From ‘Scandal-Free’ to Near Scandal Fatigue in Three Weeks
On August 30, concerning President Barack Obama’s reelection prospects, Allan Lichtman, an American University history professor and author of The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President, told US News: “I don’t see how Obama can lose.”
Lichtman’s presidential election success formula, which has correctly predicted the winner of the popular vote in every contest since 1984, requires that the party currently holding the White House prevail on eight of thirteen “keys.” Lichtman contended that Obama was winning nine of them, with a tenth, whether the economy is in recession during the campaign, pegged as “undecided.”
What a difference three weeks makes.
Lichtman’s undecided key was questionable from the get-go. Even if the economy isn’t in recession as normally defined next year, almost everyone agrees that it will feel like one. The White House’s “alternative economic forecast” predicts that the unemployment rate will be at or above 9% throughout next year. The Congressional Budget Office hedges just a little, projecting “close to 9 percent through the end of 2012.” Both may be overly optimistic. Another month or two of job reports showing zero job gains or even job losses will almost certainly push the unemployment rate higher; if they don’t, it will only mean that “going Galt” has become more widespread. No incumbent president since World War II has won reelection with a jobless reading above 7.2%.
Lichtman believed, and probably still does, that Obama has met the first of his two “foreign/military” keys requiring “a major success in foreign or military affairs” because of Osama bin Laden’s assassination. While very important, whether it’s electorally “major” is debatable, especially considering the event’s subsequent mishandling. Even conceding bin Laden, an Islamist-dominated Libya or Egypt, each of which is quite possible by next fall, could ruin Lichtman’s other “foreign/military” key requiring no significant failures.
He also felt that Obama was winning the “scandal” key, which requires that “[t]he incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.” He then revealed that he’s not a close follower of the news beyond the Associated Press, the New York Times, and the ABC-CBS-NBC axis when he said: “This administration has been squeaky clean.”
Before readers double over in spasms of laughter, note that the presence or absence of “taint” is in the eyes of voters and depends heavily on whether scandals, to the extent they exist, have penetrated public perception. One dictionary definition of “scandal” calls it “a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc.,” but another requires “damage to reputation; public disgrace.”
Concerning the latter definition, Lichtman’s own ignorance demonstrated that he was probably right about his scandal key at the end of August, despite at least the following unreported or underreported items listed here which have arguably met the former.
Then came Solyndra, LightSquared, and Gunwalker.
“Any one of these three scandals would probably have brought down or at least seriously crippled a Republican or conservative administration by now.”
Which shows you what happens when you have a main stream media that’s in bed with Obama. There are no Woodward’s or Bernstein’s here ready to be lionized by the liberal press or have movies made about them. Nope, just silence. And what makes this even more scandalous is that nobody died in Watergate. In the Gunwalker scandal, you have the death of a border agent that can be directly tied to Gunwalker or “Operation Fast and Furious.” And we don’t even want to talk about how many Mexicans were killed over this botched operation. Yet the main stream media refuses to even investigate this, let alone call for a special prosecutor. If it wasn’t for the Internet, I doubt this story would have even come to light. Which is why many people don’t even bother with the main stream media anymore. And you can just bet if a Republican was in the White House, this would be front-page news from the main stream media. Just another reason to hate these animals.
Libertyship46 – spot-on. And BTW I think Gunwalker is far more serious than the other two. To me, Gunwalker was instituted with malice of forethought, the others are just tawdry criminal fraud.
we fall into a trap if we use gunwalker, started under bush. while I disagree with its original use it was morphed into Fast and Furious and we should call it that and that alone.
It’s irrelevant whether ‘gunwalker’->’Fast and Furious’ started under Bush, and for what purposes, we aren’t told.
An ethical Administration would have nipped it in the bud, loudly and publicly, as soon as inaugurated. Had Obama done so, he could have gained public plaudits – ‘political capital’ if you will. He didn’t. He goosed it, expanded it and probably had great hopes to apply its consequences ultimately against American citizens in the form of gun control legislation.
It’s ALWAYS relevant, and HUGELY important.
The left WILL try to say this was something Bush started, and therefore does not cast any shadow of blame on The One.
Words matter, a LOT. If you don’t understand this, you don’t understand the enemy we face, and the nature of the war we are in.
For now, it IS a war of words. If we want to keep it that way, we had better learn the proper use of that weapon.
