included DACA) to work around an intransigent Congress. Funny how when Trump tries the same thing, it's "abuse of power."

9. Bill Clinton meets Loretta Lynch at airport. Hillary Clinton's server investigation downgraded to a "matter."

And let us not forget the newest set of scandals including:

1. Crossfire Hurricane and the entire fiasco known as the "Russia-Trump Collusion Conspiracy."

2. Other links (unmasking of Flynn) to try to further undermine a newly elected President?

One wonders what other skeletons may pop out of the Obama Administration's "closet of secrets?"

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Let's just end it with #1. The R's investigated the crap out of Benghazi. In your fever dreams, what was the outcome that resulted from this and how does it relate to the damaging of America?

This is why you shouldn't read Captain Adverse posts, folks. Every last one of them is stuffed to bursting with the most mind-****ingly stupid lies. Hyperpartisan idiocy dialed to 11. Adverse just runs them through a thesaurus so that they sound like a fool's idea of how a clever person argues, since he at least understands who is going to be "liking" them.

Remember: the ugliness is the point.

Captain Adverse said:

You want to play this game? Really? :shrug:

Here's a list, mostly underplayed by the MSM:

1. Benghazi Controversy.

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:lamo

The GOP cared about consulates. That's why they had seven hundred investigations of Bush for consulate attacks during his time, and only seven for Hillary.

The GOP cared about Stevens and the other people killed. That's why the Benghazi hearings were all focused on Hillary's non-criminal email server.

The GOP cared about Stevens and the other people killed. That's why they changed security protocols in every consulate under Trump to reflect...um... well?

"Underplayed by the media." Right.

More like the GOP and its propaganda arm Fox were engaged in yet another anti-left hoax, all to damage Hillary in the election. The GOP knows the people who vote for its people could not even be paid to care about truth, honor, or basic human decency. As long as it's about a liberal and it would be bad if true, they're all over "it." Otherwise they deny "it" exists.

Just look around DP. There are at best a handful of right wingers who will honestly argue with you, and even then some of them go whole-hog partisan on some issues.

The rest? It's all gaslighting. Lies. Alternate realities. We're done here, folks. I don't mean on DP. I mean in American democracy. Done.




(Why else you do think you see Trumpists claiming that "the left" wants people to die? Why else do you think you see Trumpists thinking it's hilarious to joke about how a second wave might kill even more people?

This isn't about America, policy, or even anything related to democracy. Not for them. For them, it's about "**** the liberals")

Was Mustard-gate before or after he won re-election?

Kyle Phoenix said:

If you haven't seen it, there is a great sketch by Bill Maher on getting an Obama impersonator to say what Trump has actually said. It's hilarious and makes the point about the double standards really well. (He comes on at 2:38).

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I showed a Trump-loving relative that Maher sketch and his mind couldn't handle it.

Ikari said:

This **** that they went after Obama for. My goodness. I think there was plenty of actual critique and criticism to throw at Obama, but they just went after the most petty of things. And now, these are the same folk defending Trump at every turn of the way. Had Obama done 1/10th of the crap Trump has...their heads would have exploded!

You can't trust the Trumpeteers and the Cultists. They have no integrity, absolutely none. So the best you can do is chuckle at their current outrage and defense knowing how many gaskets they would have blown had it been a Democrat doing it instead of Trump.

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Yup. Pretty much.

In a nutshell.

Captain Adverse said:

Benghazi Controversy

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Not going to address them all. Too busy atm, but will just say Gowdy and his Benghazi investigation wishes it had a fraction of the kind of evidence they had for the Ukraine fiasco. Trump is just lucky GOP still had control of the Senate. But still worth it to see him have a breakdown over being on the shortlist of impeached presidents.

I remember the scandals well.

Tansuitgate
Coffeesalutegate
Daughtersgetbracesgate
Bootsondeskgate
Lowfatshcoolmealsgate
Birthcertificategate
Takesthepissoutoftrumpgate
Reviveseconomygate
Morejobsgate
Reducesdeficitgate

All made possible by the original sin, Coloredfellainthewhitehousegate.

Geoist said:

Not going to address them all. Too busy atm, but will just say Gowdy and his Benghazi investigation wishes it had a fraction of the kind of evidence they had for the Ukraine fiasco. Trump is just lucky GOP still had control of the Senate. But still worth it to see him have a breakdown over being on the shortlist of impeached presidents.

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Agreed. Benghazi was bull$hit.

mrjurrs said:

Let's just end it with #1. The R's investigated the crap out of Benghazi. In your fever dreams, what was the outcome that resulted from this and how does it relate to the damaging of America?

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We were lied to. Fact.
Obama Inc. covered ass. Fact.
We were running guns to Syria illegally. Fact.

Any deflection to Trump is whataboutism and wet britches.

Schism said:

We were lied to. Fact.
Obama Inc. covered ass. Fact.
We were running guns to Syria illegally. Fact.

