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The last gasps of Obama’s imperial presidency
thehill.com ^ | 01/05/17 11:40 AM EST | Justin Haskins

Posted on 01/05/2017 10:39:58 AM PST by BenLurkin

When Obama hasn’t been busy fighting against the jobs-creating energy industry or unjustly preventing development on millions of acres of land, he’s been pardoning or commuting the sentences of more than 1,300 convicted criminals, including 395 who were serving life sentences. In 2016 alone, Obama pardoned more than 1,000 people, and on December 19, he broke the record for most clemencies granted by a president in a single day, when he shortened the sentences of 153 convicts.

By pardoning and commuting the sentences of more than 1,300 people who were found to have broken the law, Obama has effectively undermined the justice systems of the states and disregarded the will of the people who voted for representatives who enacted the laws used to convict these criminals. The large number of pardons/commuted sentences also puts Americans’ lives and property at risk.

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For the president, it doesn’t matter whether local people want the Bears Ears National Monument, more affordable energy prices, or people who have broken the law to remain behind bars; all that matters is what Obama wants and believes to be right. It is, in essence, a form of federal imperialism, and discussions about the positive/negative effects of any of Obama’s recent executive power moves should always exist with that overarching theme in mind.

One of the reasons the founding fathers created a federalist government is because the ... States wanted to maintain significant control over their own affairs. ...

Americans in the 18th century understood local governance is good governance—not necessarily because local governments always make the right decisions, but because those decisions are more likely to resemble the will of the local people than laws imposed by a centralized national government.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: obamafarewell

1 posted on 01/05/2017 10:39:58 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Weird. I just posted this pic in regards to the thread just one down from this one.

But it applies here to. So here we go....

Image result for OBAMA MY WORK HERE IS DONE

2 posted on 01/05/2017 10:42:45 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: BenLurkin

My dog dropped Clown Dunce nobama’s legacy on my neighbor’s lawn this morning. The bum is a malignancy on civil society.


3 posted on 01/05/2017 10:45:11 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Not yet, FRiend! This worthless ba$tard has a few days yet to go. There's is no telling what "the boy king" might do.




His tantrum is not over yet.
4 posted on 01/05/2017 10:49:25 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: BenLurkin
... Obama has effectively undermined the justice systems of the states...

I thought a POTUS could pardon only Federal Crimes, not state crimes.........................

5 posted on 01/05/2017 10:52:08 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?............)
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To: Fiddlstix

Not yet, FRiend! This worthless ba$tard has a few days yet to go. There’s is no telling what “the boy king” might do.

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True. President Stompy Foot would even declare war on Russia if he could get away with it.


6 posted on 01/05/2017 10:54:02 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: BenLurkin

Every rape, assault, murder in any other crimes committed by these pardon felons should be directly attributed to Obama’s actions. Obama let these animals out of their cages and he owns every evil act that they do.


7 posted on 01/05/2017 11:00:57 AM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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To: Red Badger

There is no statute of limitations on murder and many other crimes. If Obama let them loose the states can come after them for charges at the state level. I hope they do but courage is not usually part of any politician’s character.


8 posted on 01/05/2017 11:04:09 AM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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To: BenLurkin

This was allowed on thehill.com?


9 posted on 01/05/2017 11:10:04 AM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: BenLurkin

The Kenyanesian Usurpation should never have happened.
The founders put the natural born citizen clause in the Constitution to prevent it.
Both parties wanted it done away with.
They both wanted to run ineligible candidates.
Cruz, Rubio and Jindal have already used Precedent Obama as an excuse to run for an office they are not eligible to hold.
George P. Bush is likely the real reason the GOP would not uphold the Constitution.
His mother was still a Mexican national when he was born.


10 posted on 01/05/2017 11:12:44 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: WMarshal; All

Agreed.

Could he not be sued in a civil suit by the victims of one of these released criminals?


11 posted on 01/05/2017 11:17:28 AM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: BenLurkin
And when the animals pardoned by the o'bummer commit crimes on the outside, will anybody in the MSM have the integrity to place the blame where it belongs?

(Cue the "crickets chirping" gif)

12 posted on 01/05/2017 11:18:17 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: BenLurkin

Has any information been published as to the racial breakdown of the recipients of Obama’s mercy? Did members of any group (black, white, Hispanic, or Asian) receive a disproportionate number of the pardons or commutations?


13 posted on 01/05/2017 12:03:26 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Lurkinanloomin

You are 100% correct. I cannot improve on that.


14 posted on 01/05/2017 1:50:29 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: LouAvul

One of them has already committed 3 murders.
I only know because of FreeRepublic.
The Ministry of Propaganda does its best to cover for the Kenyanesian Usurper.


15 posted on 01/05/2017 1:54:33 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: BenLurkin

It is not BOs last bit of gas. I have pretty good info that he is going to close GITMO before his end.


16 posted on 01/05/2017 3:34:06 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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