You’d have a point of anything illegal had happened under Bush, but that all started under the O.
Take heart; it is very likely that once the republican candidate is chosen, ‘gunrunner’ will be used against Obama in the campaign. In bed with him or not, the MSM will have no choice but to cover it then. I am dying of curiosity to see how they will try to spin it in his favor. Most likely, as they did with Issa, they will start off ignoring it and viciously attack the candidate. It aint gonna work.
Scandals, hypocrisy and lies — we’ve got the video.
Let’s hope the Stupid Party nominee doesn’t go all McCain, self-muzzle and not hold Obama accountable
IMO Romney is most likely to ignore a nugget like gunwalker – ergo the one we must reject.
True, but that’s far from the only reason to reject Romney.
There’s a long list of reasons, namely, everything he ever did while in office.
Hmmmm. “Reject Romney.” That’s got a ring to it!
Exactly. That man knows how to put on blinders and ignore his own failures. IOW, way too much like Obama.
Ship,
Re gunwalker “If it wasn’t for the Internet, I doubt this story would have even come to light.”
So true, none of these “scandals” are going to go anywhere. The people who expose them will be treated as tinfoil hat wearing “birthers” and given less credibility than a your typical 9/11 “truther” by the MSM.
Its outragous that every election swings on the gutless “independent” squish, who are so willfully blind to these narrative games played by the MSM
Maybe not.
CBS is carrying the news today, and AP ran a story on it, too.
It may be that the rats are deserting this sinking ship. They need some cover for dumping The One, lest they face the wrath of the racist portion of the black community.
This might be it.
Ls-46 I quit reading the junk they call journalism years ago. I can buy good books that ars much better written than most news papers. they used to make good fish wraps. now there are some of them I would be afraid to wrap fish in for fear they would spoil the fish,
I hate to say, but I also put the blame for all this on the lame stream media. Its keeps our populus ingnorant and unable to get true information in order to make intelligent decisions. The media will lie and distort to advance their idea of a socialist utopia that does not exists, except in fairy tales. Hence, we get Obama as our president, unchecked welfare, SS that is bankrupt, housing market that is a lie…..I could go on and on!
A shame, a true shame…..but for a shameless media, another day.
I seem to recall a lamestream reporter referring to Odumbo as ” No Drama Obama”.
How’d that work out for us?
Any president who has a public snit and kicks open a door is not “no drama”.
so, here we go again, another disgraced president. All the while the congress gets away with their enabling of this graft and creation of a police state under the auspices of fighting terrorism. I want a new political party and a new government.
Where has innocent until proven guilty gone? The gov now spying on us round the clock, taxing, tracking and harassing. When did we agree to become nazi germany, the ussr, communist china?
Arise American, arise.
And now we have his “jobs bill” with provisions to take away state sovereignty that must be passed quickly (without reading, of course!) And who the heck wrote it? You know it wasn’t Obama.
The picture of Obama cowering in a corner when Seal Team Six took out UBL speaks volumes.
There is a profound difference between taking credit and deserving credit.
Obama will do the former and voters will realize he should get none of the latter.
Yes, looking at that picture, my sense of it was that he was angry and frustrated because he didnt want the operation to go forward. I cant really say if that was it or not, but that was my gut instinct. He looked like a brat-kid having to knuckle under when he didnt want to.
I’ve never seen the picture…… a link perhaps? Please
Here’s something worse:
http://newsflavor.com/politics/us-politics/did-senior-militaryintelligence-officials-overrule-president-obama-regarding-mission-to-kill-osama-bin-laden/#ixzz1LItA19Vd
Woefully uninvestigated and underreported.
Miriam’s link includes that picture. Take a good look at it. Who is sitting at the power position, the head of the table in the big chair? The C-in-C? Nope, some Air Force guy. Obama is in a little chair off to the side, as if he was dragged in off the golf course at the last minute when things were already underway… Which he apparently was. That picture speaks volumes to anyone who understands protocol.
My theory was that Osama was supposed to be Obama’s October Surprise in 2012. Kill him around Halloween, get the big bounce in the election a few days later among the rubes and get re-elected no matter how bad the economy might be. That is my guess as to why Obama looks so glum in that picture. Somebody already gathered up his prize Easter egg and now he’ll have to find some other October Surprise.
