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First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

It comes right out of the Congressional report on Watergate. Don't remember the title but can be found in the reference section of almost any decent public library in America. It's all there, the evidence, who was involved and who was involved in bringing down Nixon. The name Hillary Rodham keeps popping up in the report.
In 1973 and 74 Hillary Rodham was extremely involved in taking down the U.S. government. I forget exactly what she did that was illegal but she was fired.

Was it this? » FLASHBACK: Hillary Clinton Fired From Watergate Investigation For
 
Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

If they sent a plane to get Bo, this would be outrageous. Since thats not what happened, the OP is just...goofy.

You can be outraged that the never ending summer continues with BO and be upset with the cost, policies, etc. Theres plenty of legit stuff to be upset about. But this?
 
Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

This is actually some ironic and funny stuff actually. Hired by the guy covering up the kennedy affair that killed a woman. Fired for lying during an impeachment process.

Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why?
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
 
Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

Does this not outrage anyone else? Someone to carry the presidential basketballs? Is he too good to carry his own balls?!

He's never held any balls before I guess.
 
Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

This is actually some ironic and funny stuff actually. Hired by the guy covering up the kennedy affair that killed a woman. Fired for lying during an impeachment process.

Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why?
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”

Didn't her husband also get disbarred at one time for being unethical, dishonest and also conspired to violate the Constitution? Maybe it's just a series of coincidences.
 
Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

Didn't her husband also get disbarred at one time for being unethical, dishonest and also conspired to violate the Constitution? Maybe it's just a series of coincidences.
Oh Im sure that he was just a victim of a vast right wing conspiracy...
 
Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

It probably was.

I wonder what those lies were that got Hillary fired ?
I believe the report I mentioned says what some of those lies were.
I'm getting curious and feel like going to the library.

I'd be one of many who'd enjoy the results of your search.
 
Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

If they sent a plane to get Bo, this would be outrageous. Since thats not what happened, the OP is just...goofy.

You can be outraged that the never ending summer continues with BO and be upset with the cost, policies, etc. Theres plenty of legit stuff to be upset about. But this?

What it is, is that this is just the icing on the cake I think. Why not make at least a showing that HE is trying to live more modestly like the rest of America has to?
 
BREAKING NEWS !!!

From anonymous sources.

Hillary "Rodham" Clinton has gone in to panic mode. Word got to Hillary Clinton today that the Debate Politics Forum has dug up Hillary's old buried dirty laundry that expose Hillary Clinton being a liar who violated the Constitution back in 1974 when she was working to bring down the Nixon administration.

More breaking news:

With the exposure of Hillary Clinton having a well established track record of being a liar. Rep. Darrel Issa will recall Hillary Clinton to retestify in front of Congress of her knowledge of the "Benghazi Cover Up" and because she is a known liar she will be considered to be a hostile wittiness.
 
What it is, is that this is just the icing on the cake I think. Why not make at least a showing that HE is trying to live more modestly like the rest of America has to?

Be upset at the cost of the vacation or of the number or any number of other things. Just not about a made up headline over Bo the dog.
 
Be upset at the cost of the vacation or of the number or any number of other things. Just not about a made up headline over Bo the dog.

I'm upset over the whole arrogance, whether or not it's a dog or whatever, and I also don't care what previous presidents have done. This president promised things would be different, hope and change and transparency and all that load of crap. :roll:
 
I'm upset over the whole arrogance, whether or not it's a dog or whatever, and I also don't care what previous presidents have done. This president promised things would be different, hope and change and transparency and all that load of crap. :roll:

You didn't EVER buy into the whole hope and change crap, did you?
 
You didn't EVER buy into the whole hope and change crap, did you?

I really wanted to say I had hope! That's sounds like so buying into the cliche! :lol:
 
Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

It comes right out of the Congressional report on Watergate. Don't remember the title but can be found in the reference section of almost any decent public library in America. It's all there, the evidence, who was involved and who was involved in bringing down Nixon. The name Hillary Rodham keeps popping up in the report.
In 1973 and 74 Hillary Rodham was extremely involved in taking down the U.S. government. I forget exactly what she did that was illegal but she was fired.
There were a lot of people who wanted Nixon brought down, and I do not think HC
was prominent among them, or that she played any role in his downfall. Nixon himself
had the biggest role there. But as for others wanting him brought down, I mean, we
are talking about nearly every college student, nearly every graduate student, nearly
every professor, most of the media, and most of the Democratic party, right?
 
