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Obama's Scandal-Free Delusion
Townhall.com ^ | March 2, 2018 | David Limbaugh

Posted on 03/02/2018 4:33:24 AM PST by Kaslin

Upon hearing that former President Barack Obama recently boasted that he had a scandal-free administration, my first thought after regaining my faculties was: How can I possibly cram all the evidence refuting this in a little bitty column?

Then I read that what he actually said was, "We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us." At first blush, that sounds better, right? Because I assume he doesn't mean he's incapable of being embarrassed. After a little more thought, though, it occurred to me that this construction just highlights the real reason he has apparently deluded himself into thinking he served eight honorable years: The liberal media had his back the entire time, even when he treated them like dirt.

In fact, Obama was a perpetual power-abusing machine. He was so routinely high-handed and selectively contemptuous of the rule of law that people were beginning to think presidential authoritarianism was the new normal. How ironic that so many of Obama's enablers are now projecting these sins onto President Trump, who -- to this point, at least - hasn't actually crossed the line into flouting the Constitution. The left believes -- and acts on the belief -- that the ends justify the means, and so, it naturally assumes we will do the same. Obama was hell-bent on fundamentally transforming America as founded, and he was willing to scratch, bite, kick, steal and flush the rule of law to accomplish it -- and he did, like no president before him. In other words, Obama's lies were OK because lies are sometimes necessary for the greater good.

For your review, let me just give you a list of examples, many of them snatched from my two Obama books, which chronicled his two disgraceful terms. Not all technically qualify as scandals, but enough do.

--Benghazi: In addition to the scandalous betrayal and death of our people, Obama and his cohorts concocted and disseminated the lie that the attack on our consulate was caused by an anti-Muslim video. Later, Judicial Watch obtained a smoking-gun email from top-level Obama aid Ben Rhodes, sent to a dozen members of Obama's inner circle, that contained talking points to prepare then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice for the Sunday talk shows. Three of the four main bullet points Rhodes was advising Rice to convey were patently false, including the lie about the video. They knew, because the CIA made it clear, that the attack was not the result of a spontaneous protest to an anti-Muslim video but preplanned by al-Qaida. The Obama administration manufactured this canard to insulate Obama from criticism two months before the November 2012 election, as he had boasted that he had al-Qaida on the run.

--Obama's IRS conspired to target conservative and pro-Israel groups for discriminatory treatment in acquiring tax exemptions.

--Obama and then-Attorney general Eric Holder's Justice Department was never held to account for its actions on the gunrunning scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, in which an American was murdered with weapons this administration deliberately put into the hands of Mexican cartels.

--This same Justice Department was also under a cloud due to scandals involving its massive culling of Associated Press reporters' phone records concerning a leak investigation, slandering Fox News reporter James Rosen over classified information, and monitoring Rosen's phone calls and emails.

--Obama's lies on Obamacare were legion and scandalous: He knew from the jump we couldn't keep our plans or our doctors, and that Obamacare would reduce rather than increase people's access to care. He knew it wouldn't reduce premiums by $2,500 for the average family of four. He deceived us when he said no federal dollars would be used to fund abortions. He grossly distorted the picture of the true number of uninsured. His goal, proved on videotape, was always single-payer. He used budgetary accounting gimmicks to grease Obamacare by the CBO, including the double counting on Medicare.

--After Obama's failure to pass cap-and-trade legislation through Congress to purportedly reduce the global temperature by suppressing traditional energy production and consumption, his Environmental Protection Agency unilaterally and unconstitutionally issued a decree to accomplish his goal administratively. Some called this one of the biggest power grabs in American history, as the EPA had positioned itself to regulate fuel economy, set climate policy for the nation and amend the Clean Air Act -- powers never delegated to it by Congress.

-- The Obama administration flagrantly defied a federal court order on his moratorium on offshore drilling when his interior secretary, Ken Salazar, said he would just reimpose the moratorium based on information that wasn't fully developed earlier.

--Obama rigged the playing field to secure for his labor-union friends a bigger stake in his new General Motors than was warranted by their actual ownership interest. He robbed secured creditors of their preferred-creditor status and the value of their investment by using the power of his office to strong-arm a restructuring of the company. When Democratic Party donor and super-lawyer Tom Lauria opposed this plan on behalf of his client, according to Lauria, the White House threatened to destroy his client's reputation.

--The Obama-Hillary Clinton FISA scandal, the egregiousness of which is being casually dismissed by many, will someday be fully exposed.

