The Official list of Obama Administration Scandals!
(Or reasons not to re-elect Obama)

By Peter Andrew
ConservativeAmerican.org

Contains scandals, mistakes, mishaps, blunders, broken promises, flip flops, gaffes, lies, etc. That’s too long of a name, so we call it the Scandals List. Okay?

Check back often for updates! Missing any? Please help us by adding a comment! List in chronological order - Recent items on this Tea Partier’s Guide to the Obama Galaxy are always on the highest page number.

801. Obama on Darfur: Dictators and Double Standards 10/22/9 The Wall Street Journal: “I am deeply concerned by reports that the Bush Administration is negotiating a normalization of relations with the Government of Sudan. . . . This reckless and cynical initiative would reward a regime in Khartoum that has a record of failing to live up to its commitments.” —Senator Barack Obama, April 2008. We found this not-so-ancient statement on the Obama campaign’s Web site, under a picture of the candidate and the quote, “I’m asking you to believe.” On Monday, the Obama Administration took its own first step toward normalizing relations with Khartoum, promising a “menu of incentives and disincentives” for a government the U.S. has repeatedly accused of genocide…In other words, even if Sudan continues to behave badly it will not incur penalties—such as a NATO-enforced no-fly zone—that could actually force it to change its ways. At worst, Sudan might be forced to live with a somewhat longer list of U.S. or international sanctions, none of which have had the slightest effect on its policies toward Darfur…The larger wonder is how all of this can go down so smoothly with those in the human-rights community who have championed Darfur and assailed the Bush Administration for not doing enough. Instead, they are congratulating Mr. Obama, in part because he didn’t take the even softer line on Sudan being advocated by U.S. special envoy J. Scott Gration. Perhaps the Darfur activists should ask why Khartoum instantly praised the new policy for representing the “new Obama spirit.” It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that for many activists and columnists, as for Senator Obama, Darfur was less a moral cause than a partisan club. Anyone can put a “Save Darfur” sticker on his bumper. For the sake of the people of Darfur, we hope that’s not all they’re going to get from President Obama.” –ConservativeAmerican.org also notes that Obama’s U.N. Ambassador, the cussing and spitting Susan Rice, wants the U.S. to take military action in the Sudan, not to sit down and chat with them like Team Obama is doing! We are the only ones reporting this. As we reported exclusively way back on December 1st of 2008, Susan Rice not only doesn’t want us to talk to the Sudanese, She wants us to bomb them!
802. Obama Administration Lies About Being

     

     Napolitano

     Ready for Swine Flu Outbreak 10/23/9 Back in April, the Obama Administration said it was already prepared to handle the expected swine flu outbreak. From the scandal dated April 27th, “While President Obama was out golfing…Homeland Security Chieftess Janet Napolitano said the USA is ready to handle the Swine Flu outbreak. The news conference went to her by default because the President (had) yet to appoint a reasonable person to serve as Health & Human Services Secretary. Three months in to his term, 19 key positions remain(ed) open at HHS as the nation prepare(d) for what some fear could be a pandemic.” USA was ready? Team Obama was ready? Why the shortage of regular flu shots and the H1N1 vaccinations then? Apparently, they weren’t ready after all.

803. Obama Loses His Childish Game with Fox News 10/23/9 – With two wars to fight, an economy that continues to get worse and a national swine flu outbreak, President Obama continues his childish war game against Fox News. “Fox Executive Refutes Reports That ‘Pay Czar’ Interview Never Was Requested! The Treasury Department on Thursday tried to make “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg available for interviews to every member of the network pool except Fox News before relenting under pressure.”
804. Teleprompter-in-Chief Strikes Again – Obama at MIT 10/23/9 The president had some major verbal stumbling when his teleprompter failed to cooperate…
     


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805. Obama Appointment Scandal # 86 – Bob Bauer 10/23/9 Fox News: “White House Communications Director Anita Dunn’s husband is emerging as the top candidate to replace Greg Craig as White House counsel, Fox News has learned. Dunn’s husband, Bob Bauer, is President Obama’s personal lawyer and a former counsel to his campaign, as well as the top lawyer for the Democratic National Committee. Senior White House officials declined to comment, but Democrats close to the situation said Bauer is under serious consideration to replace Craig, who is expected to leave the White House by the end of the year.” — Dunn is the Anti-Fox News Czar. Her husband, Bauer, once claimed that John McCain was part of an elaborate conspiracy with the Bush White House, the Justice Department and the RNC to make up cases of voter fraud in order to convince democrats not to vote! He wanted a special prosecutor to look into “phony” accusations of democrat voter fraud? Phony? Yeah right. And like a scandal like this would make democrats stay home. Give us a break.
     
