President Obama made me and my family feel safe and secure. We slept well. Now, not so much...
Right, Ljokta slept well with no worries under Obama, none of the terrible fears he has now under evil Trump! No worries at all like Obama's:
- grabbed almost a trillion dollars for “stimulus” spending, created virtually zero private-sector jobs with it, allowed a great deal of the money to vanish into thin air, and spent the rest of his presidency complaining that he needed hundreds of billions more to repair roads and bridges.
- used American gun dealers and straw purchasers to arm Mexican drug lords, is a scandal with a huge body count.
- AG Holder was the first sitting member of a president’s cabinet in the history of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress.
- everything about ObamaCare is a scandal, from the President’s incessant lies about keeping your old plan if you liked it, to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s “we need to pass it to find out what’s in it” dereliction of Congressional duty. ObamaCare is a scam, pure and simple – sold on false pretenses by people who knew it wasn’t going to work the way they promised.
- the Department of Justice secretly spied on AP reporters, obtaining two months' worth of telephone records in what was most likely an attempt to crack down on internal leaks. According to the AP, the Justice Department acquired records for more than 20 different phone lines associated with the news agency — including reporters' cell, office, and home lines — that could affect more than 100 staffers. Calling the move a "massive and unprecedented intrusion," AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt demanded that the DOJ explain why it had gone after the records.
- the selective targeting of conservative groups by a politicized Internal Revenue Service in the effort to impede Romney support in the 2012 election was a scandal grenade Democrats and their media pals somehow managed to smother, even though the story began with the IRS admitting wrongdoing.
- the Obama administration’s story for the first few weeks after the Benghazi attack was false, and they knew it was false. They spun a phony story to buy themselves a little time during a presidential election campaign, and it worked. Nothing can change the fact that Libya was a disaster after Obama’s unlawful military operation. Nothing can obscure the truth that Ambassador Christopher Stevens was sent into a known terrorist hot zone without a backup plan to ensure his safety. Everything else from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and their defenders is pure political spin. They dragged the story out for years, until they thought it couldn’t hurt them any more.
- Hillary Clinton, her secret email server is an Obama scandal, too. She perpetrated her email offenses while working as his Secretary of State, and contrary to Obama’s false assertions, he knew about it. Plenty of Obama officials other than Clinton played email games, most infamously EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, who created a false identity for herself named “Richard Windsor” to get around government transparency rules.
- the Pigford scandal: Named after a landmark lawsuit from the Bill Clinton era, the abuse of a program meant to compensate minority farmers for racial discrimination exploded under Obama. After years of left-wing attacks on Andrew Breitbart for daring to speak up about the scandal, the mainstream media – no less than the New York Times – finally admitted his critique of the program was accurate in 2013.
- Edward Snowden’s pilfering of sensitive National Security Agency data was a debacle that damaged national security. We had the ghastly spectacle of Attorney General Holder thanking Snowden for performing a public service by exposing surveillance programs Holder’s own administration didn’t want to talk about. President Obama and his administration made many false statements as they tried to contain the political damage. The fallout included significant losses for U.S. companies, and diplomatic problems for the United States. Just about everything Obama did before, during, and after the Snowden saga damaged the relationship between American citizens and their government.
- no verdict can erase the scandalous way this administration conducted the prisoner swap that freed Bowe Bergdahl from the Taliban and its allies. Many lies were told, the law was flouted, a deal of questionable wisdom was struck with his captors, and outraged Americans demanded recognition for the soldiers who died searching for Bergdahl after he abandoned his post.
- everything about Obama’s dealings with Iran has been scandalous, beginning with his silence while the Green Revolution was brutally put down by the mullahs in 2009. The Iran nuclear deal was pushed with lies and media manipulation. The infamous pallet of cash that wasn’t a ransom has become symbolic of Obama’s mendacity and penchant for breaking the rules, when he thinks following them is too much trouble.
- the Environmental Protection Agency managed to turn the Colorado River orange with pollution under this greenest of green Presidents. Of course there was a cover-up. Would you expect anything less from this “transparent” administration?
- the General Services Administration was caught wasting ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money on lavish parties and silly projects. Heroic efforts to resist accountability were made, leaving puzzled observers to ask what it took to get fired from government employment under Barack Obama.
