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Did you see the Sean Hannity show last night? Six of his “The President’s Top Ten” list had previously been listed on our “Obama’s Most Unwanted List!” Allow us to bask a moment. Great minds think alike (He could have mentioned us…rats). Okay, done with that.
Hannity included these ten: John Holdren, Cass Sunstein, Samantha Power, Harold Koh, David Hamilton, Dawn Johnsen, Kevin Jennings, Mark Lloyd, Rosa Brooks and Carol Browner.
We never even heard of Kevin Jennings until the Hannity show! He has been added now as Appointment Scandal # 73 on the Official Obama Administration Scandals List! Hard to keep up with all these people! (UPDATE 75 Now!)
Both lists featured these six people: Carol Socialist Browner, Rosa Bailout the Press Brooks, Dawn Abortion is Slavery Johnsen, Harold Sharia Law Koh, Cass Animals can go to Court Sunstein and John Sterilize kids at Puberty Holdren.
You can see all 75 Obama appointment scandals by looking below. We ranked each person on the Obama Nut Job Scale!
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Below is a complete list of all of the Obama Appointment Scandals so far! You’ll find the Official Obama Administration Scandals List page number that the appointee is listed on. You can click on the page number to read more about each person.
We rank them for you on the EXCLUSIVE Obama Nut Job Scale!:
* = Appointee has problems, or is just a stupid pick
** = Appointee obviously not vetted properly
*** = Appointee is a big time radical nut job, or huge partisan hack! **** = Obama is the radical nut job for appointing this person! ***** = Raging Lunatic, should be next to resign!
Tom Tax Cheat Daschle **** - “I consider this a mistake on my part, one that I intend to fix and correct and make sure that we’re not screwing up again,” Obama said. He has “screwed up” 60 times since making that promise!!!
Samantha “Hillary’s a Monster” Power *
Nancy Killefer, 3rd appointment with tax problems **
John Brennan **
David Playboy Ogden **
Hilda Solis, Tax Problems, Obama tells press he has “learned” you can’t have “two sets of standards.” He just learned that??!! **
Shauna Dirt Digger Daly ****
Judd Gregg. Obama calls the news “something of a surprise.” His 5th appointment screw-up since promising not to screw up again! *
Kevin Jennings - Just Added due to Hannity TV special!! ****
Yosi Sergant *
Buffy Wicks *
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The Official list of Obama Administration Scandals!
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 highest page number.
Obama & Holder Break “Don’t Look Back” Promise with CIA Investigation 8/31/9 Right Wing Sparkle: “Once again Obama has lied to us when in April he said he wanted to look forward and not backwards and wouldn’t prosecute CIA interrogators involved in interrogations after 9-11. Attorney General Eric Holder also lied. (Obama:) “Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past,” the president added. “For those who carried out some of these operations within the four corners of legal opinions or guidance that had been provided from the White House, I do not think it’s appropriate for them to be prosecuted.” At the time, Holder added: “It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the Justice Department.”
Holder’s Latest Gitmo Flip Flop 9/1/9 - Fox & Friends points out that in 2002 Obama’s Attorney General, Eric Holder, said terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay were not entitled to be treated in accord with the Geneva Convention. Then, last year, Holder said he can’t believe he lives in a country (or as he says, a “nation of cowards”) where the terrorists are not treated in line with the Geneva rules. Glenn Beck’s take? This “game” (our word not his) of prosecuting the Bush CIA Team is all Politics.
Team Obama War on Terror Lingo Flip Flop 9/1/9 - Remember how Team Obama decided it was better to call the terrorists’ war on us an “overseas contigency operation?” The memo went out and the feds no longer call it a “War on Terror.” That was Bush’s thing. White House Spinmeister Robert Brothers Gibbs either screwed up or the White House has flip flopped on its lingo memo! From Fox News: “You can’t under-resource the most important part of our War on Terror, you can’t under-resource that for five or six or seven years — whether it’s under-resourced with troops, whether it’s under-resourced with civilian manpower, whether it’s under-resourced with economic development funding — and hope to snap your fingers and have that turn around in just a few months,” Gibbs said during the daily briefing to reporters. Asked Tuesday whether the use of the phrase was (used) intentionally, Gibbs answered, “We’re focused on getting the strategy right.” …counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, went beyond that early last month telling reporters that “describing our efforts as a ‘global war’ only plays into the warped narrative that al Qaeda propagates.” UPDATE 1/7/10: The ultra liberal Daily Kos website says we’re wrong about this and that Obama says War on Terror all the time.
Obama’s School Indoctrination Plan - The Fascist Obama Youth Society! 9/2/9 - Obama wants to speak to school kids. No problem. But his White House aides “help” the Education department write lessons where kids are required or encouraged to tell how Obama inspired them, to list ways they can help Obama, and read books about Obama. He’s trying to brainwash your kids into coming home as little Obama Socialists! UPDATE 9/3/9: The Washington Times reports White House staffers admit the plan did not come off very wello and they are “rethinking” and “rewriting” the lesson plans over at the Department of Indoctrination. UPDATE 9/5/9:Weekly Blitz says perhaps Obama could teach people something. Szandor Blestman writes, “One could point out his already broken promises. There are still troops in Iraq. Warfare carried out by American soldiers in other areas has been escalated. Torture of “enemy combatants” continues. No law of the Bush administration, however unconstitutional they may be, has been repealed. A vitriolic and divisive debate on health care reform has been launched to cover up these inadequacies in his policies and keep the support of his left flank from collapsing. In short, there was no change delivered, there will be no change delivered, except for maybe toward a more authoritarian, collectivist model of government, and the hope that we once had for this great nation, the hope of individual freedom and self determination for all mankind, is dwindling with each and every big government program that he tries to force down our throats. It should be explained to these children and maybe some adults that this type of dishonest behavior shouldn’t be tolerated. It isn’t tolerated in the private sector and it shouldn’t be tolerated in the public sector either. It can be explained to the kids that perhaps most people are more than fed up and frustrated by the antics of almost all of our federal government officials, regardless of party, and that perhaps this is why we’ve seen such outbreaks of anger expressed at the recent town hall meetings. UPDATE 9/8/9: Obama gives his pep talk today. Nothing wrong with the talk. It was the fascist lesson plans that went with it that upset us. Fox News reports dems can’t cry foul on this one: “when President George H.W. Bush delivered a similar speech in…1991 to students at a junior high school…Democratic critics went much further and investigated the event, Washington Examiner columnist Byron York reported Tuesday. Democrats, who controlled Congress at the time, ordered the General Accounting Office to probe the production of the speech and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for a hearing…Rep. William Ford, then chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee,…ordered the probe. “…I am very much interested in the justification, rationale for giving the White House scarce education funds to produce a media event.”
Obama’s Communist Green Jobs Czar calls Republicans A**holes! No class at all. 9/2/9 Commie Van Jones is seen on tape admitting that he, himself, is an A**hole. He also calls republicans the name. If you must, you can view it here
Obama’s Lie to the Joint Session of Congress! 9/3/9 - He hasn’t even given the talk yet, and already Team Obama is announcing the President will lie to the nation! As Fox News reports, “White House aides say the president will not be very specific about details of a health care reform policy, but he will deliver the message that Democrats are willing to go it alone if they can’t get Republican support. ” — ConservativeAmerican.org: What a bunch of bull! “Willing to go it alone?!” They have never needed, nor sought, any republican input or support. Remember Obama saying, “It’s not going to happen like that. I won.” That’s how he feels about Republican support. This has never been about republican support and it is a lie to suggest otherwise.Obama can’t get his own democrats to vote for this stupidity. Fact: Republicans are powerless to do anything about socialist, government-run health care. The democrats run everything. If they want it, all they have to do is stand up and be counted….then face the voters. It’s the last part that scares them.
