Full title: Obama supporters will go hysterical over this well sourced list of 252 examples of his lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, etc.
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I ask you to please show this list to as many people as possible – and especially, to please show it to as many Obama supporters as possible. Sunshine really is the best disinfectant. I can’t stop Obama from doing any of these horrible things, but I can tell people about what he is doing. So please share this list with others on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thank you. The short link for this is http://tinyurl.com/ku9vxug
Liberals lack shame... Expecting outrage from them would be like showing a list of horrendous crimes to a group of prison inmates and expecting them to be shocked. It ain't gonna happen...
1) Carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval
2) Gave a no-bid contract to Halliburton – just like Bush did
3) Has an administration full of lobbyists, after promising he wouldn’t have any
4) Has close ties to Wall St., but pretends to support Occupy Wall St.
5) Broke his promise to close Guantanamo Bay
6) Supported the $700 billion TARP corporate-welfare bailout just like Bush
7) Waged the biggest war against medical marijuana of any president, which was the opposite of what he had promised
8) Nominated a six-time tax cheater to head the government agency that enforces the tax laws
9) Gave tax dollars to AIG executives, then pretended to be outraged about it
10) Expanded Bush’s unconstitutional government faith based programs
11) Supported Bush’s unconstitutional Patriot Act
12) Increased the national debt more in one term than Bush did in two
13) Agrees with Bush’s support of unconstitutional, indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without filing any charges
14) Agrees with Bush’s support of unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping
15) Avoided prosecution of Wall. St criminals
16) Had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process
17) Ordered private company to fire 1,000 employees
18) Stole money from retired teachers and police officers
19) Supported release of convicted mass murderer
20) Illegally put thousands of guns into hands of criminals
21) Fired Inspector General for discovering that Obama’s friend had embezzled government funds
22) Lied about putting health care negotiations on C-SPAN
23) Lied about letting people keep their health insurance
24) Lied about the cost of Obamacare
25) Gave tax dollars to campaign contributors and lobbyists, and falsely claimed the money was for “green energy”
26) Had “off the record” meetings with lobbyists
27) Falsely claimed to believe in public education
28) Had armed SWAT agents raid a law-abiding guitar factory because it was owned by a Republican
29) Shut down Amish farm
30) Rewarded his fundraisers by giving them federal jobs
31) Ignored constitutional requirements for appointees
32) Gave tax dollars to corrupt private contractors
33) Used tax dollars to glorify murderers
34) Falsely claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court had never overturned any laws that had been passed by Congress
35) Supported new bailouts for speculators who caused housing bubble
36) Spent $205,075 of taxpayer money on a shrubbery which nurseries sell for $16
37) Spent taxpayer money to see if using cocaine helped rats to enjoy the music of Miles Davis
38) Tried to outlaw family farms
39) Auctioned off ambassadorship to the Netherlands
40) Claimed that written tests are a form of “racial discrimination”
41) Made the TSA even more abusive and ridiculous than it had been under Bush
42) Illegally demanded monetary payment for Freedom of Information Act request
43) Fined public school $15,000 for selling soda
44) Conducted dangerous and illegal scientific experiments on people
45) Gave middle finger to Vietnam veterans, their families, and their friends
46) Had the government take 60.8% ownership of General Motors
47) Forced banks to give mortgages to people who could not afford to pay them back
48) Stole money from retired Delphi employees
49) Used taxpayer money to buy soda for $3.40 per can
50) Paid $7 million per household to connect people to the internet
51) Had a double standard for Bain Capital
52) Broke promise to teen campaign volunteers
53) Falsely claimed to know more about Judaism than any other President
54) Exempted wind farms from the penalties that other electric producers get for killing birds
55) Falsely claimed that he had never belonged to the New Party
56) Supported punishing students based on their race instead of on their behavior
57) Used “off the books” funding for military interventionism
58) Tried to silence criticism of auto-bailouts
59) Dismissed charges of voter intimidation, despite video evidence
60) Falsely claimed to support the second amendment
61) Nominated a communist who said 9-11 was an inside job
62) Falsely said he would not raise taxes on the poor and middle class
63) Falsely said he wanted to simplify the tax code, when he actually wanted to make it more complex
64) Oversaw some of the world’s worst increases in corruption
65) Falsely said “This is the most transparent administration in history.”