--Then, there's the Iran nuclear deal, Obama's unprecedented federal land grabs; his dismissal of a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party that had already been won; his bullying of doctors and insurance companies when it served his purposes; his endless stirring of the racial pot; his bullying and fact-starved attack on BP that culminated in his authoritarian command, "Just plug the damn hole"; his stable of unaccountable "czars"; his war on Fox News, which preceded Trump's battles with the press that Democrats find so horrifying; the Department of Veterans Affairs scandal; the Solyndra scandal; the deliberate targeting of the coal industry; the shakedown of banks; the massive redistribution scheme disguised as an economic stimulus program; the federal commandeering of the student loan program; his public dressing down of the Supreme Court; his whispered hot-mic pledge to Russia to be more flexible on missile defense; his cavalier treatment of Arizona and its immigration laws; and gobs more.

I truly could go on, but I trust you get the picture.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bamacare; barackhussein0bama; benghazi; epapowergrab; fastandfurious; fisa; generalmotors; irsabuse; scandals; worstpresidentever

1 posted on 03/02/2018 4:33:24 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The only things that would embarrass a democrat is to get caught doing something truly patriotic or honest.


2 posted on 03/02/2018 4:39:32 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Iron Munro

No doubt about it.


3 posted on 03/02/2018 4:41:16 AM PST by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero)
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To: Kaslin

What he means was he wasn’t caught or prosecuted.


4 posted on 03/02/2018 4:45:21 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Kaslin

Hope Hicks said she told a few white lies. A President looked at us in the eye of a camera and lied over and over with a straight face. We still do not know much about that President. We do not know how he traveled from Hawaii to Indonesia and back to school here. His transcripts were never released from college. He worked to cover-up his past.
The scandals are too numerous to mention here.


5 posted on 03/02/2018 4:48:35 AM PST by FreedBird (C)
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To: Kaslin

You have to admit they did their brain washing of the populace well, I can see and hear the clapping seals


6 posted on 03/02/2018 4:54:18 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Kaslin

I remember the “Just plug the damn hole”. That and the swim with his daughter in an unaffected part of Pensacola bay sent a message to the Coast Guard he wanted the oil spill off the front page regardless to the status of the cleanup. Forced me into early retirement as our contract was cancelled, followed by a round of layoffs.


7 posted on 03/02/2018 4:56:06 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Kaslin
This is one of those things that if you have to tell someone "it" then "it" is probably, almost certainly a lie.

"I'm trustworthy..." - probably not, don't trust him/her.

"I'm not a coward..." - if you're a Broward County Sheriff's deputy and you have to say this, you're a coward. If you're a Broward County Sheriff's deputy and you have to hire a lawyer to say this for you, you definitely are a yellow-bellied coward undeserving of any respect that might go along with the uniform/title.

"There were no scandals..." - why anyone would even bother trying to lie about this in the internet/information age is amazing. It is so easy to confirm this is a lie, it is an insulting lie. (one of many, many insultingly obvious lies from bammy)

The only way I would accept bammy's assertion that there were no scandals in his administration is if you look at it from a completely different perspective. If you're an amoral, narcissistic, borderline sociopath then yeah, everything that happened in and around bammy's administration is just business as usual. However, to sane people with a shred of compassion and respect for others, and any personal integrity ... that wasn't an administration, it was a crime spree perpetrated by a bunch of (as yet) unconvicted felons.

8 posted on 03/02/2018 5:08:55 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Doing my part to help make America great again!)
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To: Kaslin

Bump


9 posted on 03/02/2018 5:21:23 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Kaslin

Obama lacks the character, integrity and morals necessary to feel either shame or embarrassment. His is a Sociopath and Pathological Liar.


10 posted on 03/02/2018 5:31:44 AM PST by Howie66 ("Tone down the tagline please." - Admin Moderator)
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To: Kaslin

Thanks for posting


11 posted on 03/02/2018 6:18:12 AM PST by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma's​ - multi issue voterp it)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Perhaps the media hasn’t told him? He learns everything from the “news”. https://youtu.be/HcLERK4xZ14


12 posted on 03/02/2018 6:22:06 AM PST by edzo4 (Thank Q very much!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Because I assume he doesn’t mean he’s incapable of being embarrassed.
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Bad assumption.
That is exactly what it means.


13 posted on 03/02/2018 7:09:08 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

How easily fooled those Libbies are! Truth is relative to them and there is no shortage of politicians who count on fools thinking foolishly. Obama and Co. made it into an art form and the MSM gleefully play along.


14 posted on 03/03/2018 11:46:00 AM PST by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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