Obama Friend & Communist Green Jobs Czar Believes 9/11 was an Inside Job! 9/3/9 - Fox News: “Jones joined the“9/11 truther” movement by signing a statement in 2004 calling for then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and others to launch an investigation into evidence that suggests “people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.” The statement asked a series of critical questions hinting at Bush administration involvement in the attacks and called for “deeper inquiry.” It was also signed by former Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans.” –ConservativeAmerican.org asks: How long until Van Jones resigns/gets fired? His is only one of 60+ (so far) Obama appointment scandals on this list!UPDATE 9/5/9:From Jake Tapper at ABC comes this update necessary to be fair (yes, even to someone like Van Jones)…”It’s worth pointing out that Ben Smith at Politico has spoken to two signatories of that petition, Rabbi Michael Lerner and historian Howard Zinn, who say they were misled about what they were signing. And the conservative website Little Green Footballs points out that Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of “Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It” has posted on her website, the American Center for Democracy: “PLEASE NOTE: Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld is not a signatory of the 911Truth.org. She has asked several times to have her named removed from the list, but the organization failed to comply.” –UPDATE 9/5/9: Hold your horses! Right Wing News says Van Jones was part of a March in San Francisco to demand the investigation into 9/11 being an inside job!
Obama’s Political Organization Calls those against Obamacare “Right Wing Domestic Terrorists!!” 9/3/9 - The Fox & Friends morning show reported today that Obama’s political group, “Organizing for America” had information about the 9/11 memorial indicating that it was a day to remember the 3,000 Americans killed by terrorists and to renew the fight against “Right Wing Domestic Terrorists” fighting the Obama Agenda!!! These guys are far, far beyond “beyond belief!” They want the CIA in jail, those who oppose are called terrorists, but they give a free plane ride back home to an Afghan Terrorist who attacked U.S. Soldiers and simply set him free!! (See scandal dated 8/25/9) Scandal doesn’t seem like a big enough word.
VP Biden Declares Obama’s Deficit Stimulus Plan a Success Despite Not Delivering Needed Boost in Jobs 9/3/9 - The Associated Democrat Press: “Biden proclaimed success beyond expectations Thursday for the $787 billion economic stimulus, but his glowing assessment overlooks many of the program’s problems, including delays in releasing money, questionable spending priorities and project picks that are under investigation…The administration has struggled to make the case that the huge spending program has delivered real economic recovery at a time when the nation’s unemployment rate threatens to top 10 percent…(Biden) proudly pointed to more than 2,200 highway projects Thursday funded by the program, but didn’t mention the growing frustration among contractors that infrastructure money is only trickling out and thus far hasn’t delivered the needed boost in jobs
Obama Stimulus Screws Up Grants to Airports! 9/3/9 - From the AP: “Biden noted 192 airports targeted for improvements with stimulus money, but made no reference to the investigation launched after a federal watchdog raised concerns about how the projects were selected…the Obama administration used stimulus money to pay for 50 airport projects that didn’t meet the grant criteria and approved projects at four airports with a history of mismanaging federal grants!”
Obama-Biden Waste Millions of Dollars on Military Construction Projects! 9/3/9 - From the AP: “Biden praised the more than 2,400 military construction projects paid for with stimulus money, but ignored the millions of dollars in savings the Defense Department lost because it hasn’t competitively bid many of the jobs. The Defense Department frequently awards no-bid work to small contractors for repairs at military bases under the stimulus, costing taxpayers millions of dollars more than when businesses compete for the work, an Associated Press analysis of 570 such contracts found.” UPDATE 1/18/10: Even the Democrats notice Obama’s no-bid lie.
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Obama-Biden Waste Stimulus Money to Repair Bridges that Don’t Need Repairing!!! 9/3/9 - From the AP: “Biden noted that transportation money was replacing unsafe bridges. “It is worthwhile to take some of those 5,000 bridges out there that are ready to collapse, follow what happened in the upper Midwest, and fix them,” he said. But most states are spending stimulus money on bridges that are already in good shape, another AP analysis found. Of the 2,476 bridges scheduled to receive stimulus money so far, nearly half have passed inspections with high marks, according to federal data. Those 1,123 sound bridges received such high inspection ratings that they normally would not qualify for federal bridge money, yet they will share in more than $1.2 billion in stimulus money, the AP analysis published in July found.
Obama & His Broken Promises to Suddenly “Get Tough” 9/4/9 - Rick Klein at ABCDEmocrat News’ “The Note”: “Team Obama has always been a bit better about telegraphing the strategic shifts than in following through — or in following a new course once it’s publicly selected. How many interviews did Axelrod or Obama himself give in 2008 to send the message that the campaign was about to get tougher? And what happened to attacking insurance companies, or making the moral case for health reform, or focusing on consumer protections?” — So will he “get tough” this time when he addresses congress?
Obama’s Abu Ghraib is in Kabul, Afghanistan 9/4/9 - Remember all the heat President Bush took for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal wehre U.S. soliders were caught behaving badly? The story was full of physical, psychological and sexual abuse. Now, President Obama has his own scandal involving the behavior of U.S. soldiers caught behaving badly! This time in Kabul. Fox News: “Defense Secretary Robert Gates responded…to a controversy at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan by saying the alleged lewd hazing and sexual horseplay among guards at the embassy is “offensive” and “inexcusable.”…a watchdog’s report…was accompanied by graphic photos of nude, homoerotic parties staged just miles from the U.S. diplomatic mission. According to the report, the “deviant hazing and humiliation” had led to a breakdown in the chain of command and compromised security…One photo released by the group showed mostly naked men dancing around a campfire; another showed one man eating food out of another’s buttocks; and another photo showed a naked man peeing in front of others. Alcohol is prevalent in most of the pictures. According to the report, and the personal accounts it included, the behavior was not consensual.POGO said that guards claim the supervisors are hazing and pressuring other guards to participate, creating a “climate of fear and coercion.” Those who do not participate are ridiculed, demoted or even fired.” –ConservativeAmerican.org asks Will Obama be blasted daily in the press the same way Bush was? Will he even have to issue a comment? Don’t count on it.
Obama’s Broken Promise on Hardship withdrawals from IRA’s 9/5/9 - The St. Petersburg Times’ “Obameter” says this promise has been broken: “We’ve tracked this promise on penalty-free 401(k) withdrawals since President Barack Obama took office. It seems like it’s time (4/10/09) to stick a fork in it and declare it done. The measure, which Obama proposed during the fall of 2008 as the economy was swooning, would have allowed workers to take money from their 401(k) retirement accounts before retirement, but without the usual penalty of 10 percent on top of regular taxes. The idea was to help cash-strapped workers get through hard times without having to absorb penalties for their bad fortune.” — ConservativeAmerican.org notes: The Obameter has tons of catching up to do, listing only a handful of broken promises.
Obama’s So-Called “Tough” Ethical Standards get Waived Over and Over and Over! — Appointment Scandal # 65 9/7/9 - Remember when President Obama promised “the strongest ethics standards in U.S. government history?” Jake Tapper at ABC News reports the Obama Administration simply issues waivers to get around the rules! He notes 10 waivers announced this labor day weekend when no one is watching! From Tapper: “Waivers…allow the officials to participate with persons with whom, and entities with which, “the appointees formerly had a professional relationship,” Eisen wrote, “because there was a compelling public interest in allowing it.” — ConservativeAmerican.org notes: Gosh, there never could have been a “compelling public interest” with other presidents before, Riiiiiiiiiiiight? Gee, Obama is so much better than all of them. *Gag*. Tapper Again: Waiver # 1: NASA administrator Charles Bolden; Bolden served as a consultant to the science, engineering, and technology corporation SAIC, which has billions in government contracts, and on the board of directors of aerospace and defense giant GenCorp. The President’s ethics rules would otherwise prohibit Bolden from participaring in any matter in which SAIC or GenCorp was a party in any way. That was waived because Bolden’s “knowledge of and expertise in current NASA programs are essential to making informed and timely decision-making.” — ConservativeAmerican.org comments: This wouldn’t even be a Scandal if Obama had not promised to be soooooooo different and changey and have all of these promised tough ethical standards. The guy is a fraud and a fake.
