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
• $6 trillion in new national debt under Obama…after he promised to decrease the deficit.
• Obamacare — A massive and incredibly convoluted bill which exponentially increases the federal government’s control over our personal lives…which neither Obama nor a single Democrat even read before passing, and which will likely bankrupt the nation.
• In both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the Obama campaign purposely disabled the credit card verification system for its Web site donations, allowing anyone from any foreign country to donate with no limit and no proof of identity; in both elections it was demonstrated that people overseas and people with obviously false identities were able to donate to Obama campaign, in direct violation of several laws. To this day it is not known what percentage of Obama’s campaign funds are illegally obtained, since there is no documentation.
• Billions of taxpayer dollars gambled on “green” companies like Solyndra, NextEra, Ener1, Solar Trust and many others — all of which went bankrupt.
• An intentional refusal to enforce federal immigration laws.
• Unemployment at or above 8% for almost his entire term in office (which was actually closer to 15% actual unemployment).
• Operation Fast & Furious — a government-sponsored illegal gun-running scheme designed to purposely go awry so as to induce public outcry for gun control.
• Spent 20 years listening to a racist anti-American pastor (Rev. Jeremiah Wright), whom Obama described as a mentor. On March 18, 2008, Obama gave a speech in which he said “I could no more disown Jeremiah Wright than I could disown my own grandmother” and “[Wright's church, Trinity United] embodies the black community in its entirety.” Now Obama tries to pretend that Jeremiah Wright doesn’t exist, and that his extremist anti-white philosophy didn’t influence Obama’s worldview.
• Increased the percentage of Americans dependent on food stamps to unprecedented levels (now over 15% of the nation’s population).
• Militarily intervened in Libya in 2011 without the Congressional approval required by the War Powers Act — technically an impeachable offense.
• Before he entered politics, Obama worked as a lawyer suing banks in landmark cases, forcing them to give home loans to unqualified minority borrowers — a practice now understood as one of the primary initial causes of the eventual housing bubble and market collapse.
• Handed out over 1,200 waivers to politically connected donors exempting them from the onerous requirements of Obamacare.
• Greatly expanding the number of unaccountable “czars,” which essentially amounts to unilaterally adding new federal departments with no congressional oversight — leading to a true “bureaucracy” in the original sense (rule by unelected bureaucrats).
• Using taxpayer dollars to bail out the private pension funds of autoworkers’ unions at GM & Chrysler.
• Illegally ending the welfare-to-work requirements passed by Congress.
• Doling out $800 billion in stimulus cash for “shovel-ready” jobs that didn’t exist — the money just evaporated with no measurable economic benefit.
• Alienating and isolating Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East.
• Apologizing to Islamists and terrorists for offending them.
• Under Obama’s watch, for the first time in history America’s credit rating was downgraded, due to his poor economic policies.
• Stopped American oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, allowing other nations with worse environmental records to drill instead — thereby managing to both weaken our economy and damage the environment simultaneously.
• Proposed in 2008 to intentionally bankrupt the coal industry — and now lies to voters and workers in coal-producing regions about his true intent.
• Pretends to be concerned about skyrocketing energy prices, when in fact he vowed to increase them on purpose (so as to make alternative energy schemes more competitive.)
• In a primary debate against Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama said he would never force people to buy health insurance, since those without it couldn’t afford to buy it. Less than two years later, he rammed through Obamacare, which does indeed force people to buy health insurance.
• During the 2008 campaign, Obama repeatedly promised that if he was elected “No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase.” This promise was broken over and over again once he was elected.
• In 2008 Obama vowed if elected to increase security along the U.S.-Mexican border — and then in 2010 stopped construction of a “virtual fence” on the border and re-routed money earmarked for border security to other projects.
• Cash for Clunkers, which doled out taxpayer money to anyone who wanted to replace their old cars, but which mostly only ended up subsidizing the puchase of foreign-made cars by people who could have afforded them on their own anyway; meanwhile, the traded-in cars were all destroyed, creating a shortage and thereby increasing the cost of used cars, hurting the pocketbooks of poor people.
• Violated the U.S. Constitution by authorizing assassinations and drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad — without due process.
• Was caught on a “hot mike” promising the President of Russia that he would cave in to their demands for a weaker missile shield — after he was re-elected and no longer had to keep up the pretense that he sought to defend America.
• Appointed Van Jones, a former avowed communist who supported a “9/11 Truth” petition, to be “Green Jobs Czar.”
• Appointed Anita Dunn, who said Chairman Mao was her “favorite philosopher,” to be White House Communications Director.
• Appointed John Holdren, who perviously entertained the notion of forced mass sterilzation to stop overpopulation, to be Science Czar.
• Appointed Steven Chu, who openly advocated an artificial increase in gasoline prices to $10/gallon (and similar increases in other energy prices) to be Secretary of Energy.
• Appointed Kevin Jennings, who led a group that promoted X-rated “sex-positive” textbooks for 13-year-olds, instructed teenagers at a conference how to perform “fisting” (anal penetration by fists), who refused to report instances of statutory rape, and who expressed admiration for a member of NAMBLA, to be America’s “Safe School’s Czar.”
• When states voted to enforce the federal immigration laws which the federal government refused to enforced, Obama sued to stop them.
• Blocked continued construction of the Keystone Pipeline, thereby intentionally reducing energy resources for the US and forcing Canada to sell more of its oil to China.
• Repeatedly changed his position on gay marriage over the years, depending on what was politically expedient at the moment and which intended audience he was addressing.
• Before he was president, Obama staunchly opposed raising the national debt limit — but once elected, he insisted that it be raised.
• When giving a 2009 speech in France that he must have assumed Americans would never hear, he described the United States as “arrogant” and “dismissive” (while also criticizing Europe elsewhere in the speech).
• When states tried to stop election fraud with voter ID laws, Obama sued to prevent them from doing so.
• Instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to stonewall any investigation into the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers.
• Promised in 2008 that once elected he would officially recognize the Armenian Genocide; but to this date he has still failed to do so, caving in to threats and pressure from Turkey.
• Vowed to end the influence of lobbyists in Washington, but under Obama’s watch their influence has only increased.
• When he was first running for President, Obama promised, “I will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.” Needless to say, he has broken that promise with almost every bill he has signed since.
• Aided and abetted the “Arab Spring” which deposed existing secular governments across North Africa, leading to a regional power vacuum which was filled by Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other hardline Islamists.
• Refused to provide assistance or support the the earlier secular Iranian democracy uprising, allowing them to be crushed by the Islamic fundamentalist Iranian regime.
• In his first months in office, Obama bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, the president of China, the Emperor of Japan, and President of Mexico, among others.
• Ordered NASA to make one of its top priorities not space exploration or scientific research but “Muslim outreach.”
• Used Obamacare as a pretext to greatly increase the size and power of the IRS (which was given 16,000 new agents and additional mandates to penalize taxpayers for noncompliance).
• Used the IRS to harass conservative businesses.
• In the GM bailout, he illegally shortchanged investors who according to bankruptcy laws were first in line to be recompensed; instead, he gave their share to the unions.
• Shut down oil drilling in the US, but then turned around and lent $2 billion to Brazil to support their government-controlled oil-drilling effort — and then promised the US would become one of Brazil’s biggest oil customers.
• Sued Boeing in an effort to control where businesses could locate, kowtow to the unions, and block the creation of 1,000 jobs in South Carolina, a right-to-work (i.e. no forced unionization) state.
• Adopted a longstanding Socialist political slogan, “Forward!”, as his 2012 campaign motto.
• Sent insulting form letters to the familes of dead SEALs.
• Neither disavowed nor distanced himself from anti-Romney campaign ads which threatened or implied violence against Republicans.
• Shortly after the recent eruption of anti-American violence in North Africa, Obama went to Las Vegas to do his debate preparation in a hotel…with a romanticized North Africa theme.
• Said in an interview that the Muslim call to prayer was “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.”
• Union boss and far-left activist Andy Stern has visitied Obama in the White House at least 53 times, at last count — greater access than any other private citizen.
• Hosted at the White House many Islamist members of groups associated with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc.
• Sponsored performances by and attended fundraisers with radical rappers like Michael Franti and Common, both of whose lyrics have in some cases been anti-police, anti-white, and anti-America.
• Hired Timothy Geithner, who is documented as cheating on his own personal taxes, to be Secretary of the Treasury.
• Told Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher that it was good to “spread the wealth around.”
• Told small business owners nationwide in a 2012 speech that “you didn’t build that” — implying that they should not claim credit for their own success, since taxpayers (i.e. themselves and other business owners) had funded the national infrastructure.
• Insulted the British people by rudely returning to them a bust of Churchill which previously had been a ceremonial gift on display at the White House; when later confronted on this inexplicable action, he lied about it.
• Canceled plans to complete a missile defense shield in Poland, a move which was highly praised by Russia — the very nation whose missile threat would have been neutralized if the shield had been completed.
• By loudly publicizing (for personal political gain) the identity of exact SEAL teams who had killed Osama bin Laden, Obama made them a target for reprisals by Islamists; a short time later 22 SEALS were shot down and killed in Afghanistan, their worst loss of life ever.
• Established an extra-Constitutional top secret “kill list” of people (including Americans) Obama claims the right to kill on sight, and then bragged about it publicly.
• Set up a special email account, “Flag@Whitehouse.gov,” to which Americans were supposed to inform the government of anyone they heard spreading “disinformation” about Obama’s health care overhaul. (This was the first of three different “spy on your friends and neighbors” programs.)
• “Attack Watch” was Obama’s second Big Brother attempt, a Web site on which you would report “attacks” on Obama’s proposals and ideology; it was quickly shut down due to outrage and mockery.
• Finally, Obama set up the “Truth Team” program which encouraged citizens to report to the government any friends or relatives they hear repeating “lies” about Obama. The Truth Team site still exists.
• Twisted the arms of defense contractors to not issue layoff notices in early November, so as to avoid causing bad news for Obama right before the election — even though federal law (the “WARN Act”) requires such notices.
• After the attacks on American interests in North Africa on September 11, 2012, Obama gave a speech to the U.N. and declared “The future must not belong to those who slander The Prophet of Islam” — transferring the blame from the attackers onto the makers of a film trailer that supposedly “offended” the Islamists.
• Repeatedly snubbed and got into public tiffs with Benjamin Netanyahu, who as the leader of Israel is supposed to be Obama’s closest colleague in international affairs.
• On May 19, 2011, Obama told Israel they must return to the 1967 borders as a pre-condition for continuing talks with the Palestinians — even though the status of the borders was the main issue the talks were supposed to address.
• Encouraged politically biased hiring practices in the Justice Department.
• Soon after taking office, Obama rescinded the “Mexico City Policy,” which previously had banned NGOs which are supported by American taxpayer funds from using those funds to perform abortions in foreign countries.
• Attempted to force returning veterans to pay huge increases for their health coverage…as a way to generate more funding for his Obamacare provisions.
• In June of 2011, he anointed his own underage daughters as “senior staff members” so that their vacation to Africa would be paid for with taxpayer money.
• Interviews with high school classmates revealed that Obama was a heavy and frequent user of marijuana in his teenage years (not to mention his self-admitted cocaine use in college).
• Played over 100 rounds of golf during his first three years in office, meaning that he was on the links close to 10% of the days he has been president.
• Voted to allow post-birth abortions (i.e. facilitating the deaths of babies who survive late-term abortions) not just once but three times in a row as an Illinois state senator.
• The pastor whom Obama selected to give the national benediction at his 2009 inauguration recently declared that “all white people are going to Hell.”
• Sided with Hugo Chavez and the Castro regime regarding the Honduran Constitutional Crisis of 2009, the first time ever that the U.S. formed a political alliance with socialist governments in Latin America.
• Obama Administration OKed the nomination of Chas Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council (which coordinates intelligence reports from all government agencies), despite the fact that he was openly hostile to Israel and strongly favored Arabist goals. (He later withdrew under pressure.)
• Chinese pianist Lang Lang played an offensively anti-American song at a 2011 White House dinner where Obama hosted Chinese president Hu Jintao, to the delight and amazement of the communist Chinese visitors, while Obama just sat there and smiled (the song’s Chinese lyrics describe Americans as “warmongering jackals”).
• There was a great deal of (still unverified) suspicion that the company LightSquared received favorable treatment from the Obama administration for approval of its broadband technology which interfered with the GPS system; an Air Force general claimed he was pressured by the Obama administration to downplay his criticism of LightSquared’s technology in sworn testimony.
• Obama’s Department of Energy awarded $529 million to Fisker Automotive to build their Karma hybrid electric cars — even though they are manufactured in Finland, cost over $100,000 each, and tend to explode.
• When Inspector General Gerald Walpin discovered during a 2009 investigation that one of Obama’s political allies (the mayor of Sacramento) was misusing government funds for personal gain, Obama unceremoniously fired Walpin — even though rooting out fraud was the job description of the Inspector General.
• More than once Obama made so-called “recess appointments” when the Senate was not actually in recess, which directly violates Constitutional rules about how appointments must be made; in each case it was his way of getting his political allies into certain key positions without them being vetted or approved by the Senate, as required.
• After Nidal Malik Hasan massacred 13 people at Fort Hood while shouting “Allahu Akbar” so as to become a martyr for Islam, the Obama administration refused to classify his action as “terrorism” and instead deemed it merely “workplace violence.”
• Despite the fact that the Falkland Islands have been part of Great Britain since 1833 and that Great Britain is supposed to be our strongest ally, Obama essentially sided with Argentina in its new claim on the Falklands, not only by adopting the Argentine position that their status is open to negotiation, but even by (attempting to) refer to the islands by their Spanish name (Malvinas).
• Convened the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (a.k.a. the Simpson-Bowles commission) in order to address a major economic crisis…and then summarily dismissed and ignored their recommendations.
• Criticized the Supreme Court’s legal reasoning (about the Citizen’s United decision) during a State of the Union address, which many considered a dangerous precedent as it appeared to place political pressure on the court, violating the Constitution’s separation of powers; but his bullying seems to have later paid off, when the Supreme Court apparently altered its Obamacare decision so as to not ruffle any political feathers.
• On April 27, 2009, Obama’s staff (possibly at his direction) ordered Air Force One to make an unnecessary very low flight over part of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty, which many residents mistakenly assumed must be a second 9/11 attack in progress; turned out that it was just a stunt to get a photo op of Obama’s plane next to the Statue of Liberty.
• Obama somehow managed to insert mentions of himself into the official biographies of earlier presidents on the White House Web site — even presidents from the 19th century. After public outcry, the narcissistic Obama mentions were quietly removed without comment.
• Intentionally misquotes the Declaration of Independence in speeches, often leaving out the words “by their Creator” in the famous passage “…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” which Obama instead has recited as “…are endowed with certain unalienable rights.”
• In June of 2009, Obama’s Solicitor General (and now Supreme Court Justice) Elena Kagan filed a legal brief to prevent the families of 9/11 victims from appealing their lawsuits against the Saudi royal family for financing the 9/11 attacks.
• The 2009 National Christmas Tree in the White House was decorated with ornaments depicting Chairman Mao, a drag queen, and a picture of Mount Rushmore that included Obama’s own head next to George Washington’s.
• Compelled Catholic and other religious organizations to provide health plans with free contraception, even though such requirements violate their rights of religious freedom and conscience.
• It was revealed only after Obama became president that during the 1990s he was a leading member of the “New Party,” a socialist-aligned far-left radical group in Chicago.
• Lied about his close associations with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers; pretended the two barely knew each other, when multiple sources document they were friends and close colleagues for years.
• When Obama was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009, he at first flubbed the oath of office, so he had to re-take it behind closed doors for his inauguration to be valid. He did so, but during this second, true inauguration in private, he purposely failed to place his hand on a Bible, as is traditional — the first president ever to not swear the oath of office on the Bible.
• Obama’s own author bio in his literary agent’s catalog and on their Web site stated for 17 consecutive years that he was born in Kenya; this claim remained intact despite other portions of the bio being altered and updated repeatedly. It was only in 2007 after he decided to run for the presidency that the “born in Kenya” claim was taken down. The original info must necessarily have come from Obama himself; some theorize he likely falsely claimed foreign birth in order to gain admission or scholarships in college, and never bothered to fix his lie.
• After winning the 2008 election but before being sworn in, Obama bombastically concocted the official-seeming “Office of the President-Elect” as if it was some kind of real government department; in fact, it was just a self-congratulatory title he made up to look important before he actually became president.
• Obama administration came up with the bizarre euphemism “man-caused disasters” to describe acts of terrorism — because he wants to downplay terrorism as a significant political issue.
• For three years in a row his official budget proposals to Congress received exactly zero votes — not even a single vote from Democrats.
• Relied on an Islamic fundamentalist militia group called “The Martyrs of the February the 17th Revolution Brigade” to provide security at the American mission in Benghazi — and they not only failed to prevent the attack but perhaps even joined in on it.
• During the debate over Obamacare in 2009, Obama bluntly stated that doctors like to perform amputations rather than practice preventive medicine for no other reason than that they make a greater profit from amputations. The American College of Surgeons demanded an apology, which never arrived.
• Since 2008 the Los Angeles Times has been in possession of a videotape showing Obama honoring and praising anti-Western anti-Israel academic Edward Said, but they have steadfastly refused to release it to this day, for no discernible reason other than their belief it would damage Obama’s reputation.
• When the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe recently held a conference on human rights, Obama sent an American representative — Salam al-Marayati, a Truther who blamed Israel for the 9/11 attacks and who also praises Hezbollah and Hamas. To the nations of Europe, al-Marayati spoke for all Americans on the topic of human rights.
• Obama’s Department of Homeland Security specifically warned that Americans who are “dedicated to a
single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration” are potential terrorists, as are libertarian-minded voters who “favor of state or local authority” over centralized power. These “rightwing extremists” (who hold political beliefs shared by a majority of Americans) are deemed a greater threat to the nation than actual revolutionaries or jihadists.
• While campaigning in 2008 Obama declared that it was “unpatriotic” that Bush had increased the national debt at a rate of half a trillion dollars per year; but under Obama the rate of national debt increase has accelerated to almost three times the Bush rate ($6 trillion in new debt in under four years) — yet Obama has never apologized nor declared himself unpatriotic.
• For decades, every president has attended a “daily intelligence briefing” which updates him on critical world events each morning. Obama has skipped 60% of his daily intelligence briefings, including the ones leading up to the attack in Benghazi.
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[...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...]
…Also see:
• President Barack Obama’s Complete List of Historic Firsts
• The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates
• A Chronic Case of Obamnesia: Obama’s Long Trail of Flip-Flops
• Obama’s Marxist Associations and Policies
(Remember an Obama misdeed not listed here? Mention it in the comments section below! Eventually all many suggestions will be incorporated into the list. [Update: There simply aren’t enough hours between now and November 6 to add the hundreds of great suggestions rolling it; I’ll do as many as I can, but the list will inevitably be incomplete. Read the comments themselves below for many more Obama misdeeds that won’t make it onto the list.)





Don’t forget “Cash for Clunkers,” essentially using taxpayer money to subsidize the purchase of “eco-friendly” cars to replace trucks and SUV which were then destroyed as a “bid to stimulate the economy” which only saw rich Yuppies turning in their American-made Trucks and SUVs for foreign small cars (some made in the USA). How one improves an economy by willfully destroying tens of billions of dollars of assets without anyone in the media saying this is insane is beyond me.
May I add…
1. The program drove up the price of used cars sky high! When once a reputable new car dealer wouldn’t EVER have a car with 100K miles on their used lot, you see most with 100K miles and $8K price tags. Let them take the bus!
2. Forcing thousands of new car dealers out of business. Playing favorites of course.
Yes, forcing over 1,000 auto dealerships to close during the Chrysler/GM seizure orchestrated by Obama. My memory is that most of the dealerships closed were owned by republicans.
You’re right about that. I remember Gretchen Carlson from Fox & Friends lamenting the forced closure of her family’s multi-generational GM dealership. Get this, that particular dealership had exceeded their sales goals too…yet they were closed, not some poorly performing dealership.
yes, I was affected by this idiotic program. I had a great running older car, but needed a new computer module. The mechanic could not find one anywhere because of this program. We had to junk the car – and either I or my wife took the bus for the next two years. The mechanic gave me a good description of how this stupid program had affected so many lower income people.