The corruption of our media is the biggest challenge we face. How are they not asking questions about this, such as…
Why was President Obama on the golf course until the last minute before the raid began? He obviously was, since he is wearing golf clothes, the White House said he was golfing, and he arrived after everybody else, which is why he is seated where he is. (Yes, I have no doubt that every single person with a good seat offerred their seat to the President. No doubt whatsoever, and he declined their offer, taking the seat that was available.) But that is what begs the question… Why was he not in the White House in the final hours leading up to the most important military mission of his presidency? How could any president be out golfing just before this mission began?
Yes, he does look angry in the close-up picture, as though somebody started without his permission…?
Something is wrong, and that picture needs to be explained. Of course, the media is worthless, so we are not likely to get any answers.
Obama appears odds-on to be denied a second term…to us. But it’s possible we’re overlooking several important factors:
– The unions will be solidly behind him.
– Many Americans remain unaware of the various Obama Administration scandals.
– There are far more government dependents and part-dependents today than there were on Election Day 2008.
– Illegally cast votes, vote counting shenanigans, and voter intimidation are likely to play a large part next Election Day.
– The Administration still has cards to play, including one that has seldom failed an incumbent regime: the foreign-war card.
– Republican internecine warfare could yet saddle us with another weak candidate, as the better ones kill one another off through attack politics.
– The Republican Party itself no longer has a strong strategic vision, as it did when Karl Rove was at the helm.
– The Democrat Party sees 2012 as make-or-break for its political future, and will surely “pull out all the stops” to avert electoral catastrophe.
Don’t get cocky. It’s time to work like hell, especially at the local level, to ensure that the GOP offers up sound, worthy candidates for every available office. It’s equally important that we reanimate the Republican “ground game:” the house-to-house proselytizing and get-out-the-vote efforts at which the Democrats have historically prevailed.
The future of the country is genuinely at stake this time.
Yes, that’s one of the reasons why we keep blogging.
If you’re in the mood for some humor, here’s one job that The Won probably won’t fail at.
Don’t forget the MSM’s all-too-ready, “They’re pickin’ on him ‘cuz he’s black” in 3….2…..1….
If the Fraud in Chief is reelected, capital and entrepreneurism will be “headin’ for the hills”.
The movie “Atlas Shrugged” will be played every year just like “It’s a Wonderful Life” or “The Wizard of Oz”.
What I don’t get is we see elections like New York and Nevada last week where people of all stripes are turning on the Dems but rocket scientists in the blame street media tell us that Obama is still favored.
It is no wonder there is no confidence or demand. We continue to hear from our betters that Obama will be reelected. And they wonder why we don’t buy a new car, paint the house or buy new clothes?
The sad truth is that those who live by having their hands out, palm up, believe what they see and hear on their large flat screen TVs. The MSM make sure these are spoon fed the Obama/liberal gruel.
I forget where I heard this quote, but I think it was about the Reagan/Carter election;
“He was leading in the polls right up until people started to vote.”
“Lichtman’s undecided key was questionable from the get-go. Even if the economy isn’t in recession as normally defined next year, almost everyone agrees that it will feel like one. The White House’s “alternative economic forecast” predicts that the unemployment rate will be at or above 9% throughout next year. The Congressional Budget Office hedges just a little, projecting “close to 9 percent through the end of 2012.” Both may be overly optimistic. Another month or two of job reports showing zero job gains or even job losses will almost certainly push the unemployment rate higher; if they don’t, it will only mean that “going Galt” has become more widespread. No incumbent president since World War II has won reelection with a jobless reading above 7.2%.”
Yep. If the economy hits bottom and gets stuck there, they don’t call it a recession. They call it a depression.
But to give the devil his due, I will say that both parties are to blame for one of the major reasons for unemployment and underemployment among the beleaguered middle classs.