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Obama Appointment Scandal # 66, Lobbyist Scandal #8 - Naomi Walker 9/7/9 - Jake Tapper at ABC News reports another Ethics Rules Waiver went to: “Associate Deputy Secretary of Labor Naomi Walker; Walker was Director of State Government Affairs for the AFL-CIO but has been permitted to communicate with that organization because, the Obama administration decided, prohibiting her from doing so would be detrimental to the Department of Labor and the AFL-CIO’s 11 million members. She is still prohibited for the next two years to participate in any matter having to do with regulations or contracts involving the AFL-CIO.” — ConservativeAmerican.org’s take: OMG! Another gift to his lefty socialist-democrat union pals!! There have been Seven other lobbyists appointed too! These include Leon Panetta (Scandal dated 1/5/9), Bill Lynn (Scandal 1/22/9), William Corr (Scandal 1/22/9), Mark Patterson (Scandal 1/26/9), Jocelyn Frye (3/10/9), Cecilia Munoz (3/10/9), and Richard Verna (3/20/9).
Obama Appointment Scandal # 67 - Ash Carter 9/7/9 - Tapper’s other reported Ethics Rules Waivers went to: “Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Ash Carter; Carter was a consultant for defense giant Textron, Inc. focusing on strategy and mergers and acquisitions, trends in military technology and strategy, and how and where military platforms and weapon systems could be deployed effectively. Carter also provided advice on the Sensor Fuzed Weapon, a cluster bomb used by the U.S. Air Force…in the view of the Obama administration, “national security challenges require your expertise and judgment in making sound acquisition decisions on major defense programs, several of which involve Textron or one of its subsidiaries.” — Remember the no Lobbyists Promise??!!
Obama Appointment Scandal # 68 - Lanny Breuer, Bizarre Conflict of Interest Okay with Team Obama! 9/7/9 - “Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer previously worked for the law firm Covington & Burling…(Both) are permitted to cooperate and participate in the investigation into possible prosecutorial misconduct in the case of U.S. v Theodore Stevens even though government lawyers whose conduct is in question are represented by both law firms.” David “Playboy” Ogden also is involved in this Scandal. See Appointment Scandal dated 2/4/9.
Obama Appointment Scandal # 69 - Philip Reitinger 9/7/9 - “Deputy Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs Directorate and Director of the National Cybersecurity Center in the Department of Homeland Security Philip Reitinger; Reitinger worked for Microsoft Corportation as Chief Trustworthy Infrastructure Strategy from 2003 until March 2009. Because of his “unique expertise, industry perspective and responsibilities for cyber programs,” he is permitted to deal with Microsoft;
Obama Appointment Scandal # 70 - Margot Rogers 9/7/9 “Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Education Margot Rogers…worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which works on education issues. (She is) allowed to have communications with that charitable foundation;”
Obama Appointment Scandal # 71 - James Shelton 9/7/9 “Department of Education Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement James Shelton…worked for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which works on education issues. (He is) allowed to have communications with that charitable foundation;”
Obama Appointment Scandal # 72 - Aaron Williams 9/7/9 “Peace Corps director Aaron Williams; Williams served on the board of directors of the National Peace Corps Association, and is now prohibited from participating in any matter involving specific parties that is directly and substantially related to NPCA.”
Obama Appointment Scandal # 73 - Valerie Jarrett 9/7/9 Tapper also reports on others who received rules waivers. They include: “Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett, the former Vice Chair of the non-profit entity “Chicago 2016,” who is leading the White House’s efforts to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago;”– See related Valerie Jarrett Scandal dated 12/18/2008. UPDATE 10/1/9: Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says Jarrett is “not only a slumlord from Chicago but she also funded other slumlords. She served — and we sent our investigators out to Chicago to get the documents — she served on the boards of several organizations that provided funding and support for Tony Rezko and Allison Davis. Allison Davis was the former boss of Obama.”
Obama Appointment Scandal # 74 - Jonathan Kravis 9/7/9 Obama also needed to get around his own rules by issuing an Ethics Waiver went to “Associate White House Counsel Jonathan Kravis, former employee of Williams & Connolly LLP, which represented the office of former President George W. Bush.” And…
Obama Appointment Scandal # 75 - Chris Weideman 9/7/9…”Associate White House Counsel Chris Weideman, former employee of Williams & Connolly LLP, which represented the office of former President George W. Bush.”
Obama Uses Tax Dollars to Bailout Captain Morgan Rum! 9/7/9 AND, the bailout hurts Puerto Rico, a U.S. Territory! The LA Times: “The U.S. taxpayer is basically being asked to line the pockets of the world’s largest liquor producer,” says Steve Ellis, the vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog organization…With little fanfare, a deal is moving forward to direct billions in U.S. tax dollars to an unlikely beneficiary — the giant British liquor producer that makes Captain Morgan rum. Under the agreement, London-based Diageo PLC will receive tax credits and other benefits worth $2.7 billion over 30 years, including the entire $165-million cost of building a state-of-the-art distillery on the island of St. Croix in the Virgin Islands, a U.S. territory. Virgin Islands officials say the arrangement complies with the letter and spirit of tax law and will help the islands’ sagging economy. Captain Morgan is now produced in another U.S. territory, Puerto Rico, and critics say the Virgin Islands’ subsidy for the new distillery there, along with the other benefits, are so generous that they practically guarantees a profit on every gallon of rum produced there by Diageo, the biggest distilled spirits maker in the world.” — Thanks to Scott at Amorian.org for this one!
As Predicted, Obama Knew About Release of Lockerbie Bomber Ahead of Time, then Pretended to be “Outraged!” 9/7/9 - As reported August 28th, Conservative American Ken Blackwell was among the first to question the supposed Obama Administration “Outrage” over the release of this terrorist. Allahpundit at Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air asks, “Is this a scandal?” Heck yes it is! From his post: “British officials claim Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were kept informed at all stages of discussions concerning Megrahi’s return. The officials say the Americans spoke out because they were taken aback by the row over Megrahi’s release, not because they did not know it was about to happen. ‘The US was kept fully in touch about everything that was going on with regard to Britain’s discussions with Libya in recent years and about Megrahi,’ said the Whitehall aide. ‘We would never do anything about Lockerbie without discussing it with the US. It is disingenuous of them to act as though Megrahi’s return was out of the blue.” — ConservativeAmerican.org: In “Obama’s Watergate,” we pointed out Obama may have to answer the Watergate questions: what did he know and when did he know it? Will anyone ask him? Will he apologize to the nation during his talk to Congress this week? He should.
