Obama Not Embarrassed by His Scandals?

Obama said a lot of things over the course of an hour, but I’d like to focus on his claim that, while some people in his administration made mistakes, “We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us.” This was not the first time Obama claimed his administration was devoid of scandal. Before leaving office he claimed his administration was "probably" the first “in modern history that hasn’t had a major scandal in the White House.” Others in his administration have echoed this “scandal-free” narrative like a coordinated chorus hoping, after repeating it often enough, the people would believe it was true. The sad thing is, many people do believe it.

Obama’s claims always come with a subtle caveat. His administration didn’t have “a scandal that embarrassed us,” or they didn’t have “a major scandal.” But, my favorite nuance from his super-secret appearance in Boston was when he said, "Generally speaking, you didn't hear about a lot of drama inside our White House." He’s right about that point. As I document in my forthcoming book, The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama, there were over two dozen scandals over the course of Obama’s presidency, and they were all downplayed or ignored by the mainstream media.

Soon after Obama was elected, his presidential transition got caught up in a scandal surrounding the attempted illegal “sale” of his former Senate seat by former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who wanted to profit from what he called “a [expletive] valuable thing.” Obama denied having any involvement in discussions about who might be appointed to replace him, yet he had a wish list of replacements that even included his advisor Valerie Jarrett—whom Blagojevich was willing to nominate in exchange for his being appointed to Obama’s cabinet.

Obama also met with Blagojevich to discuss his Senate seat in a meeting about which a local CBS affiliate published two stories, only to remove both off their website after the scandal broke. This scandal could have undone the Obama presidency before it even started, but after Obama’s historic victory, that was the last thing the media would do, a trend that would continue throughout his presidency.

The media protected Obama from criticism and controversy as aggressively as the Secret Service protected him from danger. But that doesn’t change the fact that Obama’s presidency was the most scandalous in history. Obama may not be embarrassed by Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, the VA scandal, Solyndra, the OPM hacking scandal, the GSA scandal, the Iran Ransom scandal, Uranium One, or the FISA abuse scandal currently being unraveled, but he should be. And the media should be embarrassed at how they failed the American public by pretending these scandals didn’t exist, or weren’t important.

Obama has now been out of office for more than a year and we’re still learning dirty details about his presidency. In December of last year, Politico published the bombshell report about how the Obama administration stonewalled an investigation of an international drug-trafficking operation of the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah in order to protect his nuclear deal with Iran. The media outright ignored the story. ABC, CBS, and NBC considered this scandal unworthy of coverage. The Mueller investigation has exposed more about how politicized the Department of Justice became under Obama than it has exposed any collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians, not that the media has taken any interest in that.

Despite a presidency more corrupt than Richard Nixon, many in the media had the gall to claim, upon Obama’s leaving office, he had a “scandal-free presidency.” Paul Blumenthal claimed at The Huffington Post that while scandal “has consumed the final four years of every two-term president in modern history […] Barack Obama’s administration is the exception.” David Brooks wrote in the New York Times, “Obama administration has been remarkably scandal-free.” Such laughable claims have persisted, and many on the left still make and believe this claim. Back in September, liberal CNN commentator Bakari Sellers described Obama as “eight years scandal-free.” Trust me, there are many more shameful examples. So, when Obama says, "Generally speaking, you didn't hear about a lot of drama inside our White House,” he wants us to believe that if the media didn’t report on it then it didn’t happen.

When the media refuses to give us the full knowledge of the character and conduct of our rulers, we get Barack Obama for eight long years. The media presented Obama as a successful, scandal-free president—a massive cover-up unprecedented in the history of modern journalism—and this amounts to an abdication of their duty to the American people to tell us the truth. We expect the free press to serve as an important check on the government. Their failure to do so with Obama is his golden ticket to historical greatness and he clearly recognizes this and is using it to his advantage.

John Adams once wrote, "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right [...] to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers." The media denied us the knowledge of Obama’s character and conduct and will continue to do so. If we don’t shine the light on the facts of Obama and his presidency now, the myth of a “scandal-free” Obama administration will be written as fact for the history books.

How long will liberty last if our leaders—and I mean all of them, regardless of party—aren't held accountable?

This is not my list as I saw it on another post of all the things he gave us, but many of them are embarrassing and troubling still to our countries future!

“ays his administration “never did anything” embarrassing during his presidency...I call...BULLSHIT!

he got one part right...I put it in quotes...he “never did anything”...except we are still the closest to imploding as a country as we have ever been and we haven’t yet turned the corner on that...it is still up for grabs!!!!!