Columbia papers, Harvard education funding, Tony Rezko, Stimulus I Pork Barrel corruption, Obamacare Pork Barrel corruption, Dodd Frank Big Bank Support corruption, Fast and Furious corruption, Solyndra corruption and now the $447 billion Stimulus II Pork Barrel corruption. And you were thinking it would end sometime soon? Stop the taxation drum beat you are scaring us and stop the pork spending. No question if McCain had been elected we would already be turning the slow government ship to cutting size and regulations and a decrease in unemployment. Sad for all of us.
agree with everything right up to the mccain part
the only “good” obama has done is provide the stimulus of the tea party and drawn a very visible line in the sand as to “what side are you on”
mccain would have muddled and befuddled everything and gone much further to confuse the conservative label with big government solutions
We only have the current debacle to witness first hand and gut feel for what McCain would or could have done. In defense of McCain he does not know any of the people appointed to czars, college professors turned economic advisors or solicitors turned federal and supreme court judges. If he did go along with the Pelosi and Reid agenda it would have been very surprising because he would have had realists on his staff including a VP. Love or hate Palin for whatever you think she did or did not do, maybe she saw Russia–good comedy routine, she is a realist that is closer to the values held by 70% of the population.
One effect of MSM being in bed with an Administration/Party is that those folk know that they can commit crimes/offenses with the expectation that they are at reduced or even no risk.
The MSM really needs to have this aspect thrust under their noses. That is, their bad behavior is itself a key causative factor in the bad behavior of those they cover for, emboldening them.
There’s a very important point to remember here. All of the stuff described by Mr. Blumer has come out in the last month DESPITE the fact that our sclerotic MSM (news and entertainment divisions) sill love Obama and will generally cover for him or spin anything he does. Ask yourself what might really be out there that the MSM has kept hidden for fear of damaging their guy even more.
It is the pre-IPO criminality that interests me. Just think how easy it would have been to make grants of stock or options, 5 to 50 thousand each, and then, when Solyndra went public, sell them quietly and make a small fortune.
You have to figure that Kaiser got a list of beneficiaries directly from Obama at any face-to-face meeting longer than 30 minutes. I’d bet the some of the names included some of Michelle’s relatives, and some of Pelosi’s, DiFi’s, Water’s relatives. It would have been a great, cheap way for Obama to buy the loyalty (and silence) of key Washington players.
With trillion dollars of American taxpayers’ money, Obama still can’t build a bus big enough to throw all the inconvenient characters under, nor a rug big enough to cover his “scandal-free” scandals.
These people have always been deluding themselves. The idea that a pol could emerge from the swamps of Chicago without ever having engaged in the “fruits” of corruption is as ludicrous as a woman working in a whorehouse for 20 years and emerging a virgin. For a virgin, Obama seems to know the moves pretty well; rational observers (i.e. someone who’s not an ivory-tower academic or “journolist”) could logically conclude he’s done it before.
All I can say about the criminal working from the oval office is that he was very, very foolish to think that crime pays. The most important factor, other than hauling his backside out to the curb, is to take away every dime he has made since walking into the White House. Our nation is so overwhelmed with those who don’t know their boundaries and limitations, eh? Thank God for Darryl Issa!
How can The Won win again? Easy. It’s all a numbers game and The Big Zero only needs 1% of the voters in order to win. Add it up: Blacks=10%, Hispanics=20%, Government Union Employees=10%, Non-Government Union Employees=5%, Die-Hard-Dems=5%. All he needs is a tiny 1% made up of college kids and totally uninformed dolts. The Obama-loving media can easily deliver the 1% he needs, which is why he’s spouting all the ‘get rid of the rich Republicans’ nonsense to appeal to the college kids and dolts. He knows he can depend on the media to carry the message for him.
Blacks=10%, Hispanics=20%, Government Union Employees=10%, Non-Government Union Employees=5%, Die-Hard-Dems=5%.
Have you consider overlaps: how many blacks or Hispanics are Govt union employees, non-govt., die-hards?
None of these people will vote Republican, but will they vote in 2012?
Unions aren’t uniformly democratic, just like the military isn’t uniformly Republican.
Peggy Noonan says there are no scandals of note, not for lack of trying though, any of the following would be a full blown scandal in the media for a Republican President. This is not a complete list by any means.
Fast and Furious, Gun runner out of the Justice Dept.
Black Panther and voter intimidation, Justice Dept.
Solyndra and $530 million squandered for ideological reasons to a campaign bundler, and another $1.2 billion recently placed at risk in other green energy projects (look for the bundlers), on top of many more billions of green energy projects that are not working out as planned.
Light Squared and forcing Air Force General to alter testimony to support big Obama campaign donor.
SEIU beatings of black Tea Party activist, a clear hate crime, failure to prosecute by the Justice Department.
A war in Libya prosecuted without Congressional vote or approval.