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Obama Broken Small Business Promise # 1 -Restore the SBA Budget- 9/8/9 From the Huffington Post: “(A) press release was put out by the American Small Business League:… The American Small Business League (ASBL) is sounding the alarm and expressing its concerns over President Obama’s future plans for the SBA…During the 2008 presidential election cycle, President Obama promised to restore the SBA’s budget…To date, President Obama has failed”
Obama Broken Small Business Promise # 2 -Restore the SBA Administrator to the Cabinet- 9/8/9 From the Huffington Post: “(A) press release was put out by the American Small Business League: …During the 2008 presidential election cycle, President Obama promised to…restore the SBA Administrator to a cabinet level position…To date, President Obama has failed”
Obama Broken Small Business Promise # 3 -Help Women-Owned Firms- 9/8/9 From the Huffington Post: “(A) press release was put out by the American Small Business League: …During the 2008 presidential election cycle, President Obama promised to…implement the 5 percent set-aside goal for women owned firms…To date, President Obama has failed”
Obama Broken Small Business Promise # 4 -Stop Giving Small Business Money to Big Business- 9/8/9 From the Huffington Post: “(A) press release was put out by the American Small Business League: …During the 2008 presidential election cycle, President Obama promised to…stop the diversion of federal small business contracts to corporate giants. To date, President Obama has failed to honor these campaign promises.”
Below, you’ll start reading the 21 NEW Lies, 5 flip flops and 1 scandalous admission Obama told to Congress…(Continued on the next page)! To see the 13 OLD lies that Obama just Repeated to congress, click here. That’s a total of 40 Lies Obama Told Congress! Our thanks to National Review Online for catching 6 new lies we missed!
Obama Lies to Congress # 1 - Promises to give Americans the “Same Opportunity” as Congress! 9/9/9 - President Obama has no problem speaking lies. You can see a list of his repeated lies from his address to congress by clicking here. He also told some new ones. He told congress that it’s about time Washington gives Americans “the SAME OPPORTUNITY we give ourselves!” This line also got applause. Odd. Democrats have defeated any measure that would require congress to take part in the public option. So if we get the SAME OPPORTUNITY, can we skip out on the public option too? What if our employer goes to this plan? Then we have no choice. That’s not exactly the SAME OPPORTUNITY, is it?
Obama Lies to Congress # 2 - Health Care is “to the Breaking Point.” 9/9/9 - Obama told congress that the U.S. health care system is “to the breaking point.” This is an absolute falsehood with more than 70% of Americans happy with their health care. If no plan passes at all, nothing will break. The system simply will continue.
Obama Lies to Congress # 3 - Forced Preventative Care Saves Money 9/9/9 - From the AP:”
OBAMA: Requiring insurance companies to cover preventive care like mammograms and colonoscopies “makes sense, it saves money, and it saves lives.”THE FACTS: Studies have shown that much preventive care — particularly tests like the ones Obama mentions — actually costs money instead of saving it. That’s because detecting acute diseases like breast cancer in their early stages involves testing many people who would never end up developing the disease. The costs of a large number of tests, even if they’re relatively cheap, will outweigh the costs of caring for the minority of people who would have ended up getting sick without the testing.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 4 - “My Plan” 9/9/9 The President repeated over and over again statements like “my plan” and “the plan I present.” He doesn’t have a plan! He has not written a plan for congress to consider. He has not proposed a bill for congress to consider. His plan only exists in his mind. None of the bills being considered has all of his components. The so-called “Plan” he claimed to present to Congress and the American people, simply does not exist. UPDATE 9/17/9: Rush Limbaugh calls this “Obama’s Biggest Lie!”
Obama Lies to Congress # 5 -Obamacare “Would not Impact…You!” 9/9/9 President Obama tells the American people the Obamacare Nightmare, “would not impact those of you who already have insurance.” This, just as the promise that you can keep your coverage and your doctor, is simply a promise he cannot make. He does not have the power to keep that promise. Companies will opt out of their skyrocketing insurance costs and will instead put their employees on the government-run socialist plan. You would then be on it and it certainly would impact you!UPDATE 9/14/9: A new survey shows Conservative Americans are right about the Obamacare Nightmare! Despite the president’s promises that nothing will change for you, everything could change…and pronto! Biz Times says “health benefits survey says payroll penalty would be bargain for most local companies! Nearly three out of four Milwaukee-area companies could lower their health care costs by 20 percent or more if they scrapped their current plan and paid the 8 percent payroll penalty proposed by Congress, according to the new 2010 Greater Milwaukee Health Care Benefit Survey. Seventy-three percent of employers who responded to the HCTrends.com survey reported that health care benefits represented at least 10 percent of their total payroll costs. Electing to pay the 8 percent penalty instead would reduce their health care costs by 20 percent. Twenty-eight percent of employers said their health care benefits represented 16 percent or more of total payroll costs. These employers could reduce their health care expenses by at least 50 percent…Free copies of the results…at www.HCTrends.com.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 6 -”Strong Majority” supports Obamacare! 9/9/9 - Obama claimed in his address that the “strong majority of Americans” support health care reform. Every national poll contradicts that statement. Mr. President, the nation wants you to work on the economy. Not destroy our healthcare.
Obama Lies to Congress # 7 -Public Option is not a Government Takeover! 9/9/9 - Obama tells congress his Obamacare Public Option is not a government takeover of healthcare. Shikha Dalmia of Forbes has done a great jobexplaining these big healthcare lies. “Obama has repeatedly claimed that forcing private plans to compete with a public plan will simply “keep them honest” and give patients more options–not lead to a full-blown, Canadian-style, single-payer monopoly. As I argued in my previous column, this is wishful thinking given that government programs such as Medicare have a history of controlling costs by underpaying providers, who make up the losses by charging private plans more. Any public plan modeled after Medicare will greatly increase this forced subsidy, eventually driving private plans out of business, even if that weren’t Obama’s intention. But, as it turns out, it very much is his intention. Before he decided to run for office–and even during the initial days of his campaign–Obama repeatedly said that he was in favor of a single-payer system. What’s more, University of California, Berkeley Professor Jacob Hacker, who is a key influence on the Obama administration, is on tape explicitly boasting that a public plan is a means for creating a single-payer system. “It’s not a Trojan horse,” he quips, “it’s just right there.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 8 -Obama Lied About Insurance Case! 9/9/9 Sweetness & Light: “One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn’t reported gallstones that he didn’t even know about. They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it.” This is the sad story of Mr. Otto Raddatz, a case that Mr. Obama has cited several times before, including in his August 16th editorial in the New York Times. For the record, however, the case is not exactly the way Mr. Obama has characterized it, at least according to the sworn testimony of Mr. Raddatz’s sister…Mr. Raddatz’s lawyer sister contacted the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. They investigated and found that the doctor who did the CT scans could not remember whether he had ever told Mr. Raddatz about his findings. Consequently, the insurance company overturned their original decision to rescind her brother’s coverage, and he was reinstated in the words of his sister, “without [any] lapse.” — ConservativeAmerican.org notes: Remember when Obama said others were not telling the truth about health care? He even accused Sarah Palin of lying. He should look in the mirror once in a while.