Just take a look at the mixture of lawlessness, criminal acts, lies, and treasonous actions against the US Constitution, and the citizens of America by the n obama Regime.

• EBOLA Syops, Lies, and Distraction (squirrel crossing the road)
• ISIS (JV Squad)
• IRS
• Iraq, Benghazi, Libya
• Bowe Bergdahl
• $18.2 trillion in debt and growing
• NSA Spying on Americans
• Vets dying due to VA Neglect
• Muslim Brotherhood
• Allowed open homosexuals to serve in the military
• Fast & Furious
• Obamacare
• Obamacare Website costed taxpayers “2 Billion Dollars”
• “You like your doctor you can keep your Dr.”
• Obamacare v.2.0
• “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it”
• Amnesty for 22 million illegal’s...
• The Independent Payment Advisory Board (appointees by the president)
• Any decisions by IPAB will instantly become law starting in 2014 – Separation of Powers, Article 1 Section 1
• NDAA
• “I will put an end to the type of politics that “breeds division, conflict and cynicism”
• “I will restore trust in Government”
• “The public will have 5 days to look at every bill that lands on my desk”
• “It’s not my red line - it is the world’s red line”
• “Whistle blowers will be protected in my administration”
• “We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks and auto companies, with interest”
• “I am not spying on American citizens”
• “Obama Care will be good for America”
• “If you like it, you can keep your current healthcare plan”
• “The Obamacare website is just like shopping at Amazon”
• “I knew nothing about “Fast and Furious” gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels”
• “I knew nothing about IRS targeting conservative groups”
• “I knew nothing about what happened in Benghazi”
• I have never known my uncle from Kenya who is in the country illegally and that was arrested and told to leave the country over 20 years ago.
• And, I have never lived with that uncle. He finally admitted (12-05-2013) that he DID know his uncle and that he DID live with him.
• It was a spontaneous riot about a movie
• If elected I promise not to renew the Patriot Act”
• ObamaCare death squads/panels
• “If elected I will end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan within the 1st 9 months of my term”
• “I will close Guantanamo within the first 6 months of my term”
• “I will bridge the gap between black and white and between America and other countries”
• Dream Act Abuses
• DACA
• Free obama phones on the taxpayers dime.
• The Great Recession
• Renewing the Patriot Act
• “You didn’t build that”
• Shovel ready jobs
• Carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval
• Systematic removal of many of the most capable and patriotic active duty Generals.
• Restarted the Cold War
• Obama nominated Timothy Geithner, a repeat tax cheater, to head the government agency that enforces the tax laws.
• Refusal to salute the American Flag
• Refusal to wear American flag pin
• Wears FAKE flag pin
• Most Transparent Administration
• No Lobbying- Has an administration full of lobbyists, after promising he wouldn’t have any.
• Waged the biggest war against medical marijuana of any president, which was the opposite of what he had promised.
• America will be respected again when I’m president
• Eric “race card” Holder
• Holder in Contempt of Congress and not being held accountable
• Harry “poo bear” Reid
• Nancy “what’s in it” Pelosi
• Joe “2 barrel blast” Biden
• Sending a larger delegation to Ferguson thugs funeral than PM Thatcher’s funeral
• Keystone XL Pipeline
• Supported non citizen voting
• Sequester
• Using the healthcare industry to disarm American citizens
• Turned the IRS and NSA into the KGB
• “Raising the debt limit doesn’t raise the debt”
• Closing down the WWII Memorial
• Voluntary Ebola Quarantine
• “Corporations and businesses don’t create jobs”
• Obama’s IRS destroying evidence
• Opening border to gang members and drug dealers
• VA’s intentional deaths of veterans
• Negotiating with terrorists
• Executive action directing DHS that almost all immigration offenses were unenforceable absent a separate criminal conviction
• SEAL Team 6
• Issued directive instructing ICE to NOT enforce immigration laws in certain cases
• Trading 5 Terrorists for a deserter
• “You want to build a coal pant? You can, and we will regulate you right out of business”
• Marine stuck in Mexican jail
• Supported the $700 billion TARP corporate-welfare bailout just like Bush.
• DOMA Law – Obama directed DOJ to ignore the Constitution and separation of powers and not enforce the law
• Obamacare would save the average family $2500 per year
• Forcing businesses to violate their religious beliefs
• Violating the rights and sanctity of our Churches
• Obamacare web site-cronyism
• Welcomed Ebola across an ocean into the USA
• Four Exec. appointments – Senate was NOT in recess (Court has ruled unconstitutional yet the appointees still remain)
• NSA acting as Obama Gestapo
• Lies about Benghazi
• Common Core
