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PJ Media ^ | November 2, 2012 | Zombie

Posted on 11/03/2012 3:22:00 AM PDT by Zakeet

Complete Headline: Why Was There No October Surprise? Because Every Freakin’ Day for the Last Four Years Has Been an October Surprise

Where was the October Surprise?

Almost everyone anticipated this year’s “October Surprise” — some last-minute, unexpected, shocking scandal to rock the presidential election and derail one of the candidates. But it never appeared. In an era of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink gutterball politics, this mysterious absence of any major scandal was itself noteworthy. How could nothing have happened?

Sure, there was Hurricane Sandy. But that doesn’t count. Sandy was a natural disaster that dominated the headlines for a few days, but it wasn’t a scandal. And yes, there was Benghazi. But that happened in early September, and it wasn’t so much a political scandal uncovered by partisan operatives as it was the umpteenth example of Obama’s incompetence. Whatever Benghazi blowback he’s gotten damaging his election chances are entirely his own responsibility for bungling an international crisis. So, no, neither one of those counted as an October Surprise.

Which left many people scratching their heads. Why wasn’t there one? For either candidate?

In Mitt Romney’s case, the answer is pretty obvious: He’s squeaky clean. His entire adult life has been like a boring treatise on Mormon moral rectitude. His political career has long been an open book — moderate, bipartisan, essentially uneventful. The Democrats have tried to squeeze some droplets of outrage over Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, but those attacks came earlier in the summer and turned out to be extremely slim pickin’s. There are no skeletons in Romney’s closet, otherwise we would have heard about them.

But in Barack Obama’s case, the situation is reversed: Everything he’s ever done is scandalous. The reason there was no October Surprise for Obama is that we’re all scandaled out. Anyone’s who been paying attention since 2008 has literally been in paralytic shock every single day. We spent October 2012 exactly as we’ve spent every month of the last four years: Our jaws on the floor, aghast, stupefied, unable to breathe. Almost every single thing Obama has done since he’s been in the national spotlight could have been and should have been a career-ending October Surprise. But the mainstream media, as we all know, has devoted itself to protecting him.

Not a day has gone by since Obama took office when I didn’t learn of some fresh outrage and say Oh. My. God. But we’ve been traumatized so often that over time the scandals have all blurred together and fused into a single red-hot thought: Please let this nightmare end.

A complete recounting of Obama’s shoulda-been October Surprises would fill a book, an encyclopedia, an entire library. But I think this is a good time to initiate a crowd-sourced list of everything Obama has done since 2008 (and every fact about his earlier life that emerged since 2008) which you thought was scandalous, shocking or outrageous. Just for the record, let’s remind the world that every freakin’ day for the last four years has been an October Surprise.

I’ll get the ball rolling with a few scandalous deeds and facts which occur to me at the moment, but this list will primarily come from you, the readers. In the comments section below, mention anything and everything that you believe should have ruined Obama politically (if the media had been doing its job). From the big to the small, from the recent to the distant, dig deep in your memory and just let it all out, like political primal scream therapy.

I’ll continuously update the list as best as I can to include whatever gets mentioned by the commenters.

Ready? Let the collective scream begin!


The Complete List of Barack Obama’s Scandals, Misdeeds, Crimes and Blunders

[...Much more to come soon! This is a work in progress that will be added to throughout the day. Keep refreshing the page for updates...]


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1 posted on 11/03/2012 3:22:11 AM PDT by Zakeet
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If we don’t get to the polls and vote him out, wait until you see what he will do next term.


2 posted on 11/03/2012 3:25:42 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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his (dear) mother; was an very very very loose.. cheap... two-bit...*nevermind*

4 posted on 11/03/2012 3:30:11 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth. - RWR 8-)
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He did what they paid him to do.


5 posted on 11/03/2012 3:30:50 AM PDT by gotribe (He's a mack-daddy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV415yit7Zg)
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oh him!
, mom; always said, "if yah can say anything positive about him (the Oval Office holder), mind your tongue."

6 posted on 11/03/2012 3:35:22 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth. - RWR 8-)
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Reading that list and seeing all crimes indexed like that made my skin crawl. But somebody let him get away with it. Vote Him Out!


7 posted on 11/03/2012 3:37:58 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Vote him out!)
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4 freaking years of misery.3 more days left of this national nightmare.