806. White House Lawyer Claims Administration Has Only Granted Three Lobbyist Waivers 10/25/9 White House Lawyer for Ethics, Norman Eisen, told the American Bar Association only three waivers have been granted for lobbyists so far. He missed a few! Lobbyists so far include Bill Lynn, William Corr, Mark Patterson, Jocelyn Frye, Cecilia Munoz, Naomi Walker and Patrick Gaspard. Our report also indicates, “Assistant Secretary of State Richard Verma was a lobbyist (but) team Obama decided he didn’t need a waiver because…well, because they decided he didn’t need one!”
807. White House Lawyer Says Obama Administration is off to a “Scandal-Free” Start!!! 10/25/9 Obama Administration Attorney Norman Eisen srikes again, “We think it is no accident that we have had one of the most scandal-free starts of any administration in modern history.” Now that’s just about the funnniest and most outrageous comment to come from this Administration yet!!
808. White House Lawyer Claims “Full Transparency” on Stimulus Lobbyists! 10/25/9 Obama Administration Attorney Norman Eisen completes is set of three misrepresentations with this, “the administration mandated disclosure of lobbying or competitive grants for stimulus dollars to keep the process transparent and opened up the White House visitor logs to the public. “We did full transparency,” he said. “We’ll let the public decide who among them is a lobbyist or not.” Oh Really? From the Official Obama Administration Scandals List # 617, The Beachwood Reporter and the Washington Post: “President Obama ordered federal officials to disclose their contacts with lobbyists trying to influence how the government doles out money to jump-start the economy. Yet few such communications have been reported even though lobbyists say they are busier than ever with the multibillion-dollar stimulus.”
809. Obama Administration Pressures top CEO’s to help Battle the Chamber of Commerce! 10/25/9 Fox Business Network: “As the Obama Administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continue battling over policy issues, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met with five chief executive officers of top companies — four of them Chamber members — at a private dinner Wednesday, Administration officials said…The business source said Jarrett asked executives to pressure the Chamber to moderate its opposition to creating a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. The Chamber has opposed the administration’s proposal to create the agency, which would regulate sales and marketing practices of credit cards, mortgages and consumer loans…Jarrett and Geithner met with Frank Blake, Chairman and CEO of Home Depot; Rob Henrikson, Chairman and CEO of insurer MetLife; Christopher Nassetta, President and CEO of Hilton Hotels; Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO of casino operator and real estate developer MGM Mirage, and Jonathan Tisch, Chairman and CEO of Loews, which operates hotel, insurance and energy interests.”
810. Obama Administration Battling Unions over Taxing Good Health Plans! 10/26/9 ABC’s Teddy Davis reports: “The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a tax on high-priced insurance plans, suggested by Senator Kerry. A policy along these lines, designed carefully, will encourage both employers and employees to be more watchful health care consumers,” said Christina Romer, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors…”It will discourage insurance companies from offering high-priced plans that would otherwise eat up larger and larger shares of workers’ wages,” she continued…Romer’s full-throated endorsement of the “Cadillac tax” keeps the Obama administration at odds on this issue with some of its closest allies. Organized labor has made killing the “Cadillac tax” a top priority and more than half of House Democrats have signed a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi urging her not to include a “Cadillac tax” in health-care legislation.The union-funded Health Care for America Now group recently launched a television ad attacking the “Cadillac tax” as the wrong way to pay for health-care reform.” — So if you have a great health plan, Team Obama wants to tax the heck out of it to pay for the socialist ObamaCare Nightmare! UPDATE 1/12/9: From the New York Times blogs: ” Union leaders said Monday afternoon that they planned to tell President Obama in a meeting later in the day that it would be a costly political mistake to enact an excise tax on high-priced, employer-sponsored health benefits. They said they would warn the president that enacting the tax, which the president favors and is part of the Senate health bill, would give Republicans lots of political ammunition — enabling them to run ads saying that Mr. Obama and the Democrats had imposed a tax on the middle class after Mr. Obama had promised during his presidential campaign not to raise taxes on average Americans.”
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811. Obama Appointment Scandal # 87 – Islam Siddiqui – ANOTHER LOBBYIST! 10/26/9 From AirAmerica.com (no, we’re not kidding…it’s from them!), “The Obama Administration has just announced the nomination of Islam Siddiqui, a pesticide industry lobbyist, to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Green activists say that the appointment places the president’s commitment to progressive environmental policy in serious question. Islam Siddiqui is no stranger to Washington. From 1997 to 2001 he served in various positions in the Clinton Administration at the US Department of Agriculture. However, the uproar over his appointment comes from his current position as Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, a trade association representing producers and distributors of pesticides. From 2001 to 2003 he was also a registered lobbyist for CropLife.”
812. Obama Appointment Scandal # 88 – Erroll Southers 10/26/9 Conservative American Jim DeMint is asking if President Obama’s nominee for the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) will try to unionize security screeners. ““The safety and security of the American people are far too important to be controlled by union bosses,” said Senator DeMint. “It’s time for Mr. Southers to give an unequivocal answer: Will he give union bosses control over the safety of Americans at our airports, yes or no?” DeMint says unionizing these workers would be a Homeland Security Disaster. ConservativeAmerican.org agrees. Unions seem to love him and DeMint is correct to be concerned. Southers has been endorsed by the National Treasury Employees Union and the American Federation of Goverenment Employees Union. UPDATE 11/11/9: The Washington Post reports, “Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) questioned President Obama’s nominee to lead the nation’s airport security agency Tuesday about a censure he received from the FBI in 1988. Erroll Southers, who was serving as an FBI special agent at the time of the censure, asked a co-worker’s husband who worked for the San Diego Police Department to run a background check on his ex-wife’s boyfriend. Under questioning by Collins, Southers said that he has not misused government databases to receive personal information on anyone since the incident and that he would not do so in the future.” Sean Hannity on Fox News commented, “Oh, that’s reassuring!” UPDATE 1/20/2010 From the Miami Herald: President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration abruptly withdrew his name Wednesday as Democratic and Republican senators exchanged charges of politicizing the key security post.
813. Obama Hasn’t “Learned He Shouldn’t Golf While Soldiers Die!” 10/27/9 War time is Tee Time for Obama! President B-Rock Obama has been on the golf course 24 times, mostly on Sundays, since taking office. He’s only been to Church a few times and didn’t attend a single service his first 11 weeks in office. We’re patiently waiting for Michael Moore-on to blast Obama for this as he blasted George W. Bush. Michael Moore-on still has a youtube video up entitled “George Learns He Shouldn’t Golf While Soldiers Die.” Seems odd considering Bush only golfed a handful of times and Obama is out nearly every weekend. Odd, he still hasn’t had time to make up his mind on troop levels! As death tolls rise in Afghanistan, when will Obama realize the bad message this sends out?! Or will the left and the media just keep giving him a free pass?
     