Oh yes. We’re having to buy a car right now, because our 16yo rusty old Subaru Impreza Outback with 134,000 miles on it had the misfortune of being parked where the neighbor’s willow tree came down last Monday. We’re replacing it with a 17yo Subaru Legacy Outback with only 101,000 miles. I think most of the cars at that lot had over 100K on them. We got a sweetheart deal, probably because most people would look at the age, not the milage, so we’re happy, but still, ever since cash for clunkers that lot has had a much smaller inventory of used cars every time I’ve driven past. Though part of that could also be that in the current economy, we all drive our cars until they are dead, which would also lessen the used car inventory out there.
Cash for clunkers was my all time favorite!!!
Perfectly good running vehicles purchased… and DESTROYED…not even GIVEN AWAY to “the poor” for THEM to sell and keep the money…or keep so they could maybe look for WORK outside their crumbling neighborhoods?
WTF!!
Had an Obama lover at work named Kenny I was trying to explain the madness to, and he didnt get it until the NEXT guy came in the break room with a soda in his hand…
I said “hey Bill, I’ll give you 5 bucks…of KENNEYS money…to dump out that soda and drink water from the fountain…its better for you”
Bill says “Thats fine with me…c’mon, give it up Kenny!”
Kenny says “whoa now, hold on, whats in it for me, that aint fair”
And I explained how Bill would be healthier and miss less work days which in turn makes the Company stronger and thus help guarantee Kennys Job, and how Bill would also live longer to pay more taxes that would ultimately benefit Kennys and his family “in the long run”
Kenny says “f*ck dat noise..I just lost 5 bucks and never even tasted that soda I bought? I aint no chump man, thats BULLsh*t”
And another Conservative was born!
Oddly enough, the very cars that should be taken off the roads in that type of programs were expressly excluded. So while perfectly good vehicles, still under environmental controls and still required to pass polution control inspections were destroyed, older, highly poluting (spelling?) vehicles are still bombing around. Each of these real clunkers, still on our roads, undoes the benefits of hundreds of “clean” later model cars.
The liberal mind’s sense of logic is frightening.
Exactly. I have a friend who had an older Suburban and could not trade it in because the new car had to be similar to the old car. I thought getting the big gas guzzlers off the road was the point.
Then he hurt the used car market which is largely where lower income people buy their cars. This was to boost the unions, they couldn’t care less about middle to low income, non-union people.
Here’s a video that explains the fallacy of a program like cash for clunkers. Only Harvard economics professors could believe this was a good idea..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erJEaFpS9ls&sns=em
How about stopping oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?
Threatening to bankrupt the coal industry?
He did promise to make the price of energy skyrocket, and that is one promise he has kept.
It appears that despite ALL of his machinations, the ‘surprise’ may have backfired in his face, and it was not for lack of trying.
There is more than enough evidence to suggest that The One attempted to bring ‘peace in our time’ through a piece of paper with the Iranian Hitlerite regime. In fact, quite a few relevant investigative sources are in agreement, even though the media barely referred to it. All my contacts back it up.
And it is not as if even the Radical/Islamist-in-Chief is in control of every contingency, particularly when inter-tribal warfare heats up, and double and triple agents are involved. Enter Benghazigate – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/31/more-bengazigate-mysteries-meandering-into-shia-iranian-territory-irrespective-of-sunni-brotherhoodalqaeda-involvement-islamists-of-all-stripes-cooperate-when-necessary-commentary-by-adina/
In other words, while femi-nazi Gloria Allred tried – and failed – to bring Romney down, and many other dirty tricks were used, Benghazi is where the action was supposed to be, but not in the way that it turned out!
Worth mentioning that the Gulf drilling moratorium was *illegal*, and continued after courts ruled it illegal. So it’s not just bad policy, but defiance of the law.
Forgot to add:
Killing US citizens in foreign countries without due process. (yes he was a despicable savage person but still technically a US citizen).
Reclassifying “military-aged” men targeted by drones as “militants”.
Alienating Eastern Europe with claiming more “flexibility” with Russia post election.
Forcing dangerous rules of engagement on US forces in Afghanistan.
I would also include SOPA/PIPA to restrict Internet freedom but there isn’t any official source on that, but his admin was for it before they saw how it was going to hurt them with a key demographic so they backed down.
Killing US citizens in foreign countries without due process.
How about killing foreign citizens in foreign countries to subvert the Constitution (Fast and Furious). While he may not have pulled the trigger, he and Holder certainly supplied the weapons with that intention.
Unilaterally violating the agreement with Poland to provide them anti missile defense, and announcing it on 17 September, the anniversary of the date that Soviet Union invaded Poland (after Germany invaded Poland on 1 September, 1939). He send an unmistakable message that just as Poland was betrayed by Soviets in 1939, he would betray them again.
And, let’s not forget one of The One’s first official acts–on a Friday or Saturday night soon after inauguration(in some dark alley?) he rescinded the “Mexico City Policy”, which banned NGOs from doing abortions or promoting abortions.
The Mexico City Policy is no October surprise, and no scandal.
It’s a completely predictable political football that changes hands like clockwork every time the White House flips parties.
This mostly qualifies, a Kimberley Strassel column from a few days ago: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203897404578078902106077268.html
Keep those suggestions coming! Great so far.
Jus want everyone to know that I will read EVERY comment here and over the day will add as many as I can to the list. To save time, I probably won’t be able to individually acknowledge each and every comment one by one, but rest assured that ALL your suggestions will definitely be noted.
If your suggestion doesn’t appear on the list immediately, be patient — I’ll be getting to it as soon as I can.
Created explosive growth in part time jobs as employers scrambled to avoid crippling OCare costs by shifting full time employees to part time status.
What about $4 gallon of gas? The media was squawking about what an imposition it was on poor folk when gas hit $1.87/gallon under Bush. Now we hear nothing about $4 gas.
I hope you will eventually collate the newly arriving supplements to produce and publish a truly definitive list of the Usurper’s offenses and misdeeds. This is important not only for agitation, but also as a part of the historic record, documenting what happened to us and how. Infive or ten years, when the children ask what happened, this can be an answer. It could also play an important role in prosecuting and punishing these offenses in the coming year.
I’m merely human!
No sir, You have already proven yourself superhuman. For which we all thank you. You pick and prune our suggestions; your readers will help you.
Where are you Zombie? I miss showing all of my liberal friends proof of the craziness and hypocrisy on the left.
I’ll be back soon enough.
Filling his administration with such figures as :
- Anti-Police, communist “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones
- Mao-worshipping Anita Dunn
- “Nudge” author Cass Sunstein being given absolute regulatory authority
- Rahm Emanuel, brother of Ezekiel “Complete Lives System” Emanuel
- “Forced Sterilization” advocate John Holdren
- “We need $10/gal. gasoline” Steven Chu
and so many others.
And don’t forget that Cash for clunkers took used cars out of the market, thereby making used cars more expensive (there’s that old supply & demand thing again) thus hurting poor people the most, as they are more likely to buy used cars.
That EPA crucify them to make an example guy?
Blocked the Keystone pipeline, reducing energy resources for the US and forcing Canada to look towards China for trade.
The Sixth of November
Remember, remember, this sixth of November,
The radicals’ treasonous plot.
I know of no reason the radicals’ treason
Should e’er be forgiv’n or forgot.
The Sixties were waning, and Leftists were claiming
That radical changes were due.
Their Marxist solution was armed revolution:
The Weathermen made their debut.
The radicals raged on the national stage, and
Horrific explosions ensued.
Their bombs were dramatic, but also erratic;
They sometimes killed radicals, too.
The Leftists grew older, the underground, colder,
And so they came in from the cold.
“Subvert from within – in the long run, we’ll win,” said
The Leftists, determined and bold.
And thus it began – this nefarious plan – and
The radicals slowly took charge:
Complete infiltration of all education;
The long institutional march.
The journalist schools would produce useful fools, for
The Left would need media shills.
And Hollywood, too, would assist in the coup, with
Its slick propagandizing skills.
“Community action” would build a new faction;
’Twould organize proles on the street.
A smooth politician would front for the mission,
And run for the president’s seat.
The radicals’ goal, which they proudly extol, is
A communist U.S. of A.
Collectivist schemes lead to brutal regimes, and
For this do the radicals pray.
But Jefferson’s aim, with the charters he framed, was
To guard individual rights.
And “redistribution” was not a solution,
But one of the evils to fight.
So let us remember, this sixth of November,
Just what is at stake on this date.
Will Jefferson’s dream, or the radicals’ scheme, now
Determine America’s fate?
Masterful!
Well done!
Simply brilliant.
BRAVO! Well said.
***Applause***
Copied and pasted (with attribution!) elsewhere.
Makin’ it viral. Just great.
Vim Toot!
Ditto. I envy your talent.
“Winston tests good
Like a signerat should!”
And now this comment has earned its own Instalanche!
Well done. Powerful.
Very nicely done! A penny for the Guy!
Sued states over border enforcement that the federal govt wouldn’t do.
Sued states over voter ID verification.
Not just apologizing to Islamists, but actively _funneling arms_ to them in order to take down relatively secular Strongmen (though they admittedly were not ‘good guys’ either) like Qadaffi and Mubarak and replace them with hardline Shari’ah enforcing Islamists he’s armed.
This reflects his earlier comment that “When the winds shift in a politically negative direction, I will stand with the Muslims”.
Zombie, you’re correct. Every freakin’ day of the past four years has been an October Surprise. My contributions (trying to avoid duplication):
Bowed to: Saudi King, Hu Jintao (China), Japan’s Emperor, President of Mexico … am I forgetting anyone?
Ordered NASA to make “Muslim outreach” one of its top priorities.
Dismantled the NASA program.
Used ObamaCare (“read-it-to-find-out-what’s-in-it”) to hide new taxes and impose greater control over small business (e.g., the MISC-1099 rule). [Note: The 1099 provision was eventually over-turned.]
Used ObamaCare to expand IRS reach, power and bureaucracy by 16,000 new agents.
Federalized college loan programs, to limit options and expand government control.
Established double-standards for post-secondary education, with tougher standards for profit-based training/education providers than not-for-profits.
Regarding GM, et al, he protected union workers AND stiffed a long list of legitimate investors, along with >20,000 salaried employees/pensions.
Sent government contracts to Embraer (Brazil) rather than Hawker Beecher (US), effectively off-shoring an estimated 1200 high-quality, high-paying jobs.
Shut down drilling in the US, but lent $2B to Brazil to support their government-controlled oil-drilling effort, then promised the US would become one of its biggest customers.
Sued Boeing in an effort to control where businesses could locate, protect his union base and block the creation of 1000 jobs in South Carolina, a right-to-work state.
Allowed (encouraged?) the Senate to go 1200+ days without a budget.
Created the Winning the Future plan, widely known and scoffed at as, WTF?!
Adopted the ever-popular socialist slogan, Forward!
Focused on ladies’ bits rather than ladies’ brains.
Wants four more years, to do the job he’s refused to do for the past four years.
(Must. Stop. My head is ready to explode. Yet again.)
>>Allowed (encouraged?) the Senate to go 1200+ days without a budget.
Let’s intensify that. He submitted budgets in 2012 and 2011 that were unanimously rejected by the House and Senate. Yes, folks, not even one single Democrat vote.
GDI yes you forgot one of Bowed to: The Mayor of Tampa, yes he did, bow to the mayor of Tampa. Google it,
There’s a picture.
Now my brain is itching. WTF???
More …
Scrapped the Poland defense shield on the 70th anniversary of Russia’s WWII invasion of Poland.
Claimed credit for killing Osama bin Laden, then painted a bright, neon target on the backs of Seal Team 6. Within 90 days, 38 people including 22 (?) Navy Seals were killed in an Afghanistan attack.
Established an official “kill list,” then crowed about it in public.
Insulted us and our British allies by sending Churchill’s bust to the Brits. Then he lied about it. (Dear Brits: Please return the bust on Jan 21, 2013. Thank you.)
Sorry to diagrtee with you. There is nothing, absolutely nothing here that comes as a scandal. You might or might not like a lot of the things that O’ has done, but none of it rises to the level of a scandal. I think that David Brooks in today’s Times got it right.
Of course nobody has gotten a look at R’s income tax returns prior to 2010. What I would have done if I was O’s advisor is just make something up and force R to respond to it. Also today’s story of one of R’s kids sucking up to some Russian bankers should be fun if it happened earlier.
All the best
Yawn.
benghazi
Brook’s closes with this:
The Final Reckoning:
“One final thing. No one is fair to President Obama. People grade him against tougher standards than any other politician. But his innate ability justifies that high standard. These are the standards he properly set for himself. If re-elected, he’d be free from politics. It’d be interesting to see if he returns to his earlier largeness.”
I can just see those pant creases practically bursting from the Hulk like loins of de one.
Didn’t Obama promise Mr. Putin to be more fle-e-e-exible after elections (off-mike)? Isn’t it a scandal?
Isn’t it a scandal to give 500 000 000 to Solyndra, and then to get a campaign donation from Solyndra?
Taxes?
Romney paid his taxes, but Geitner didn’t.
Was Geithner indicted?
I hope come January 20 Mr. Geithner and the rest of the ex-members of the Obama junta are lawyering up intently; with poetic justice they’ll end up in Gitmo and we’ll say thanks to the Manchild for keeping it open!
By his fellow criminals? Don’t be an ass.
Were the New Black Panthers? Having an AG who covers all your crimes doesn’t prove no crimes have been committed… Back to your cave.
He was given “more flexibility”.
Democrats that don’t pay taxes are never indicted. The are either re-elected, appointed to WH staff positions, or go on to lucrative lobbying positions.
Rangel, Daschle, Nicholas Mavroules, Bolley “Bo” Johnson, Bill Campbell, James Traficant, Walter R. Tucker III, Jerry Fowler, Vince Fumo, Charles Walker, William McCuen, Lawrence J. Smith, Charles F. Flaherty, Ken Jenne, Frank J. Gigliotti, J.B. “Jet” Banks, Pedro Espada, Jr., plus the thirty-six current White House staffers that owe the IRS more than $800K in back taxes.
And that’s just scratching the surface, you doofus.
Was Romney?
Not even any evidence of underpayment
Yet you seem to think his taxes are fair game.
There is a line in a famous movie, I think ” All the Kings Men” which goes something like this: “A man goes from the stink of the ditty to the stench of the shroud, you can always find something”/
Nice try, troll. Fast and Furious. Benghazi. Innocent people murdered.
Innocent people get killed everyday. Tragedy yes, scandal no. Why troll?
Why indeed? Yet you do so without shame.
The troll here is obviously YOU. Whatever Kool Aid you’re drinking is something I don’t even want to smell.
When innocents are killed in peacetime with US tax dollars it is a scandal, as Democrats will rediscover when they are out of power.
“Of course nobody has gotten a look at R’s income tax returns prior to 2010.”
this is what you consider a scandal? This is your equivalence, your tu quoque? Really? Geez, it’s not even accurate. Romney has run before and released his 2 years then as well as with this campaign. I voted for Johnson, and you have me defending Romney, damn you!
How about this? Why did the SS administration buy 750 million rounds of bullets that are forbidden by the Geneva Convention? Why is the SS admin buying ammo at all? Other agencies are doing it, too. They are being stored around the country. They are not for use by our military, so what are they for? For use against our own people? Ammo they would not use against a foreign enemy, but apparently would use against a domestic insurrection? Just what the Hell are they planning to do with a total of 1.5bil rounds of illegal ammo?!?
This is not a scandal? What if a Republican were doing this? That’s how you can tell if it should be a scandal: if a Repub were doing it.
“Why did the SS administration buy 750 million rounds of bullets that are forbidden by the Geneva Convention?
*sigh*
Because the Geneva Conventions only apply to war, not to law enforcement.
This story has been debunked a hundred times — I’ve done it dozens of times myself. There’s nothing there. You sound like an idiot leftist when you repeat it.
In short, the ammunition was purchased for use in the field and in practice. While most people don’t practice with holllow points, that’s because they’re more expensive than FMJ or plain lead. It’s actually recommended that you occasionally practice with hollow points, regardless of the cost, just to make sure your weapon properly functions with them. The government bought them for issuance and practice because, well, government bureaucrats don’t give a rat’s behind about the cost — it’s taxpayer money, not their own.
The timing of the orders coincided with the end of the federal fiscal year, when bureaucrats are faced with “use it or lose it” *and* may see their next year’s budget reduced if they do not use all of this year’s.
Okay, I accept that it is maybe the usual government stupidity. How the SS admin can have leftover money is beyond me, since they run in the red, but government is not rational. (I still do not buy that they have the authority to buy ammo.)
I have never seen it posted here on PJM, and I read almost all the articles and the comments as well. I also read HotAir and townhall, but the comments on those sites are useless, as they do not moderate anything, and the displays of comments are horrible.
My argument still stands though. His tu quoque was ridiculous. Romney’s tax returns? It’s a ridiculous attempt at equivalence with a ridiculous issue.
For the record, I am a hardline Conservative with libertarian leanings, as long-time readers here can attest.
Stockpiling at the end of the fiscal year is generally illegal. Perhaps the SSA has a 2 year ammunition appropriation. The report from the SSA’s own website claims 295 LEOs and 174k rounds, or just about 590 rounds per LEO. Assuming the SSA was not bulletless when they placed the order, I think a reasonable estimate would be 1,000 rounds per LEO after the order is filled. Nothing to see here, move along.
Could it be that the government wants to deplete availability of munitions…just is case there is a riot?
“none of it rises to the level of a scandal”
So you have no issue with the president violating the rule of law by fiat?
You really would be more comfortable in a different country; Zimbabwe seems to be governed in the way you prefer.
2 words: MF Global. A scandal that makes Enron look like loose change.
Jon Corzine… Democrat… and Obama fundraiser bundler… now in charge of a big investment company.
Said investment company loses 1.2 Billion dollars in investment funds… gone… vanished… missing.
It’s been one year since the huge MF global scandal…
…and Jon Corzine is still not in jail…
…and no-one cares to know where it all went…
…or why it disappeared…
…and it is OBAMA’s SEC that has not so much as lifted a finger to find a dime of it!
Seconded. Not to mention that MF Global filed a fraudulent bankruptcy, allowing the creditors (JP Morgan etc) to be first in line to recoup “their” funds… not the “average-Joe” consumers whose money should have been segregated/protected in the first place. These consumers were locked out of the market for days while trades continued, and – by the time they were allowed to reenter the market – they actually had to pay money just to get to $0, because the continuation of trading put them in the negative.
Ann Barnhardt had more on this as it occurred.
Also, the fact that many of the administration’s nominees, as well as numerous administration aides, are documented to be delinquent on their taxes.
a tool and a fool
Hi bob Abrams, how about this thought, I don’t care what the Romneys do/did with their money. I care how 0bama has squandered the US Treasury.
the reason no one saw the tax returns before 2010 is because Romney follows the law. He is required by law to disclose the last two years of tax returns. Anything else is not required no matter how much bleating “what is he hiding?” you moonbats do.
Abrams, I tank you M1.
“You think I am one what?”
Union civil servant, trying to blind voters beginning to see you expect them to starve for your ”in by ten, out by two, can’t be fired, how ’bout you?”
I have considered the hiding of his birth records, his college transcripts, and origin of his social security number and passport records fairly shocking. Just as shocking are the stories from the Trinity congregation in Chicago about his homosexual alliances, his socialist/Marxist/Communist alliances and his arranged marriage to Michelle as well as his well-documented drug use, which continues. If this had been a Mitt Romney or a Paul Ryan there would have been reporters climbing walls, fences, and breaking into buildings to get at any evidence, but since it’s Obama he gets a pass.
Obama is the first president that I am aware of who spent north of $1M to seal his college records, passport records, ssn records (why exactly does he have a CT SSN)? Who paid for that $1M education, I don’t see how his parents could have afforded it and he admittedly did not have grades at Occidental that would render him a scholastic scholarship. When he comes clean, I’ll worry about Romney’s tax returns which he’s not spent $1M to hide.