Obama Lies to Congress # 9 -Obama Lied About the Cost of the Obamacare Nightmare! 9/9/9 The Media Research Center caught another lie in Obama’s talk. Brent Bozell notes, “”Barack Obama will not stop committing serial dishonesty with the American people until the media expose his false figures and bogus exaggerations for what they are: fraudulent scare tactics. “Last night Obama told a litany of lies. He said the total cost of his health reform would be $900 billion over ten years, but even the government-run Congressional Budget Office found it would cost $1.6 trillion.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 10 -Obama says he’s not trying to build “An Entirely New System from Scratch!” 9/9/9 Real Clear Politics adds this lie to the list: “I believe it makes more sense to build on what works and fix what doesn’t, rather than try to build an entirely new system from scratch. And that is precisely what those of you in Congress have tried to do over the past several months. Does it take a thousand pages of legislation to not “disrupt one-sixth of our economy”? The reality is that the proposals he advocates would create a vast new bureaucracy from scratch, with sweeping powers to regulate private health-insurance plans-eventually including employer-provided plans-and forcing individual health-insurance plans to be offered on a government-controlled “exchange.” It is a plan for the comprehensive restructuring of the health-insurance industry-but Obama wants you to think that he’s not really doing anything. Which makes you realize that he doesn’t want to you notice or think too hard about what he is doing.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 11 -Obama Claims ObamaCare Nightmare is Bipartisan! 9/9/9 Real Clear Politics catches this distortion of the truth: “This is another attempt to deflect scrutiny by claiming that everything he is proposing is safe, bland, anodyne. Thus, his plan “incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight-Democrats and Republicans.” Which explains why Obama has so few Republican votes that his allies in Congress are now talking about ramming the bill through, in a dubious parliamentary maneuver, on Democratic votes alone.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 12 - Claims He’s Always been for Health Choices!! 9/9/9 Real Clear Politics: “Here’s a tip: when Barack Obama says, “So let me set the record straight,” he is about to lie to you about his past. Thus, in rebutting the claim that he wants a “government takeover” of medicine, he assures us that “My guiding principle is, and always has been, that consumers do better when there is choice and competition.” So how is it that he was recorded only six years ago describing himself as an advocate of a Canadian style “single payer” system-the very opposite of “choice and competition”?” — And, if he really wants choices...let people buy insurance accross state lines!
Obama Lies to Congress # 13- About Buying Insurance on Your own 9/9/9 National Review Online did its own fact-checking on the Obama address to congress and they added a few to our list on 9/28/9. OBAMA: “Buying insurance on your own costs you three times as much as the coverage you get from your employer.” The Congressional Budget Office writes, “Premiums for policies purchased in the individual insurance market are, on average, much lower — about one-third lower for single coverage and one-half lower for family policies.” It is true that individual insurance policies are generally 30 percent less comprehensive than employer-provided insurance, and comparable individual policies are about twice as expensive. But much of the extra cost is a function of the tax penalty on purchasing such insurance and the stunted market that penalty has yielded.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 14- About Americans Losing Insurance Coverage 9/9/9 National Review Online add another to the “Joe Wilson ‘You Lie!’ List!” - OBAMA: “And every day, 14,000 Americans lose their coverage.” The paper that generated this estimate assumed that two months of severe job losses would continue forever. Applying that paper’s methodology to a broader period of rising unemployment (January 2008 through August 2009) produces a figure below 9,000.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 15 - About Why Employees Have to Pay More of their Insurance Costs 9/9/9 National Review Online: OBAMA: “Rising costs are “why so many employers . . . are forcing their employees to pay more for insurance.” Perhaps no other issue generates as much of a consensus among health-care economists as this one: The “employer’s share” of employees’ health-care costs comes out of those employees’ wages, not out of profits. In this comment and in five others in his speech, Obama contradicts that basic truth. Employers aren’t forcing their employees to pick up a larger share of the bill because they can’t. Workers are already paying the entire bill.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 16 - Saying U.S. Business can’t compete globally because of Rising Health Insurance Costs 9/9/9 National Review Online reports even Obama appointees Peter Orszag and Christina Romer think this statement is bogus!!! OBAMA: “Rising costs are “why American business that compete internationally . . . are at a huge disadvantage.” False. The rising cost of health benefits does not increase employers’ labor costs because, again, wages adjust downward to compensate. The Congressional Budget Office, under the leadership of Obama’s OMB director, Peter Orszag, confirmed that health-care costs do not hinder competitiveness. Obama economic aide Christina Romer has called this competitiveness argument “schlocky.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 17- The Hidden Growing Tax Lie 9/9/9 National Review Online OBAMA: “Those of us with health insurance are also paying a hidden and growing tax for those without it — about $1,000 per year that pays for somebody else’s emergency room and charitable care.” That number comes from a left-wing advocacy group. A Kaiser Family Foundation study debunked the group’s analysis, reaching an estimate closer to $200 per year for a family. The CBO report mentioned above reached the same conclusion.”
Obama Lies to Congress # 18 - About Special Interests Fighting the ObamaCare Nightmare 9/9/9 National Review Online: OBAMA: “I won’t stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are.” Who are these special interests? In case Obama hadn’t noticed, everyone from the drug-makers to the unions to the insurance companies he demonizes are spending millions to build momentum for his version of reform — in no small part because Obama has promised to buy them off with middle-class tax dollars. When President Obama makes a factual claim about health-care policy, he does not deserve the benefit of the doubt about its accuracy. We do not know whether he has been badly misinformed or is deliberately trying to mislead. Either way, he cannot be trusted to reform American health care” The National Review Online article was written by Michael F. Cannon, director of health-policy studies at the Cato Institute, and Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor at National Review.
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Van Jones is only one of Seventy-Two Barack Obama Appointment Scandals. Van Jones is just the tip of the iceberg. We thought you’d like to know who the other 72 are…
…And who’s on Obama’s Most Unwanted List! That’s the list of Obama appointees that are the most “unwanted” by the public!
Obama's Most Unwanted List!
Every one of the 73 is featured on our Official Obama Administration Scandals List. Some of these public figures (highlighted in bold below) are nuts and should never work for us!
Others (shown bold and red below) need to be next on the Van Jones departure list. These nine people make up Obama’s Most Unwanted List! Republicans, Honest Democrats and Conservatives should work together to bring attention to these 9 people until they are shown the Van Jones door!
Obama Appointment Scandals List
Below is a complete list of all of the Obama Appointment Scandals so far! You’ll find the Official Obama Administration Scandals List page number that the appointee is listed on. You can click on the page number to read more about each person.
We also rank them for you on the EXCLUSIVE Obama Nut Job Scale!:
* = Appointee has problems, or is just a stupid pick
** = Appointee obviously not vetted properly
*** = Appointee is a big time radical nut job, or huge partisan hack! **** = Obama is the radical nut job for appointing this person! ***** = Raging Lunatic, should be next to resign!
Tom Tax Cheat Daschle **** - “I consider this a mistake on my part, one that I intend to fix and correct and make sure that we’re not screwing up again,” Obama said. He has “screwed up” 60 times since making that promise!!!
Samantha “Hillary’s a Monster” Power *
Nancy Killefer, 3rd appointment with tax problems **
John Brennan **
David Playboy Ogden **
Hilda Solis, Tax Problems, Obama tells press he has “learned” you can’t have “two sets of standards.” He just learned that??!! **
Shauna Dirt Digger Daly ****
Judd Gregg. Obama calls the news “something of a surprise.” His 5th appointment screw-up since promising not to screw up again! *
Contains scandals, mistakes, blunders, broken promises, flip flops, gaffes, lies, etc. That’s too long of a name, so we call it the Scandals List. Okay? List in chronological order - - recent items on highest page number.
“Obama, who inherited a flood of red ink from his predecessor George W. Bush, has promised to halve the 1.3-trillion-dollar deficit he took on by 2013. Instead, Obama will multiply the Bush deficit by more than 15 times! Yet another broken Obama promise. Anyone keeping count?
- Pat Toomey”
We’ll keep count for you, Pat!
Obama Terrorist Scandal #1 -Bill Ayers - 3 times before the cock crows, Obama denies having a “relationship” with Bill Ayers. Obama started his political career in Ayers’ home & served on a foundation’s education board with Ayers. Ayers is a home-grown terrorist & founder of the Weather Underground which bombed the pentagon & a judge’s home. His terrorist wife also used to work with Michelle Obama. However, Obama maintains Terrorist Ayers is “just a guy in my neighborhood.” UPDATE 6/19/9: And This from World Net Daily.
Obama Terrorist Scandal #2- Rashid Khalidi - Another terrorist friend, Khalidi was an advisor to the PLO. Obama dined with him, served on a board with him, and Khalidi held fundraisers for Obama. Jesse Jackson Sr. promised one audience that the Jewish influence on American foreign policy would soon come to an end with an Obama victory.