66) Falsely claimed he would wait five days before signing bills
67) Falsely claimed stimulus spending would be transparent
68) Announced plans to send military to Australia
69) Falsely promised to accept public campaign financing and spending limits
70) Tried to silence video on YouTube
71) Rejected international help to clean up BP oil spill
72) Falsely said he opposed government waste, when he actually loves it
73) Nominated past frequent user of illegal drugs to keep illegal drugs out of schools
74) Avoids firing aides who owe back taxes
75) Used Abbott and Costello style economics as a basis for national policy
76) Sent U.S. troops to Africa
77) Made secret plans for his second term
78) Holds double standard for people who use crude and vulgar language toward women
79) Illegally gave Obamacare exemptions to unions that supported the passage of Obamacare
80) Defended Bush administration’s unconstitutional, unwarranted use of GPS device
81) Opposes newspapers reporting the news
82) Supported Bush administration for fining CBS for showing Janet Jackson’s breast
83) Allowed campaign contributors to bring lobbyists into White House
84) Falsely said that criminal background checks constituted “racial discrimination”
85) Was cited by nine states for committing 21 illegal acts
86) Tried to seize hotel because some of its customers had used illegal drugs
87) Falsely said his campaign was not funded by large donors
88) Holds double standard for subsidizing solar power companies
89) Tried to create an administration full of tax cheaters
90) Hired a Communications Director who admires a mass murderer
91) Tried to replace science with political correctness
92) Made recess appointments when Congress was not in recess
93) Said the health insurance mandate was not a tax, but later told the Supreme Court that it was
94) Lied about being his “brother’s keeper”
95) Punishes hospitals for saving the lives of patients with heart disease
96) Supports guns for himself and his wife, but opposes them for everyone else
97) Falsely claimed that he “cut spending by over a trillion dollars in 2011″
98) Practices environmental hypocrisy
99) Pressured public schools to replace Catcher in the Rye with a book on window insulation
100) Approved giving 20 F-16 fighter jets to a Sharia dictatorship
101) Falsely claimed that his “Cash for Clunkers” program would help the environment
102) Violated the very same campaign finance laws that he claims to support
103) Lied about how he had answered a questionnaire on gun control
104) Falsely claimed that his 2013 inauguration was not funded by lobbyists
105) Encouraged medical device manufacturers to lay off employees
106) Encouraged employers to switch their employees from full time to part time
107) Broke his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term
108) Had Freedom of Information Act record worse than Bush’s
109) Supports installation of hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant
110) Used “stimulus” money to pay people to play cards, board games, and video games
111) Spent half a million tax dollars on “Prom Week” video game
112) Hypocritically pays his female employees less than his male employees
113) Falsely said that Romney’s pension was bigger than his own
114) Has a double standard for investing in China and the Cayman Islands
115) Spent $27 million on “ineffective” pottery classes in Morocco
116) Caused large amounts of perfectly good food to be thrown into the garbage
117) Accepted illegal campaign contributions from foreign citizens
118) Labels opponents of TSA sexual harassment as “domestic extremists”
119) Lied about the Benghazi attack
120) Paid a train carrying biofuel to cross the U.S.-Canadian border 24 times without unloading
121) Falsely said that “we got back every dime” of the bailout
122) Spent $50,000 of taxpayer money on a George S. Patton impersonator
123) Spent $75,000 of taxpayer money on a bicycle
124) Complained to YouTube about an anti-Muslim video
125) Falsely said that Fast and Furious was started when Bush was President
126) Is a “war criminal” who is “more aggressive, more illegal worldwide” than Bush, according to Ralph Nader
127) Illegally refused to fire Kathleen Sebelius after she violated campaign finance laws
128) Supports policies that hurt small businesses
129) Spent $102,000 per year of taxpayer money on a “dog handler”
130) Refused to fire federal employee who sent email to 17,000 people praising terrorist who wanted to destroy U.S.