ACORN scandal, and the redirecting of funds to the same groups with new names doing the same things.
Auto industry ie GM and Chrysler violation of bankruptcy laws, secured bond holders were displaced by unsecured unions for the assets of the companies.
The stimulus, were did the money go? Not much to show for it.
Attackwatch.com and a similar program during the Obama care drama to report anyone not falling in line with the regime.
Mishandling the oil spill in the gulf, leading to more oil spilled.
Egypt and how we are letting it slide to the Moslem Brotherhood.
Czars running vast agencies without Senate confirmation,
And a bunch of small by comparison stuff, Bill Ayres, Jerimiah Wright, the way Obama care was passed, illegal immigrant aunt and uncle, abuse of allies ie Netanyahu, Brown, Korea, Honduras, the unemployment rate reported as 9% when it is really closer to 16%, failure to support and encourage the Green party in Iran after their stolen election etc.
And he is such a nice guy too, for example how he called out the Supreme Court in his state of the Union address, how he attacked Paul Ryan for putting a budget plan together, called the Cop a racist without knowing what had transpired, continually talking trash about and to Republicans. We saw none of this with our last president.
The problem here is there are so many choices it is hard to sustain much enthusiasm for any one of them. Another day another scandal, where do you start?
What are you SAYING, this guys PERFECT…
No one but the weirdos in tin foil hats knows any of the things you mentioned..
You obviously dont get your news from Official Sources, do you?
Freak!
(snark off)
Black Panther and voter intimidation, Justice Dept.
You haven’t read PJ Media’s series on the Justice Department’s savage discrimination in hiring new career lawyers? Eleven articles have clearly shown that none but far-left lawyers are considered for hiring into the ‘Civil Rights’ division of DOJ – backed up by the resumes of each hiree, pried out of DOJ by Freedom of Information suit, and heavily redacted to boot.
Let’s not forget:
Canceling the F22 program as too costly, now both Russia and China have the equivalent.
Canceling the European anti missile program unilaterally for friendship with Russia.
Putting a kabotch on the F35 program, again too costly.
Holding up oil exploration on the continental US.
Don’t forget Libya, and Tunisia.
Using all his federal forces to influence a local election in Wisconsin.
All the havoc the EPA has done in the name of ecology, see the making of a desert in central California.
All those wonderful vacations he has had on our dollar.
Letting Eric Holder subvert the American justice system.
Google ‘Obama Scandals’ and get 14+ million hits. My opinion is this correlates with the reality of this administration’s scandals better than the Dartmouth Professor’s WaPo front page method. Added plus, no tuition debt from attending the overpriced Dartmouth and another opportunity to ignore the WaPo.
This administration might look to have been “scandal-free” but it has been braking the law since way back in the campaign, when Barky held his biggest political rally of the whole campaign in a foreign nation … for foreigners. In case you didn’t know, that’s as illegal as it gets and about the most repulsive political act one can even imagine. Just because no one had the brains or guts to hold Barky accountable for that action (which should have seen him immediately tossed from the race) doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a “scandal”. The tree fell, whether people claimed to hear it or not.
If that wasn’t enough, we had further campaign illegalities (which should have led to ejection from the race or impeachment, now) with the finances. Now, that was about as blatant and obviously twisted as the American Presidential Campaign Rally in Berlin, Germany for Germans. Barky intentionally shut off the AVS for credit card transactions on his campaign web site, thereby allowing anonymous donations and donations from individuals being able to be spread over many names and addresses. This was clearly illegal. It was unbelievably illegal given all of the un-Constitutional junk that was just put into place with McCain-Feingold (and, BTW, thanks to that idiot McCain who could force that piece of trash legislation on America but not have ONE WORD to say about his opponent making a total mockery of even Constitutional campaign finance law).
And the impeachable actions just continued once Barky slimed into office …
Scandal free? Only to those who can’t see. This administration has been a scandal a day.
If a scandal befalls the Democratic Party and we don’t hear a sound from the dead tree brigade, can we see the forest for the trees?
Pick a scandal, any scandal. And watch JournoListo make it disappear before your very eyes.