814. Obama Appointment Scandal # 89 – Edward Chen 10/27/9 –

     

     Judge Chen

     Warner Todd Huston reports at Stop the ACLU: “One of those nominees, San Francisco U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Chen, received a favorable vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington today. So what sort of judge is Edward Chen?…As an ACLU lawyer, Chen was known for opposing English-only policies and for pushing discriminatory affirmative action ideals. He even came to the aid of gang members in one case. Chen was quite the ACLU activist between 1979 and 2001…Chen wondered aloud if American patriotism was justified. Chen told the crowd of his, “feelings of ambivalence and cynicism when confronted with appeals to patriotism — sometimes I cannot help but feel that there are too much [sic] injustice and too many inequalities that prevent far too many Americans from enjoying the beauty extolled in that anthem.” Apparently, Chen feels that America is too racist to justify anyone feeling patriotism for her…Only ten days after 9/11 occurred, Chen remarked that he imagined that America would revert to the “irresistible forces of racism, nativism and scapegoating” of the past and begin systematic oppression of American Muslims. Later he likened America’s post 9/11 military and security policies to the climate that led up to Japanese internment during WWII…In a speech given at the Operation Protect and Defend dinner on May 4, 2006, Judge Chen referred to “secret surveillance of Americans without a judicial warrant, secret no fly lists, [and] secret detention of nearly a thousand American residents held without charges.” Naturally, he offered no proof of this wholesale but secret detention of Americans…Judge Chen will bring “diversity” to the bench as President Obama wants certainly. But will he also bring divisiveness and a desire to get even with all the racism he sees where ever he looks?” Bill O’Reilly featured him on The Factor tonight too.

815. Top Secret Health Care Meetings in “Most Open & Transparent Government?” 10/27/9 The Politico: “When Barack Obama was running for president, he vowed to lead the most open and transparent government in history. Candidate Obama even promised to negotiate health care reform live on television.Then it came time to govern, and President Obama has negotiated major parts of the health care bill behind closed doors. Earlier this year, he announced deals his administration had cut with drug companies and hospitals after brokering them out of public view. And now his top lieutenants are working in secret with leading Democrats to craft the health care bill that will be debated on the Senate floor. All of the insider wheeling and dealing has good-government groups disappointed in an administration that promised more openness than it has delivered. Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation expressed the watchdog community’s frustration when he said, bluntly, “This is a broken promise. We didn’t get anywhere near the level of transparency that we were promised.”
816. Team Obama Player resigns in Protest over the Afghan War! – Obama Appointment Scandal # 90 – Matthew Hoh 10/27/9 Washington Post: “A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed. But last month, in a move that has sent ripples all the way to the White House, Hoh, 36, became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, which he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency. “I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan,” he wrote.”


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817. Obama Appointment Scandal # 91 – Stephanie Villafuerte 10/28/9 Michelle Malkin is on top of this story, “…the festering corruption scandal involving President Obama’s US Attorney nominee in Colorado, Stephanie Villafuerte…Villafuerte is entangled in the railroading of Denver ICE agent Cory Voorhis — whom federal prosecutors tried to punish after he blew the whistle on sweetheart deals for criminal illegal aliens during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. A jury acquitted Voorhis of all federal

     

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     charges. He’s trying to get his job back. At least one of his supervisors has admitted lying. Villafuerte served on Democrat gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter’s campaign team while on leave from the Denver D.A.’s office and from all local news accounts was deeply involved in the witchhunt against agent Voorhis. But she refuses to answer any questions about her role in the case. And now she is poised to take over as US Attorney. Transparency? Ethics? Accountability? Anyone? From the Denver Post, unresolved contradictions and double standards: (Villafuerte)…told the FBI two years ago that she never spoke to anyone in the Denver District Attorney’s Office about an illegal immigrant who became a controversial figure in the 2006 gubernatorial race…, Carlos Estrada-Medina. But the FBI apparently never asked Villafuerte, the former chief deputy DA who was then working for Bill Ritter’s campaign, why she left a phone message for DA spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough that Kimbrough noted was about Estrada-Medina. The FBI also apparently never asked her about the nature of a series of phone calls she exchanged over the next two days with Kimbrough and First Assistant DA Chuck Lepley. Those calls came both before and after an order by Lepley to a subordinate to run a criminal history check of Estrada-Medina in a restricted federal database. It can be a crime to access the National Crime Information Center computer for a non-law-enforcement purpose.”