131) Called Fort Hood shooting “workplace violence” instead of “Islamic terrorism”
132) Falsely said that switching to electronic medical records would make health care cheaper
133) Spent $495,000 of “stimulus” money for ads on MSNBC
134) Lied about the cost of federal regulations
135) Broke his promise to pass immigration bill, and then lied about why he broke it
136) Made it much harder for start ups to raise capital and create jobs
137) Paid six figure salaries to federal employees so they could watch pornography all day long
138) Spent tax dollars on a “mindreader”
139) Used tax dollars to build a million dollar bus stop
140) Filed a lawsuit against a non-existent “monopoly” in the beer industry
141) Falsely said the sequester would cause janitors to take a pay cut
142) Falsely said that he goes skeet shooting “all the time”
143) Gave special access to people who raised or donated $500,000
144) Said the deficit had gone down when it had actually gone up
145) Refused to make available necessary tax forms to taxpayers
146) Nominated someone to be Secretary of the Treasury who had participated in “the biggest tax scam on record”
147) Adopted harmful new restrictions on prescription painkillers – even though the House had already voted against them
148) Rolled back union transparency rules
149) Tried to eliminate workers’ right to a secret ballot when voting on whether or not to unionize
150) Gave “supervised release” to a convicted criminal who later went on to murder a nun
151) Falsely said that he did not propose the sequester
152) Illegally refused to submit a budget on time during four of his first five years
153) Canceled White House tours for thousands of people so he could use the money to play golf with Tiger Woods
154) Falsely said the Newton shooter used a “fully automatic weapon”
155) Broke his own deadline for creating healthcare exchanges
156) Falsely said that surgeons get paid between $30,000 and $50,000 for amputating a leg
157) Falsely said that doctors perform unnecessary tonsillectomies to make more money
158) Purchased 2,717 mine resistant armor protected vehicles for use on civilian streets in the U.S.
159) Spends $277,050 per year for three professional calligraphists
160) Allowed 311,566 federal employees and retirees to get away with $3.5 billion in unpaid federal taxes
161) Spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly on the job
162) Fined UPS $40 million because some of its customers had used UPS to ship illegal drugs
163) Added 20,000 extra pages to Obamacare without Congressional approval
164 ) Signed health care reform law whose own authors called it a “huge train wreck” that was “beyond comprehension”
165) Eliminated disclosure requirements for most federal employees in the executive and legislative branches
166) Waited until after the 2012 election to release unpopular Obamacare rules
167) Made it easy for people to fraudulently collect $50,000 by falsely claiming to be “farmers
168) Tried to rig federal auctions of radio spectrum space
169) Put someone in jail for making an anti-Muslim video
170) Oversaw IRS whose employees illegally targeted conservative groups
171) Spent $402,721 on underwear that detects the presence of cigarette smoke
172) Rewarded one of his biggest campaign fundraisers by nominating him for the ambassadorship to Canada
173) Hired a retarded man to sell illegal drugs and guns, and then arrested him for doing so
174) Secretly obtained phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors
175) Asked contractors to disclose their political donations before bidding on government contracts
176) Tried to deport German family that had fled Germany over Hitler’s ban on homeschooling
177) Said, “We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends”
178) Falsely accused a law abiding news reporter of being “an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator” in a criminal investigation
179) Asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate himself for lying under oath
180) Used Obamacare to illegally give the IRS additional powers without approval from Congress
181) Used environmental regulations to shut down an ambulance while it was taking a patient to the hospital
182) Had “a serious management problem” with his refusal to fire bad workers
183) Illegally solicited donations from health insurers
184) Chose an economic advisor who wanted roads and bridges to be built by unqualified workers
185) Pressured unions to reduce the amount of health insurance coverage for their employees
186) Falsely said “We believe in the free market”
187) Falsely said “We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations”
188) Said Catholic schools are “divisive” but did not say the same thing about other religious schools
189) Favored a new tax on Christmas trees so the money could be used to subsidize Christmas trees
190) Betrayed the people of the city that helped him launch his political career
191) Proposed military interventionism in Syria
192) Planned to use military snipers to shoot innocent lions and cheetahs in the wild
193) Refused to fire or prosecute more than 1,000 IRS employees who illegally used their IRS credit cards for their own personal use
194) Defended intelligence chief who lied under oath
195) Had the Secret Service visit a law abiding citizen who had criticized his policies on Twitter
196) Had the IRS grant special, illegal favors for his brother’s so-called “charity”
197) Raised the interest rate on student loans to pay for Obamacare
198) Refused to fire or prosecute 15 IRS agents who illegally seized the medical records of 10 million people
199) Hired 16,500 new IRS agents to run Obamacare
200) Tried to reward wasteful IRS spending with an increase in funding
201) Illegally bypassed Congress to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate
202) Made it too hard for some doctors to continue their practices
203) Falsely told Africans that contaminated water is a smaller problem than global warming
204) Spent $630,000 to get more Facebook “likes”
205) Declared that hacking was an act of war, then hacked the EU
206) Said “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”
207) Falsely said that Secretary of State John Kerry had not been on his yacht during the regime change in Egypt
208) Said “the planet will boil over” if African citizens adopt a first world standard of living
209) “Among those who Strongly Approve of the president, more fear the Tea Party than radical Muslims.”