• “Obamacare would be like the cost of your cable bill”
• Voter fraud
• Exposed identity and methods of operation of a Navy SEALs team
• Material Support of Terrorism
• Going after states (AZ lawsuit) for upholding Federal law (immigration) -10th Amendment
• Dodd-Frank – Due process and separation of powers. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau writing and interpreting law
• 23 Executive Orders on gun control - infringement of the 2nd Amendment
• Intentionally trying to hurt Americans during the sequester
• Refuses to acknowledge state’s 10th Amendment rights to nullify Obamacare
• Intentionally trying to hurt Americans during government shutdown
• Shutting down ‘The Peoples House’ tours
• “Resume funding for Egypt’s military, despite Congressional restrictions and objections from human rights and democracy advocates.”
• “If I could just bypass Congress”
• Used DOJ to prevent Arizona and Alabama from enforcing immigration laws
• Military not getting their votes counted
• Appointing agency czars without the “advice and consent of the Senate
• Supporting the Muslim Brotherhood with arms and money
• Chrysler Bailout -TARP - violated creditors rights and bankruptcy law, as well as Takings and Due Process Clauses – 5th Amendment (G.W. Bush also illegally used TARP funds for bailouts).
• Healthcare waivers – No president has dispensing powers
• Bypassed Congress and gave EPA power to advance Cap-n-Trade
• Contraceptive, abortifacients mandate violation of First Amendment
• DOJ spying on the free press
• Separate AF1 plane for Presidential canine’s
• Drone strikes on American Citizens
• Obama took Chairmanship of UN Security Council
• Not securing our borders
• Attempt for Graphic tobacco warnings (under appeal)
• ACA (Obamacare) mandate – SCOTUS rewrote legislation and made it a tax because there is no Constitutional authority for Congress to force Americans to engage in commerce. SCOTUS has no authority to Legislate or lay taxes
• Spying on Americans on American soil with drones
• SOLYNDRA
• Used DOJ to ignore section 8 of the Voting Rights Act. ” he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” Article II Section 3
• IRS targeting conservatives
• IRS targeting the Tea Party
• IRS targeting whomever the criminal administration tells them to target
• Millions losing health care coverage
• 2 Executive actions mandating private health information on patients be turned over to NICS - Violation of HIPPA law
• Increasing welfare rolls
• Forcing Catholic hospitals to perform abortions
• Increasing disability rolls
• Ignored law that requires Congress be notified prior to any detainees being moved from Guantanamo
• Countless parties
• Unilaterally issued new exemptions to immigration restrictions law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists
• Executive Order bypassing Congress on immigration
• Supported Sandy Hook Syops/Hoax
• Countless exorbitant vacations
• Releasing illegal’s from prison
• Information memorandum telling states that they can waive the work requirement for welfare recipients, thereby altering the 1996 welfare reform law
• Executive Order 13603 NDRP – Government can seize anything
• Executive Order 13524 – Gives INTERPOL jurisdiction on American soil beyond law enforcement agencies, including the FBI
• Obama administration quietly released $1.5 billion in foreign aid to the new Egyptian government, now dominated by a Brotherhood-led coalition in parliament.
• NO budget for 5 years
• Clapper lying to Congress
• Holder lying to Congress
• Executive Order 13636 Infrastructure Cyber security
• War on women
• Great Churchill Bust Incident of 2009
• No government lunches for needy kids
• Promoting race war
• A123 Systems
• Confirmed Loretta Lynch
• Democrat Speaker of the House Boehner
• Wolf in sheeps clothing Senate Minority Leader McConnell
• REFUSING to RAID, SWEEP AND DEPORT illegal aliens on a State level
• Keystone Pipeline - FOREIGN CORPORATION CONFISCATING American private property
• Funding Obama’s halted deportations
• Funding the UNCONSTITUTIONAL, OPPRESSIVE DHS, IMMEDIATELY AFTER it was revealed that AMERICANS were their surveillance targets
• Omnibus bill
• Funding UNCONSTITUTIONAL nation-building
• Allowed Lerner to skate
• $200 billion for UNCONSTITUTIONAL Medicare (MARXIST healthcare)
• Fast-track TPP for Obama
• The “Freedom” Act, which EXPANDS NSA CAPABILITIES
• “I’ve campaigned in 57 states”
• “You never let a serious crisis go to waste”
• Cash for clunkers
• Closing the WWII monument and refusing our Veterans access during the sequester.
• Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson lied to Congress about deporting illegal’s that were also tied a terrorist group.
• The pentagon deciding that they will allow the UN to enter our sovereign soil to kill Americans they disagree with.

OBUMBLERS LARGEST SCANDAL IS THE LAST ONE HERE:

• “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

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