Franklin Raines Obama Scandal - This former chairman & CEO of Fannie Mae (the ones who got us into the housing mess) was an advisor to Obama on mortgage and housing issues during the campaign. McCain ads pointed out the foolishness of Obama picking Raines.
Obama Changes His Mind about Jerusalem 6/5/8 - Yesterday Obama tells the AIPAC policy conference that Jerusalem will remain the capital and must not be divided. Then today, Obama tells CNN’s Candy Crowley, “Well, obviously, it’s going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues.”
Obama Flip Flop on Bush Energy Policy6/18/8 - NelsonGuirado.com’s Politics & Culture: “Barack Obama Attacks John McCain On Energy Policy, Saying He Will Be A “Third Bush Term.” OBAMA: “Make no mistake, this is an area where John McCain is offering a third Bush term.”…”Obama, Of Course, Voted For The 2005 Energy Bill, Which Passed The Senate Overwhelmingly 74-26.” (Jake Tapper, “Who’s Offering A 3rd Bush Term On Energy?” ABC News’…)
Obama Flip Flop on Corporate Tax Cuts 6/18/8 - NelsonGuirado.com’s Politics & Culture: “The Wall Street Journal Reported That Barack Obama Would Consider Lowering Corporate Taxes…He didn’t say how deeply he would cut the rate, but said it could be trimmed in return for reducing corporate tax breaks, simplifying the tax system…Just Last Month, Barack Obama:…”And his proposals, which are essentially $300 billion worth of corporate tax cuts … I think is the exact wrong prescription for America.”
Obama Flip Flop on NAFTA 6/18/8 - NelsonGuirado.com’s Politics & Culture: “During The Primaries, Barack Obama Pledged To Unilaterally Renegotiate NAFTA. NBC’S TIM RUSSERT: “A simple question. Will you as president say to Canada and Mexico, this [NAFTA] has not worked for us, we are out?” OBAMA: “I will make sure that we renegotiate in the same way that Senator Clinton talked about, and I think actually Senator Clinton’s answer on this one is right. I think we should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage to ensure that we actually get labor and environmental standards that are enforced.”…In The General Election, Barack Obama Now Says His Words Were “Overheated And Amplified.” — UPDATE: Obama once claimed no one from his campaign team contacted Canada about his “real” stance on the agreement (opposite of his public words), despite some in the Canadian government claiming that the contact did happen!
Obama Flip Flop on Accepting Public Financing6/19/8 - NelsonGuirado.com’s Politics & Culture: “Barack Obama Has Declined Public Financing In The General Election, Calling It A Broken System…In Response To A Midwest Democracy Network Questionnaire, Barack Obama Said He Would Accept Public Funding In The General Election…”Yes. I have been a long-time advocate for public financing of campaigns combined with free television and radio time as a way to reduce the influence of moneyed special interests.”
Obama Flips on Nailing Phone Companies for Helping Bush “Spy” on Americans! 6/20/8 - NelsonGuirado.com’s Politics & Culture: “(10/24/07) Obama Spokesman Bill Burton: “To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.”…Barack Obama Now Supports A Bill Reauthorizing Electronic Surveillance That Grants Immunity To Telecommunications Companies. Obama: “Under this compromise legislation, an important tool in the fight against terrorism will continue. It does, however, grant retroactive immunity, and I will work in the Senate to remove this provision so that we can seek full accountability for past offenses. So I support the compromise, but do so with a firm pledge that as President, I will carefully monitor the program, review the report by the Inspectors General, and work with the Congress to take any additional steps I deem necessary to protect the lives and the liberty of the American people.”
Obama’s “Lies About My Father” 6/22/2008 From Obama What’s The Facts: “In a 2002 anti-war speech, Obama told the audience, “My grandfather signed up for a war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, fought in Patton’s army. He saw the dead and dying across the fields of Europe; he heard the stories of fellow troops who first entered Auschwitz and Treblinka. He fought in the name of a larger freedom, part of that arsenal of democracy that triumphed over evil, and he did not fight in vain.” But in his autobiography, “Dreams of My Father,” Obama states his grandfather never engaged in combat. “Gramps returned from the war never having seen real combat, and the family moved to California, where he enrolled at Berkeley under the GI bill,” he writes. “But the classroom couldn’t contain his ambitions, his restlessness, and so the family moved again.” Obama’s 2002 claim his grandfather enlisted in the Army the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor is contradicted by Army records showing Dunham signed up June 18, 1942 – six months after Pearl Harbor.”
Obama Flip Flop on the Death Penalty 6/25/8 - NelsonGuirado.com’s Politics & Culture: “Running For The Illinois State Senate In 1996, Barack Obama Opposed The Death Penalty. Question: “Do you support capital punishment?” Obama’s Answer: “No.”…”Senator, what’s your reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision today striking down the death penalty for a child rapist?” Obama: “I disagree with the decision. I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances, for the most egregious of crimes.” — See Nelson Guirado’s entire list of 49 flip flops by clicking here.
Team Obama Disagrees with Itself on Mandating Individual Insurance Coverage! 6/26/8 - NelsonGuirado.com’s Politics & Culture: “Asked if Obama would be seen as reversing himself if he were to endorse an individual mandate after clashing with Clinton on the issue, (Obama spokeswoman Kavita) Patel dismissed the concern. ‘He has not said he is opposed to it,’ Patel told ABC News. ‘He has voiced his disagreement with having that be a part of his health-care plan last year. But he is not opposed to the idea itself.’…Obama: “We’ve got a philosophical difference which we’ve debated repeatedly, and that is that Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it, and my belief is the reason that people don’t have it is not because they don’t want it, but because they can’t afford it.” (Barack Obama, CNN/Univision Democrat Presidential Debate, Austin, TX, 2/21/08)”– ConservativeAmerican.org: Only a glimpse of the many lies, broken promises and flip flops still to come. He has taken John Kerry to a new level and is both for, and against everything!
Obama Flip Flop on Welfare Reform 7/1/8 - NelsonGuirado.com’s Politics & Culture: “”Barack Obama aligned himself with welfare reform on Monday, launching a television ad which touts the way the overhaul ’slashed the rolls by 80 percent.’ Obama leaves out, however, that he was against the 1996 federal legislation which precipitated the caseload reduction.”
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Obama Flip Flop on Gay Marriage 7/1/8 - The Sacramento Bee newspaper: “Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who previously said the issue of gay marriage should be left up to each state, has announced his opposition to a California ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriages.”
Obama’s Family Scandal # 1-Broken Promise to Kenya -7/02/08 Evening Standard: Obama promised help for a school in his grandmother’s village but has not given any. “I have said I will assist the school and I will”…although Obama did not say “financial”, “there was no doubt among us [teachers] that is what he meant. We interpreted his words as meaning he would help fund the school, either personally or by raising sponsors or both.” She added 10 of the students are Obama’s relatives…While Obama had a new Rezko house, he let his own grandmother down. Sarah Obama confidently told reporters before his visit: “When he comes down here, he will change the face of the school and, believe me, our poverty in Kogelo will be a thing of the past.” She lives in a “small brick house with no running water, a tin roof and roving chickens.”
