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OMG! He did that? Where is the firing squad?What are you, on drugs? Off the top of my head
Benghazi
IRS targeting conservative groups
Trading terrorists for the deserter Bagdahl
If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan
Airforce one photo op over the Statue of Liberty
Fast and Furious
Obama after running for getting out of Iraq continues Bush's timeline
Iraq is falling and he gets us back in
Obama extends the Afghanistan nation building
Obama attacks Libya
Obama tries to attack Syria
Obama is blasted by Egypt for interfering in their elections
Obama is bitch slapped by Putin in the Ukraine
Obama doesn't shut down Guantanamo
But he does let a bunch of real bad guys go who rejoin the terrorists
Obama repeatedly attacks white cops (and a black one) without waiting for evidence
Obama claims to not know about Hillary's e-mail while he had e-mailed her a bunch of times
Of those - Benghazi was a manufactured scandal - there was no scandal. It was a tragedy that the Republicans exploited for political hay (that's the only scandal in it).
IRS targeting conservative groups:
Bottom line
Will likened the events at the IRS to Watergate. That’s his right as a Washington pundit, but we found little evidence (in fact, no one has) linking the actions of the IRS to the Obama White House in the way the Watergate break-in and cover up was orchestrated by Nixon’s White House.
That’s part of Will’s point -- a more thorough investigation is merited. But several investigations are under way.
Democrats say the Republicans are on an endless witch hunt that conveniently falls during a midterm election cycle, and Republicans say Democrats are protecting Obama and to ice out conservative groups from the elections process.
The evidence available so far indicates IRS employees behaved poorly but did so in a silo; it was not reflective of corruption from the White House or external forces.
Fast and Furious - this was another "scandal" that ended up blowing up in the Republican's face. It ended up not being a major scandal.
None of these are scandals:
Trading terrorists for the deserter Bagdahl (we typically do whatever we can to get back military members captured in service, the fact that he was a deserter changed none of this - he should face justice on our side, not theirs).
If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan (being wrong is not a scandal )
Airforce one photo op over the Statue of Liberty (this is a scandal?)
Obama after running for getting out of Iraq continues Bush's timeline (this is a scandal?)
Iraq is falling and he gets us back in (this is a scandal?)
Obama extends the Afghanistan nation building (this is a scandal?)
Obama attacks Libya (this is a scandal?)
Obama tries to attack Syria (this is a scandal?)
Obama is blasted by Egypt for interfering in their elections (this is a scandal?)
Obama is bitch slapped by Putin in the Ukraine (this is a scandal?)
Obama doesn't shut down Guantanamo (this is a scandal?)
But he does let a bunch of real bad guys go who rejoin the terrorists
Obama repeatedly attacks white cops (and a black one) without waiting for evidence
Obama claims to not know about Hillary's e-mail while he had e-mailed her a bunch of times
Essentially, you have two minorscandals, neither of which had the direct involvement of the White House: Fast and Furious, and the IRS.
His SOS was under investigation by the FBI, and Obama was emailing her using that server. He claimed he didn't know a thing about it.
Ok...how would he? Just for example - I have two work email address', both legit (one just happened to be older format) that merge into one email stream. We have multiple servers - departmental, and university wide. I have no idea what server it goes through or anything. It's just email. Now, before anyone says it first - yes, I'm a techtard. But I don't think that is so different from a number of people in my generation.
Obama used a pseudonym in emails with Clinton, FBI documents reveal
By JOSH GERSTEIN and NOLAN D. MCCASKILL
09/23/16 06:27 PM EDT
Updated 09/24/16 03:35 PM EDT
Obama used a pseudonym in emails with Clinton, FBI documents reveal
Don't need a squad. The nation elected the man to fire him last November