- the Department of Veterans Affairs has long been troubled, but the big scandals broke on Obama’s watch, most infamously the secret death lists veterans were put on while executives handed in phony status reports and signed themselves up for big bonuses.
- the marquee green energy Solyndra scandal wrote “crony capitalism” into the American political lexicon, as corners were cut and protocols ignored to shovel billions of taxpayer dollars at companies with absurdly unrealistic business models.
- the Obama years saw one scandal after another hit the Secret Service, from agents going wild with hookers in Columbia, to a fence jumper penetrating the White House, and tipsy Secret Service officials driving their car into a security barrier.
- Obama hit the American people hard during the great government shutdown crisis of 2013, doing everything he could to make American citizens feel maximum pain – from using “Barry-cades” to keep war veterans away from their memorials, to releasing illegal alien criminals from detention centers. It was an infuriating lesson for voters in how every dollar they get from government is a dollar that can be used against them.
1) Illegally armed Mexican drug cartels and ISIS militants
2) Attempting to shut down gun stores outside of law
3) Spent tax dollars to re-settle illegals inside U.S.
4) Using executive action to restrict Second Amendment
5) Illegally targeted conservative groups via IRS
6) Secretly obtained phone records from Associated Press journalists
7) Carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval
8) Expanded Bush’s unconstitutional government faith-based programs
9) Supported Bush’s unconstitutional Patriot Act
10) Agrees with Bush’s support of unconstitutional, indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without filing any charges
11) Supports unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping
12) Had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process
13) Ordered private company to fire 1,000 employees
14) Stole money from retired teachers and police officers
15) Fired Inspector General for discovering that Obama’s friend had embezzled government funds
16) Lied about letting people keep their health insurance
17) Lied about the cost of Obamacare
18) Gave tax dollars to campaign contributors and lobbyists, and falsely claimed the money was for “green energy”
19) Had “off the record” meetings with lobbyists
20) Had armed SWAT agents raid a law-abiding guitar factory because it was owned by a Republican
21) Ignored constitutional requirements for appointees
22) Tried to outlaw family farms
23) Auctioned off ambassadorship to the Netherlands
24) Made the TSA even more abusive and ridiculous than it had been under Bush
25) Illegally demanded monetary payment for Freedom of Information Act request
26) Stole money from retired Delphi employees
27) Used “off the books” funding for military interventionism
28) Tried to silence criticism of auto-bailouts
29) Tried to silence video on YouTube
30) Illegally gave Obamacare exemptions to unions that supported the passage of Obamacare
31) Defended Bush administration’s unconstitutional, unwarranted use of GPS device
32) Was cited by nine states for committing 21 illegal acts
33) Tried to seize hotel because some of its customers had used illegal drugs
34) Made recess appointments when Congress was not in recess
35) Supports guns for himself and his wife, but opposes them for everyone else
36) Approved giving 20 F-16 fighter jets to a Sharia dictatorship
37) Violated the very same campaign finance laws that he claims to support
38) Encouraged employers to switch their employees from full time to part time
39) Had Freedom of Information Act record worse than Bush’s
40) Supports installation of hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant
41) Accepted illegal campaign contributions from foreign citizens
42) Lied about the Benghazi attack
43) Complained to YouTube about an anti-Muslim video
44) Falsely said that Fast and Furious was started when Bush was President
45) Illegally refused to fire Kathleen Sebelius after she violated campaign finance laws
46) Gave special access to people who raised or donated $500,000
47) Adopted harmful new restrictions on prescription painkillers – even though the House had already voted against them
48) Illegally refused to submit a budget on time during four of his first five years
49) Fined UPS $40 million because some of its customers had used UPS to ship illegal drugs
50) Added 20,000 extra pages to Obamacare without Congressional approval
51) Waited until after the 2012 election to release unpopular Obamacare rules
52) Tried to rig federal auctions of radio spectrum space
53) Put someone in jail for making an anti-Muslim video
54) Rewarded one of his biggest campaign fundraisers by nominating him for the ambassadorship to Canada
55) Asked contractors to disclose their political donations before bidding on government contracts