Filed under “Smart Diplomacy — not”: deciding a great gift for the Queen of England was an iPod with recordings of his speeches.
“Anyone’s who been paying attention since 2008 has literally been in paralytic shock every single day.”
I see what you did there …
Yep. I saw it too. Fortunately conservative bloggers and commenters have the fortitude to rouse themselves from that paralysis by the end of the day. Libs? For them it’s either perpetual somnambulance or enslavement to inattention. Such an irony that if not for the pot they’re smoking that keeps so much of life a blur to them, many of ‘em wouldn’t even be half awake.
Trying to charge returning Veterans for their own care.
I’d add this if you can elabaorate with more specifics — it’s all so vague at this point…
Well, here’s a decent synopsis: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2012/06/29/veto_threat_administration_wants_to_hike_healthcare_fees_for_military
thanks. added.
Two things: accepted a nobel peace prize for just showing up and passed obamacare in the house using budget reconciliation
About AttackWatch – sadly they killed it. Just redirects to http://www.barackobama.com/truth-team/attack-watch .
They did a good job of keeping the move under the radar.
Zombie! I have, and will, spend great effort to cover up all that you try to dredge up!
What about the deal with defense contractors, thereby keeping the entire workforce uncertain about layoffs until after the election?
The entirety of the power grab of the executive branch may not be a scandal, but it is by no means what our founders intended.
How about had a filmmaker jailed for exercising his first amendment rights, and then made a speech in front of the United Nations saying that “the future must not belong to those who slander The Prophet of Islam.”
Jeeze, that’s scary stuff. For years the liberals have been saying we’re threatened with a religious takeover of the country, and now we see that they were right, except it’s not “right wing Christianity” but “sharia law.”
Then again, there’s all the people we’ve seen “pledging allegiance to their president” as if we’re living in North Korea or Fascist Italy.
This guy is the scariest person I’ve ever seen in politics, and he’s in the White House.
Don’t forget to vote!
Snubbed Bibi when he visited the US.
Held out his birth certificate for 2 years, then mocked people for ever questioning it.
PJMEDIA’s in-depth look at the Justice Department’s biased Hiring (Every Single One of Them).
And could you make an extra page that has a direct link to everything mentioned here? The list is so long, many of the people I would show this to would be dismissive; saying it’s blown out of proportion. I want the links to show the extent of every single one of these. Laundry lists convince people that already agree. Laundry lists with links force intellectually honest dissenters to reconsider.
As for the links — yeah, that would be great, I agree — but also incredibly time-consuming! I barely have time to keep up with the non-link text summaries. Finding and embedding the perfectly explanatory link for each scandal would be a massive undertaking. I wish I had the time, but…
Now, if someone else were to dig up documentary links for each item on the list, I’d definitely link to that person’s post!
Allston, that’s true. I remember hearing that. He supported the idea that vets pay for their own treatment while he was a Senator, and most likely still does.
Lets not forget making Rahm Emmanuel his chief of staff. Rham notoriously threatened a reporter by leaving a dead fish in a newspaper on her car, a notorious mob tactic. He also, at some democratic event during the clinton years, grabbed a steak knife and recited a list of republicans and “traitors”, after each name he jammed the knife into the table and yelled “dead!”. That’s not the behavior of a sane or non-violent person.
June 4, 2008 – Candidate Obama gave a speech during which during which he said this is when the ocean tides began to recede and the planet began to heal. (What arrogance!)
May 25, 2010 – Obama walked out of a meeting with Binyamin Netanyahu to go eat dinner with Michelle and his daughters. (This is how we treat our closest ally in the Middle East?)
May 19, 2011 – Obama tells Israel to go back to the 1967 borders as a condition for continueing talks with the Palistine Authority. (With friends like this who needs enemies?)
May 25, 2011 – Obama proposes a toast to the Queen of England then keeps on talking when the band begins playing their national anthem, “God Save the Queen”. (AWK-ward!)
June 21-27, 2011 – Michelle Obama, with Barack’s permission, takes Malia and Sasha on an African junket with them listed as ‘senior staff’ so their expenses could be paid by our tax dollars. (They deserve it don’cha know?)
Sending his daughters and their friends on Spring Break to Mexico without parents. I guess Secret service was to be the baby-sitters? AF1 is not a job perk. It is the Prez’s flying office in case of war or national emergency. It is not to be used as transport for his kids’ or his wife’s MULTIPLE, VERY EXPENSIVE VACATIONS!
Sandy and Benghasi took the all the gas from their “crisis management scenario”.
They haven’t figured out how to claim the headlines from Mother Nature.
Just give them one more term to figure that out.
Don’t forget about the Beer Summit after Cambridge police arrested a Princeton professor (and alledged fellow faculty lounge conspirator of Obama’s) Henry Gates. Obama charged that “the police acted stupidly” before he had heard any specifics of the case. The question asked to him was framed in a racial context and he jumped for it.
Anyone notice that the “beer summit” was a backhanded swipe at Crawley’s Irish heritage. Since when does a race summit involve consumption of alcohol? Obama was playing a stereotype. Mollify an Irishman by giving him alcohol, because they are stereotyped as drunkards. Just another calculated Obama insult.
If it had been an ordinary cop, he would have been demonized, career destroyed, at least. Damn lucky that Crawley’s duties included teaching diversity and racial sensitivity training. It saved him.
That whole thing could have turned out very differently.
Riding that bicycle in those sissy pants should have scandalized everybody
Those are not “sissy pants” they are “mommy jeans”
TWO REASONS:
1 – An absolutely corrupt and complicit national media protecting their Messiah
2 – An absolutely impotent, gutless opposition party refusing to stand on honor
In the end, America loses –
REMEMBER BENGHAZI!!
FOUR MORE DAYS.
The perfect one was his standing, and making a toast to the Queen of England, while the British National Anthem (“God Save The Queen”)was playing.
Everyone else was standing there, at attention, silent, and trying desperately to ignore the loutish loudmouth who just happened to be the visiting President of the United States.
The most jaw-dropping thing about The One is his narcissism. I honestly believe that He believes that only He exists, and the rest of the universe is nothing but a construct in His mind. As such, He can do whatever He wants, because ultimately it is all about Him.
We have had past presidents who were dishonest, ones who were inept, and ones who badly miscalculated both foreign and domestic situations. But I believe that this President is the first one who has ever shown clear evidence that he is delusional.
clear ether
eon
The “God Save the Queen” incident was certainly embarrassing in the extreme, but does it count as a “scandal, misdeed, crime or blunder”? It was a “gaffe” to be sure, but I’m thinking that it falls short of “blunder,” because it didn’t really affect international relations, other than making him look like a buffoon. I have to draw the line somewhere, and this will be it: “Gaffes” don’t quite make the cut, even mega-gaffes like this one. Therefore, “57 states” and “corpse-man” and the rest also won’t make the cut for this particular list. However, if someone else has made a list of gaffes, I’ll definitely link to that!
– should never have been more than mayor of Oakland or San Francisco.
Trust me, nobody wants to be the Mayor of Oakland — including and especially every past and present Mayor of Oakland. The world’s most unwanted job.
“However, if someone else has made a list of gaffes, I’ll definitely link to that!”
Somewhere in the world, Joe Biden is waiting for you!
I’m glad you added this note, because I was going to waste your time with the ol’ “3000% reduction in premiums” gaffe. So maybe, once the list is put together, the entries can be categorized either by topic or by severity.
B. Hussein’s secret Friday night cocaine parties with two unnamed couples in the White House and his rife illicit drug taking in Hawaii in high school and selling dope tells me anybody who voted for Obama in 2008 and votes for him again is under the influence.
Obama has enough skeletons in the closet to provide a billion academic medical centers enough bones to study for eternity.
A landslide is coming and it’ll leave Michelle frowning like she’s never frowned before.
Don’t forget about Moochelle taking 80 of her closest friends on that little junket to Spain. These two have partied more than the Bourbons. Zero has time for golf &basketball but not to meet with his jobs council or security briefings.
The Obama administration has been a criminal enterprise from Day 1. One outrage after another. Speaking of outrage, where are the American people? Fast and Furious is an impeachable offense. Benghazi is criminal negligence on Obama’s part, pure and simple. Obamacare is illegal. Romney should win this thing 70-30%. The Long March through our institutions has produced a largely uninformed, dumb-downed electorate.
In a last gasp October surprise, this weekend I expect to see some random Libyan goat herders smoked by SOF operators or predators, as well as some ridiculous last-ditch smear of Romney.
Sept 7, 2008 – On ABC’s ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulous’ Obama said that John McCain hadn’t attacked his Muslim faith. Stephanopoulous interrupted to say, “Christian faith” and Obama quickly agreed. (What true Christian would ever make a mistake like that?)
June 4, 2009 – Obama gives a speech in Cairo, Egypt and calls the Koran ‘the Holy Koran’ four different times. (see my comment above)
June 4, 2009 – In that same speech Obama makes the following statement: “I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” (In light of Benghazi this speaks for itself.)
Nov 13, 2009 – The New York Times reports that Obama wants to move the terror trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to New York City, only to reverse course a few months later because of ‘controversy’. (DUH!)
(My apologies if this is a redundant suggestion for the list.)
When offering perfunctory condolences, Obama failed to speak clearly and look Charles Woods in the eye when noting the murder of Charles’ son, Tyrone Woods – former U.S. Navy SEAL, voluntary defender of the U.S. Consulate in Libya, protector/rescuer of the Consulate staff members (living and deceased), and a hero of Benghazi on 9/11/2012.
Anybody mention his statement when he was on Leno a few years back, saying that he bowled like he was in the Special Olympics?
How about his unilaterally deciding that his administration would not enforce the duly passed laws of Congress that he did not personally agree with. Specifically the Defense of Marriage Act, but I am sure there are others as well.
They ignored aspects of immigration law, environmental law, and labor law.
July 17, 2012 – Arizona: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ‘Cold Case Posse’ has concluded after months of investigation that Obama’s birth certificate, as presented by the White House in April, 2011 is a computer forgery. This would make Obama an accessory before the fact, or at the very least, after the fact since he has never repudiated it. (Can you say felony?)
How about fraudulently passing off an ‘autobiography’ as his own writing, when anecdotal evidence (not to mention his own writing samples) points to another writer, namely Weather Underground member Bill Ayers.
Also, a bio from his former literary agent stating that he was born in Kenya….not disputed by him at the time, indicating a high likelihood that he lied about being a foreign student for admission and aid to Harvard (making him and Elizabeth Warren peas in a pod). Made all the more likely by the fact that he has gone to great effort to keep his college records under lock and key to this day.
Other purposeful obfuscations of his past that have muddied the water so much that it’s not even certain who his father was (besides the proven facts that both contenders were hard core Marxists).
Oh and let’s not forget the dozens of factual lies later discovered to have littered said ‘autobiography’.
If he had a son I’ve would look like Travon Martin…in other words, participating in the media lunching of George Zimmerman.
I took that as Obama’s unsolicited admission that if he’d had a son, he’d have raised him to be a thug.
Really, what else could Obama have meant?
Voting against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act three times as an state senator.
I was just watching Romney’s campaign in West Chester, OH. I am telling you that the crowd was really energized, and it looked just like Obama’s campaign in 2008. I can’t believe that Romney would lose Ohio.
Flew a 747 low over New York City for some kind of photo-op without informing New Yorkers that it wasn’t another suicide flight.
I think this was the October surprise and it failed. Kidnap the Ambassador and then Obama can showcase his negotiation skills by trading the blind sheik for him.
October 27th, “We are seeking, by the help of Allah, to capture others and to incite Muslims to capture the citizens of the countries that are fighting Muslims in order to release our captives,” Ayman Al-Zawahri said in a more than two-hour video posted on militant web sites this week, Reuters reported.
The Egyptian-born jihadist called for the abductions as part of a vow not to “spare any efforts” to free Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, CNN reported.
When it failed they had to cover up that they allowed the Embassy to be exposed. Leon Panetta who has communist ties gave lame reasoning why no response was put into action to save American lives.
There is no defense for what they did, and the net is closing in on them
As interesting as your hypothesis may be (i.e. that Obama intentionally allowed the Benghazi attack so that he could get a two-fer: Appear like a master negotiator to get the Ambassador back, and simultaneously release his buddy Omar Abdel-Rahman in exchange), it is still pure speculation and so for now must remain in the realm of “conspiracy theory.” And I’m making my own Executive Decision to exclude conspiracy theories from the list (e.g. birth certificate a forgery, O is a secret Muslim, etc.) to preserve the uniform credible factuality of each and every item on the list.
I think the birth certificate ‘problem’ and his being a Muslim are more than just conspiracy theories. Both subjects are very well explored in Stephen Pidgeon’s book “The Obama Error”. POTUS is above the law but you or I would be eligible for 15 years just on the document fraud Oblahblah has committed. Tuesday isn’t the end — it’s the beginning.
Nov 2, 2012 – I just read a column by Michelle Malkin that reminded me of a dumb stunt the Obama White House pulled back in 2009. Here is Michelle’s comment: “In 2009, White House staff organized a narcissistic flyover stunt of the plane over New York City’s Statue of Liberty that terrified unsuspecting residents, who thought it was a terrorist attack.” (Can you imagine a Republican President doing that – and the media reaction?)
You need a like button.
This ain’t Facebook or twitter.
Grow up.
That would explain the lack of cat pictures.
Getting involved in the Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman race baiting: to the detriment of an at the time not yet accused, who even had he been accused would have had to be presumed innocent, by inappropriately publicly taking the side of Martin, thus prejudicing the subsequently accused Zimmerman: “If I had a son he’d be just like him…”. The Pres had no business using this tragedy for his political gain, actually no business even taking any official notice, being involved in any way whatsoever!
How about putting joe bidden a heartbeat away from the presidency. Or would that point to a macabre sense of humor?
That’s his Potential Impeachment Security Solution.
The acronym is kinda obvious.
It definitely reduced the likelihood of an assassination attempt, knowing that buffoon was waiting in the wings.
So maybe Obama actually got that one right?
Didn’t see these above:
Bowed deeply before the Saudi King, notorious Muslim fascist.
Bowed before numerous other scumbags.
Shook hands with Chavez and received a book from him.
Started the ball rolling with Fast and Furious by announcing in his first foreign speech abroad that “90%” of the guns used in Mexican drug violence came from the US. This was a notorious lie. I believe F&F was enacted to ‘prove’ this statistic and restrict US gun sales.
Let Holder continue serving after he called America a “nation of cowards”.
Early in his presidency, Iranian citizens rose up and marched for reforms I n their govt and Zero did nothing to help them.
Also:
“If I had a son, he’d look just like Trayvon”. Probably the first time a sitting US president boasted that if he had a son, he’d look just like a petty criminal and probable attempted murderer.
Don’t forget his allowing race-hustler and leader of the Trayvon protest mob Al Sharpton to attend one of his parties… DURING the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman incident, and even after it was revealed that Trayvon may have actually not been innocent.
This guy is so clueless that already voiced his intention to put a “Secretary of Small Business” (not economic recovery or trade or so, just “small business”) which amounts to think that: Every problem needs just a Czar.
Well you need to have someone in place to make sure that every small business obeys every regulation. That’s how I interpreted it.
I get so tired of explaining this. Sheriff Arpaio’s ‘Cold Case Posse’ was a duly appointed panel of experts, including computer experts, who sent a great deal of time and energy in a law enforcement investigation and came to the conclusion of forgery. It’s easy enough to find their published report online; it’s dry, detailed and very enlightening.
It is also irrelevant.
According to Obama’s own book, ‘Dreams From My Father’ and the 1874 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Minor v Happersett, he doesn’t meet the Constitutional ‘natural born citizen’ requirement to be President. The Supreme Court precedent is as follows: “At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners. (Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 167 [1874])”
This decision has never been overturned and therefore is still binding on all inferior courts in the United States. Even the Supreme Court must give it due regard and overturn it only for good cause. In his book, Obama relates his father’s citizenship as Kenyan not American, therefore under Minor v Happersett Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States of America.
What part of this is a conspiracy theory?
I get tired of explaining this too.
Ann Dunham was an American citizen when she gave birth to the current President. Barack Obama Senior was already married in Kenya when he married Ann Dunham and a bigamous marriage is invalid so it holds no legal weight. In legal terms, Barrack Obama is the illegitimate son of a US citizen and it does not matter where he was born, he meets the legal requirements of the US Constitution even if he does not posses any of the mental, character or fealty characteristics that any reasonable person would want for a President of the United States.
I believe that she was an underaged citizen, and therefore could not by virtue of her own citizenship, pass that along.
I’m just going from memory here but I believe that the age requirement only applies if the US citizen was legally married when the child was born. Since Obama Senior’s previous legal marriage in Kenya made his marriage to Ann Dunham bigamous and so invalid in the United States, Barack Obama was illegitimate and so was a US citizen from birth, regardless of how old his mother was when he was born or where that birth took place.
The only way to get rid of Obama is to vote him out of office the day after tomorrow. This fantasy dream of some legal action based on his birth status is really just a waste of time and effort. Volunteer to drive people to the polls or to do ballot security. These are real things that can actually help make a difference.
“Our jaws on the floor, aghast, stupefied, unable to breathe.” Sheer poetry.
People are going to be seriously venting! One huge primal scream!
OK, the comments are very nice so far, but the pace of actual scandal reminders has started to fall off precipitously, and this has reverted to a “normal” thread! I’m still in near paralytic shock so my brain needs all the help it can get to flesh out the list. Gung ho!
Yeah? Wait until cfbleachers makes an appearance! Dear God! LOL
ohhh and then there’s the Gibson Guitar raid …and then they were told “this can all go away if you ship the jobs out of the US” …
“sure ,there was hurricane Sandy But that doesn’t count…it wasn’t a scandel”
But it exposed the great long scandel of trickle down economics what has been now tried in Europe this great austerity will bring Europe into a great crash in 2013 unless the elite of europe repent and this trickle down Balrog demon will be cast in the great abysis where i came from as the angel makes sure it never come back in our life time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=6cdc_OaAzQM&feature=fvwp
Amen Amen Amen
But wait there’s more …
In addition to the craptastic Cash for Clunkers, remember Cash for Appliances? Federally funded programs offered $300 million in rebates to consumers buying energy-efficient appliances. To “stimulate the economy,” dontcha know.
Failed government green loans, ranging from Solyndra to A123, totaled $6 trillion in taxpayer-funded debt.
Don’t forget the self-immolating, foreign-owned Fisker Karma, backed by $529 in US taxpayer funds.
And don’t forget the combustible Volt, funded with taxpayer dollars which is both sold and leased at a loss – underwritten by US taxpayers. (Is the plant still on hiatus?)
Remember Valerie Jarret, Pelosi, et al, and the infamous claim that unemployment stimulates the economy.
Can we add Michelle O’s infamous school lunch program that restricts calorie intake for all students regardless of calorie expenditure for sports and has led to lunch-room food police and increased food waste. (See the student parody, We are Hungry, for fun. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBRFDTOi0-k)
And an oldie but goodie: The forced conversion by all US citizens to digital TV, a move many deemed as “artificial” and “unnecessary,” and funded (of course) by US taxpayers.
Light squared wasn’t a failed green company… That one was straight up crones capitalism. It died because their product would have destroyed the GPS system, something Obama was okay with due to the donations they gave him. Thankfully wiser heads and dogged determination of the law enforcement community stopped that.
You forget,shuffling the Dali Lama out the back door of the WH past mounds of trash
The NTSC format DVDs given to the British, the iPod full of Obama speeches given to the queen, touching the queen, forgetting to invite the British to d-day anniversary, selling out the secrets of the British nuke stockpile to the Russians,
The missiles defense shield fiasco, selling out the opoles on the anniversary of the soviet invasion…by phone
The blind Chinese dissident fiasco
Georgia,
Trying to over through the constitutionally valid govt of Honduras
Killing Colombian free trade agreement
Starting trade war with Mexico over protecting unionized trucking interests
Total spineless e’s in the face of Somali pirates…
Keep it up. I got the running twitter gag list if the attempted cover ups to it all… Keep spreading the word every which way. 4 days and lots of dem cheating left to go…
He can sink the economy and campaign and vacation a great deal
But taking any responsibly to him just does not appeal
He has less class than the back of a hack
When he cries for anyone but himself the tears run down his back
If he would just take responsibility sometime somewhere
The MSM frogs would probably give him the Croix-de-Guerre
He has profound delusions and spews such a crock
On him complete madness will soon have a full head lock
He has so many pathologies it would make Freud’s knees knock
And when on November 6 he loses the face he makes will stop a cuckoo clock
You might forget his incessant lies and grating yell
But you’ll never forget the President from Hell
Hi Feral, very good poem. Why don’t you hook up with #10 Winslow and publish a book.