Obama’s Lie About His Support of Late Term Abortions and Partial-Birth Abortions 7/5/8 OnTheIssues.org correctly notes, “In 1997, Obama voted in the Illinois Senate against SB 230, a bill designed to prevent partial-birth abortions. In the US Senate, Obama has consistently voted to expand embryonic stem cell research. He has voted against requiring minors who get out-of-state abortions to notify their parents. The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) gives Obama a 100% score on his pro-choice voting record in the Senate for 2005, 2006, and 2007.” Democrats have continued to claim he never supported partial birth abortion, but that is not accurate. Even Obama’s own “Organizing for America” website admits he voted against a bill that would have prevented partial birth abortions in Illinois: “”There was a bill that came up in Illinois that was called the ‘Born Alive’ bill that purported to require life-saving treatment to such infants. And I did vote against that bill,” Obama said Tuesday. “The reason was that there was already a law in place in Illinois that said that you always have to supply life-saving treatment to any infant under any circumstances, and this bill actually was designed to overturn Roe v. Wade, so I didn’t think it was going to pass constitutional muster.”" A good story, but a story that Jill Stanek and Obama Banking Committee Lie - 07/25/2008 Newsbusters reports Obama said: “We passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran.” The problem? Obama was not on the US Senate Banking Committee!
Obama’s Historic Lie that Inflating Your Tires Would Mean No Need for Offshore Drilling!! 7/30/2008 In a campaign stop, Barack Obama made the claim that properly inflating tires would save just as much energy as the nation would get by drilling offshore. Many news outlets debunk the silly claim.
Obama Flip Flops on Off-Shore Drilling 8/3/8 CNN: “Sen. Barack Obama responded Saturday to criticism that he has changed his position on opposing offshore oil drilling. Obama said Friday that he would be willing to compromise on his position against offshore oil drilling if it were part of a more overarching strategy to lower energy costs…”When I’m president, I intend to keep in place the moratorium here in Florida and around the country that prevents oil companies from drilling off Florida’s coasts,” Obama told reporters in Jacksonville in late June.
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Gaffe Machine Joe Biden Not Sure who his Running Mate is!- 8/23/08 - Another Gaffe for Joe Biden. Fox News reports “During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential running mate…Biden introduced Obama by saying, “A man I’m proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!” - Not so fast pal. Barack isn’t America yet.
Even Gaffe Machine Joe Biden Actually thinks He and Obama are running against Bush!- 8/27/08 - Another Gaffe for Joe Biden. Biden doesn’t even know who his opponent is! Fox News reports ““Biden referred to John McCain as “George” during his vice presidential acceptance speech on Aug. 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co. “Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip,” he explained.”
Obama Family Scandal #2 - 08/28/2008 While preaching at his acceptance speech about looking out for your brother, Obama leaves his own half-brother to live in a hut in Africa. “Change we can believe in” apparently is in the family values category. UPDATE 9/15/9 Despite lecturing America on taking care of your brother, Obama still has not helped his own family in Kenya. Rush Limbaugh hints on his show today that HE might send money to the poor village in Kenya where Obama’s family lives, since Obama won’t.
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Gaffe Machine Joe Biden Not Sure what he is running for!- 9/1/08 - Another Gaffe for Joe Biden. Fox News reports ““Biden said he was running for president — not vice president — during a roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa. “Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what’s happening down there,” Biden said.” - You lost the big prize, pal. Didn’t anyone tell you?
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Gaffe Machine Joe Biden Not Sure who Sarah Palin is!- 9/4/08 - Another Gaffe for Joe Biden. Fox News reports “Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the “lieutenant governor” of her state during a town hall meeting…at George Mason University in Manassas, Va. “I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate,” Biden said.”
Obama Campaign Tosses American Flags in the Trash! 9/6/2008 Fox News: “John McCain’s campaign prepared to accuse Democrats Saturday of leaving behind 12,000 miniature American flags after Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday in Denver. Boy Scouts have arrived with 84 trash bags full of bundles of flags at the site of a McCain rally scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. local time in Colorado Springs.
The campaign says the flags were recovered from Invesco Field after the Democrats concluded their convention there, and they are going to be used as part of the warm-up ceremonies before McCain takes the stage for the rally. FOX News has been told a vendor at Invesco Field found the flags, which were going to be thrown out, and turned them over to the McCain campaign.Veterans in Colorado Springs are expected to distribute the flags to the audience at the rally.”
Obama Gaffe: Calls Himself Muslim - 9/7/2008 Time Magazine: “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith…” — Obama on ABC’s This Week. Two months before the election, Obama discussed with George Stephanopoulos the false rumors that he is a Muslim and addressed the fact that John McCain had denied spreading the rumors. Obama is (and was) a Christian. Stephanopoulos jumped in to correct him, and the candidate quickly clarified. Obama is not a Muslim.
Penalty called on Obama - Unsportsman-like conduct 9/9/2008 Barack Obama was off script campaigning yesterday when he took a jab at Sarah Palin. Palin had earlier made the joke that the only difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom like her was lipstick. It sure sounds like he calls Sarah Palin a pig in this video…
The next day, Obama denied he was talking about Sarah Palin.
VP Candidate Biden says Hillary is more qualified than he is to be VP!- 9/10/08 - Another Gaffe for Joe Biden. Fox News reports at a town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said, “Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.” - Quite frankly, it would have been.
VP Candidate Biden Wheelchair Gaffe- 9/12/08 - Another Gaffe for Joe Biden. Fox News reports during a “speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to “stand up.” “Oh, God love ya,” Biden said, after realizing his mistake. “What am I talking about?“- None of us is ever sure, Mr. Biden.
Obama Wrong on Savings Rate 9/14/2008 From Obama What’s The Facts: “Here’s another one not to be too alarmed about: Obama is flat-out wrong when he frets on his campaign Web site that “the personal savings rate is now the lowest it’s been since the Great Depression.” The latest rate, for the second quarter of 2008, is 2.6 percent — higher than the 1.9 percent rate that prevailed in the last quarter of Bill Clinton’s presidency.”
Candidate Obama Tries to Delay Troop Withdrawal from Iraq! - 09/16/2008 New York POST: Campaigning…for a speedy withdrawal of US troops,…Obama tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says Obama demanded a delay in July, 2008. “He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington.” Obama insisted Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its “state of weakness and political confusion.” Though Obama claims the US presence is “illegal,” he suddenly remembered that Americans troops were in Iraq within the legal framework of a UN mandate. His advice was that, rather than reach an accord with the “weakened Bush administration,” Iraq should seek an extension of the UN mandate. Obama has made many contradictory statements with regard to Iraq. His latest position is that US combat troops should be out by 2010. Yet his effort to delay an agreement would make that withdrawal deadline impossible to meet.
Obama’s “I Won Michigan” Gaffe 9/18/2008 Obama What’s The Facts: “Obama Claimed He “Won Michigan.” NBC’s David Gregory: “But Senator, you have not demonstrated that you can decisively put the nomination away. You have also not demonstrated that you can win some of the big states that’ll be important in the general election — California, New York, Ohio.” Obama: “Well, David, we’ve won Michigan and Georgia and Illinois and Missouri.” (NBC’s, “Today Show,” 3/5/08)”
VP Candidate Biden Makes up History #1-Says Roosevelt was President in 1929!- 9/22/08 - Another Gaffe for Joe Biden. Fox News reports In a CBS interview, “Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929. “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened,” he said. Herbert Hoover — not Roosevelt — was president in 1929.
VP Candidate Biden Makes up History #2-Says President was on TV in 1929!- 9/22/08 - Another Gaffe for Joe Biden. Fox News reports In a CBS interview, “Biden misspoke…”When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened,” he said. Television had not yet been invented in 1929!
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Obama Flip Flop on Star Wars Missile Defense System! 9/27/8 Watch for yourself, from Youtube:
Gaffe Machine Joe Biden warns America about his own Running-mate! October, 2008 - Fox News: “The too-much-truth syndrome predates Obama’s inauguration. — Biden stirred trouble in October when he told fundraising audiences that Obama, if elected, would face a “generated crisis” to “test the mettle of this guy.” Obama clarified that any president would face challenges, and tried to dismiss Biden’s dire prediction as one of his trademark “rhetorical flourishes.” Since taking office, Obama has faced a slew of international crises, though it may be unfair to say they were all “generated” to test Obama.