I really wanted to say I had hope! That's sounds like so buying into the cliche! :lol:
I suspect rather than 'hope' it was more of a 'nope'. Which is why it doesn't make sense to be 'outraged'. There really was no betrayal. Not the first time and certainly not the second. He is what he is and everyone knew that.
 
Re: What Sequester? First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home

I suppose back when the act of fellatio was still considered to be a sexual act, committing perjury under oath was also considered to be a crime.
Yes, Starr had the goods on Clinton re his affair with Lewinski, and that is why he went after Clinton on that count.

Nailed him too, as in got him impeached.

The case broke down eventually not because of the soundness of the indictment (Clinton was obviously lying), but because in the end even a Republican-majority Senate did not think it was appropriate to remove a president from office over a trivial personal matter, even if he did commit perjury over it.
 
I suspect rather than 'hope' it was more of a 'nope'. Which is why it doesn't make sense to be 'outraged'. There really was no betrayal. Not the first time and certainly not the second. He is what he is and everyone knew that.

Well, everyone couldn't have known the first time because he was still wet behind the ears at that point. He really didn't have any kind of experience from which to draw an opinion.
 
Well, everyone couldn't have known the first time because he was still wet behind the ears at that point. He really didn't have any kind of experience from which to draw an opinion.
There were plenty of signs. No executive experience, failed community organizing in Chicago, gifted an adjunct job as a political favor, more non votes than yes or no votes as a state rep and absolutely squat as a senator. How can you see that as anything or than what it was?
 
There were plenty of signs. No executive experience, failed community organizing in Chicago, gifted an adjunct job as a political favor, more non votes than yes or no votes as a state rep and absolutely squat as a senator. How can you see that as anything or than what it was?

Don't get the wrong idea. I didn't vote for Obama. :lol: Just playing devil's advocate. I think a lot of people might have found his lack of experience refreshing, but he just turned out to be like every other politician.
 
There were plenty of signs. No executive experience, failed community organizing in Chicago, gifted an adjunct job as a political favor, more non votes than yes or no votes as a state rep and absolutely squat as a senator. How can you see that as anything or than what it was?

One of the points you make here is nonsense.

Obama voted many more times yes or no as a state senator than he voted "present". Of the 4,000 plus times he voted, he voted 100 to 129 times "present" sometimes he did this on his one or with a few other senators but there are just as many times when this was done as a strategy by the democratic caucus he belonged to.

So no, he voted more non votes than actual votes is totally and utterly untrue.
 
One of the points you make here is nonsense.

Obama voted many more times yes or no as a state senator than he voted "present". Of the 4,000 plus times he voted, he voted 100 to 129 times "present" sometimes he did this on his one or with a few other senators but there are just as many times when this was done as a strategy by the democratic caucus he belonged to.

So no, he voted more non votes than actual votes is totally and utterly untrue.

I always heard that he voted present more than actually voting too though. Is there a link to that data?
 
I always heard that he voted present more than actually voting too though. Is there a link to that data?

The record is clear that Obama did vote "present" more than 100 times (we couldn't confirm the 129 figure because records for one session of the state senate during his tenure aren't available electronically). That's out of more than 4,000 votes cast. On many of those votes, Obama was joined by many in his party, making it clear that he was, as he claims, casting votes as part of a broader legislative strategy.

To evaluate Clinton's claim, PolitiFact reviewed vote tallies and bill descriptions from three of Obama's four terms in the Illinois Senate – the 91st (1999-2000), 92nd (2001-2002) and 93rd (2003-2004) legislative sessions. The information was obtained from the Illinois General Assembly Web site. First, journals for each day were examined for votes and bill numbers where Obama voted "present." Then, bill summaries and vote tally pages were reviewed.

Records from Obama's first session, the 90th (1998-1999), cannot be electronically retrieved and were not included in this analysis. They are available to the public in hard copy at the state house in Springfield.

Without the full set of records, we could not verify the 129 figure, though we did count more than 100 "present" votes in the data we had available. The records show "present" votes were a tiny proportion of the more than 4,000 that Obama cast during his tenure in the chamber. Obama's presidential campaign has depicted them as strategic in nature: Either Obama was working with Democratic leaders to thwart Republican legislation when the GOP controlled the Senate, registering opposition to proposals he thought were unconstitutional or ineffective; or he was providing political help to moderates who were under pressure to support some of the bills.

PolitiFact | Obama's "present" tension
 
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