8 posted on 11/03/2012 3:44:14 AM PDT by SueRae (See it? Hell, I can TASTE November from my house!)
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To: Zakeet

For the first time ever, I am so caught up in dislike for a politician that I nearly feel contempt for any friend who admires and plans to vote for that politician. Our “Great Uniter” is destroying and splitting this nation at an unprecedented pace.


9 posted on 11/03/2012 3:44:31 AM PDT by onevoter
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To: Zakeet
That's a very long list.
You might want to add so of the links I have in the thread
10 posted on 11/03/2012 3:47:07 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple. Fight ... or Die !)
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CORRECTION:
11 posted on 11/03/2012 3:49:33 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's simple. Fight ... or Die !)
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This should be a full page ad in every newspaper in the country tomorrow......”should” being the operative word.


12 posted on 11/03/2012 3:56:18 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.....Eagle Scout since Sep 9, 1970)
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The Obama Administration was orchestrating an october surprise. An embassy was going to be attacked and the ambassador kidnapped. Obama was going to exchange Ambassador Stevens for the Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman the WTC bomber. Obama was going for a “twofer” with this political Stunt. A big foreign policy coup for negotiating the release of an ambassador to libya, and a quiet foreign policy win for his ‘second term’ to get the release of the blind sheikh.

It all went to HELL when a couple of SEALS ran to the assistance of the Consolate and put up a defense. BengaziGate is the obama october surprise. These brave soldiers disobeyed direct orders to STAND DOWN. They ran one and a half Miles to the embassy in 30 minutes to defend the consolate. Laser Illuminated a Mortar emplacement and finally gave their lives while pleading for help from the rooftop. The counter terrorism task for was not convened. Generals are being dismissed. Obama went to bed when he heard about it all. There were unarmed predators watching events unfold for Seven Hours. Obama has an immediate cover story involving something like a internet video. What’s the ambassador doing there unguarded in a far away consolate on 9/11 anyway? Why was the requested security denied!?

These events are inexplicable. But it all comes together if you add an election season foreign policy stunt gone to hell.

That’s what i think anyway.


13 posted on 11/03/2012 3:57:39 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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All true...and the msm will cover none of it.

If Romney wins this election...there needs to be an accounting by ABCBSNBCNNPBSNPR. Questions by the new administation need to be asked publically.

Who are the msm? How did they get their jobs? The Democrat-meida complex needs public exposure.


14 posted on 11/03/2012 4:01:29 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: cardinal4
Reading that list and seeing all crimes indexed like that made my skin crawl. But somebody let him get away with it. Vote Him Out!

That "somebody" is the main stream media, the MSM. They put him in office and have enabled everyone of his foul deeds either by not reporting them, or by deliberately obfuscating and covering them up.

The MSM is the real villain in this play, and their despicable treachery has been exposed for all to see.

The MSM must die, so that the Republic may live!

15 posted on 11/03/2012 4:04:09 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: onevoter
For the first time ever, I am so caught up in dislike for a politician that I nearly feel contempt for any friend who admires and plans to vote for that politician.

His supporters IMHO have rejected the Founder's vision, freedom, and personal responsibility. They don't just simply hold up their choice and try to convince me of the merits, they choose to attempt to ram it down my throat by force. After five hours in line for early voting with his supporters I can tell you that the "contempt" you assign his supporters is just.

16 posted on 11/03/2012 4:04:25 AM PDT by lovesdogs
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For me, the October Surprise is . . .

in spite of all the above obvious corruption, ineptness and treasonous behavior, this election is even considered close.

Embarrassing and sad indeed for those whose love of country have been trampled on.

I have not been on home soil for over 7 years. I do not recognize what once was my home.

17 posted on 11/03/2012 4:08:56 AM PDT by saywhatagain
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Nothing but a small preview of things to come, if he’s still Occupying the White House come Jan.


18 posted on 11/03/2012 4:12:07 AM PDT by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: Zakeet
There are so many I may have missed it on the list.

As a United States citizen and the theoretical leader of all United States citizens, Obama formally bowed in deference to a Wahabist potentate.

19 posted on 11/03/2012 4:18:55 AM PDT by stevem
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There WERE october surprises, but since they didnt help obama, the msm covered them up. TRUMP offering obama 5 million for his records for one. Had that been offerd to a Republican prez,it would have lead every news cast across the nation. Benghazi. Had THAT been under a Republican prez, there’d be serious talk of impeachment.


20 posted on 11/03/2012 4:19:25 AM PDT by weezel
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