818. Obama Administration Overstates Job Creation Numbers! 10/29/9 “Overstates” is a nice word for lie. Fox News reported: The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far.Ed DeSeve, serving as Obama’s stimulus overseer, said the administration has been working for weeks to correct mistakes in early counts that identified more than 30,000 jobs paid for with stimulus money. He said a new stimulus report Friday should correct many mistakes an Associated Press review found that showed the earlier report overstated thousands of stimulus jobs.”I think you’ll see a pretty good degree of accuracy,” DeSeve said in an interview.White House spokesman Robert Gibbs downplayed errors in job counts identified by the AP’s review, telling reporters, “We’re talking about 4,000, or a 5,000 error.” ConservativeAmerican.org notes it remains a scandal how much your federal government is spending for each job created, it is hundreds of thousands of dollars for each job!
819. Obama spent an outrageous $24,000 per vehicle for Cash for Clunkers!! 10/29/9 After forcing car dealers to destroy perfectly good used cars (making it harder for the poor to find affordable vehicles), we learn the Obama Cash for Clunkers program cost $24,000 per vehicle! That’s more than the cost of many vehicles! Edmunds.com reported the $24,000 figure. “Edmunds.com…found that of the nearly 690,000 vehicles sold under the program, only 125,000 of the sales could be credited directly to the Cash-for-Clunkers program.The rest of the sales would have happened anyway, despite the government program, the report said — raising questions over its effectiveness.The report also said that the average cost for a vehicle in August 2009 was only $26,915 — minus an average cash rebate of $1,667…The program was touted for giving a boost to auto sales while increasing the sales of more fuel-efficient vehicles.”
820. Obama’s Small Business Stimulus Lie 10/29/9 – AllBusiness.com reports, “We received a press release today from the always-fervent Lloyd Chapman, president of the American Small Business League and tireless champion of the little guy. In it, Chapman accuses Pres. Obama of…well, lying, basically. And he has a point. Obama’s much-ballyhooed small-business initiatives have amounted to almost nothing. Since the recession started, the feds have spent $2.8 trillion on economic stimulus. Of this, $17.3 billion has gone to small business. That comes to 0.6 percent. Put it another way: AIG got $180 billion in bailout money, while the 27 million small businesses in the U.S. have received $17.3 billion.”
821. Obama Administration says Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act do not apply to the White House! 10/30/9 – Judicial Watch reports, “the Obama administration argued in a recent court filing that the Privacy Act does not apply to the Executive Office of the President! This court filing came in a Judicial Watch lawsuit filed in 1996 against the Clinton White House related to a scandal known as “Filegate,” where the Clinton White House obtained and maintained the private FBI files of hundreds of former Reagan and Bush officials…he Obama Justice Department stated the following: “The White House is not an agency under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and it necessarily follows that it is not an agency subject to the Privacy Act.” However, the Privacy Act specifically lists the “Executive Office of the President” as an agency subject to the Act’s provisions…Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is disturbing that the Obama administration has taken the legal position that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House and the Clinton FBI files scandal was not a scandal. It is worrying to those of us concerned about the Obama White House’s collecting “fishy” emails and compiling an enemies list of new organizations, radio hosts, businesses, and industry associations to attack and smear. Is the Obama defense of the FBI files scandal less about that Clinton scandal and more about what his White House is up to now?“
822. Obama Rewards Donors with White House Perks after saying he wouldn’t do that 10/30/9 I have mixed feelings on this one. I have no problem whatsoever with a politician giving harmless thanks (a visit to the White House, bowling in the White House, etc.) to key donors. The issue here, to me, is that Obama said he wouldn’t do this and now he is. The Washington Times reports, “During his first nine months in office, President Obama has quietly rewarded scores of top Democratic donors with VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings…One top donor described in an interview with The Times being given a birthday visit to the Oval Office. Another was allowed use of a White House-complex bowling alley for his family. Bundlers closest to the president were invited to watch a movie in the red-walled theater in the basement of the presidential mansion. Mr. Obama invited his top New York bundler, UBS Americas CEO Robert Wolf, to golf with him during the president’s Martha’s Vineyard vacation in August. At least 39 donors and fundraisers also were treated to a lavish White House reception on St. Patrick’s Day….”The argument is not that I’m pristine, because I’m swimming in the same muddy water,” Mr. Obama said during a campaign appearance. “The argument is that I know it’s muddy, and I want to clean it up.” ”
823. Obama’s Broken Promise to Africa 10/31/9 – NewsReal blog reports, “Not only did Obama break promise after promise he made to Americans; he did the same with promises he made to Africans. When campaigning for the presidency, Obama said he would “boost money for AIDS funds, education program[s] and poverty-reduction.” But ten months after he took office, Africans are still waiting for the money and assistance the president pledged — while treatable diseases and starvation are killing large numbers of children on the continent.”
824. Obama’s Attorney General Breaks His

     

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     Own New “State Secrets” Rules! 10/31/9 The Obama Administration defending the Bush surveilance tactics?! How can this be? Jake Tapper at ABC News: “The Obama administration invoked the controversial “state secrets” privilege again on Friday, arguing that if U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker were to permit a legal case against the government to proceed, he would be putting national security at risk…Holder said he was invoking the privilege despite having outlined new policies and procedures last month containing new internal and external checks and balances for the Justice Department to follow before invoking the privilege, requiring “a thorough, multi-stage review and rely(ing) upon robust judicial and congressional oversight.”…”The Obama administration has essentially adopted the position of the Bush administration in these cases,” said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “even though candidate Obama was incredibly critical of both the warrantless wiretapping program and the Bush administration’s abuse of the state secrets privilege.” The Obama-Biden campaign website describes in part “The Problem” as the Bush administration having “invoked a legal tool known as the ’state secrets’ privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out of civil court.” But President Obama has invoked the state secrets privilege in a number of cases since taking office…The case is a class action suit brought by four Brooklynites alleging that the Bush administration engaged in wholesale dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans in which they were unjustly caught because they regularly made phone calls and sent emails to individuals outside the U.S., specifically in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Egypt, the Netherlands, and Norway.”



