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Obama's Massive Fraud - Criminal prosecution for fraud? Or is Impeachment the remedy?
National Review ^ | 11/09/2013 | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 11/09/2013 7:25:06 AM PST by ReaganÜberAlles

"If you like your health-care plan, you will be able to keep your health-care plan. Period.” How serious was this lie, repeated by Barack Obama with such beguiling regularity? Well, how would the Justice Department be dealing with it if it had been uttered by, say, the president of an insurance company rather than the president of the United States?"


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fraud; impeachment; obama; obamacare
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

The House doesn’t have the guts to impeach, so forget it.

And the Senate would never convict anyway.


21 posted on 11/09/2013 7:51:21 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

Of course he needs to be jailed. However, NOTHING will happen to him. A coalition of blacks, Asians, Sodomites, Mexicans and others have elected him and are now attempting to consolidate their control. Once absolute control is established then Americans should get ready for ignorance, poverty, insult, assaults and murder. We have earned them.


22 posted on 11/09/2013 7:52:58 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

The GOP aren’t even pushing that he lied.


23 posted on 11/09/2013 7:53:17 AM PST by Sybeck1 (Defunding does work!! Anyone remember fate of the border fence????)
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To: Mike Darancette

Common sense says it is fraud.

I would like to see an impeachment based on fraud.

However, the law does not always follow the rules of common sense logic.

You would find a thousand (lib) lawyers that would argue in court that fraud requires a payment in return for the fraudulent claim.

That since no payment was made at the time of the promise, since one can opt out and pay the penalty, etc., the statement is a simple lie and not fraud.

Maybe an example would be that if I told you that you can go down to your local Ford dealer, he will give you a new truck on my tab. You go and find out it is a lie. Is it fraud? Only if you gave me a dollar on the spot for my information.

Otherwise, the joke is on you for being dumb.

I think impeachment over Bengazi or financial deals done for his pals might be better grounds.

I like Bengazi best because I am convinced that there is some very very nasty secret there, otherwise there would be no reason for the lies as to the cause, the hiding and restrictions on those who were there, the firing of generals who wanted to send aid, etc.

Bengazi is probably the most rotten of all the events of recent years.


24 posted on 11/09/2013 7:54:39 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: Mr. K

I don’t think he will. He is locked into the communist style solidarity that the current communist controlled democrat party requires. Look at how the dedicated American communists (barf) turned from being anti-Hitler to pro-hitler, after the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact was signed in 1939. Some Trotskyite communists left the party, but those who considered them as true communists, whose alleigence was to the Soviet Union, not the USA, switched to the new communist position without a murmer. Read Paul Kengors’ book “The Dupes.”


25 posted on 11/09/2013 7:56:24 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Mike Darancette

You make the point for my post #24.

In your example, something of value was/is transferred as a direct result of the misrepresentation.

I am not a lawyer, but I believe I am correct.

But as I said, lawyers will argue both sides of any subject you can name, so long as you can pay their fees.


26 posted on 11/09/2013 7:58:24 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: Sybeck1
The GOP aren’t even pushing that he lied.

Gotta be careful not to let him position himself as a victim.
The American people know he lied, because his lies are affecting them directly. He has no defense, so we've got to be careful not to give him an easy exit. Just let the people feel his lies, hold back a little, and watch the show.
We don't even have to say "We told you so." People know now that we were right all along.

27 posted on 11/09/2013 8:01:54 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

The libs and Marxists will still make excuses, like obumbler care will be better for you next year, etc.

To impeach him, there will have to be some event so vile, so contrary to the morality of the great majority whether lib or conservative, that support for him is unsustainable.

I believe Bengazi is the most likely source.

Al Capone, who would kill you at the drop of a hat, would not sell drugs.

My point being that almost everyone, even the most hardened criminal, has a line which he will not cross.

I believe there is such a line in Bengazi or there would not be the paranoid, hysterical efforts to hide what did happen.


28 posted on 11/09/2013 8:11:57 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: old curmudgeon
In your example, something of value was/is transferred as a direct result of the misrepresentation.