Obama Flip Flops on McCain’s Role in Keating Five 10/6/8 Nelson Guirado reports Obama last May said: “”I don’t think there is any doubt John McCain’s public record about issues that he has apologized for or written about are not germane to the presidency.” Now, however, “The Obama campaign released a 13-minute documentary called “Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis.” In the documentary, the narrator says that “the Keating Five involved all the things that have brought the modern crisis” and that McCain “has not learned the lessons and has continued to follow policies that are going to produce a disaster.”
VP Candidate Biden Doesn’t Know How to Count!- 10/15/08 - Another Gaffe for Joe Biden. Fox News reports “When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, “Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.”
Obama’s Joe the Plumber Gaffe - 10/25/2008 -
Obama Family Scandal #3 - 10/30/2008 Obama’s Aunt is here in the United States as an Illegal! He does nothing to help her. UPDATE 8/2/9: Obama’s Aunt, Zeituni Polly Onyango, now lives in public housing in Boston! No word on her deportation yet. Obama still does nothing to help her. UPDATE 2/4/2010: She’s still free-loading according the Boston Herald!
Obama’s “National Security Force” Could Lead to Marxism or Worse! 11/11/08 - FOX NEWS:”A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship. “It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.” Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military. “That’s exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it’s exactly what the Soviet Union did,” Broun said. “When he’s proposing to have a national security force that’s answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he’s showing me signs of being Marxist.”
Obama Appointment Scandal # 1 Timothy Geithner (Tax Cheat #1) 11/22/8 - Obama’s pick for Treasury Secretary (oops) “FORGOT” to pay taxes! Gosh, that’s an easy oversight, right? Could have happened to anyone? Hmmm. He failed to pay social security and medicaid taxes for years and didn’t notice that a housekeeper he employed on the side wasn’t here legally. He knew darn well he owed the taxes and chose not to pay them. More proof Obama is lousy at picking friends! UPDATE: 2/5/9 Mark Stein laughs on Limbaugh’s show as he explains Geithner deducted summer camp for his son! UPDATE: 3/9 Geithner promises a crack down on tax cheaters! Like himself & others on Team Obama?! Video from Sean Hannity explains…
Obama Official Seals Scandal - 11/25/2008 His Majesty, King Obama not only created his own “official” seal for his candidacy so he could feed his ego & look more presidential, he also invented a fake “Office of the President Elect” &, of course, made an “official” seal for that nonsense too. UPDATE: 3/4/9 Obama wants an official seal for his stimulus plan so signs can go up by road projects!
Obama Gun Rights Flip Flop # 1 - 1st Obama: ‘I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.’ 2nd Obama: supports the D.C. handgun ban, saying it is constitutional. “We can have a reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respects the Second Amendment and people’s traditions.” Update 3/4/9: Obama’s AG Eric Holder has tried to link the Mexican drug-war to U.S. gun sales and go after “assault weapons.”
Obama Birth Certificate Controversy - Some believe he was born in Kenya, not the USA. That would, of course, make him ineligible to be President. There are many (including me) who do not believe this story is true. Others believe it firmly. Still, why can’t any of the hot shot reporters find out once and for all? UPDATE 7/28/9 Fox News: “State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president. They hoped to stem a recent surge in the number of inquiries about Obama’s birthplace. “I … have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen,” Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said in a brief statement. “I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”
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Obama Flip-Flop on Leaving Troops in Iraq- 12/2008 The Audacity of Hypocrisy reports: “On July 28th, (2004) the day after his speech at the Democratic convention catapulted him into the national spotlight, Barack Obama told a group of reporters in Boston that the United States had an “absolute obligation” to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success.” - “The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster,” he said at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, according to an audiotape of the session. “It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . . It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective.” In late winter, 2008, on the campaign trail, Obama says he wants to bring the troops home yesterday — you decide — was he lying then or is he lying now?
Obama Senate Seat Scandal # 1 Blagojevich Sells Seat - 12/2008 Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojeich, elected with help from US Senator Barack Obama who said Blago ran “a sound administration”, is arrested for trying to sell Obama’s vacant US Senate seat to the highest bidder. For weeks, Obama basically has no comment. Just before Christmas he announces his staff did nothing improper. Both Obama & Blago also have ties to Tony Rezko.
Obama Appointment Scandal # 2 Susan Rice -12/1/2008 Susan Rice, nominated for UN Ambassador, wants US troops to attack the Sudanese military, to join UN forces on the ground in Darfur, and to enforce a no fly zone over Darfur. Rice is too immature and dangerous to be placed in such a position of authority by Obama, who demonstrates time and time again he is a VERY poor judge of character. Rice is a far left blogger who calls conservatives “hacks” and says she “cussed & spat” when George W. Bush spoke of Iraq. She actually believes George Bush deliberately decided not to protect from terrorists, states which voted democrat! UPDATE: Rice was approved with support from wimpy republicans.
Obama Speechwriter Caught Groping Hillary Clinton! Lack of Class on Display. - 12/5/8 The L.A. Times: “It might have seemed funny during the party. But a photo has surfaced in recent hours of President-elect Barack Obama’s newly-designated chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau, groping a cardboard cutout of the administration’s newly-designated secretary of State, Hillary Clinton…The shot of the 27-year-old writer with his hand on the 60-year-old cardboard senator’s breast reportedly appeared for about two hours on a Facebook page…before disappearing, along with numerous other Favreau pictures, including one of him dancing with the cardboard female secretary-designate. An Obama spokesman says Favreau has apologized to the former first lady, who gave Obama a run for his massive piles of money during the Democratic primaries. The transition official said Favreau has “reached out to Sen. Clinton to offer an apology.” - He should be fired.
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Hats off to Ronald Kessler at Newsmax for his work to report on President Obama’s 19th Appointment Scandal. Kessler writes that spy satelite panel member John Deutch agreed in 2001 to plead guilty to a charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents from the CIA, an organization Deutch used to head. Newsmax reports Billy Bob Clinton pardoned him as he left office and took all the “W” keys from the computers:
“Deutch essentially walked away from what is one of the most egregious cases of mishandling of classified information that I have ever seen, short of espionage,” Sen. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said after the pardon was announced.
Kessler wrote that the appointment:
“…violates President Obama’s pledge to hold everyone in his administration to the highest ethical standards.”
It’s amazing than in two months as President, Barack Obama has racked up no fewer than nineteen appointment scandals. They all are listed and detailed on the Official Obama Administration Scandals List. Here’s a summary:
Keeping Robert Gates and pissing off the Pink Panters in CodePink
Bill Richardson…took himself out of the running
Far left blogger Susan Rice to the UN…she cusses and spits when Bush talks about Iraq, and she wants US Forces on the ground and in the air in Darfur now.
Blazing Deficit Hypocrisy from Mrs. Peter Orszag, new Budget Chief for Obama
Unqualified Leon Panetta to run the CIA
Tim the Tax Cheat (#1) Geithner
Carol Being-a-Socialist-is-not-a-problem Browner
Eric Let ‘em Go Holder
John Brennan, spy man who breaches secret files
Tom the Tax Cheat (#2) Daschle …“I consider this a mistake on my part, one that I intend to fix and correct and make sure that we’re not screwing up again,” Obama said.
Nancy the Tax Cheat (#3) Killefer…so much for not screwing up again
David Playboy Ogden
Hilda Solis Family…more tax problems (#4) …Obama tells press he has “learned” you can’t have “two sets of standards.” He just learned that??!!