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825. Obama Invites a Terrorist to the White House as a GUEST! 10/31/9 – Remember when candidate Obama lied and said Weather Underground Terrorist Bill Ayers was just some guy in his neighborhood? One of thousands of people that he just knows? Hmmm. They published a visitors list to the White House online now. Seems that Barack has had his pal Ayers (who has never apologized for his terrorist acts against our great nation) as a GUEST at the White House twice!! I thought Obama said Ayers would play no role in his administration! What an amazing liar this President is! Ayers is playing some kind of role for Obama. This one should make the blood boil of everyone who voted against him and should demonstrate to those who voted for him what an absolute fool he made of them!
     
826. Obama’s Broken Promise to Colin Powell 11/3/9 Prior the the election of 2008, the USA Today reported: “Colin Powell will have a role as a top presidential adviser in an Obama administration, the Democratic White House hopeful said Monday. “He will have a role as one of my advisers,” Barack Obama said on NBC’s Today in an interview aired Monday, a day after Powell, a four-star general and President Bush’s former secretary of state, endorsed him. “Whether he wants to take a formal role, whether that’s a good fit for him, is something we’d have to discuss,” Obama said.” – ConservativeAmerican.org notes that Powell has no official role, no formal role, and has not even made the White House guest list since Obama took office. So much for that promise.
827. Obama’s Broken Promise of a “New Tone” in Washington 11/3/9 Robert A. George of NBC News in Dallas-Fort Worth writes, “…it is in Obama’s biggest promise that he has failed — that of bringing a change of tone to Washington. Sure, bipartisanship is a two-way street. The White House can claim that congressional Republicans haven’t been eager to work with Obama on big issues…Still, a lot of the blame for increased Washington rancor belongs at the feet of the administration. Some of the tension was created by accident: Obama’s calling Henry Louis Gates’ arrest by Cambridge Police Officer James Crowley “stupid” did short-term damage to Obama’s “post-racial” brand. That was a slip of the tongue at the end of a long press conference. Obama’s overt partisanship has been no accident. The White House early on decided to start picking fights with those opposing its plans. Rush Limbaugh was an easy target, although declaring him the Republican Party’s “leader” might have been laying it on thick. But Fox News? The Chamber of Commerce? The insurance industry? And with all the big issues on its plate, how is it that the White House still manages to plunge itself into obscure congressional special elections in upstate New York? Or pulls out all the stops to get one governor re-elected?” ConservativeAmerican.org points out that Mr. George is an Obama defender (calls the stupid white cop comment an accident and a slip of the tongue!) and still thinks this promise has been broken.
828. Obama “Overstates” Number of Stimulus Jobs! (AGAIN) 11/4/9 – “The Obama administration appears to be using fuzzy math to count the number of jobs created by the $787 billion stimulus package, according to two analyses that show counters included pay raises and hours worked as actual jobs. The government’s claim that the controversial spending bill led to 640,000 jobs could be overstated by at least 20,000 because recipients of federal grants and contracts appear to have made mistakes when estimating the number of jobs that have been saved or created, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.”
829. Obama’s Broken Promise to Hold African Leaders to Account 11/4/9 From the Christian Science Monitor: “Equatorial Guinea is consistently ranked near the top of the list of the most corrupt countries on the world’s most corrupt continent. And rights advocates continue to heap fierce criticism on President Obiang for his government’s alleged human rights abuses and draconian limits on free speech. Now eyes across Africa are turning to President Obama, who has pledged to do more to hold the continent’s leaders to account. US policy toward the often-overlooked nation could be a test case. But so far, there has been little indication as to how the new administration will shape its foreign policy toward Africa and the State Department refused to comment for this report. Experts say that’s because there won’t likely be much in the way of tangible change, at least not in places where significant US business or energy interests are at stake.”
830. Obama’s Broken Promise on Internet Neutrality 11/4/9 The Huffington Post (be still my heart) has a list of ten Obama broken promises one year after his election. Nine of them were already on our list. This is the one that wasn’t! The President promised to support so-called “Net Neutrality” which prevents big companies from making sure some websites load faster than others. Here’s the video…
     