56) Falsely accused a law abiding news reporter of being “an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator” in a criminal investigation
57) Asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate himself for lying under oath
58) Used Obamacare to illegally give the IRS additional powers without approval from Congress
60) Proposed military interventionism in Syria
61) Refused to fire or prosecute more than 1,000 IRS employees who illegally used their IRS credit cards for their own personal use
62) Had the Secret Service visit a law abiding citizen who had criticized his policies on Twitter
63) Had the IRS grant special, illegal favors for his brother’s so-called “charity”
64) Illegally bypassed Congress to delay Obamacare’s employer mandate
65) Illegally forced 2,200 privately owned auto dealerships to close, which destroyed 120,000 jobs
66) Gave 23,994 tax refunds worth a total of $46,378,040 to illegal aliens who all used the same address
67) Used tax money to pay federal employees to organize protests against George Zimmerman
68) Illegally continued giving foreign aid to Egypt after it had a coup
69) Broke promise to end Bush’s surveillance of U.S. citizens who were not suspected of committing a crime
70) Falsely guaranteed that people could keep their doctor
71) Illegally seized a privately owned gun from a law abiding citizen
72) Illegally prevented individual employees of small businesses from choosing their own plan during the first year of Obamacare
73) Illegally avoided enforcing the required income verification of people who receive subsidies for Obamacare exchanges
74) Illegally delayed the caps on out of pocket health care payments without Congressional approval
75) Falsely said the NSA review was being conducted by an “independent” body</strong
76) Nominated a telecommunications lobbyist and Obama fundraiser to head the FCC
77) Tried to violate defendants’ right to a fair trial
78) Threatened internet service providers with contempt of court if they did not install surveillance software
79) Committed treason by releasing 5 Al-Quaida leaders and giving them $5 billion dollars in taxpayer money for the life of ONE treasonous, American deserter who HAPPENED to be a fellow muslim.
80) Only president to encourage rioting; after Ferguson I watched him say, "Stay the course," and said he was "heartened" by the recent Berkely riots, because Milo speaks out against the epidemic of anti-gay human rights atrocities that Obama's fellow muslim protozoa commit.
81) Only president to declare in his early writings (which I've read) to see that he's nothing but an exercise in paranoid, racist, inferiority-complex hatred against whites. Even though his black father abandoned him and his white family raised him in a life of privilege - he loved to refer to his resentment against whites as a "coil of rage" against whites.
Rather an impressive list, isn’t it? The Dimbocraps are screaming impeachment for President Trump. Did you hear a single peep out of any of them for any of the items on this list?
82) Helped create the hate group "Black Lives Matter" with the public LIE that Michael Brown was a "gentle giant," even though every piece of forensic evidence PROVED the cop was telling the 100% truth about it being legitimate self-defense. And minutes earlier, "Gentle Giant" was recorded robbing a convenience store and assaulting Apu.
83) Trashy enough to send WH representatives to "Gentle Giant's" funeral, but didn't even bother to call the parents of the 5 marines killed in Chattanooga by his muslim brothers. And didn't even have enough respect to STAND UP when he first made the announcement on the news. And took DAYS to lower the WH flag to half-staff, due to public pressure - I can't think of a president with more open contempt for our military.
84) Utterly gutted NASA, insisting it should be more about "global warming" and "muslim outreach" (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean) because Obama is so visibly alarmed about American success ("you didn't build that") and space travel is one of those things America tends to do better than anyone. Unless you can name another country that set foot on the moon. You know the saying, Kennedy wanted to put men on the moon, Obama wanted to put them in women's bathrooms. Which brings me to....
85) We've never had a president so obsessed with the transgender mental disorder of "gender dysphoria." To the point of threatening NC's federal funds if they didn't cater to the whims of a disorder that affects about 1/10 of 1% of the population.
And that leaves out lies, crimes and offenses of the last few years of his presidency right up to and including wire-tapping, spying on and interfering with his subsequent replacement administration and on-going trash talking of the incumbent Trump presidency.
Sleep well, Lajokta.
PS: For further info, see post #8:
6 Reasons Obama is Worst President in US History
The 'Messiah' Exposed: 'Think Obama Administration Wasn't Corrupt? Think Again'
That's how the American people felt about Obama after 8 years.
