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Nothing ‘phony’ about O’s scandals
The Boston Herald ^ | July 26, 2013 | Michael Graham

Posted on 07/26/2013 5:53:23 AM PDT by Lakeshark

"With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.” — President Obama, Wednesday

Question: How many Americans have to be murdered in an al-Qaeda attack on a U.S. consulate before it stops being a “phony” scandal?

Answer: If Barack Obama is president, more than four.

Writers across the spectrum — from the liberal New York Times to the conservative Wall Street Journal — have beaten up on President Obama’s latest “dreadful, cliche-ridden” (James Taranto, wsj.com) speech on economic policy, the second-longest speech of his presidency.

How can a man talk for more than an hour on a single topic, as Obama did on Wednesday, and say absolutely nothing new? As columnist Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post explained, “It’s because the president has nothing to say about the economy.”

Liberals complain that all conservatives ever say is “Cut taxes and cut spending!” Perhaps they’re right, but that’s two more ideas than Barack Obama has offered during his entire presidency. **snip**

“Phony”? What’s phony about the fact that the IRS targeted citizens based on their ideology? That the discussion of this targeting went all the way up to the president’s hand-picked IRS chief counsel William Wilkins? That Wilkins met with Obama in April 2012 just two days before “new guidance” on how to handle Tea Party applications was sent from Washington to IRS operatives?

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irs; obama; obamaphonyscandal; phony; rotten; scandal; teaparty
What's phony? Our Odumbo, boot licking press.

What's phony? An entire party of perverts, plunderers, and wannabe potentates.

Wake up America, this is not a nightmare, you're living it......

1 posted on 07/26/2013 5:53:23 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark

I don’t get it.

I thought all of our economic woes were behind us, everything was coming up rainbows and skittles, and only racists said differently.


2 posted on 07/26/2013 5:57:32 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: Lakeshark

America’s biggest phony is Obama.


3 posted on 07/26/2013 5:59:59 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
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To: Lakeshark

“How can a man talk for more than an hour on a single topic, as Obama did on Wednesday, and say absolutely nothing new?”

cue up either Hitler at Nuremburg or any of Fidel’s earlier speeches.


4 posted on 07/26/2013 6:01:54 AM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Lakeshark

This is a presidency in it’s death throes. He knows it. The speech had nothing to do with the economy and was meant for a distraction more than anything.

Too bad there isn’t an oppositon party. We could really pound the nails in the coffin of the Obama presidency if we had one


5 posted on 07/26/2013 6:03:43 AM PDT by LMAO ("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush)
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To: LMAO
This is a presidency in it’s death throes

We can wish.

Too bad there isn’t an oppositon party. We could really pound the nails in the coffin of the Obama presidency if we had one

Too busy trying to shine the shoes of the totalitarians in the other party......

6 posted on 07/26/2013 6:09:40 AM PDT by Lakeshark (KILL THE BILL! CALL. FAX. WRITE)
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To: Lakeshark

There is nothing phony about dead diplomats, spying on citizens, and misusing the IRS for political purposes. Not that it’s surprising, but it still says a lot about Obama that he thinks it is.


7 posted on 07/26/2013 6:10:42 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: Lakeshark

The White House has said the scandals are phony.
The media has their marching orders and will report this as fact.
The public, too stupid and uninterested to know better will believe it all.
Republicans, unwilling to risk the wrath of the media, will shrink from the task for pushing for full disclosure. As Mark Levin noted, some Republicans, (Boehner, Cantor), have likely already cut deals.

It is time for a third party.


8 posted on 07/26/2013 6:13:14 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Lakeshark

As long as the operative word about Washington is “insanity” there will be no improvement in the economy because no one knows what to plan on next.


9 posted on 07/26/2013 6:13:20 AM PDT by immadashell
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LAUGH BREAK---Here's a list of O's "phony scandals and distractions"

<><> Benghazi do-nothing WRT murdered Americans

<><> Hillary's state dept's coverup of sex scandals---obstructing justice---scrubbing investigations

<><> Holder's DOJ (labeling journo Rosen a criminal--monitoring AP, USSC/Congress' blackberries)

<><> IRS political targeting---to aid and abet O's 2012 reelection

<><> IRS stealing 60 million private medical records

<><> HHS' Sibelius strong-arming Obamacare insurance providers for money

<><> secret NSA snooping

<><> IRS sending $45 Million/32,000 EITC refunds to illegals at ONE address.

<><> Letting Snowden globe-trot w/ US secrets

<><> EPA using phantom email accounts

<><> Holder's Fast and Furious gun-running; savage drug cartels kill two US border patrol agents

<><> 5 million Ohaha henchmen w/ top security clearance---Ntl security undermined

<><> govt wiretaps rose 71% last year alone

<><> O using drones to shoot down Americans outside military parameters

<><> monstrous TSA travesties

<><> Solyndra and other green money-laundries

<><> sucking up to gays and other predator/perverts

<><> forcing Boy Scouts to admit gays

<><> lawful Obamacare provisions violated at will

<><>huge federal Data Hub---HHS' database of personal info

<><> tax-funding Planned Parenthood access to your Data Hub records

<><> forcing primitive populations w/ Third World loyalties on US taxxpayers

<><> violating 2nd amendment rights

<><> empowering Planned Parenthood's abortion savagery

<><> police state---monitoring license plates 24/7

<><> food foreign aid scam---EBT card abuse

<><> financing African penis-washing

<><> $50M Kenya grant--O's bro to cash-in

<><> Obama fam non-stop luxe tax-pay vacays

10 posted on 07/26/2013 6:54:40 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Lakeshark; All

11 posted on 07/26/2013 6:54:57 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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To: Lakeshark
We’re in year four of the worst “recovery” since World War II. How awful is it?

It’s so awful that we still have a lower percentage of able-bodied adults in the workforce today than we did when Obama took office.

So awful that median household incomes today are 5 percent lower than June 2009, the official start of the “recovery.”

So awful that it would take three months of Obama’s best “job creation” month (300,000) to equal one month of Reagan’s (1 million).

So awful that the lowest annual deficit under President Obama ($642 billion) is almost $200 billion worse than the highest deficit under George W. Bush ($459 billion).

This is the economic scandal of the Obama presidency. Or maybe he thinks his economic record is “phony,”

Wow, this reporter tore Bammy a new one! Did his homework too, I will be looking forward to more of his opinion pieces.

12 posted on 07/26/2013 7:38:34 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: brownsfan
"It is time for a third party."

I like the sound of the 'Freedom Party'.

Sarah Palin said she likes it, too!

13 posted on 07/26/2013 3:49:05 PM PDT by hummingbird (THE LIBERTY AMENDMENTS by Mark Levin. He has a great plan!)
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To: Lakeshark

Guess who Steven A. Cohen supported in the 2012 election?
http://www.vnews.com/news/nation/world/7808389-95/mega-hedge-fund-charged-with-fraud

Cohen and his wife Alexandra are major political donors, contributing more than $272,000 to federal candidates and political committees since 2009, according to campaign finance records.

During the 2012 campaign, Cohen hosted a fundraiser at his Greenwich, Conn., home for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, according to a report in the Connecticut Post, and he and wife each gave $30,800 to the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.


14 posted on 07/26/2013 6:38:25 PM PDT by ncfool (Obama's aMeriKa 2012 The land of entitlement for the 51% crowd.)
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