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831. Obama Administration Breaks Promise on Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD’s)- 11/5/9 The so-called Politifact website: “They will appoint a Federal ASD Coordinator to oversee federal ASD research and federal efforts to improve awareness of ASD and improve the training of medical professionals to identify and treat ASD. By establishing one top-level point person to coordinate ASD efforts in the White House, they will ensure that ASD receives the recognition and priority it deserves in the federal government….President Barack Obama has promised to name a federal coordinator to oversee federal autism efforts, but there is no sign of progress yet.” – Politifact says this promise is “stalled” not broken.
832. Obama: Fort Hood not “A Top Priority??!!” – Mishandles Fort Hood Announcement 11/5/9 – President Barack Obama issued a bizarre statement shortly after the murders and attacks at Fort Hood. Rather than starting with his comments and expressing his concern, sadness or anger, he took about two minutes to thank people (like his own staff) for attending some conference, he gave a “Shout Out” to a person attending, he thanked them for having a “productive conference,” and then to add insult to injury he told native Americans at the meeting that treating them better “is a top priority for us.” Seemingly unaware that the nation was watching and waiting for his comments on the attacks at Fort Hood, only then did the President offer his comments. He sounded more like a cold newscaster than the Commander in Chief, though he took time to remind Americans that he was, indeed, the Commander in Chief. This is why people call him a narcissist! We can’t know what was in his heart, but he did not project a sense of compassion or caring and his bizarre mishandling of this message without his teleprompter angered many Americans.
833. Obama Blows Off 20th Anniversary of Berlin Wall Coming Down! 11/8/9 – From Fox News: “the president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say he’s ignoring a shining triumph of American-inspired democracy. “A tragedy,” is how former House Speaker Newt Gingrich described Obama’s absence. Some question whether the decision not to go was a nod to Russia, with which the Obama administration is trying to mend relations, or just another attempt to play down the perception of the United States as an exceptional superpower.” ConservativeAmerican.org’s take: Obama as the Anti-Reagan has no intention of honoring a Reagan accomplishment.
834. Obama Lies to America claiming the House Health Reform Plan “Strengthens” Medicare! 11/8/9 At a press conference outside the White House today, the President praised his fellow Socialists in congress for approving the ObamaCare Nightmare. He also lied claiming the plan “Strengthens Medicare!” Patient’s First points out this is not true. The House plan has $500-Billion in Medicare cuts!!
835. Team Obama Admits leaking the story About John Edwards’ Expensive Haircuts! 11/10/9 As Time magazine notes, “Politico’s Ben Smith has, alas, confessed, more or less, that the Obama Campaign was his source of the John Edwards $400 haircut scoop…Smith, a fine reporter loyal to his sources, declined to admit what was then fairly obvious–the news of Edwards’ silly haircut had been fed to him from a rival campaign. But Smith’s source eventually outed himself. As Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe writes in his book, ‘We did much less of this [opposition research] than other campaigns did, but there were times we indulged — it was our researchers who found John Edwards’s infamous $400 hair cut expenditures.’”
836. Obama Still Using Blackwater Despite Deepening Scandal 11/11/9 The U.K. Guardian reports, “An explosive report in the New York Times today could change that. The paper alleges that in the aftermath of the infamous 2007 Nisour Square massacre of 17 Iraqi civilians, top Blackwater officials “authorised secret payments” of about $1m into Iraq intending to bribe officials to allow Blackwater to remain in Iraq despite Baghdad’s position that the company would be banned and the killers prosecuted…But as the investigations into Blackwater deepen and the scandals expand, perhaps the most urgent question is this: why does President Obama continue to use this company?”
837. Obama Administration Trying to Dump Republican Government Employees!- 11/12/9 From RedState: “Remember how the Democrats reacted when the Bush Administration started replacing U.S. Attorneys? At least they were actually political appointees employed at the will and whim of the President…It is a typical Washington process that many political appointees are able to take jobs within the civil service once their political appointment expires — usually at the conclusion of one administration. What often happens as well is Congressional staffers, before an election or shortly thereafter, will move over to the Executive Branch placed into the civil service, in effect, by appointment. So, for example, when George Bush became President in 2001, a number of Clinton political appointees became civil service employees. As a result, they became subject to civil service hiring and firing rules, which meant they could no longer be replaced simply for having been a Democratic appointee. Barack Obama is changing that. He intends to purge all Republicans from the federal bureaucracy retroactive to five years ago. Under his new rules, made retroactive for five years, the Office of Personnel Management will examine civil service employees who got their start as political appointees in the Bush administration and terminate those employees.”
838. Obama Appointment Scandal # 92 Another Lobbyist!- 11/13/9 From Rediff.com: “his latest move: to name Robin Lynn Raphel as the administration’s point person for disbursing non-military aid to Pakistan…Raphel has worked with the Washington, DC-based lobbying firm Cassidy and Associates, of which she was till lately a vice president. Even more pertinently, the Pakistan government was one of the firm’s most prized clients, paying Cassidy over $1.2 million a year for its lobbying services. Documents filed by Cassidy and Associates with the United States Department of Justice most recently — as required under the Foreign Agents Registration Act — indicate that Raphel had actively lobbied on behalf of Pakistan on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the government less than a week before her appointment as coordinator of non-military aid for Pakistan.”
839. Obama’s Navy – Politically Correct Color Guard! 11/13/9 Prior to Fort Hood, the Naval Academy Color Guard is to appear at the World Series. IN OUR AMERICA - Great! You love those guys and make plans to get this on your schedule so you can watch as well. UNDER OBAMA’S BASS ACKWARDS COMMAND – You try to find out who approved this and what their motives were. This is an all white-guy group and we cannot have that. We are not a bunch of white-guy, Muslim-haters clinging to guns and the notion of a God. You get mad when you learn that the Navy Times and other media are reporting on the steps taken to correct this situation. They report that two white midshipmen were removed from the performance in New York City and replaced with a Pakistani-American man with a cool Muslim name and a white woman (apparently no black woman could be found) so the group would appear more diverse. The military’s top priority needs to be the acceptance of cultural diversity. All this talk of killing people and blowing things up and victory makes you uncomfortable. You send out poor Capt. Matthew Klunder, commandant of midshipmen, to dispute what happened. He said he considered replacing two members but decided to add two extra people instead, expanding the group from six to eight members. However, Fox news reports only six people ended up participating in the Game 2 routine at Yankee Stadium because one of the two additions forgot parts of his uniform and the color guard performs in even numbers only. You pray Glenn Beck is still sick.
840. Obama’s Attorney General Welcoming Five Terrorists to New York! 11/13/9 Team Obama’s outrageous handling of Extremist Muslim Terrorists continues. The Associated Press and Fox News report Eric Holder will be bringing the 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 4 other Guantanamo Bay terrorists to New York City! Once here, Holder will give each of them a welcoming gift…all the rights of a U.S. citizen who is to be tried in criminal court. They are, of course, entitled to no such rights!!! Obama and Holder are employing the Billy Bob Clinton strategy of trying these madmen in criminal courts. From AP: “Bringing such notorious suspects to U.S. soil to face trial is a key step in President Barack Obama’s plan to close the terror suspect detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.” ConservativeAmerican.org points out that even socialist-democrat majority leader Harry Reid in the U.S. Senate said he did not want these nut job terrorists coming to U.S. Soil. Will he come forward now to argue against this?