If you read up on Saul Alinski, obomas mentor, you'll know Alinski saw the middle class as the enemy. Yet, oboma "claims" he does what he does to "help" the middle class - another lie.
Look around. The wealthy are raking in the cash. The wealthy donors and obomas buddies are rolling in dough. The welfare base is collecting free handouts like kids trick or treating.
Who's really getting hurt? The middle class. Higher prices, higher taxes, oppressive regulations, and obomacare. They're carrying the entire burden. Eventually, there won't be any middle class left - just like Alinski (and oboma) wanted.

29 posted on 11/09/2013 8:14:22 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

You make my point again.

A lie is despicable, especially when it is the president of the United States of America.

But all lies are not fraud.

Bengazi, executive orders that specifically violate the Constitution, treason....much better areas to investigate.


30 posted on 11/09/2013 8:21:20 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: old curmudgeon
I believe there is such a line in Bengazi or there would not be the paranoid, hysterical efforts to hide what did happen.

Beck, who won't report anything that doesn't have hard facts behind it, said oboma was gun running against international law. He was arming the Al Quata sect of the muslim brotherhood - a declared enemy of the United States.
I hope Beck is right and the truth comes out. 4 Americans died because of a treasonous act, and a lot of politicians in Washington have their hands in it (possibly including Boner on the Republican side - which would explain why he's always getting in the way of the investigation).

31 posted on 11/09/2013 8:22:56 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: old curmudgeon
In your example, something of value was/is transferred as a direct result of the misrepresentation.

..the use of deceit or trick to cause someone to act to his/her disadvantage; This does not require direct benefit to the person committing the fraud nor even actual damages to the victim.

A person offering to grant riches to someone in exchange for a signature on a document offering their soul in payment would be a fraud with no benefit or damage.

32 posted on 11/09/2013 8:32:50 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

Ask yourself this:

If a Fortune 500 company had spent five years advertising that they were going to provide customers with a new system of healthcare coverage that...
- Lowered the premiums for an average family by $2,500/year
- Guaranteed coverage, regardless of preconditions
- That would allow you to keep your doctor
- That you didn’t have to join if you wanted to keep the plan you had

...and then the company rolled out the actual plan, and it had the same impact we’re seeing from what ObamaCare is doing, how long would it have taken Atty Gen Holder to arrest every leader in that company and perp-walk them to jail in front of every TV camera he could summon to the event?


33 posted on 11/09/2013 8:37:24 AM PST by RavenATB
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To: MeshugeMikey
A Japanese style apology...

but he doesn't have the stomach for it

(see Mishima the final hours for how its done)

34 posted on 11/09/2013 8:52:54 AM PST by spokeshave (Obamacare is planned, just like the planned famine by the Russians to eliminate the Ukrainians.)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

Personally, I favor RICO


35 posted on 11/09/2013 8:54:05 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: RavenATB

the truckloads of material gathered by the NSA....guarantees that this puke wont be impeahed must less arrested for his High Crimes and misdemeanors.

almost everyone has something they dont want discovered in some small closet somewhere...trivial nonsense form the fifth grade....perhaps but stuff they would be dealy embarrased about were it made PUBLIC.

Information as a tool of the devil...put to use by that snarky son of satan himself...Barack Ya Cant Touch Me..Obama


36 posted on 11/09/2013 8:55:36 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

wow! The republicans with courage had better get rolling on this!


37 posted on 11/09/2013 8:56:17 AM PST by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

It’s a good case for fraud, for sure, but he has immunity until he’s impeached and convicted. It’ll never happen: The GOPe won’t impeach a half-black man, and the Dems in the Senate would not convict a fellow Dem for any crime, even murder if he committed it on live television. Furthermore, DoJ would never prosecute one of Holder’s People.

This is the most extreme case of “Immunity by virtue of Affirmative Action” I’ve ever seen, and Obastard is playing it to the max.


38 posted on 11/09/2013 9:03:47 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: spokeshave
something like....?




39 posted on 11/09/2013 9:26:38 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Impeach or imprison. Either one works for me. Wait till he starts with the new executive orders he planning.


40 posted on 11/09/2013 10:54:34 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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