Cash for caulkers
Scare force one, passing the buck on scare force one, lying and saying he took responsibility…
The beast getting stuck in Ireland, crying like a chump in front the Irish delegation on st party’s day cuz his TelePrompTer died
Teleprompters
Forced closing of Chrysler dealers who donated to GOP, stealing non union pensions during “bailout”
Getting caught on hot mike bashing Israeli PM
His culinary-Stalinist fat people hating, America hating, occupier wife
Sending kids to posh private school but killing school vouchers for poor parents
Blocking reimport of collectible WWII us weapons
Oh, yeah …
Don’t forget Obama allowing (encouraging?) the Mexican president to bash Americans on US immigration policy in his 2010 speech.
[My goodness, the list of Obamatron travesties is almost endless, isn’t it? Have you hit 1460 items yet? That would be one a day, every day for four straight years.)
The police acted stupidly / beer summit
Report those speaking about the healthcare bill to flag.gov (preceded Attack Watch)
Asking Latinos to punish your enemies
GSA scandal
Firing Inspector General Walprin for doing his job
Energy scandals – Solyndra, Beacon Power, Fisker, etc
Embracing OWS while mocking Tea Party
Marines defending embassies without live ammo
Rules of engagement leading to high troop deaths / injuries; green on blue attacks
Voter suppression of military votes
Recess appointments when the Senate was not in recess
Sending troops into Northern Africa without Congressional approval
Funneling arms to Syrian rebels via Ambassador Stevens? Possible gun running operation
Welcoming Muslim Brotherhood members to White House
Classifying Ft. Hood shooting as workplace violence
Failure to act on intelligence which would have prevented underwear bomber attack
BP oil spill handling
Refusing Texas aid money during deadly wild fire storm
Bitter clingers
Taking illegal foreign donations, in both elections
Whose freaking social security number is the guy using?!
Entry into elected politics hinged on voter fraud… That’s the ultra short version to say the least
Flying his dog around the country… By itself
WH visitor logs
Support for occupy
War on religion…except Islam…
Using the govt to attack sheriff Arpio
TSA…TSA….Freaking TSA… Am I the only one still upset over the erasure of our constitutional right to free travel?
Forcing us to listening to Robert Gibbs for even one second.. Possibly worse than a TSA rapedown…
Negotiating with Taliban
100s maybe 1000s of innocent people killed in drone strikes
Trying to try terrorists in New York civilian court
Restrictive rules getting our people killed in Afghanistan
Preaching greeny-ness but cracking up thermostat in WH and laughing about it
Attacking the Supreme Court in the chambers of congress
Telling Spanish language radio channel “we need to punish our enemies “. Meaning half of all Americans
TSA gropings, I’m with you on this, a complete outrage that gets no mention. I cannot believe I left it off my list, thanks!
All these great examples of a corrupt presidency, and we only get ONE troll trying to answer on the part of Obama—And all he has is “But Romney never released his tax returns”. Absolutely amazing. Speaks volumes.
Still more …
Good for thee but not me … Remember Obambi lecturing Americans to not waste their money and stay out of Vegas? But where was he the day after Benghazi? Where did he go to “prepare” (using that term loosely) for the first presidential debate? Where was he (and the Mrs.) just this past week? [Answer: Vegas, baby!]
What about the 13 over-privileged tweens flown to Mexico City to celebrate Malia’s 13th birthday – partly on our dime? On foreign soil. Unsupervised. Unless you count the sex-scandal team (aka: Secret Service).
Or how we couldn’t just live comfortably anymore, setting our thermostats on whatever we like, etc. . . . while he turns his office into a Hawaiian tropical hothouse.
Posting on daily KOS very early in political career that the key is to pretend to be mainstream and when you have no more elections to worry about the spring to the extreme left… He thinks he is pretending to be a right winger now folks… Imagine where we’ll be if he gets elected and is termed out…
“White folks”
Russian cyber attacks, Russian sub incursions, Russian bomber incursions, fusion overflight of us carrier, Russian arm sales to Venezuela, Russian bomber base in Venezuela, Russian claims on North Pole, Russian opposition to all US plans in UN, Russian arms sales to Syrian govt, Russian air defense sales to Iran, Russian spy ring…remember that one?! Buffoon like reset button, Russia threat to put missiles on Pole border, congratulating Putin on questionable election victory even as protestors are locked up… Clearly not the 80′s anymore…
Even Hitler gets it… http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NRFltqft4Ac
Supporting argentine invasion of Falklands
Do you have a link of Obama posting on DailyKos about pretending to be mainstream?
Changing NASA’s primary mission to celebrate Muslim achievements
Lingering over the “white” box on census form and not checking it in disgust. Great message to all bi-racial kids out there…
Jacking up legal immigration fees and lying on tv claiming he lowered fees
HHS letters threatening insurance providers
Promise to let bills have lengthy public comment period prior to signing
Not meeting with cabinet appointees for 2 years!
Had the media done their job, all the fuse about his birth would have either faded away or grown into a scandalous almost civil-war unrest.
Now, I am not a conspirationist, I am just a third world native, so I know the quantity (and quality) of crap that a lefty mind can accumulate in those countries and… by comparison, any Usa/Euro communist is just brilliant. Obama is not. Obama has a pure thirld-world lefty mindset and is genuine in that, which is incredible in the case of him being just a mainstream American left-wing. So, he is scandalous for you. I see him quite within the norm for a, say, South american left winger.
Blamed Benghazi on that video. Got the guy locked up.
Secret Service prostitution scandal
Anti-Romney Cancer ad
law suit to block active military overseas from being able to vote if registered in Ohio
SEIU voting machine technicians
giving money to californias “high” speed rail project which isn’t fast and will never be built
not attending intel briefings…even on 9/11…even after being attacked on 9/11
empty appointments
“recess appointment” while congress was in session
Refusing to offer ICE assistance in Arizona as part of a federal war against select states…
Interfering in internal Canadian and UK politics
Being so weak-kneed as to precipitate a change of government in Japan out of concern for their own security
“Polish Death Camps”
Selling off only uranium mine to Russian company
Not being able to nominate anyone who was able to pay their taxes
refusing to release college records
refusing to say who he was able to travel to pakistan direct from US while in college, also that he lived in foriegn student housing…he was born here, but became an indonesian citizen and maintained that as has citizenship for who long…? Just after becoming an Illinois senator would be my guess…
WH bowling alley
untold money wasted on vacations, golf, and shopping for michelle
having the media force the trope that michelle O. is beautiful down our throats…right, just like Sarah Jessica Parker… gag me…
Bowed to a mayor
Fast and Furious is claimed to have also allowed cartel access to chicago for drug sales. Choom gang, coke use. and sales? What a rip off for the black community that the first black prez is just a dealer… Our hero kids!
Eric Holder…
Napolitano…
Embassy postings for big donors
Gutting the navy
“unprecedented” comment ref Obama care ruling before he found out he got his way… tlak about unprecedented…
Supportng the overthrow of the Qatari govt
State dept citing Al Jazera as best source of news
Zombie, couldn’t you have mitigated the horror of this list by mentioning that O has a nice crease down his pants or something?
Bloggers have suggested that dems would be better served if O loses; that way the complete destruction of their party is averted during the coming presidency from Hell.
But the real surprise could come after O loses and tries to declare the election invalid. Of course, his minions might have the good sense to talk him out of it. But, then, O will be O and we know where that goes.
Obama’s bio for his first book stated that he was born in Kenya (not Hawaii!).
“And, over the course of 17 years, despite multiple revisions by Obama, the Kenyan birthplace remained a fundamental part of the bio on the agent’s website.”
Just Google Treacher + Obama + Kenyan and follow the first link.
On almost every one of those, add the addendum “and when confronted on this item, issued a transparently false denial, which the MSM merely repeated as ‘proof’ that this did not actually happen.”
Birth Certificate questions, his sealed college records, his communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, his communist upbringing by his mother and grandparents, his claim to being of Kenyan birth when promoting his book for ten years before recanting it and calling it a mistake, his play/ode to Saul Alinsky, his connections to Bill Ayers, prosecuted the Libya campaign beyond the deadline of the War Powers Act and never received Congressional approval to wage said war, relaxed pardoning/releasing for inmates in Guantanamo resulting in several terrorists returning to the battlefield, failed to close Guantanamo after promising to close it, attempting to move Guantanamo inmates into US soil prisons, refusing to classify the Fort Hood massacre as terrorism instead calling it ‘workplace violence’, his half brother in Kenya that he doesn’t help and instead had to reach out to D’nish Dzousa (sp?) for help with medical bills, his uncle driving drunk and getting a DUI while driving without a license, his illegal immigrant aunt, connections to Tony Rezko and Blagojevich, connections to ACORN, allowing individuals and organizations with radical ties like CAIR or ISNA or Muslim Brotherhood to influence law enforcement protocols and manuals, encouraging UN monitors into the US election, parties with multiple celebrities in the White House while Americans struggle, throws an Alice in Wonderland themed party with the actual cast from the movie in the White House, flies in his personal barber just to get a haircut, lavish vacation in Martha’s Vineyard in which Obama and Michelle arrived on different flights, Obama delivers pizzas to a campaign office but promptly leaves without doing any campaigning, Navy ‘corpse’ man, 57 states, insulting Americans by calling them bitter clingers (guns, God and religion), insulting Netanyahu with France’s president when caught on a hot mike, and making recess appointments when the Senate was not in recess. My God, I know there is more that I just can’t think of at the moment.
Oh yeah, his wife’s comment, upon his winning the Democratic Primary, that this was the first time in her life she’d ever been proud of her country.
He married an America-hater – any normal candidate would’ve been bludgeoned by the press over something like that.
Working for A.C.O.R.N. and training their activists and making speeches telling them he supports them. (And then denying he did it.)
Also paying an A.C.O.R.N. front $800k for get out the vote efforts, which brought the attention of the FEC:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/22/acorn-watch-pt-ii-obama-hid-800000-payment-to-acorn-through-citizen-services-inc/
Not only firing Walpin but trying to spread the idea that he was mentally incompetent. And the scandal that Walpin was investigating:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/12/gerald-walpin-obama-remov_n_214715.html
“misuse of federal grants by a nonprofit education group led by Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star. Johnson and a nonprofit education academy he founded ultimately agree to repay half of $847,000 in grants it had received from AmeriCorps.”
“No, no, no — don’t boo, vote,” Obama said. “Vote. Voting is the best revenge.”
Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/11/02/obama-urges-voters-take-revenge-election-day-romney-team-rips-terrible-message/#ixzz2B7yBtKAr
He invaded Libya with nothing close to a casus belli and ignoring the limits of the War Powers Act. How many Democrats entered politics swearing that they would impeach anyone who tried something like that?
Even if I agreed with BHO politically I would still despise him personally. He’s a no class act. The 15 or 16 White House photos of his feet all over the Oval Office furniture is the winner in that respect.
My video from March:
Obama’s Rudest Moments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3J5SC73BFk
“Date nights” in NYC, tying up traffic and totally inconveniencing the city.
Selling out the Poles to the Russians. Dismissing our defensive missile treaty with Poland and Czech Republic to get something from Russia, who didn’t give it to us after all.
Regret that the Constitution is a system of negative laws, that it only lists things the government can’t do TO you, but doesn’t allow government to do things FOR you. (was in a radio interview as a state senator.
Photo of himself in the official White House recognition of the death of Neil Armstrong.
Here’s one you can add to the list:
MF Global: it’s been one year since 1.2 billion in Mom and Dad’s investment dollars were vaporized overnight…
…and Jon Corzine is still not in jail…
…and no-one cares to know where it all went…
…or why it disappeared…
…and it is OBAMA’s SEC that has not so much as lifted a finger to find a dime of it!
Oh and here’s a link
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/no-criminal-case-is-likely-in-loss-at-mf-global/
Two more minor ones, both relating to the return of the Churchill bust:
The now infamous “gift” of classic American movies on a DVD format that doesn’t play on British systems, to a nearly-blind Prime Minister. This was after a gift with considerable historic import from Brown.
And another cr*ppy gift, this time to the Queen herself of an iPod loaded with speeches from a President she is clearly unimpressed with.
One more? Sure, why not. Leading the Dali Lama out the back door past piles of trash, with press photogs waiting for the opportunity.
Lord, stop me. The abject refusal to meet with Bibi, but he sure has time to do things like David Letterman.
And wasn’t that a Mayor in Florida he bowed to, along with all the other dignitaries?
“The police… acted stupidly…”
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
Before he was elected, B+rry swore he would not raise taxes on anyone but the rich. One of the first bills he signed raised the Federal tobacco tax and that taxes the poor most of all since, in general, the poorer you are the more likely it is you use tobacco.
1. The crafting of “anti-terrorist” materials which make American patriotism a suspect category;
2. The repeated, and deliberate, leaks of confidential material from his administration (most memorable, to me, is the repeated leaking of possible Israeli refuel options – nations that would cooperated with Israel — in the case of a strike against Iran).
“I won.”
#62 just reminded me. This is a big one. Attempting to facilitate a coup-d’etat in Honduras, and force their government to bend to his wishes regarding their election laws.
His failed debt ceiling gamble
Having the Dalai Lama ushered into/out of the White House through the service entrance, past the stacked-up garbage bags.
His wonderfully thoughtful gifts to the Queen of England and PM Gordon Brown
Had a filmmaker dragged from his house in the middle of the night and arrested for exercising his first amendment rights.
Obama’s Job Council missing in action (MIA) for 6? 9? more? months.
Obama convenes National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (aka: Simpson-Boyles commission), then summarily dismisses their findings and recommendations.
Obama’s “laser-like focus” on jobs (ObamaCare), jobs (golf), jobs (EPA), jobs (Martha’s Vineyard), jobs (NLRB), jobs (Romney), jobs (basketball), jobs (threaten BLS), jobs (squirrel) …
Come on, HE ATE A DOG!!!
Hey Zombie, how about the controversial firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin in 2009 because he was uncovering all of the fraud, criminal activity and other assorted shenanigans going on at AmeriCorps?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511811033017539.html
Chastising the Supreme Court on their Citizens United decision during the State of the Union address.
ok – great list, fantastic resource. i gave a quick look, so hopefully no dupes:
•honduras – obama allied w/ chavez & castro against legal ousting of Zelaya
•Chaz Freeman
•state dinner for china, pianist plays anti-american song in the white house, to the great delight of chinese patriots
there must be more too…
All three were excellent (and have now been added) — no dupes.
Shortly after inaugurated, he took AF1 out for a spin/dive over NYC. Who was onboard? For what purpose? Have we ever received an explanation?
Attacking the, banking, hospitality, guitar making, oil, coal, drilling, and medical industries
Supporting the fraudulent election of Al Franken
Obamacare waivers
Sticking his finger in Gov Brewers face
Arrogant presumption he’d get the Olympics brought to Chicago.
Refusing to sell Taiwan modern fighter planes
Selling the Muslim brotherhood the best tanks the world has ever seen
Apologizing to those storming our Cairo embassy as they did it. Claimed he didn’t
Saying in 2nd debate that more than representing the US, ambassadors are personal representatives of him
Actively clouding with most corrupt elements of media… In both elections and through out. Remember the McCain affair story? Like they had no knowledge of that one…
Portuguese Water Dog…
Prosecuting CIA agents for using approved techniques
Refusing to congratulate sports teams he doesn’t like on Super Bowl or World Series wins
Inserting himself in all presidential biographies
Comparing himself in speeches, with a straight face no less, to Washington, fdr, t Roosevelt, Lincoln, JFK, and regan.
Not comparing himself with carter…
Skipping out on restaurant bills as pres… Seriously?!
Stiffing cities on security costs for his campaign.
Destroying private or municipal airport in New England and refusing to fix it
Claiming planned parenthood does mammograms. 2 x
Attacking small aircraft manufacturing industry
Manipulating USAF contract process to take away light attack aircraft contract from US company and give to Brazilian company
Supporting commie presidents in brazil and Argentina
Hugging terrorist president of Argentina
Embracing Hugo Chavez
Not giving a rip when Venezuela nationalized US assess there
Nationalizing student loans
US department of education being sent no knock raid for someone behind on payments…unit existing in 1st place…
Undie bomber
Ft hood shooting , claiming it wasn’t terror
Little rock recruiting depot shooting…same
MLK statue done in totalitarian style… By artists in china. Talk about outsourcing….
Joe Biden…
State departments multi million dollar booze bill… Talk about money for Benghazi security..
Chevy volt contracts for govt agencies including military
Refusing to say God or Creator when reading historic us docs….and I’m a freaking atheist….
Bill Ayres….
Tony Rezko…
Returning coffins used as photo ops and political football…what was his original position anyway, that one change so much I lost track…
Iranian missile base in Venezuela
Refusing to dine with the sarkozys while staying next door to them in France
Arming al Qaeda in Libya
Not supporting green revolution in Iran
No response to North Korean sinking of South Korean sub…
Prodigious, man. You rock.
I apologize for iOS corrections and “corrections” on stuff that was spelled right. Getting my patriotic hate on in the dark while watching the og muppet movie with my kids.
I’ll never forget this 2009 White House photo of Obama showing the sole of his shoe while talking on the phone to Netanyahu. No matter how many stupid Jews defend Obama, this official photo says it all: “Arabs, Muslims, note that I despise Jews.”
This photo would never have been released unless the Obama administration officially approved this insult.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-5076128-503543.html
Hi Promethea, if there is an Olympic medal competition of 0bama’s Disgraceful Behavior Events this one would be the Gold medal winner. That display was, and intended to be so, a staged assault on our White House and our country. Feet on our Resolute Desk. An affront intentionally staged to display 0bama’s contempt for all things American.
Sorry for the hiatus in updates to the list over the last couple hours — had to do the whole family/dinner thing there. But now I’m back in the game, ignoring family duties, and for the rest of the evening I plan to try to catch up on all your suggestions and update the list one entry at a time!
Refresh is your friend.
The wave of Obama lies are sewing the seeds of his destruction.
I know this is a mixed up metaphor, but not nearly as mixed up as the Obamas are going to be on Nov. 6 when Romney enjoys a landslide victory.
No one will admit to me they’re voting for Obama. It’s because they’re embarrassed. The teachers, the lawyers, the union thugs are going to be taught a lesson. Or, as Barack calls it; a teaching moment.
List them all?!
You’re going to need a bigger blog…
You can say that again. A bigger blog and another year.
It’s the middle of the night and I’m only halfway through the suggestions — and they’re still pouring in! I’ve bitten off much more than I can chew, and I’m falling asleep at the keyboard, so the list will be somewhat incomplete…but I’m not superhuman! And superhuman effort is what it would take to keep track of all Obama’s outrages.
But other than those things- nuthin’, right?
Gotta pack ‘em dense…
Don’t forget Valarie Jar-Jar, the woman behind the curtain.
Just in case you are “moderating” me because I said “stupid Jews,” the fact is that the majority of Jews in America are truly stupid for continuing to support an antisemitic anti-Israel leftist like Obama. I belong to a large and growing “rant group” of Jews who believe Obama wants to destroy both America and Israel. Who knows what his vision of utopia is. I can’t imagine the wasteland that he and his Valjar/Ayers/Soros group of maniacs want to create.
Don’t get me started ! ! 11 Eleventy ! ! 11 !!!!!
That’s why we have our rant group. We are surrounded by idiots…..our friends and family, unfortunately.
Your first comment wasn’t selected out for special moderation — it just sat there patiently with about 20 other comments while I had to wash the dishes. I’m now back and they’ve all been approved (including yours).