Any deflection to Trump is whataboutism and wet britches.

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If you care to reply, care to answer the question?

The fact that people like you shrug at what happened in Benghazi, Libya, the Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc, etc is the evidence of damage to this country.

More importantly, it's the damage that have been done to people all over the globe as a result of US foreign policy.

And people like you shrug, and ask for links. LOL. Enjoy your peaceful sleep, Killer.

Schism said:

The fact that people like you shrug at what happened in Benghazi, Libya, the Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc, etc is the evidence of damage to this country.

More importantly, it's the damage that have been done to people all over the globe as a result of US foreign policy.

And people like you shrug, and ask for links. LOL. Enjoy your peaceful sleep, Killer.

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Imperialism is not the topic of this thread, if it was my responses would be different. In the meantime, register and vote.

mrjurrs said:

Imperialism is not the topic of this thread, if it was my responses would be different. In the meantime, register and vote.

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The atrocities by Trump in his administration in less than four years is ten times greater than Obama's in eight years.

1 Benghazi was more of a Hillary Clinton issue given how it was laid mostly at her feet. But also, let us not forget that for the preceeding years to the embassy attack, the GOP consistently cut back on many protections for embassy personnel (you can find this in the House database records).

2 Turns out that so were liberal groups during Obama and Bush. And Clinton, and older Bush, and Reagan, and Carter, and…..

3 Not so much a scandal but a ham-fisted attempt of operational security for a terrorist-related incident that was being investigated. Given that previous administrations did this during wartime, albeit more quietly, this is not new news. What should really worry you is the Trump’s administration’s early use of the SAR protocol to deny WH workers or media of being able to use the whistleblower status and instead be targeted as spies and sent to prison.

4 Ok, just so you understand: Bush (W) is the one who cited the presidential permit to proceed at the border. Then Congress (GOP leading the way, passed North American-Made Energy Security Act with a stipulation that a decision be made which Obama did based on federal agencies including the State Department to ultimately suspend operations. It started and stopped for years; failing inspections then passing. In 2015, GOP led the charge to continue and won in both Senate and House, Obama vetoed it and the veto held. Then Trump allowed construction/operations to continue. In short…government procedure dictated decisions of the involved presidents, not protesters. No scandal; normal federal business.

5 ACA…I would grant you that even though I liked it and it has benefited me and my wife, both of us have pre-exiting conditions and expensive medical needs…I always wondered how the Obama model would actually pay for itself. I was allowed to keep my doctors, BTW. Due to the plan I bought into. Now, if you disagree with ACA, then fine, that’s a legitimate thing. But disliking something is not the same thing as it being a scandal. No scandal here.

6 I’ve never understood this one…I’ve never seen this so-called apology tour. I’ve seen FOX hype things up out of nothing, so I fail to see this scandal as I don’t believe it actually exists.

7 For this one, if you were to say, that you did not approve of Obama’s continuation of this program that was originally created by the Bush administration, then yes…this is a scandal, and I would agree with you. Having said that…this scandal also includes Bush and his administration, as well as several key GOP lawmakers who supported Bush’s actions and then flip flopped when Obama continued the operation under a new name. If you are going to blame one, you gotta blame all involved.

8 Ummm…the GOP called it an abuse of power when Obama did it. So, when Trump does, why won’t you also call it an abuse of power? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

9 That’s not an Obama scandal, but more of a Clinton thing. While suspicious, it should be noted that at the crux of the matter is something that previous Secretaries of State and other departments have done themselves. And let us no forget that our current president has been known to use his private, unencrypted cell to talk to other world leaders, discussions that often have secret or sensitive information being spoken of.

Schism said:

We were lied to. Fact.
Obama Inc. covered ass. Fact.
We were running guns to Syria illegally. Fact.

Any deflection to Trump is whataboutism and wet britches.

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This is whataboutism at it's best. Trumpster Divers seem to think that mentioning something Obama may have done will erase 4 years of Trump criminality. Obama never had a national scandal or had to hire a 100 lawyers just to get through his first term.

Trump is so deep in sh**, he doesn't know which way is up. Eventually he will drown.

The AntiDonald said:

... 4 years of Trump criminality.

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Link?

Obama never had a national scandal

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LOL. He had several. Obama is a known liar.

Schism said:

Link?

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Google

uptower said:

I remember the scandals well.

Tansuitgate
Coffeesalutegate
Daughtersgetbracesgate
Bootsondeskgate
Lowfatshcoolmealsgate
Birthcertificategate
Takesthepissoutoftrumpgate
Reviveseconomygate
Morejobsgate
Reducesdeficitgate

All made possible by the original sin, Coloredfellainthewhitehousegate.

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You don’t remember the most horrible scandal of all- when Obama went to see a play in NYC on a ‘date night’ with Michelle.

Oh my God. Hannity was in conniptions.