1)Voting registration scandals
2)Credit card security turned off scandals
3)Black Panther intimidation scandals
4)Union creditors placed ahead of other creditor scandal
5)DOJ hiring scandal
6)GunWalker scandal
7)Solyndra scandal
8)Lightsquared scandal
9)East Anglia scandal
10)Barney Frank basement scandal
11)Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac scandal/Franklin Raines/Jim Johnson
12)Maxine Waters bank scandal
The dirty dozen above do not reflect an exhaustive list, but rather a representative sampling…buried by the co-conspirators in the mass media, for minimum exposure and damage control.
In fact, the only exposing done of Democrats in the last three years, has been from Anthony Weiner’s bathroom.
The Indonesian Prime Minister’s adminstration was found to be in contempt with respect to the dictator-like actions they took to restrict off-shore oil drilling (against the law … but this administration never cared about that). Scandal or not?
The gulf oil spill, itself, was unreal in how the feral government screwed up every single thing they were responsible for and went even further to block the States from carrying out any mitigation, containment, or cleanup pricedures (that they had ready to go) thereby making the oil spill as bad as possible (sort of like the now flowering Fast and Furious insanity in how they abused the power of the feral government to harm the States and the People and push through their own stupid ideas – to just stop the drilling, which is what finally got the idiots the contempt citation noted above). Scandal or not?
The World Traitor Tour (spread over a year). An American Precedent running around the world telling everyone who would listen how terrible America was before he slimed into office. Blaming America for just about everything (he even managed to worm a blame for colonialism (WTF?) into his stupid Cairo Telepromptering). This is un-Constitutional, by any reasonable view and just plain repulsive and stupid. The Oval Office became the base of operations of the non-aligned movement, which suddenly found its alignment in destroying America. Scandal or not?
I could go on and on with these examples. Anyone could. Pick a week. Chances are that there were at least two (non)scandals that happened. Any week of the Indonesian’s term. Pick one.
Of course, we have to understand that we are talking about a guy who could say such mind-numbingly ridiculous things as “profit and earnings ratios” and claim that his health scare will “reduce premiums by 3000%” – thereby showing that he has the mathematical sophistication of a slow 8th grader … seriously – and yet there is still discussion among many over how smart he is. The guy surely didn’t crack 920 on his SATs. He says dumb things all the time. Yet … the story that he’s not as dumb as a box of rocks is alive and well. Just as the “scandal free” silliness is.
Well, I made a comment earlier but it seems to have gone astray. In it I mentioned I’d seen the CBS piece about the recording made by the gun dealer in Texas so not all of the MSM are ignoring it. I also wanted to point out the use of the word “were” as in how many people were killed in Mexico by Gunwalker guns, as if this were in the past tense. Most of these guns are still out there, so shouldn’t we stress that many people were, are being, and will be killed by this idiocy?
I also just got this in an email from a friend and think it fits right in with this article…
Issa to investigate government loan programs
By Justin Sink
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that his committee plans to investigate government loan programs to private corporations in light of allegations of improper dealings between the White House and failed energy company Solyndra and wireless startup LightSquared.
“I want to see when the president and his cronies are picking winners and losers. It wasn’t because there were large contributions given to them,” the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Tuesday morning on CSPAN.
The “Lightwalker” is about the get LightSquared. This is better than fiction.
The criminal was never scandal free, he was wrapped in a cocoon of lies, and he still is.
When he can spend a lifetime swimming in an ocean of radicals, and most of the country isn’t even aware of it, then it should come as no surprise that he is the most corrupt person this country has ever seen, and only now are a few of the corruptions coming out.
It’s the bare tip of the iceberg.
There has never been anything like this guy. Not only is he the most radical, and the most corrupt, the fact that ANYTHING he does would pop out through the cone of silence built around him by Pravda indicates that he is also the dumbest guy we have ever encountered.
Obama has been a walking talking scandal from day one. People just not want to see it because they wanted obama to be something he is not!
Whistling past the graveyard. “I don’t see how this guy can lose.” Really? Well, if you have your hands over your ears and are screaming la-la-la-la, you might see things his way.
Not in a recession? Only inflation makes it look like we have any kind of positive GDP growth. We never came out of the recession. In fact, we are in a Depression.
No scandal? Ostrich.
“Major military accomplishment”? Killing bin Laden was not a major military accomplishment. It was splashy, but lacked real substance. Winning a war is a major accomplishment. Have we won any wars? Still in Iraq and Afghanistan, with casualties mounting. Libya was a fiasco. Bin Laden was mere window dressing.