Promethea, I’m sure many non jews would love to make tghe acquaintance of your “rant group.” Blog, twitter, FB?
The “rant group” is an ever-changing group of friends and acquaintances in Chicago. For online ranting, pjmedia, ace of spades, and neo-neocon are perfect. This thread is the most perfect rant-thread ever.
Thanks, Zombie!
Two words: David Axelrod.
Very early…first sign of nefarious-nous….Low Flying Air Force one over NYC. Who was on that Joyride? Muslim Donors?
Early 2010, in a speech supporting Obamacare, makes it crystal clear that he doesn’t understand the difference between auto liability insurance and collision insurance. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=obamadoesnt%20know%20what%20auto%20liability%20insurance%20is&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CFwQtwIwBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DoimJ4NAI73E&ei=KaWUUI-pN5G29gTo7IG4Cw&usg=AFQjCNEQ0xrEIOAIoPTS8J-0jFtJJvaSOA
Scandal? No. But blunder? I’d say so.
If Romney had told this story a couple weeks ago, it certainly would have been treated as an October surprise.
Had Air Force One buzz New York City unannounced for a photo op, recalling for New Yorkers the 9/11 attacks and briefly sending the city into a panic. The plane was rumored to be filled with big money donors, though the administration refused to release the passenger list.
Started his own illegal war for (European) oil in Libya without the congressional approval required by the War Powers Act.
Also: Orwellian word games, like “man caused disasters” for terrorism, and “overseas contingency operation” for the Iraq war and “kinetic activity” for bombing the sh!? out of Libya.
And lastly, three words: Joe Biden.
My god, it really has been a waking nightmare.
Obama ate a dog!
Okaying the release of the Lockerbie Bomber and lying about it to the American people.
Not defending defense of marriage act in court as required by law…
I really can’t stand the thought that Obama will win a second term! Its driving me up the emotional wall! I have nothing to add, only tears at the very thought that this election appears so close when it should be a Romney landslide. We have become Europe, and a large number of Americans like it that way. It makes me wish I was living in 1776 or even 1866 and not 2012.
Please, someone at PJ Media write an article on how we to cope if the Obamanation wins again. At least have one prepared for after the election, because I honestly think there is going to be a high number of conservative suicides (not me, but I feel it in the air for many).
Cool your jets, boy. This thing is in the bag for Romney. It’s not that he is doing so well, but rather, that Obama is doing so poorly. Obama won with 53% of the vote last time, versus McCain’s 46%. That gave him a 2:1 Electoral victory. Now, Obama is stuck at 47% all across the country. So, Romney’s win will not be as strong, but should be in the 300+ EV range, a solid victory, better than either of the Bush wins.
Please stay positive, don’t watch the news or read polls. Get involved if you are not already. We are going to win. There are many important races, you can make calls from home for many of them. Freedomworks is helping with several races where you can make calls from home. Be part of the solution.
http://www.freedomworksforamerica.org/posts/with-twenty-days-until-the-election-freedomworks-endorsed-senate-candidates-need-your-help
During the Green Revolution, calling Iran, “the Islamic Republic of Iran”
Honduran Preident Zelaya.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/28/wsj-white-house-tried-to-prevent-honduran-presidents-ouster/
Backing Saudis over the 9/11 families..
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1059/9-11-families-obama-favors-saudi-terror
Shucks, used to keep a list but got all wore’ out..
http://americapwn3d.wordpress.com/
Passively backing the Honduras socialist coup, sitting back and doing nothing while protestors are gunned down in the streets of Tehran.
My jaw hit the floor during the 2007 primaries when the future president vowed to meet, within a year of taking office, either at home or abroad, with no preconditions, the leaders of North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and . . . was it Libya? I mean, I thought that was kinda scandalous and enough to end his candidacy on the spot.
Good thing he hired an incompetent Secretary of State whose dog apparently ate her to-do list, cuz those meetings were somehow never arranged.
“I will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.”
Just for laughs, take a look at his “Blueprint for Change” sometime. All kinds of unkept promises in there. Another was some forum page on the White House website where we’d be able to “directly communicate” our concerns to the President himself! Imagine, a chance to have a national conversation online that the President himself would be able to read!
Zombie: In addition to creating a separate list of gaffes, I think you should consider a separate list of broken promises. Put it in chart format so that you can list the promise in one column and the action (or inaction) in the other.
Aggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!
I barely even have time to read all these comments. I’m not a fully staffed news network — I’m one person with about 120 minutes of free blogging time per day. Glub glub glub glub!
lol
you asked for it
• Giving the Queen of England an iPod with his speeches on it.
• Giving Gordon Brown some lame, unplayable DVDs as a gift.
• Beer summit
Remember his lunatic Civilian National Security Force? “People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve.”
Another scandalously unconstitutional and stupid promise in my view, also thankfully unkept.
Arhooley, yes, i remember that, it was to be “as well funded as our military.” I firmly believe that Pres 0bama intended to have his own Basij, just like Ahmadinejad. CKrauthammer summed it up best, “Given this administrations extravagant ambition, it’s incompetence was our saving grace.”
For some reason, all I can think of is that Mao Christmas Ornament.
The federal crackdown on medical marijuana.
I have looked through these comments, and I do not think the Obama Administration’s infuriating and massively incompetent “response” to the “BP Oil Spill Disaster”- intentionally letting the oil flow day after day-and its’ economic and political details and ramifications, has been mentioned. I will leave a summary of the various aspects of this for another, but I think the Admin’s excruciating lack of reaction was maybe the first instance where a disaster was used as a form of political punishment..
Haven’t read everything above yet so apologize if this is already mentioned…
Within hours of his inauguration, Obama sealed all of his personal records via executive order.
We still know almost nothing verifiable about him.
The whole hospital deal with Michelle and subsequent patient dumping scandal which involved Rezko and Blagojevich and Whitaker (who paid off Rev. Wright) and demonstrated the level of corruption that is SOP for the Obamas.
Shaking his booty with Jay-Z in Vegas while children are cold and hungry in New York.
And he probably told Blooming(idiot)burg to please cancel the Marathon.
I so wanted to watch,
for 4 hours,
those thousands of Libbey’s stepping on roofing tacks and nails strewn in their path.
Talk about needing the RED CROSS?
Failing to visit Tennessee after the flooding in 2010.
Taking seven days to visit Joplin, Missouri after being struck by a tornado that killed over a hundred people.
I think the fact that Valerie Jarrett has Secret Service protection is a full-blown scandal. Why is she afforded this expensive security?
Because she’s the President of the United States.
I haven’t seen any mention of Obama berating the Supreme Court at the State of the Union Address. But, you’re right Zombie, there are so many crimes and misdemeanors, it’s hard to keep track of all of them.
WHY didn’t we start tnis months ago? Would have had time to research links for you. My vote for your list would be the DHS report defining conservatives as domestic terrorists (2011). Tie this with O’s ex.order giving him total control of all communications including the internet, transport of all goods and services etc during a national threat, defined by the president (ex order) and now he has the ability to arrest anyone who HE wants and to take total controll over our lives. Keep in mind late spring/early summer he signed an ex order stating RUSSIA was a national threat.
1. Sent John Kerry to the Library of Congress to try to block the archiving of the legal report documenting that the Honduran response to Zelaya had been constitutional under Honduran law. This report undermined the entire US response to the event, and exposed it as a lie to help install a Hugo Chavez ally.
2. Orchestrated the passage of Obamacare on Christmas Eve, either to keep it from as much outrage, or as a deliberate insult to people who value family, religion, and believe that the power seeking totalitarians ever take a minute off.
3. Sent the DOJ to bring a suit against the state of South Carolina for policies that give top quality medical care to incarcerated people with HIV and actively minimize the opportunities for prison transmission of the virus.
4. Actively tried to block voter ID state laws which attempted to limit voter fraud.
5. Pushed the Pigford II distribution of Dept.of Agriculture to money who weren’t in farming.
6. Withheld irrigation water to California’s Central Valley for the delta smelt.
Refused retired space shuttle to HOUSTON.
Immediately boasting about getting OBL.
Instead, by keeping quiet and analyzing the data acquired, AQ would have been severely damaged. The situation in North Africa and the Middle East would be far different. Obama gave a heads-up to the enemy for his own near term political ends.
How could I have forgotten?
The classless, tacky, utterly crass political donations instead of shower and wedding gifts proposal.
Zombie, I don’t have a big twitter audience but I would like to begin to tweet each one of these, one at a time, with a link back to the story with the hashtag #OctoberScream. Idea?
If you have the gumption, then go for it!
I’m not on Twitter myself. And my Victrola still uses cylinders, not them newfangled disks.
Returning the bust of Winston Churchill which was given to us after the September 11th attacks
Inserting Obama into the historical information of past Presidents on the WH website.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/08/17/morning-bell-obama-edits-official-state-department-documents-to-tout-himself/
Speech to La Raza saying he was constrained by the Constitution and then went around the Constitution to implement the “Dream Act” via executive order
I’m sure there are many executive orders that will result in additions to your list.
There waas an early October Surprise:
MITT, CLINT & SUN TZU – AN AUGUST SRUPRISE?
There has been much speculation in Conservative circles throughout the last month or so, as to what the Progressive Leftists were planning for an “October Surprise”?
What if a new type of “October Surprise” has already happened? This year was different. The Republican Campaign needed to find a way to energize the Conservative base.
What if the “Surprise” was sprung by the Republicans – a little over a month early, August for example? What better place to hide than in plain sight at the Convention?
What better weapon for a “Surprise” than the unfettered arrogance of Barack Obama?
Anyone who believes that Clint Eastwood’s “Empty Chair Speech” occurred without Gov. Romney’s knowledge and approval is arrogantly out of touch with reality.
Anyone who believes that Clint’s August 30th Convention Speech was a huge mistake by a “dithering old fool” is part of the delusional Left. That was the only memorable thing at either Convention.
Until the first debate, Romney’s second biggest opponent was Conservative apathy. The best that Conservatives thought they could hope for from a Romney Administration was another disappointing Bush- 41. It was a question of whether to sit home, or just not vote the Presidential line on November 6th.
Conservatives were discouraged because of the Governor’s failure to distance himself from “Romney-care” and his apparent embrace of the MMGW hoax. At every turn, Gov. Romney seemed to embrace the more progressive aspects of modern Republicanism. Not quite John McCain but close.
Appearing to be aloof and distant, Gov. Romney seemed to epitomize Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s devastating remark about Thomas E. Dewey: “He reminds me of the little man a top a wedding cake!” This was confirmed by Eastwood’s “Empty Chair Speech” which had completely overshadowed Gov. Romney’s Convention Speech. Or, so many people thought…
Then, the October 4th Presidential Debate rolled around; it was President Obama who confirmed Clint’s “Empty Chair” scenario. A Teleprompter-less Obama was the arrogant, naked, redistributionist fool that many thought him to be. Here he was again, the same empty suited narcissist who had revealed himself in his conversation with “Joe the Plumber”. Unfortunately, in 2008 few were listening because of Obama’s Bing Crosby like “COOL” overshadowed his actual content and lack of experience.
Mr. Eastwood’s speech laid the ground work for, what is referred to, in tactical military terms, as the “Dummy Defense” or alternately as a “Double Envelopment”. This concept was first articulated in Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”. Since the 6th Century B.C., Sun Tzu’s military treatise has been considered the definitive work on military strategy and tactics. The concept is simple – out-flank your enemy – pretend that you are weak – draw your enemy into the center of the “C” – close the circle and destroy your enemy’s ability to fight coherently.
The actual execution of the “Double Envelopment” is another matter. It is always risky, but the rewards can be huge. Historians have recorded the great victories by Hannibal over the Romans and Daniel Morgan’s victory in our Revolution over Lt. Col. Banastre Tarleton and Cornwallis.
“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.” ― Sun Tzu
Gov. Romney’s brilliance was that he left his opponent’s more moderate soldiers a place to retreat to: Him.
It was here his thinking excelled strategically by not being too bellicose. He gave moderate women a place to go to on November 6th.
The Big Risk of the entire strategy: What if the Crosby-esque Obama of 2008 appeared at the first Debate? Again, Gov. Romney has displayed the courage and the ability to take the kind of risks that Americans made famous in 1776.
By the end of the Second Debate, it was clear that the onus was on Mr. Obama to prove that he was not an “Empty Suit” taking up desk space in the Oval Office.
“If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.” – Sun Tzu.
It was now Obama’s uphill battle to close the sale. By the final Debate Governor Romney was in an enviable position: Mr. Obama had to properly explain his Benghazi Debacle, or face continuing questioning. Gov. Romney wisely stayed out of the fray. While Mr. Obama, by continuing his obvious lies, kept digging a bigger, deeper hole for himself.
“Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.” ― Sun Tzu
Mr. Romney played it perfectly by not getting mired down in the Benghazi mud, Gov. Romney can rest assured that the Media will keep it front & center until Election Day. It is a perfect metaphor for Obama’s tenure in office.
During the last Debate, Mr. Obama was displaying his profound lack of understanding for Saul Alinsky’s Rule #2 for Radicals by virtue of his cynical & lame “horses & bayonets” lecture to Mr. Romney: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. [i]
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Gov. Romney embraced another Sun Tzu axiom as his last Debate theme.
Mr. Obama by virtue of his arrogance was still unaware that he has been had. Or, more properly, Mr. Obama has defeated himself.
Gov. Romney has demonstrated that he is up to the enormous tasks ahead. There is a reason the Sun Tzu is taught a America’s best post graduate business schools and Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” is not………………..
Anyone just dropping in from Mars who watched the October 22nd Debate would have thought that Gov. Romney was the incumbent president.
By November 7th, 2012, let it be so.
[i] -//www.bestofbeck.com/wp/activism/saul-alinskys-12-rules-for-radicals
Don’t know if I missed seeing it in the article or the list of comments, but there’s that clip and comment where Obama says laughingly, “Those shovel ready projects weren’t as shovel ready as we thought.”
This man is truly a clear and present danger to our Republic and must be voted out of office.
I didn’t see it.
But we are still clinging to our religion,
bibles, and guns.
Dept of SS bought 1 million rounds,
I bought 1,000.
Obama’s Administration Killed a 16-Year-Old American and Didn’t Say Anything About It. This Is Justice?
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/abdulrahman-al-awlaki-death-10470891#ixzz2BAHVq4z7
minor typo
“When states tied to stop election fraud with voter ID laws, Obama sued to prevent them from doing so.” I think it should be tried not tied.
minor typo
“Neither disavowed nor distanced himself from anti-Romney campaign ads which threatened or implied vilence against Republicans.” should be violence not vilence
Don’t forget the recess appointments when there was no recess.
minor typo
“but his bullying seems to have later paid off, when the Supreme Court apparently altered its Obamacare decision to as to not ruffle any political feathers” should be so as not to instead of to as to not
Thx. Fixed.
Signed legislation with AutoPen.
End run around Congress with Race to the Top $ for states, waiving NCLB rules without Congressional approval (again)and tying Common Core Learning Standards with teacher assessments (very poorly I might add). RESULT? A nationalization of US Education based on *global* (Eurpoean)texts, revisionist histtory, and standards.
Not sure if you caught these, all biggies:
Illegal war in Libya – no Congressional approval.
Gitmo still open despite promises to close in 1st year (imagine if a Repug had done that!)
Prevented Boeing from opening a new plant in S Carolina
Blocked oil pipeline from Canada
War on Fox News
Selling out Poland to Russia on Poland’s national day
BTW check out my comic about national debt. You are welcome to post it here:
http://comiceconomics.com/adventures-in-debt/
The inside of his arrogant, ignorant 57 states, corpsemen brain.
Telling Jay Leno, “I Was Fine at Math Until the 7th Grade”, while condescendingly saying of the economy “it’s arithmetic, stupid”.
(arithmetic that is apparently beyond your grasp as your surrogates load on regulations to strangle business activity)
A classless prétendeur, a campaigner-in-chief, preaching “fairness” and green while in perpetual motion on AF1 at $180,000/hour to operate, holding state dinners at $4700/head.
The Obamas living off the taxpayer as prince and princess, even king and queen.
A wealthy Columbia donor has just said Obama’s GPA for 2 years at Columbia was 2.6, with lots of “incompletes”. When asked a month or so ago, Obama graded himself with “incomplete” as he presented an argument for 4 more years to make the carnage irreversible.
Liberal women at the White House have reported a “hostile work environment”, and are paid less for the same work.
Thinks religion is a “superstition”. America is “not a Christan nation”. The religious are easily frightened, bitter gun-clingers.
America is not an exceptional nation.
Babies are punishment. And if his under age daughters become pregnant, it is okay with him no doctor need inform him, or Michelle, they have had an abortion.
I have read, he inherited a million dollars from his retired bank vice-president grandmother. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Except her entire life, and career, contradicts his own narrative about America.
All his records are sealed.
Both parents were openly communist.
His father was a bigamist, so it is likely his parents were never legally married. No matter where he was born. Except in his father’s African country.
He believes it should be against the law to make “too much” money.
Is trying to push Sweden around, and get them to change their banking laws.
He has never held a private sector job.
Gave his wife a government job, which nearly tripled her income. Her job consisted mostly of “patient dumping” poor patients, so she would look good.
At least one of his Supreme Court Justices is a self-admitted sexist and racist.
Thinks he knows everything. Though that is not a crime.
Would never have been accepted for military service, because of his radical past. And the fact, again, both his parents were self-admitted communists, and everyone he chose deliberately as a friend are communists, socialists, progressives, or some kind of radical who has sworn eternal hostility to America.
For God’s sake, let’s not forget the HHS regs that amount to a war on religious freedom!
Not scandalous, but if there is ANY reason to be scared of what happens when you elect a communist as POTUS:
Supreme Court appointments of Elena Kagan & Sonia Sotomayor.
Communists as Supreme Court justices… FOR LIFE.
If ANYTHING should worry a REAL United States citizen, it is the possibility that he can appoint MORE communists to this bench.
OK these do not quality as scandalous but deserve honorable mention for the display of arrogance, “At some point you’ve made enough money,” & “Now is not the time for profit.” I think we are all suffering apocalypse fatigue.
Constantly complains about ‘obscene’ health insurance profits, yet those profits are only 1/10 the waste and fraud in government run health care.
Accuses doctors of ordering amputations to make extra money.
Shaking down bp for 20 billion outside the court system to paper over his incompetent response to the oil spill.
Documented evidence that he was a dues paying member of the New Party, a radical left wing political party.
Michelle Obama saying she was proud of her country for the first time when he got elected.
Saying, in an interview a few years before 2008, that the Warren Court didn’t do enough for racial social justice because it didn’t reread the Constitution as a document of positive rights, requiring redistribution.
Having all his budgets voted down unanimously in the Congress.
Not signing a budget for 3 years.
The lA times is still sitting on a tape of his at a function with that radical anit-semite Columbia professor speaking against Israel.
Beginning his political career in the house of an unrepentant terrorist, bill ayers, and lying about their friendship (he was just a guy in the neighborhood; spotted at ayers july 4th party, etc)
Lying repeatedly in his memoirs to over dramatize his life
His comment about his grandmother being a typical white person
Repeatedly lying about his mother’s battle with the insurance agencies when she was fighting cancer, which is a blatant lie for political purposes
Being president of the Harvard law review, despite never publishing a single piece
Misrepresenting his position at u Chicago (he wasn’t a constitutional law professor, he was an instructor that never published a single article)
Using the Giffords shooting to lecture his political opponents about civility, implying the tea party, etc, had something to do with it
How was he able to travel to Paak-ee-Stan in the 80s?
Writing about his communist affinities in the 80s and never explaining any conversion from those beliefs
Talking about fundamentally transforming the US, without saying how. Talking about hope, without saying what for. Talking about change, without ever having to say from what to what.