210) Illegally forced 2,200 privately owned auto dealerships to close, which destroyed 120,000 jobs
211) Subsidized the production of alcoholic beverages
212) Gave 23,994 tax refunds worth a total of $46,378,040 to illegal aliens who all used the same address
213) Sued private businesses for using “racist” criminal background checks to screen employees
214) Used tax money to pay federal employees to organize protests against George Zimmerman
215) Illegally continued giving foreign aid to Egypt after it had a coup
216) Broke promise to end Bush’s surveillance of U.S. citizens who were not suspected of committing a crime
217) Spent $3 million to study the health risks of dating Mexican prostitutes
218) Lied about the cost of IRS conferences
219) Spent $890,000 per year on service fees for bank accounts that had no money
220) Spent $34 million to construct a new military headquarters in Afghanistan after U.S. military commanders said they did not want it
221) Falsely said that his scandals were “phony”
222) Falsely guaranteed that people could keep their doctor
223) Falsely said the auto bailouts prevented Detroit from going bankrupt
224) Illegally seized a privately owned gun from a law abiding citizen
225) Broke his promise to have real time verifiability of Obamacare subsidies
226) Signed health care reform whose rules contradicted each other
227) Signed a health care reform plan that is so horrible that even the IRS agents who run it don’t want to participate in it
228) Tried to tax small businesses at a higher rate than corporations
229) Illegally prevented individual employees of small businesses from choosing their own plan during the first year of Obamacare
230) Falsely said that Obamacare had not hurt jobs
231) Falsely said that health insurance premiums would be reduced by $2,500 per family by the end of his first term
232) Illegally gave Obamacare waiver to Massachusetts
233) Betrayed the unions that helped him to get elected
234) Illegally changed Obamacare to benefit members of Congress and their staff
235) Told General Mills to stop making true claims about Cheerios
236) Illegally avoided enforcing the required income verification of people who receive subsidies for Obamacare exchanges
237) Placed a 40% tax on so-called “Cadillac” insurance plans
238) Made medical care for special needs children more expensive
239) Responded to the Benghazi attack by going back to bed, and then later got up and headed off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser
240) Illegally delayed the caps on out of pocket health care payments without Congressional approval
241) Holds a double standard when it comes to supporting “gun free” zones
242) Outlawed the low-premium, high-deductible health insurance that some people prefer
243) Lied about how many people he had helped to protect from mortgage fraud
244) Falsely said the NSA review was being conducted by an “independent” body
245) Used tax money to pay for a separate flight just for his dog
246) Closed off public roads so he could buy books
247) Gave illegal EPA exemption to one oil refinery, and would not say which refinery it was
248) Created new fines for charitable hospitals that give treatment to uninsured people
249) Blamed poverty on zip codes instead of on behavior
250) Nominated a telecommunications lobbyist and Obama fundraiser to head the FCC
251) Tried to violate defendants’ right to a fair trial
252) Threatened internet service providers with contempt of court if they did not install surveillance software