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841. Obama Bows to a Foreign Leader! AGAIN! 11/14/9 How many times can you make the same mistake?! President Obama has smiling photographs taken with the Libyan and Venezuelan dictators, he bows down to the Saudi King, and now Sandra Rose reports, “Obama bowed down to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko…as he arrived at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo”
     
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842. Obama’s Million Jobs Lie 11/15/9 David Horowitz and Newsreal reports, “And through it all, the President goes on lying: “Over the past 10 months, we’ve taken a number of bold steps to break the back of this recession. We’ve worked to stabilize the financial system, revive lending to small businesses and families, and prevent responsible homeowners from losing their homes. And through the Recovery Act, we’ve cut taxes for middle class families, extended and increased unemployment insurance, and created and saved more than a million jobs” Lies piled upon lies. And now, the President is looking to “talk” about how to create jobs and “get this economy moving again.”
     If only he had considered having his “unemployment summit” ten months ago, before he threw $787 billion into the wind…Consider the following: The official unemployment rate is now over 10% (10.2%) with the real figure pegged at 17.5% if you count the underemployed…many of the jobs shed by business have been lost permanently…5.6 million people have been unemployed for more than 6 months (that’s a whopping 36% of all unemployed individuals), a statistic not seen in years…11 million full-time jobs have been lost.”



843. Team Obama’s Hypocrisy on where to put Terrorists on Trial 11/16/9 -
     

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     Dana Perino on Fox & Friends this morning said the Obama administration is being hypocritical about where to put terrorists held in Guantanamo on trial. Attorney General Eric “Let ‘em Go” Holder said Khalid Sheik Mohammed would be tried in federal court because the crimes he’s accused of committing were against civilians in New York, whereas the people being brought before the military commission for attacks on the USS Cole committed crimes against the military. Perino wants to know how the Obama adminsitration explains the 9/11 attacks on the military at the Pentagon! UPDATE 11/17/9: The Freedom Phile and Naked Emporer News remind us that even Barack Obama himself said Khalid sheik Mohammed should not be tried in a criminal court!
     