Blocking the keystone pipeline
I didn’t read all of the comments, so I don’t know if my suggested additions to Zombie’s list are duplicative. They are, nevertheless, as follows:
1. Obama made too many Americans wonder whether their federal government had become a banana republic;
2. Obama browbeat, cajoled, and humiliated members of co-equal branches of government who disagreed with him, and worse, repudiated the quality of their proceedings in an unconstitutional fashion (attribution – John Yoo);
3. Obama made too many Americans fear their federal government, particularly business owners who produce the wealth that makes nearly everything in America work;
4. Obama made me consider the utility of the Union for states who could do better if they were not a full member of it.
Th great insult to congress and the American people with his Obamacare bill when he had a speed reader come in to read it to congress in I think less than an hour. They all (Democrats) thought it was so funny. This shows me what he really thinks of congress and our Constitutional process.
Has received endorsements from a long list of America’s enemies.
Which includes:
Hugo Chavez
Vladamir Putin
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (a holocaust denier)
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (another holocaust denier)
Fidel Castro
Going into Libya without congressional approval.
Declaring Congrees out of session and making recess appointments while they were in session.
Granted waivers to states for No Child Left Behind, despite there being no legal waiver procedure built into the law.
Announced he would grant waivers for welfare work requirements, which also has no waiver procedure.
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Any one of these is sufficient grounds for impeachment, as are a few in the already compiled list. Obama is a disgrace and must be fired. We are a nation of laws, not of men.
Wasting the trillion dollar stimulus on paying off his cronies instead of shoring up our power grid that would have helped the sandy storm victims get their power back ip a lo faster.
In his first press conference after being elected, on Nov 7, 2008, Obama insulted Nancy Reagan, joking that she held seances in the White House. He later called her to apologize.
As the first sitting president to visit the Tonight Show, in March 2009, Obama disparaged the Special Olympics. One day later, Obama’s spokesman apologized for the insult.
Telling mr Putin, when he thought the mic was off, that he’d have more flexibility after the election
Torpedoing the Boener debt talks, last minute, by requesting additional revenue
Sending joe Biden to negotiate the Iraq drawdown, resulting in us getting booted out entirely and jeopardizing any gains we secured
Calling the fort hood shooting workplace violence
Floating the idea of trying terrorists in civilian courts in lower manhattan, but having to backdown becaus EOF public outcry
Not prosecuting black panthers for voter intimidation
The lavish vacations in the midst of a terrible recession (Spain, taking two flights to Martha’s vineyard within hours)
His mentor/mentee association with Frank Davis, the anti American communist
…wow, it is amazing how many there are, isn’t it?….
Zombie,
At some point organizing this list into categories would add a lot of value. Some suggestions:
1. Scandals (F&F, Benghazi, etc.)
2. Foreign Policy failures (ME, Russian ‘reset’)
3. Domestic Policy Failures (Stimulus, HARP program, C4C, green energy, etc.)
4. Hypocrisy (retaining Bush GWOT policies and programs, signing statements, )
5. Thug politics (siccing the IRS on Romney donators, demonizing Chic-fil-A)
6. Gaffes (“You didn’t build that”, 57 states, etc.)
7. Constitutional End Runs (czars, EPA, NLRB, etc.)
8. Classlessness (“I won,” reference to FLOTUS ‘going down,’ middle finger face scratching, etc.)
9. Laziness (golf, winging it on Olympics bid, Debate #1)
10. Lack of Transparency (ObamaCare on C-SPAN, FOIA outrages, ignoring Congressional subpoenas, holding lobbying meetings outside of the WH)
11. Pure Mendacity (“oil & gas production is highest ever in my term,” “I have spent less than Ronald Reagan,” “I have created 5 million jobs,” etc.)
12. The Regal Presidency (lavish parties beyond any previous standards, vacations to Africa, Spain, Martha’s Vineyard, ‘date nights’, etc.)
Great idea. You could maybe add
Questionable Appointments (tax cheats like Geithner and Daschle)
Questionable Associations (ayres, davis, etc)
Good list. Categories are a good way to remember additional items.
Another category could be Punishments (“we’re taking notes”, “I won”, “you can build a coal plant but you’ll go bankrupt”, Chrylser bond holders, obamacare tax for failing to buy health insurance, $9 gasoline, jailing the guy who made the utube movie trailer, exploding cars, many more)
Going after the cia et all for waterboarding AFTER deemed legal.
they wanted themp prosecuted
“Office of the President-Elect.”
Humiliating Supremes at SOtU
Don’t forget “Julia” – trying to teach women to be helpless victims that need government subsidies from cradle to grave to survive.
Inviting Paul Ryan to his budget presentation, sitting him in the front row, and then calling him out repeatedly in his prepared comments. (http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2011/04/14/poisons-the-well-rep-paul-ryans-response-to-obamas-shameful-budget-proposals-video/)
Calling out the Supreme Court at his State of the Union and misrepresenting their decision on Citizen United (http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0110/Justice_Alitos_You_lie_moment.html)
Giving a “shout out” at the solemn occasion where he gave comments about the fort hood massacre. (http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.html)
Saying he didn’t want his daughters to be “punished with a baby” (http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2008/03/31/obama-says-he-doesnt-want-his-daughters-punished-with-a.aspx)
October 22, 2009 – The White House attacked Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials as a member of the Press Pool. The Pool is a five-member group consisting of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC organized by the White House Correspondents Association. Its membership is not subject to oversight by the government. This marks the first time in history that any Administration had attempted to ban an entire network from the press pool.
http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-censors-free-press-white-house-demands-final-editorial-approval
It’s been mentioned. The Underwear Bomber (Christmas Day).
When he referred to his terrible bowling score as being like the special olympics (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7129997&page=1#.UJUyysXBG9A).
Later, reported in the NYT that Obama somehow finds time to practice his bowling in the White House Alley (the White House has a bowling alley?) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/us/politics/obama-plays-to-win-in-politics-and-everything-else.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Obama wanted to apologize for Hiroshima and was denied by the Japanese.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/japanese-government-nixed-idea-of-obama-visiting-apologizing-for-hiroshima/
That ridiculous couple day bus tour he took through the midwest to tout US job creation, done in a luxury tour bus built in Canada.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/17/obamas-state-art-tour-bus-made-in-canada/
Mao ornaments on Christmas Tree, or was that “Great Dictators I want to emulate” tree.
Reggie Love, Kal Penn, Man’s Country. Yeah I do care about his sexual orientation if he’s going to lie about one more thing.
Not firing Eric Holder.
Not resigning.
How about dropping everything and flying off to Sweden to try & get the Olympics for Chicago and then the epic fail.
I wonder if that was Bush’s fault, too.
If you vote for Obama this time either you live under a rock ,are brain dead,or hate America.. because Obama hates America
How about taking billions of dollars from Medicare to fund Obamacare
- date nights at taxpayer expense. 17 official vacations for michelle
- dissing Las Vega and then traveling there to raise money
- allies accusing Romney of murder. Multiple lies about Romney / Ryan
- continually lying about the costs and benefit of obamacare
- acquiescing to midnight passage of obamacare
- demanding immediate passage of obamacare and then going on vacation w/o signing it
- “you didn’t build that”, “bitter clingers”, “stupid cops”, “shovel ready jobs – not”, many many more
- the beer conference
- “man made disasters”, refusal to say the word terrorism
- dismantling the Polish missle shield
- executive orders should be a list of its own
- ruining Louisiana’s economy by stopping offshore drilling. Unilaterally and illegally “fining” BP
- the outrageous comment about Netanyahu to the French President
- building a private entertainment club in the WH to which are invited all sorts of virulent leftist radicals and racists
- buzzing the Statue of Liberty
- jobs “saved or created”
- surprise! 900,000 jobs 2 weeks before the election
- president downgrade
- multiple insults to the faces of Paul Ryan, John McCain, John Boehner, others
- Hannity’s themes: let autistic babies die, etc.
- continual raises to WH personnel. Women aren’t paid as much. Government workers make twice private sector workers
- adds 1 trillion to spending EVERY YEAR, and then demands to raise taxes
- no budgets passed. The WH budget gets ZERO votes.
- doesn’t have John Boehners phone number. Goes months without meeting with any Republican, his own job council, his own cabinet
- doesn’t read his security breifings.
- the Black Panthers
- “if I had a son, he would look like the thug who was shot while casing his next crime and on the brink of murdering the neighborhood watch captain”
- accepting hundreds of millions from financiers and then insulting them and fining them
- refusing to release personal records including medical records
- doesn’t give a dime to his own half-brother who lives in poverty
Thousands more. The actual number would be multiple per day while the Fraud has been in office.
Legislated by executive fiat, i.e., “executive orders”.
During the auto bailouts gutted the pensions of 20,000 Delphi retirees while not only keeping UAW pensions fully intact, but refusing to lower UAW base pay even one penny.
…and don’t forget the continuous pandering and outright demagoguery over social security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
(Sorry if also posted in other comments. I didn’t quite make it through all comments.)
How about contracting out Libyan security to terrorist militias? http://ricochet.com/member-feed/Contracting-Out-Security-to-Terrorists
Zombie, the Pigford Scandal about black farmers along with the infamous Shirley Sherrod:
Zombie » Pigford v. Glickman: 86,000 claims from 39,697 total …
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Jul 27, 2010 – By then it had grown into a class action case, and any black farmer who had filed a … And speaking of Sherrod, that’s the real scandal here.
Don’t forget compensating supposed black “farmers” for discrimination.
During a terrible recession and devastating economy, spent most of his presidency on other stuff, giving lip-service to how he would one day do a “hard-pivot” and start addressing the economy. Further, his “other stuff” like regulations, obamacare and energy policy hurt the economy rather than helped it.
“…acted stupidly…”
OK, I’m awake, and I’ll try to continue updating this…but the task has become completely overwhelming, and my Saturday already has a full schedule. Ay caramba! I’ll do my best, but apologies ahead of time for not getting to everything.
Oh, man, I forgot about this one until just now: Obama publically mocks a man who questions him about high gas prices and suggests he get a hybrid.
http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,892.0.html
And that reminded me of the bitter clinger remark, which not only stands on its own, but then also Obama tried to claim he regretted it immediately, which he provably did not (his campaign repeatedly defended it)
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/the_rumble/2012/09/obamas-bitterclinger-revisionism
whoops, sorry, didn’t mean to reply to this comment in particular — getting riled up, I guess
His own literary biography stating he was born in Kenya, suggesting he lied about his heritage to make his life appear more exotic, or whatever. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii
Suggesting that doctors inappropriately amputate limbs for profit
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/16/surgeons-challenge-obamas-50k-amputation-claim-media-mum
That about sums it up. Worst administration ever!
Obamaphile’s response? Meh. That all you got?
More Organization Would Be Great, as PD Quig suggested!
Started keeping a List, trying to alphabetize it to keep things straight.
Only Titles Appear Here – All Sources are documented if there are any questions about substance of topic, but most sources not included here for sake of brevity.
Perhaps this list will jog others’ memories. I know it fails to list the Deficit Debacle, the Failure to Pass A Budget, Benghazi, and so much more!
However, for what it’s worth:
Obama – ABC’s of an Anti-American POTUS & so forth
[Administration’s Illegal Activities, Ballot Fraud & Constitutional Crisis]
1) Administration – Executive Privilege & orders,
2) Ambition – Live like a King and Never Work:
3) Agenda 21
4) Ballot Fraud, Is He Qualified?
5) Black Panthers & Malcolm X favored by Eric Holder at Columbia & now as AG of DOJ
6) Campaign Lies
7) Communism – When Did It Become the American Dream?
8) Constitutional Crisis
9) Crony Capitalism
10) Democrats = Communists (Hamas)
11) DADT & Military – General Dempsey encouraging Active Duty Military to march in recent Gay Pride Day Marches and Celebrations.
12) Democratic Socialism
13) Drone Attacks
14) Eric Holder – Attorney General
15) Executive Orders
16) Faith – the Wrong Kind of Christianity
17) Fast & Furious
18) FBI under influence of DOJ:
19) Foreign Policy – Obama Actively Favors Iran:
20) God Denied Three Times at DNC:
21) Jarett’s De-Facto President, Slum Lord, Guilty of Crony Capitalism
22) Kill List (drone related) Prez enjoys watching attacks
23) Lies 1,2,3! – “Contraception Solves Hunger” LOL; Campaign Lies And MORE Lies!
24) Messiah, Obama the ??? – NOT !
25) Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration AND Muslim Brotherhood – History, connection with Nazism –
26) National Security Leaks
27) Navy Seal(s) – Securtiy leaks, Authors attacked, Lack of Support in Bengahzi
28) ObamaCare Cuts Medicare Advantage, But Concealed Before Election:
29) Only attends 38% of his Intelligence briefings and 0% of his economic briefings
30) Osama Takedown – Timing of announcement gives future surprise/intelligence moves away so Obama receives glory & political gain: AND he was AGAINST IT THREE TIMES, before the mission was carried out anyway
31) Racist Speech
32) Russian Slip over Hot Mike & Russian Troops
33) Passportgate
34) S.S. Number is Fraudulent:
35) Said, Edward – Obama’s Founding Father, “Professor of Arab Studies, chief Anti-Colonialist in USA, Professor of Terror:
36) Saudi’s Fund Barack’s College education?
37) Secret Amnesty Program that Stops Deportation of Illegal Immigrants
38) Subprime Real Estate Bubble – Obama contributed to National scandal:
39) Suing States for Requiring Voter I.D.
40) Terrorism I – Supports ties with extremeist Islamic terrorists, possibly even at the highest levels of government AND list of Terrorism Culminating – Islamic attacks – 1979 – present:
41) Terrorism II – We’re Suspect, Too! NDAA – First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the Government to Hold Anyone Suspected – even U.S. citizens!
42) Treason
43)Unlawful “Recess Appointments” Over a Long Weekend – While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session
44) Veterans Held in Mental Hospitals if They Speak Out
45) Violating War Powers Act
46) Voter Fraud
47) Weakening Welfare Reform by Executive Order:
48) Wiretaps – First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)
Also made note of this source – “Lies and more lies”: http://obamalies.net/list-of-lies – Web site devoted to Obama’s lies & sources listed
President Obama accomplished many firsts.
A great list comes from: http://www.libertynews.com/2012/10/01/complete-list-of-president-obamas-historic-firsts/
This is also a must read. Check it out.
Related posts:
• The Complete List of Obamacare Taxes
• Racist Congressional Group Forces House Vote On Resolution Scolding Issa
• White House Wouldn’t Meet with Fast & Furious Inspector General
• House Votes Holder in Contempt, 17 Dems Agree
• DOJ Inspector General Investigation Clears DOJ Head Of Any Wrong Doing, Seems Totally Legit
There was the “You Didn’t Build That” statement that the media defended by saying we were taking it out of context. But there’s a couple of other ideological statements that Obama made that should have been a scandal but wasn’t.
I don’t remember what speech he said this in, but in one speech, he said that the rugged individualism of our founding fathers doesn’t work.
In another speech or comment somewhere else, I don’t remember either, he said “They’re trying to make a virtue out of selfishness.” Anyone familiar with Ayn Rand should see the problem with that. Anyone who doesn’t like her, just think of it this way: Obama essentially, with that statement, attacked the pursuit of happiness.
I keep trying to share this on Facebook and it keeps disappearing…
Don’t forget his recent granting of amnesty to 300,000+ so called “children” illegals by presidential decree.
Let’s not forget “corpse”man comment. Made me cringe. I think the man is actually pretty stupid, lazy and the perfect example of affirmative action gone awry. At some point, the truth will win out and we’ll all see what a dunce the man truly is.
How about the unannounced fly-by of AF1 over NYC that terrorized scores of New Yorkers?
Attempting to try terrorists in court in NYC.
Writing an order to close Gitmo on his first day in office. (Never completed).
Releasing prisoners from Gitmo who return to the battlefield to kill again.
Fort Hood terrorist mass killing classified as “workplace violence”.
Lectures the country on civility after Gifford shooting.
Declares local police “acted stupidly” when his friend was arrested, although he knew none of the facts.
Made remarks in support of Trayvon Williams without knowing any of the facts. Shortly thereafter, a bounty was put on Zimmermann’s head. No action by DOJ.
Habitually bowing deeply before foreign leaders?
Giving an Ipod of his own speeches to the Queen of England? Giving a K-Mart specials of DVD’s to the English PM that won’t even play in European DVD players?
Going on a tour of all the Muslim countries that surround Israel, and very visibly, skipping a visit to Israel on the same tour.
Complaining about Netanyahu to Sarkozy.
“You didn’t build that”. “Spread the wealth around.” “Bumps in the road”. “Not optimal.”. “Tell Vladimir I’ll have more flexibility after the election”.
Unilaterally enacted a deferred action amnesty for young illegal aliens leading up the 2012 elections.
I could on, and on, and on.
Engineered the sequester which he WANTS to take effect and which will destroy the defense department–and will create havoc even if Romney is inaugurated in January.
Ushered the Dalai Lama out the back door of the White House past bags of garbage.
Appointed a Muslim who blamed Israel for 9/11to represent the U.S. at an international human rights conference in Warsaw.
Inserted himself into the Trayvon Martin case, essentially labeling the shooting to be race -based.
Ornaments with images of Mao on the WH Christmas tree.
Several WH staffers like Anita Dunn who openly express admiration for Mao.
Hired an avowed Communist (Van Jones) to WH staff. Later quietly dumped at midnight on a Saturday evening after repeated coverage by Glenn Beck.
Solyndra et al.
Expresses support for the Occupy crime wave.
Lost track of all the fiat rule via executive orders.
The ACORN organization from which Obama arose was exposed for widespread corruption.
Andy Stern of SEIU the most frequent visitor to the WH in Obama’s first year.
Receives fawning press coverage before MSM reporters, but still too timid to face their questions, so resorts to “the Pimp with a Limp”, ladies of the View, Letterman, Leno, Jon Stewart and local tv reporters.
If anyone else has trouble posting this on Facebook, have a friend post it on your wall or post it on theirs. That seems to work.
Forcing insurance companies into government servitude as public utilities, by mandating what they must cover, and limiting what they may charge.
This is fascism on stilts.
How about Valerie Jarrett meeting in Qatar with Iranian officials to release 7 iranians who attacked benghazi consulate on 7/31/2012 Link is here: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50684
Also there is the Michelle Obama patient Dumping Scheme in Chicago. Michelle Malkin’s post is archived here: http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/03/michelle-obamas-patient-dumping-scheme/ NOTICE: The Chicago Sun Times story has been SCRUBBED.
American Thinker’s David Catron still has the write up on this. Link: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/michelle_obamas_patientdumping_1.html
Absolutely amazing! Recognition of half the truth does not make a truth. I look to this site so that I can then look at the opposing-other-half-of the truth and then make an informed conclusion. Thanks for all of your help everyone! BTW…if you think my informed conclusions are in agreement with ‘your side’, you’d be mistaken at least half of the time.
Peace
All of this can be easily sourced. You cannot disagree with the facts, but I suppose you could disagree with some of the conclusions or ascriptions of motivation made here.
Unfortunately, you would still just be flat-assed wrong.
Steven, thanks for looking. Zombie linked to some eye-openers out there:
• President Barack Obama’s Complete List of Historic Firsts (http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/06/president-barack-obamas-complete-list.html)
• The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates (http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/4701/long-post-complete-list-obama-statement-expiration-dates)
• A Chronic Case of Obamnesia: Obama’s Long Trail of Flip-Flops (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203897404578078902106077268.html)
They’re sourced, and they’re spectacular.
Obama publically mocks a man who questions him about high gas prices and suggests he get a hybrid.
http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,892.0.html
And that reminded me of the bitter clinger remark, which not only stands on its own, but then also Obama tried to claim he regretted it immediately, which he provably did not (his campaign repeatedly defended it)
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/the_rumble/2012/09/obamas-bitterclinger-revisionism
Here’s one most people wouldn’t know about.The EPA now claims to have the ability to restrict how many cars(even cars that you own) you can paint in one year to 2.Hobbyist auto restorers,the ultimate recyclers,are now subject to EPA mandates on their own property.Sick,stupid,unenforceable,and typical of the Obama minions.
Why Was There No October Surprise? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering October Surprise!
- Marvin T. MSM
There was an October Surprise.
Using his impeccable military skills and credibility with Mid-East Muslims, Obama would direct the rescue of an American Ambassador threatened by an angry mob incensed by an anti-Islam video. Then he would order the arrest of the evil UTube poster.