I do not think those words mean what he thinks they mean.
Never pay attention to any liberal/progressive/communist/socialistic or nationalist that works in academia or the media!
Obama will lose his re-election just as soon as people actually start to vote in the 2012 election just as Carter did, just counting the days till I can vote against this horrid idiot and rid our nation of the worst mistake ever made by the voters in 2008!
“Lichtman’s presidential election success formula, which has correctly predicted the winner of the popular vote in every contest since 1984″
Wow… big deal…he got 7 in a row with his dopey system. But not 7 Presidents, just 7 popular vote winners. (Yeah, I know all about Bush stealing it… stealing it away from Gore who was trying to steal it.)
Seven in a row is not really that impressive, especially when it just suddenly starts counting in 1984.
Besides, it is so subjective that it calls all of the results into question. Some of those elections were pretty easy to call without a superduper system made up by a superduper professor.
I am calling BS on this clown. Especially after seeing his assessment of Obama’s presidency.
Lichtman’s interpretations of Obama’s chances demonstrate that he’s just another example of the tired, old, inbred American elite, trotting out his “tried and true” formula one more time after its expiration date.
I’m glad most of these people have a penchant for having too few kids, or no kids at all, or even aborting. They act like they’re dying off, so I hope they are.
More Scandal: America’s Politically-Correct Gay Military
. . . All that aside, and it shouldn’t be put too far aside in view of the unremitting campaign by gays, lesbians, bi-sexuals, and trans-sexuals to convince America of their normality, it’s a whole new day for the armed forces of the United States of America! Gays are usually focused on children but this new day celebrates adults.
After extensive studies and a manipulated survey of the troops, despite vehement objections and compelling evidence contradicting the survey’s validity, as of September 20th, 2011 homosexuals will be permitted to openly serve in the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard.
As Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Maginnes (Ret.) pointed out, the “consequences could be significant, but the American public has no clue because because the 111th Democrat-controlled Congress repealed the ban [on gays in our military] in a “lame-duck” session without hearing a single dissenting view.”
That ban, that law, 10 U.S.C. § 654, aka the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, in place for 18 years ever since Bill Clinton followed the advice of Dick Morris and pushed for its passage in 1993 in order to appear a moderate on the issue, had grated on the homosexual community for almost two decades.
With Republicans slated to take control of the House of Representatives in 2011, gays knew it was time to call in all their Democrat chits and Democrat supporters so they could “integrate” the armed forces with homosexuals.
Maginnes, who now serves as a media national security adviser/analyst, detailed the not-unforeseen, not-unintended but ignored realities, consequences, and potential repercussions of repealing DADT in ”Congress Ignored Perils of Lifting Military’s Gay Ban.”
Primary ignored realities are the majority opposition from the troops, high rates of STDs among homosexuals, and the inherent pitfalls of gays showering and bunking with same-gender personnel, the equivalent of men and women sharing baths and bedrooms.
The consequences of that ignorance should have been apparent even to politicians, even to Democrat politicians. But there are more . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5512.)
The President’s Worn-Out Clothes
. . . Not that it will get any more attention from Obama’s MSM than any of his many previous gaffes and unrehearsed revelations of fallibility and stupidity but The Anointed One really lost his ointment when he was caught with his pants, that is, teleprompters, down in front of an audience at D.C.’s Benjamin Banneker High School.
He confessed not only that he was “not always the very best student” but that ethics “would not have made it on the list” of his favorite subjects. He elaborated by saying, “I did not love every class I took. I wasn’t always paying attention.”
Most school kids don’t pay an awful lot of attention to their teachers but at that point Obama dropped his Obamabomb by fessing up to what has been obvious thoughout his career: “I remember when I was in 8th grade I had to take a class called ethics. Now, ethics is about right and wrong, but if you’d ask me what my favorite subject was back in 8th grade, it was basketball. I don’t think ethics would have made it on the list.”
That admission was the equivalent of Ted Kennedy conceding he was an immoral rake and Jimmy Carter agreeing he was inept. Why bother mentioning what is self-evident? The man who announced a string of “ethics rules” after his election has led an administration that has breached more rules of ethics in just the last year than Richard Nixon could ever have dreamed of.
It was nice of Obama to reveal that his ethical shortcomings date back to his childhood. Now it’s time to get out of his imperial clothes and get out of the White House. (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5614.)