     UPDATE 11/18/9: Meanwhile, President Obama said in one of a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia that those offended by the legal privileges given to Mohammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won’t find it “offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him.” Obama quickly added that he did not mean to suggest he was prejudging the outcome of Mohammed’s trial. “I’m not going to be in that courtroom,” he said. “That’s the job of the prosecutors, the judge and the jury.” – He’s promising he’ll be convicted by also promising a “fair” trial!
844. Obama Silencing Opponents of Cap & Tax Plan! 11/17/9 Fox News: “Laurie Williams and husband Alan Zabel worked for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for more than 20 years, and they know more about climate change than most politicians. But when the couple released a video on the Internet expressing their concerns over the Obama administration’s plans to use cap-and-trade legislation to fight climate change, they were told to keep it to themselves. Williams and Zabel oppose cap and trade — a controversial government allowance program in which companies are issued emissions limits, or caps, which they can then trade — as a means to fight climate change. On their own time, Williams and Zabel made a video expressing these opinions…Their bosses in San Francisco approved the effort by Williams and Zabel to release the tape, but after an editorial they wrote appeared in the Washington Post, EPA Director Lisa Jackson ordered the pair to remove the video or face disciplinary action. Specifically, the administration’s chief environmental official did not want Williams or Zabel mentioning their four decades with the EPA — time spent studying cap and trade. “The people who understand the problems with the cap and trade with offsets bill are not being heard,” Williams told Fox News…”It’s censorship,” Jeff Ruch, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told Fox News.” ConservativeAmerican.org is surprised! Liberal censorship?!
845. Team Obama’s Empty Promise to have tough Consequences for North Korea 11/17/9 – Seven months ago, back in April, we told you Hillary Clinton promised to get tough with North Korea if they launched test missiles: “There will be consequences,” she threatened. We waited. In May, Obama promised “stronger international pressure.” What happened to the U.S. having tough consequences? Nope, we handed it all over to the weak United Nations. Hillary might as well have made a 3 A.M. call to the White House to look for consequences. The only thing we could find was Nancy Pelosi asking China to talk to North Korea. Not much of a tough consequence. North Korea was not worried. They took two American journalists hostage and demanded a “good will gesture” from the U.S.! That’s the tough consequence?! A freaking good will gesture? On June 10th, the cussing and spitting Susan Rice announced a consequence from the UN. The new sanction would allow foreign countries to stop and search ships heading to and from North Korea, “pending approval from the country whose flag the vessel was flying.” So, if we say ‘Pretty please,’ maybe…just maybe…the country might let us on the ship to look around?! No teeth at all. A poll shows most Americans think Obama has been way too easy on North Korea. We actually watched a North Korean ship (I’m not kidding, all we did was watch!) in June! We started covering this cartoon of events with posts of a PokeMon style battle between the evil NoKo-mon of North Korea and the rookie President, Obama-mon! Obamamon finally punished Nokomon by sending Billy Bob Clinton to the country to bring the hostages home. Mr. Clinton was not going to go until he heard he could get two interns alone on a plane! Nokomon fired even more test missiles. Still no consequence with any teeth. Zero. Zilch. The promise of a tough consequence was a lie.
846. Obama’s White House Counsel loses job over Release of Interrogation Memos 11/17/9 – Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic reports on the “resignation” of White House Counsel Greg Craig. “For a White House that prides itself on mitigating the effects of internal drama, the Craig resignation is a real failure. It’s left many Craig allies — inside and outside of government — angry with the president’s top advisers. They accuse these advisers, primarily the president’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, of orchestrating a public whispering campaign designed to force Craig to resign. Implicitly, the thinking goes, no one in the White House had the — gumption — to fire Craig to his face. It is true that Craig and Emanuel did not always see eye to eye. It was Craig’s importuning that may have convinced the president to release Bush-era Justice Department memoranda that sanctioned torture. “This is what you were elected to do,” Craig told the president in one Oval Office meeting. Emanuel worried about the political repercussions of a first-term young Democratic president who would appear to be thumbing the eyes of the national security establishment. Craig won the round.” ConservativeAmerican.org notes, he may have won the round but he lost his job because of it.


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847. Obama Hires Mao-lover’s Hubby as New White House Counsel to erase “the Tracks Between Obama and Acorn” 11/17/9 – See related scandal dated 10/23/9 on Bob Bauer, the husband of Communist adorer Anita Dunn. . Tony Romm at the Hill reports, “The lawyer’s hiring,…was also an attempt by the White House to deflect any fallout that may arise from an ACORN investigation currently underway in Louisiana, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) added in a statement. “Bob Bauer has a public record of defending Barack Obama’s relationship with ACORN, the congressman told supporters. “Bauer’s hiring appears to be a tactical maneuver to strategically defend the White House exactly one week after Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell raided ACORN’s national headquarters in New Orleans and seized paper records and computer hard drives that may lead to the White House.”
848. Obama’s Twitter Lie! 11/17/9 FTO reports today, “Obama scammed almost 3-million people into following “him” on twitter, yes the president that uses twitter to communicate with the people. Well that was a lie, in a recent interview in China, Obama was asked his opinion on China restricting Twitter. He replied “I have never used twitter“…He even went further with his hypocrisy and said “but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting Internet access.” Another lie as he is behind the ACTA or copyright treaty that was hidden supposedly for National security.”
849. White House Refuses to Provide Witnesses to Congress for Hearings into the Counterterrorism Failure at Fort Hood! 11/17/9 Can you imagine the outcry if George W. Bush had simply refused to send witnesses to a congress looking into a counterterrorism failure?! Ed Morrisey at Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air website reports today, “Congress wants to determine what failures allowed Army Major Nidal Hasan to kill 14 people and wound dozens of others in a premeditated shooting spree at Fort Hood. The Obama administration has refused to cooperate into a probe to find those failures. Ben Pershing at the Washington Post wrote last night that the White House refuses to provide witnesses to Congress for hearings into the counterterrorism failure: The first public congressional hearing on the Fort Hood attack will not include testimony from any current federal law enforcement, military or intelligence officials because the Obama administration “declined to provide any” such witnesses, according to a Senate committee source.” So much for open and transparent!
850. Obama Defrauding America – Stimulus Money Going to Non-Existent Congressional Districts!! 11/18/9 – Amazingly, even ABCDEmocrat News reported on this story. Jonathan Karl, careful to say “nobody is suggesting wrong doing,” actually reported the White House “facts” are nonsense! It certainly is wrong doing! Where did that money actually go? Were laws broken? Conservative American radio talk show host Jay Weber asks “Why is this not the biggest scandal of our lifetimes?” Click the image to see the ABC story for yourself.
     
     It probably ‘killed’ the arrogant Charles Hubris Gibson to report on this. They updated the story the next night. One or more people in the White House need to lose their jobs over this huge scandal! One of them should be the President. UPDATE 11/18/9 “The Steady Drip” says Obama’s betrayal is growing exponentially! UPDATE 11/23/9: From Newsbusters: “Fox News analyst Jim Pinkerton credited the Media Research Center for highlighting the lack of media outrage over the Obama administration’s fake congressional district scandal. After referencing the revelation that the Recovery.gov website claimed thousands of jobs had been saved in districts that don’t exist, Pinkerton suggested, “They [Obama officials] were embarrassed, but as the Media Research Center pointed out, the morning shows gave the story exactly 21 seconds.”


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