Well, the second half the Surprise worked!
Don’t forget that in response to the Fast and Furious gun walking scandal, that Obama claims executive privilege, in order to deny a congressional oversight investigation, subpeonaed documents. Thus, further attempting to protect the administion, when executive privilege does not apply.
I agree that Executive Order and Eric Holder’s refusal to comply with a subpoena should each get its own separate entry in the scandal list.
The White House Oval Office Rug mistakenly gives credit for quote to MLK. Not a scandal, just another example of Him being himself. Ignorant.
Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090305100.html
Two words: contraception mandate. The arrogance to think that he can force Catholics and other conscientious objectors not only to condone but to PAY for Sandra Fluke’s recreational chemicals… while using taxpayer money for a class for federal employees on “Sikh sensitivity awareness”. The hypocrisy is mind-boggling.
This one is important and attained very little media coverage. Executive Order 13547, which seizes all seas, the coasts and the Great Lakes and turns ultimate control of them over to the UN.
http://www.independentsentinel.com/2011/08/obama-passed-his-un-treaty-and-not-a-word-from-congress-executive-order-13547/
You have LightSquared already listed. While that could be a case of straight-up crony capitalism, with the destruction of GPS as a mere side effect … there’s another side to that story that only navigation geeks know:
Obama, in his very first budget, shut down the perfectly functional Loran navigation system to save a trivial amount of money (the article says $36 million a year). Several decades’ worth of private investment in Loran receivers instantly became useless (destroying economic value, just like “cash for clunkers”). But it’s worse than that. Obama killed the only reasonable backup to GPS.
As LightSquared showed, GPS is easily jammed. Everyone who looked hard at providing reliable navigation (inside and outside of government, for more than a decade) picked Loran as the right choice for a backup to GPS. Loran is less accurate than GPS, but it’s essentially impossible to jam, and there were ongoing research projects (“eLoran”) to improve the accuracy. There is a vast amount of infrastructure that depends on GPS — not just cars and airplanes, but power transmission lines, cell-phone towers, financial transactions, etc. The geeks were trying to figure out how to build in Loran as a backup for all that stuff, in case someone (terrorists?) started jamming GPS. And then Obama shut Loran down, with no replacement.
There’s a fig-leaf of respectability here (saving money, reducing the defict, yada yada). But the pattern is troubling. First Obama shuts down the only useful backup to GPS. Then his longtime crony FCC chairman Julius Genachowski encourages LightSquared to start jamming GPS itself. Either Obama is utterly clueless about the problems that would cause, or … he’s not.
LORAN (Long Range Navigation) C is (was) a marine navigation system. The signal transmitters are (were) located in the coastal zone and oriented towards the sea. You have to be in range of 2 or more transmitters to get a “fix”. The “fix” is calculated by measuring the (signal) time delay to the LORAN C receiver.
There is no LORAN C signal outside the coastal zone…i.e. Iowa cannot (could not) receive a LORAN C signal.
I agree that LORAN C was shutdown before it reached the end of it’s service life. And I agree that there should be a back-up to GPS (also developed as a marine navigation system). But LORAN C was run by the government (just like GPS)….if there is a commercial use for LORAN C then let private industry do it, if there is a market.
Similarly, the USG should charge commercial entities for GPS service.
I despise Barack Obama as much as the next guy, but the decision to eliminate LORAN C was driven by a simple cost-benefit analysis. Why provide something that nobody is using? The back-up to GPS is…..a back-up GPS system…i.e. redundancy in the system…not LORAN C.
Untrue. LORAN has been (can be) used for aviation navigation as well. It is (was) possible to receive LORAN navigation signals overland as well.
As even Wikipedia points out [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN#Limitations] the ground coverage in North America is extensive.
NavGeek’s article even points this out. It was primarily used for maritime navigation, yes–that doesn’t mean it was exclusively maritime even after being preempted by GPS.
Having a second GPS system, which relies on the same networks and same satellites, is not a viable back up when GPS jamming comes into play. As an example, general aviation through MOAs (military operations areas) is permitted while those MOAs are inactive. “Inactive” does not however mean that GPS jamming may not be occurring in those areas, and I can tell you from personal experience as a passenger in an aircraft entering an area with GPS jamming that *all* GPSes in the aircraft–the “redundant” system included–were scrambled. Thankfully, VOR/DME has not been and likely will not be phased out for aviation navigation for a long time, and is considerably harder to interfere with than GPS.
Deliberately bollixing up the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Iraq by making it more like a Status of Forces Treaty thereby making it impossible to get Iraqi concurrence. This action jeopardizes all that we fought to attain at great cost.
After the usual swearing in ceremony in which mistakes to the oath were made. Obama retakes the oath in private without a Bible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXq4d3xSOcg&feature=related
Even though American nuclear power plants import 95% of their uranium needs, Secretary of Interior Salazar declared a million acres of prime US mining country off-limits for 20 years to further uranium production.
That means 30 new mines won’t be developed. At a thousand miners per mine, that’s 30,000 permanent US jobs off-shored.
My list of Obama’s Marxist links and socialist policies:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsCNvSTRHrwPdFlwMEZIVy1XU3ZaMWpYVi1yWGtuaXc#gid=0
Nice. Added to the “Also see” list at the end.
I didn’t see mention of Obama’s failure to submit trade agreements negotiated with Panama, Columbia and South Korea under George W. Bush to the Senate for over three years on the flimsy pretext of needing corrective amendments. In the meantime, many other countries signed agreements with these countries and established favorable trading relations.
take a look at [un colombia land reform plan ] –you’ll see the outlines of Pelosi’s objection to the FTA/Colombia, a blocking power she lost in Nov 2010. Think, Genovese protecting narcotics ratline –designed by Lucky Luciano, employer of Nancy’s dad, his Baltimore boss. She did get a contingent stipulation in, a plan to legitimize possession of lands grabbed by FARC allies, the narcotrafficante bloc. If the exchange is as written, oligarch-to-peasant, well that’s one thing. but watch and see, oligarch-to-new oligarch is what happens in a Frisco Revolution.
The Wise Latina and the Kagan.
5 GENERALS & ADMIRALS SUPPORT OBAMA – HOW MANY FOR ROMNEY? ONLY ABOUT 300!. Barack Obama’s campaign released a new ad featuring General Colin Powell from the Bush administration declaring his support for Obama. It’s a 30 second ad talking mostly about economic issues but it’s clearly an attempt to show that Obama has support from the military. How much support does …READ MORE: http://bwcentral.org/2012/11/5-generals-admirals-support-obama-how-many-for-romney-only-about-300/
The Democrats are waiting until Monday. The people who support them have no memory capacity.
I don’t know how to put this as a specific charge, unless under the catch-all ‘he has punished virtue and rewarded vice’
The core ‘Benghazi team’: president, national security adviser, terrorism czar, attorney general,
…is the same team who gave Obama the Crash of 2008 that he could then drive to overthrow the Constitution in ‘trying to repair’ (stifled somewhat, thank heavens, by the never-expected tea party midterm of 2010).
Four searches (i use Bing, but Goo’ll doo) and you’ll see just from the headers, the manufacturing, sales, distribution, and legal mechanics of the September 2008 Crash, which to this day provides the only defense possible of the Obama economy, and indeed the only misdirection capable of hiding the Obama leap to socialism and worse.
In order, search [ obama acorn ] –see current President at the center of system designed to procure worthless swag.
search [ donilon prevented fannie mae oversight ] –see current National Security Adviser shielding Fannie Mae during her 2000-2007 crime spree years swindling taxpayers into co-signing loans on the worthless swag.
search [ brennan tac passport harris ] –see current Terrorism Czar as then-owner of IT company under records-admin contract to passport office of State Dept, and March/April 2008 sanitization of Obama vital stats via base in passport records, ops involving TAC contractor LT Harris –who was murdered in April 2008, putting end to security threat of exposure of so-far-so-good perfect crime, the Great Worthless Swag Sells Constitution, Buys Communist State Scam.
search [ eric holder mers ] –see current Attorney General designing and legalizing the sales end, MERS, of the mortgage fraud ‘worthless swag’ system.
So there it was and there it is, packaged slightly differently as situations change, the manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and security of …of …well, UN, NWO, the Mob, the Kremlin, Willie Sutton and the ethos, Lord only knows. The Uncool. It got Obama into office with a crisis on his hands, enabling anything and everything to ‘restore America’ –only, when they say they love America, they’re talking about the real estate (+ improvements).
Last August Obama shut down half the Alaskan oil preserve. If enough oil doesn’t go through the pipeline it will freeze in winter shutting down the entire oil supply until spring. Caribou herds (a meat source for Alaskans) have also come to depend upon the pipeline for warmth and have been increasing since it was built.
Obama ignored the legal deadline (Oct. 31) to list all new regulations created annually.
Obama’s regulators are following the GeneralPlan Ost, the WW2 nazi plan for administration of conquered territories to the east, whereby the natural resources would be denied to the people of the lands, and held awaiting later exploitation whenever the central european economies would want them. That’s why you hear folks incredulously exclaim, “He’s trying to de-industrialize us!” Yes, it looks like that’s exactly what he’s doing. In time, we’ll have planners from the Kremlin and the PLA helping guide our energy and raw materials production –toward their own national economies. The overstory will be, ‘we owe them money, alas’.
GeneralPlan Ost, only the nazi woulda had to win battles at Stalingrad, Moscow, Leningrad, Kursk, in order to fully implement it.
Somehow the Obamanauts get to do it without having to do all that shooting. A tribute to the strength of America’s underlying structure –and a vital warning that that strength is why we must be a bit more careful who we let have the controls.
Two words: Chia Obama
Two more words: Living Constitution
WND EXCLUSIVE
Obama’s ring: ‘There is no god but Allah’
[...entire pasted-in story redacted...]
(Note from moderator: This wedding ring story was debunked. Sorry.)
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/
This, above, has been proved untrue? Are we sure? No disrespect intended, but these pics and the story are pretty convincing, and i can find no debunk on the net as of yet.
Yes, it was proved untrue. Close-up pictures of the ring showed it was just an abstract design. Sorry.
Somehow has managed to hide the 30 plus personnel evacuated from Benghazi so we can’t interview them about the 9/11 events!
Zombie – a correction and an addition. Correction: State Senator Obama voted thrice not to allow partial-birth abortion, but rather to allow post-natal abortions, i.e., murder. There was a bill to prevent the then-extant practice of allowing unwanted babies who had miraculously survived a botched abortion to die from neglect. Even NARAL and Planned Parenthood didn’t dare oppose this bill – but Obama did, three times – google Jill Stanek. Addition: 0bama has skipped more than 60% of his intelligence briefings, including on 9/11/2012 and 9/12/2012 (the day of and the day after the Benghazi massacre). Furthermore, 0bama denied assistance to the Americans who were pleading for it.
Thanks — I corrected and updated the abortion vote entry.
As for the stuff surrounding the Beghazi situation — Since I discussed that in the intro, I decided to leave it off the list.
Obama ignored the will of the people repeatedly during his Presidency.
Highlighted by the opposition to Obamacare which was, nevertheless, enacted into law.
Obama trashed the Constitution in pursuit of his ideological agenda.
Obama lets Americans die because he values his own re-election more than American lives.
At the second Presidential Debate, President Obama told a bald-faced lie to Gov. Romney and the American people, claiming that he had declared the 9/11/2012 Benghazi attacks as “terrorism” the day after they happened. He did not; he merely used the word in a speech. He would continue to describe the attacks as a spontaneous demonstration, and direct his administration to do so, for two weeks.
A man who would look the American people in the eye and lie about his own activities does not deserve to be President.
They can build coal plants, it’s just they will go bankrupt if they do. Along with the shut down of numerous coal plants due to the illegal EPA regulation of CO2.
Proposed regulation of farm dust. (not kidding).
Proposal for farm family members to be required to have Commercial Driving Licenses to drive farm equipment on roads – would put most family farms out of business.
Promised in the 2008 campaign to stop the offshoring of American jobs. Made no attempt to do so – tax policies, energy policies, environmental rules and Obamacare are pushing jobs offshore.
Forcing the Catholic Church and other like minded religious organizations to provide health insurance coverage for abortions and birth control in direct opposition to the freedom of religion clause of the 1st Amendment.
During the 2008 campaign promised he’d provide government aid to keep the Janesville WI, GM assembly plant open. The plant closed shortly thereafter and hasn’t reopened.
In a more general sense – Constitution? What Constitution? Oh it doesn’t apply to me.
Fast and Furious was mentioned, but the stonewalling and failure to provide subpoenaed to Congress may not have been.
I don’t know if this was mentioned yet or not, but apparently in Colorado (and possibly the other Battleground states), various electronic voting booths are casting votes for Obama even if the voter actually voted for Romney:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/03/Dozens-of-Romney-Voters-In-Colorado-Complain-Machines-Changed-Votes-To-Obama
Yet, many in the press have been holding that Obama has the edge in this election because his administration has had “no scandals”. Seriously. It is true that they have refused to report his myriad of failures, blunders, prevarications, and corrupt acts, and have covered for him. Maybe the truth of this is that if they did report Obama’s scandals, they would have to come face to face with the biggest scandal of all–that an inexperienced, untried snake oil salesman hoodwinked a nation into giving him the highest position in the land, and that they were largely culpable for letting this travesty happen.
Well said sir.
Refusing to give Sebelius so much as a slap on he wrist for violating the Hatch Act.
Perhaps this has more to do with media malfeasance than the Obama Administration’s distortions, but the never before seen metric “Jobs Created or SAVED” thing was pretty ridiculous.
Never before has a federal administration claimed credit for “jobs saved,” (an impossible thing to measure), but the in-the-tank media just let him get away with it.
Further, the recovery.gov website listed jobs created or saved (as a result of the stimulus) in numerous congressional districts which don’t even exist.
Just trying to help a bit:
“desribed” should be “described”
Fixed. Thx.
Fixed.
Thank you for yet another outstanding essay. I’ve been a big fan of all your work, both verbal and visual, dating back to when Charles Johnson was sane. Yes, that far back!
There are two typos that you may want to correct. It was the Simpson-Bowles Commission, not Simpson-Boyles. And it’s usually Akhbar, not Ackbar.
I only offer corrections to people I really admire, like Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, and now you. Our opponents will use any excuse to assail us. It’s better for our credibility if we avoid unforced errors.
Thanks for catching the typos. Now fixed.
Although it’s mentioned in directorblue’s “Historic Firsts” list, it’s not mentioned here, and I think it should: Didn’t Obama’s website remove the credit card security checks which prevent foreigners (and people named Hitler) from donating to his campaign. Source: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/05/dubious-donations-gangster-government-edition.php
t’s mentioned here — it’s the third entry:
“In both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the Obama campaign purposely disabled the credit card verification system for its Web site donations, allowing anyone from any foreign country to donate with no limit and no proof of identity; in both elections it was demonstrated that people overseas and people with obviously false identities were able to donate to Obama campaign, in direct violation of several laws. To this day it is not known what percentage of Obama’s campaign funds are illegally obtained, since there is no documentation.”
http://www.bing.com/search?q=foreign+donations+2008+obama+campaign+gaza&form=IE8SRC&src=IE-SearchBox
In 2008, money coming in from the Palestinian organizations HQ’d in the Gaza Strip, listed source as GA. Georgia, and also Gaza. Obama campaign chose ”Georgia” and booked the dough. Seems thousands of tourists from the Old South happened to be vacationing in the beautiful middle-eastern fourth-generation refugee camp, when they were siezed up by the urge to contribute to Obama.
Anyhoo the take-away is this:
Election-Lawful verification of credit card transactions is not somethiong the system has to be programmed to do.
The info is preprogrammed to reject transactions with incomplete data.
The active measure is the deliberate crippling of the data-collect feature.
Obama did it in 2008, got exposed, had to finagle around a little (see link headers, one of the page one results pertains0, and then, and then, set it up and did it AGAIN in this election!
No consequences, ever, for any criminal behavior in this admin, unless pointed to by the King and ‘special’ prosecuted, as when a PR perp-walk of some deep underling is deemed needed for a talking point on TV.
The model is the DoJ, which can hardly be expected to prosecute its own self’s entire being, so, wadaya gonna do?
Shrug and fuggetaboutit?
Why, yes, precisely, that’s exactly what we been doin’ –and what we gonna do –and keep on a-doin’, ’til somebody stop us! Witchain’t likely!
From Big Sis Napalitano’s Desk: A Must-Read http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and
radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from
military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the
capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out
violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist
groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from
the psychological effects of war is being replicated today
Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and
adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups),
and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or
rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a
single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
Sending his girls to Sidwell Friends while killing the education voucher(?) program for the poor in DC.
Taking down the historical pictures in the West Wing and replacing them by the hundreds with pictures of himself (See Dr. Sanity for site)
EPA moving regulating milk in the same way as oil, because the fat in milk is something like oil…..
No cabinet meetings
Skips both reading and delivering government reports required by law
Made corrupt deals with AARP (favoring products AARP sells and outlawing competing products) to get AARP’s support on Obamacare. Similar corrupt deals with big pharma.
On Oct 25, 2010, he told Latinos to make “enemies” of their fellow citizens and “punish” them.
Told bankers he was the only thing standing between them and the angry mobs.
Requested 2nd half of TARP bailout, even after the first half wasn’t used for the originally stated purpose of buying bad debt.
During the deepest part of the recession that hit Nevada especially hard, he told people not to travel to Vegas to blow their money.
Stimulus funds on recovery.gov listed as spent in fictional congressional districts.
Made a big deal about houses built by Israel in Jerusalem.
Sent US troops to Congo and Central African Republic.
Diverted water from California farms to protect a minnow, creating an artificial dust bowl and 40% unemployment in some California towns.
Forced Swiss banks to give up their centuries-old tradition of banking secrecy to further empower the IRS.
British author Tim Stanley has an interesting take on Obama, one with which I find much to agree:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100187669/romney-bush-obam/
The Obama administration took the US in the same direction we’d been heading since the 1910s; they just did it all at warp speed.
As far as the growth of the federal-government-ueber-alles hyper-regulatory state is concerned, I’m afraid that fox was shot long ago with the 16th Amendment, the Harrison Act, the creation of the Federal Reserve, &c. The SCOTUS decision on Obamacare was just a logical extension of all this.
… and the 17th, which permanently vassal-stated the states vs the central govt.
Don’t forget all the high speed rail projects in the stimulus bill. The one in Wisconsin helped get Scott Walker elected in 2010, because Walker was against it. The one in Florida was killed after Governor Scott was elected. The one in California goes forward, spending billions of dollars planning and litigating a project that will never run because it is expressly illegal under the authorizing proposition for it to receive operating subsidies.
Zombie, you are missing a few related scandals.
1. After publicly calling raising the national debt by $4T in 8 years unpatriotic, Obama has not publicly apologized for raising it higher in less time or admitting he too is unpatriotic.
2. President Obama, through the Medicare program, largely controls doctor fees yet for the past four years has maintained the general price structure he claims leads to unnecessary amputations and operations.
No doubt there are others I have missed.
Obama’s Secret Giveaway: Oil-rich Islands to Russia. http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/obamas-giveaway-oil-rich-islands-to-russia/
I think that Obama’s greatest scandal is that he has given the Left what they have wanted all along: permission to ignore all the rules. Obama has issued a Bull granting an open-ended Leftist Indulgence. Obama has told them that anything and everything is permissible so along as it advances The Cause. They don’t have to pretend to be civilized people anymore; laws and rules are for losers. This is the underlying cause of the perpetual scandal machine, and why the MSM and the rest of the Progressive alliance all seem so blase’ about everything that is going on – because, to them, it doesn’t matter. They know that the time take off the mask has come, and there is no turning back. It’s a moral paradigm shift, and they think they are strong enough now to make it stick. This is the fundamental transformation of America, and it’s already here.
absolutely –and i use the word advisedly. You have it in the nutshell. Obama has crossed the Rubicon. Where does Eric Holder have to go, now, if he gets turned out? He’d have to go into the soviet witness protection program to get away from the replacement AG. Obama has made it the Teutoberg Forest or nothing. Our Last Chance is the rump Democrat party –seeing the catastrophe coming, and reining in the bought Praetorians.
Reading all of this from Zombie & PJM contributors is as depressing as it is scary.
I think I’ve worn out hunkering down in the fetal position.
Romney better win and win big.
Not sure if others have mentioned this, but when Obama pushed the Stimulus, there were those who suggested that purchasing additional military hardware would be a decent use for the funds, if Obama really *had* to spend the money – especially in regards to purchasing additonal F-22 Raptors: the assembly line was still open at that time, and purchasing additional planes would keep highly skilled people employed (a true “shovel ready” job, as it were) while ensuring military readiness.
Anyway, not only did Obama put the kibosh on any notion that Stimulus funds were going to be used to purchase anything more for the military, but when he visited Elmendorf, not only did he refuse to be seen or photographed around the F-22, but his staff also insisted that the plane be kept away from where he would be speaking – presumably so that there would not be any chance a stray photograph or video feed would include the F-22 with Obama, out of fear that Republicans might use it against him.
Remember, when Obama cuts spending, the only place he cuts is the DOD.
Exactly –and include the post-facto destruction of the sunk costs, which were spent meaning to defray them against the canceled production run.
The reality of of how many of the ”new jobs” Obama brags on having created, are derived from govt spending, puts the utter lie to breaking up the F-22 procurement as nothing more than a straight-up cost-cut.
For one thing, we live by high tech weapons that because of the edge over potential enemies, act to prevent wars –a fact that should have been aired in public debate before the program was canceled.
For another thing, long-life ‘durable goods’ weapons are accounted on the asset ledger, and as such are capital spending –capitalized, not expensed –and add to GDP dollar-for-dollar –a reflection of the previous point.
Worst of all, the Start II treaty, which for manifold reasons had sat on the shelf for 20 years waiting for it to balance for both nations, was pulled down and signed in a rush just before a Christmas holiday, despite the objections of Sen Kyle and the US nuclear strategy groups. Bot one of the faults of the treaty is that USA is required to junk systems already in the field, cripple dual purpose launch platforms and so forth, while Russia avoids many billions of dollars worth of spending it would have had to do absent the treaty. Where did Putin put those savings? Into a complete modernization of the Russian military –including those French beach-invasion ships, wings of new heavy-lift air, strategic rocket forces (new anti-missile capable ICBMs), a world-mobile all volunteer army (no more draftees), and worst of all, re the F-22 dumping, 1600 fifth-generation high-performance stealth fighter aircraft –planes that Putin would not’ve built if we had run the F-22 production order.
Yes, this a ten year plan for Russia, but she has already begun –and at some point, should USA decide to arm back up, we may hear the Russians (who continue to spend heavily on vital-center civil-defense, which we have forgotten about), or maybe them in combo with China, say “Nyet! –No you don’t!” –IOW, what we should’ve told THEM back when we had the monopoly nukes. Yes, such is almost unimaginable, but we should ask ourselves, why? Pearl Harbor was almost unimaginable, too.
The F-22 can take off in center of USA, fly to the mideast, fight, and fly home, loafing at mach speeds without lighting the afterburner. The wars and fights that 1000 of them would prevent ever getting out of a nutjob’s cranium will never be measurable –but that does not mean it is not as real as what Obama is doing to us far into the future. “Tell Vladimir, I’ll be more flexible after my re-election,” and the Russian practically drooled. Nothing, however matches the same guy’s ear-to-ear grin when he got Start II signed –look it up in search ‘images’.
I think we can all agree that Obama’s Stimulus was never meant to be anything more than a giant payoff to Democrat client groups.
For background, I worked on RAH-66 for a time about ten years ago. Even back then, F-22 program office was known to be spending millions annually to modernize the platform due to its horrendously long development cycle – inflicted on it because neither Congress nor the DOD were willing in the mid-1990s to commit funds to develop it in a timely manner.
As for Start II, compare and contrast GWB’s ease in 2001 of getting Putin to drop the decades-old ABM Treaty (which allowed Moscow to deploy anti-ballistic missiles but not the US) using a two page document, with that of O’s groveling to Russia on ABM and Start II, unilaterally conceding ground to Russia at every turn.
Back to F-22, no matter how superior a weapons system is, it simply cannot be everywhere at once. Ditto for all other aspects of the armed services. Obama either refuses to acknowledge this simple fact, or else he willingly ignores it. I am increasingly convinced it is the latter, not the former.
I have to agree. Soros et al –representing the financial brain trust of the Dem party –is on record wanting to break the dollar (search youtube soros break dollar) as the global reserve currency. They’re giving it the major effort (Soro’s ‘managed funds association’ and its dozens of ‘dollar-shorting’ –which means, America -shorting –dark pooled hedge funds, the bernanke feds money print) but can’t quite start the run. The 2010 electioon hurt them, as well as the Euro’s political internals.
But they haven’t given up –Soros just released a major study calling for cuts on military benefits. What’s scary is they’ll be thinking hard on how to arrange some major Dollar-confidence-killing military catastrophe –the US military being pretty much universally acknowledged as the major prop of the Dollar.
I imagine they’re looking at the afghan expeditionary force and how many carrier battle groups they could sink if they had to sail in tight to help evacuate a large cut-off army. I imagine that’s what John Kerry is working on –and why they want him as the next secretary of state.
I know –amazingly nutty statements –however, the info on what kind of world these birds are striving for –is everywhere, it’s hardly difficult to see it, in the light of the character and associations of these people and the things they’ve and their like have already done, going back to the 1970s.
The Communist weren’t defeated, they just went underground like Communist Bill Ayers and his friends and took over the Democrat Party from with-in. They took over the MSM, Unions, schools and set up criminal organizations for funding. If you can look at the last four years and can’t see what they have accomplished with their apparacheki’s in government, their in your face Czar’s a set up of a bureaucracy to bind the American worker and kill the American dream and put out forever the shining light on the hill that President Reagan spoke of, the Democrat Party has to be purged of communists and those that act like them, they are not the party of Harry Truman anymore, they are the enemies of your freedoms.
november surprise ; obama quits ,biden will serve out his term of office…oh no…
He was exposed as having been a member of the radical socialistic New Party.
He ran as a uniter, but called for Hispanics to punish their enemies.
He showed his lack of commitment to the truth when he lied about his deep involvement with Bill Ayers.
Obama bungled the Gulf oil spill. He refused to suspend the Jones Act (Bush suspended it during Katrina) which would have allowed other countries’ help (30 countries offered to help) with their ships and experience when the spill started. It took over a week before obama’s committee even classified the spill for the highest level of action. Meanwhile, during obama’s weekly address he talks about a young Mexican girl going out for ice cream and worrying being deported, then he entertained Calderon, and took a vacation. Nearly a month into the spill obama is “Still trying to decide whose ass to kick.” Obama refused to allow Jindal to try to stop the spill from reaching shore. I have a lot more details on this but needless to say, Obama’s refusal to act cause the spill to be a lot worse than it should have been.
oh, the Gulf accident! If i could stand to type for four hours –but i have to do something now that i blurbed –how about this:
Bear in mind the humongous stakes involved, the world attention focused on, the hundreds of interested-party lawyers observing along with scads of government agencies, and yet, and yet, the one chance of locating what many mechanics think could have been a to-be-activated sabotage pre-positioned (the 2005 inspection/certification carried out in China, contra usual practice), that one chance being an uncompromised forensic investigation of the unit at a NASA facility in New Orleans, was in fact (as ex-rig hand me, who has never heard of certain things done on that rig its last day alive, predicted iirc in comments at Belmont) compromised after all –permanently and forever, via broken custody chain, broken by the very company (Norway’s Det Norske Veritas, or DNV, our govt had inexplicably (due to directors with conflicts of interest, albeit spelled out in Norwegian tho, so maybe nobody ever noticed) hired to certify the final report.
What are the odds that this was a simple misunderstanding?
http://www.bing.com/search?q=blowout+preventer+investigation+compromised&form=IE8SRC&src=IE-SearchBox
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… and THAT is just a start point, a place to move backwards from. A book-end for a look into the meaning of the name ‘Macondo’ itself.
And a look at BP via it and Goldman Sachs and Royal Bank of Scotland officer and director Peter Sutherland, co-chairman (scroll down 5 paragraphs) of the Bilderberg Steering Committee for all or most of the 11 years that our current National Security Adviser shared that co-chair.
And ALL of the above, is just the tip of that iceberg.
Feh. Not enough clothespins in the world for my offended schnozz.
For future comments, may I suggest using sentences? This reads like it was written by someone with a psychiatric disorder. If comments are written in sentences, with real words that have ordinary meanings, then readers may be able to understand what you’re trying to say.
You’re right –it reads like scrambled eggs. The topic is not amenable to blog comment length, and my attempt at shorthand fell apart like a cheap suitcase.
* His pre-election statement that Americans can’t keep driving their SUVs, heat and cool their homes, eat as much as they want – when he reportedly keeps the Oval Office at tropical temps, he and his wife take separate planes to vacation spots because one wants to leave a few hours ahead of the other, extravagant dinners, flying in chefs.
* His comment that AZ police would begin arresting anyone who looked Hispanic who was going out for ice cream
* His rude smackdown of John McCain during the faux healthcare meeting when McCain dared to offer an opinion. Inviting Paul Ryan as a guest of honor (sat him in the front row) for a speech on the budget where he then tore into him.
* Extortion of BP to get $$ for clean-up. Not an executive function
* Giving VCR tapes that don’t work in England as a gift to the British Prime Minister and an I-Pod of his speeches to the Queen
* HIS firing of the automobile (GM?) executive
* Taking credit for the oil drilling that is occurring on private land. Lying by saying the US only has 2% of the world’s oil
* If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor (same with insurance plan) and saying he won’t add “one thin dime” to the deficit w/Obamacare
* Criticizing Bush endlessly for Guantanamo; executive order to close it on first day of office with no plan in place for prisoners. Talk of bringing them to US prisons.
* Pursuing trial of KSM in New York.
* His DOJ re-opening prosecution caseas of Bush officials (John Yoo, etc.) that made legal decisions after 9/11
* Releasing our interrogation techniques to the public thereby making them ineffective so that the terrorists could train against them
* His failure to acknowledge the shooting at Ft. Hood in a timely fashion, giving Miranda rights to the “underwear bomber”
* Accepting 1 million $ donation from Bill Maher to ObamaPac with no hint of hypocracy after Bill Maher said despicable things about Palin’s daughter(s)
* During the 2008 election lying about how people in the crowd were yelling “kill him”. Secret Service denied receiving any such reports or observing this. Despicable!
* Leaving Benjamin Netanahu alone in the White House while he went up to have dinner with his family
* Making the Dalai Lama leave by the back door next to the white house garbage
* Giving Hilary Clinton the finger (when referencing her) during the 2008 campaign
* The refusal to implement laws duly enacted by Congress or illegally overturning laws when he has NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to do so: welfare to work, immigration laws, DOMA, recess appointments, EPA regs
* Repeatedly stating that the Republicans have no plans . . . when there were approximately 20 sitting on Harry Reid’s desk that he refused to move forward
* Not passing a budget in 3 years in cahoots with the Democratic-controlled Senate
* Healthcare deliberations would be on C-Span
*Not even having John Boehner’s phone number so that he could call him when the Republicans retook the house. And yet, he constantly blamed the Republicans for not being able to work together. His attempt to scare Seniors and military members during the budget debt ceiling negotiations when Repubs were more than willing to make sure those entities were taken care of . . . O refused so that he could have a “talking point”.
* I could go on and on . . . but you get the idea.
Office of the President-Elect and
Vero Possumus.
Forgot one of the most important:
* He has reportedly only attended approximately 40% of his daily intelligence briefings, including missing those in the days leading up to 9/11, 2012. Unbelievable!!!!
* Also, when the plane went down in Russia carrying Czech officials, Obama played golf during the official memorial service. (as a sign of respect, couldn’t he at least delayed his game a day?!)
* His attempt to unilaterally reduce our nuclear weapons while allowing other nations to ramp up ensuring that ours are aged with unknown reliability.
Is this the record for comments?
* Telling Letterman he didn’t know how much the national debt was and deliberately letting Letterman underestimate it by trillions of dollars.
* Telling Netanahyu he didn’t have time to meet with him but went on The View and attended swanky fundraisers
*The sheer number of fundraising events he attended as President compared to his predecessors. (basically stopped governing his last year and just campaigned)
*** It would be great if someone had enough time to compile these in systematic fashion and then sent them to the Mainstream Media outlets on behalf of conservatives in a formal letter that could be made public on a major conservative blog/website.
Obama for America along with the Democrat Party took legal action to oppose the efforts to have extended hours for military voters’ ballots to count in Ohio. And this action was taken with extreme urgency to make sure it was applicable in the 2012 election for the critical Buckeye State.
Putting John Kerry and Patty Murray on the ‘sequestration committee’, then denying during the debates he had any part in that, because he knows the shtf when it becomes clear that the ‘impossible, never happen, unimaginable’ wholesale destruction of our military capacity –leaving us enough force to take unendurable losses in a medium sized losing war –is precisely what he had been trying to guarantee with the whole idea (which was his, according to Dem party witness, tho he tries to disclaim it in public), and as verified as i mentioned, via selection of the cast of characters, that Obama had in mind from the beginning –of his administration, his career.
We might have to take one off the list, or at least amend it:
“Said in an interview that the Muslim call to prayer was ‘the most beautiful sound in the world.’”
According to the New York Times: “Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ ”
Ignoring the “beautiful” vs “pretty” discrepancy for a second, taking out the words “one of” does make a difference.
Thx for the catch. Now fixed to say “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset”.
I’m not trying to remove everything from this great list, just the weaker ones. I don’t think the offensive Lang Lang song can be pinned on Obama. I doubt he knew the meaning of the lyrics before the song was played.
Agree, but he was certainly informed afterwards of the song’s content, and gave the Chinese a pass for insulting him to his face. That makes it noteworthy.
Still counts as a blunder, even if he was duped.
Probably already covered above.
- Obama condemned George Zimmerman as a racist before the circumstances of the shooting of Trayvon Martin were known.
- Obama condemned police as racists for arresting Henry Louis Gates, a black Harvard professor, for disorderly conduct. Gates was reported by neighbors as a burglar as he was trying to break into his own home in Cambridge Massachusetts.
- Obama used a California “filmmaker” as a scapegoat for the September 11 2012 attacks by muslim exremists to cover for his own administrations ineptitude leading up to and dealing with the attacks in Benghazi, Cairo and elsewhere.
I say leave the Obama daughters out of the political light, but why did the President and his wife give one of their children initials to match the Chinese communist, Mao, and the other a Russian name?
Just an oversight or were they making a joke like the middle finger for Hillary?
Certainly all parents look at initials to avoid inappropriate combinations. Following that, the Obama parents must have thought “MAO” to be 100% appropriate.
Any ideas on the meaning of the initials NO? (Natasha Obama, apparently without a middle initial.)
Pulled oilfield leases in Alaska!
BP oil spill in the Gulph. How long did it take for his response even though mayors/governors were begging for assistance? Nothing from the media but they sure jumped on Bush for Katrina response. Feel he responded so promptly to hurricane Sandy just because it happened right before election. Otherwise, he probably wouldn’t have bothered.
“Cash for Appliances”
“Cash for Mobile Homes”
The grants for weatherization of homes.
Stimulus money going to remodel and refurbish mosques in other countries as a sign of good will.
Don’t forget the multitude of times he has used his middle finger to flip off his political opponents.
The large number and massive spending surrounding his vacations and dates.
Pakistani Dr who helped get Bin Laden in Pakistan prison
Some will question the “Churchill Bust” entry, saying there were *two* busts:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/08/the-case-of-the-two-churchills.html
The fact is he returned a Churchill bust. The existence of a different elsewhere does not negate that fact, so the claim stands.
OK. But he may have “returned” it to the British ambassador’s residence in DC as opposed to shipping to Great Britain.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57481840-503544/churchill-or-bust-british-embassy-says-white-house-was-wrong-sort-of/
I never say in the entry that he shipped it back to Britain — only that he returned it to the British people.
It is my understanding that the return of the Churchill bust can be attributed to the hatred Obama felt toward Churchill for his actions as Prime Minister in having both Obama’s Father and Uncle arrested in Kenya. He apparently never forgave him for that action.
One more criticism:
“Invariably and intentionally…leav(es) out the words ‘by our Creator’ ”
Well, maybe not invariably:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-united-states-military-academy-west-point-commencement
and
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-independence-day-celebration
both include those key words.
Good catch — I was just repeating what others have said. But I’ll now fix it to “often.”
Technically speaking, the Declaration of Independence says “endowed by their Creator”, not “endowed by our Creator.” But the gist remains.
“Came up with the bizarre euphemism “man-made disasters” to describe acts of terrorism”
Was that Obama, or his oh-so-lovely Napolitano? (nitpick: “man-caused” instead of “man-made”)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/03/19/obama-speak-homeland-security-secretary-replaces-terrorism-term-man-caus
Consider that nit picked. Fixed.
GDI writes in comment #13: “Dismantled the NASA program.”
According to the following site, “U.S. President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $17.7 billion for NASA for 2013, an amount that would leave the agency funded at its lowest level in four years, according to sources familiar with the forthcoming budget proposal.”
http://www.space.com/14544-president-obama-nasa-budget-2013.html
I dunno, does that count as “dismantling”?
“he described the United States as ‘arrogant’ and ‘dismissive.’”
I probably would have edited his speech-writer’s words, but this is what he said: “Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.
But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what’s bad.”
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/harold_estes_2.htm
I have to give Obama some sort of a break, because he did say “there have been times.” And he did add that second paragraph. But I cannot give Obama-critics a break when they don’t quote him in full. When we do this, we create Charles Johnsons!
OK, I toned down that entry and mentioned the criticism of the Europeans as well.
I guess the inclusion of his words “there have been times” doesn’t mitigate anything? Also, Obama might be dumb, but I think he could assume that any public speech he’d give would get back to the American press, especially the right-wing press. So I think I’d change: “When giving a 2009 speech in France that he assumed Americans would never hear…”
OK, mollified it it a bit once again. But that’s all you’re going to get out of me!
I’m not ALL criticisms tonight.
How about Obama’s fabrications in his book Dreams from my Father?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/details-in-new-biography-of-obama-lead-to-stunning-conclusion-deliberate-distortions-and-mythmaking/
You can’t say Obama accomplished nothing in his first term.
He got someone else to pay for your daughters abortion.
Wonderful post! Now, here is a request. I’d like to see the same kind of summary of Romney. I am more interested in reasons why he is Presidential. But, I am willing to take the dirt when it is the truth too. After the election, I’d like to be able to show liberals the truth about Romney that they have never seen because of the Liberal Trade Media. Interesting?
Romney killed Joe Soptic’s wife.
In collusion with MSM and shallow populace he got re-elected.
How about telling the American Legion at their convention on August 30, 2011 that he would, and I quote “Not balance the budget on the backs of veterans”.
http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/index.php?i=87175&m=&l=&p=10&pre=&ver=flex
What happened the very next month, A budget was submitted that would increase premiums on veterans who are in the TRICARE system up to 345%. He broke the unwritten pledge America has with it’s veterans that if they do 20 years of service to the nation, their healthcare needs will be taken care of.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2012/April/Pages/DefenseBudgetSomeCluesHaveEmerged,ButMoreUncertaintyAhead.aspx
He has demanded sacrifice from the one organization that has sacrificed more than anyone in this nation. It is obvious he sees the military as a threat to him, as he fired the General who was trying to send in troops to Benghazi
http://www.examiner.com/article/pentagon-denies-claims-general-was-fired-over-benghazi-attacks
It is apparent that he is going to bleed the military dry to appease his voting block. The sad thing about it is, more troops will die because of his negligence. It will be Task Force Smith all over again. For those who are unaware of Task Force Smith: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_Smith#Task_Force_Smith
The October Surprise:
You are right everyday was an October Surprise due to the spinelessness of the Republicans in Congress. Everyday Obama got his way with minimal obstruction.
No need for an extra special October Surprise. Obama delivered and rewarded his leftists supporters! Our side? MIA……
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Fixed now. Thx.