Okay..... so you're thinking the ol' squid has come up short a marble or two..... Au Contraire mon ami! I simply wish to give Mr Obama credit for his many achievements.... the majority of which go unrecognized by the main stream media. (for some unknown *POLITICAL BIAS* reason) Anyway since they have somehow managed to either overlook or just plain down play a LOT of Mr. Obama's accomplishments..... permit me (as if you really have a choice) to list just some of them so as to jog your memory. Also to help remind you why it's demonstrating that you may be "dumber than a mud fence" if you vote liberal democrat. So strap in...... the ride through history is about to begin..... in no specific time line order..... so it will be bumpy!
The Semi-Complete List of Barack Obama’s Scandals, Misdeeds, Crimes and Blunders. (It's a work in progress since we can't seem to get rid of him.)
(Investment Watchblog) - $6 trillion in new national debt under Obama…after he promised to decrease the deficit.
• Obamacare — A massive and incredibly convoluted bill which
exponentially increases the federal government’s control over our
personal lives…which neither Obama nor a single Democrat even read
before passing, and which will likely bankrupt the nation.
• In both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the Obama
campaign purposely disabled the credit card verification system for its
Web site donations, allowing anyone from any foreign country to donate
with no limit and no proof of identity; in both elections it was
demonstrated that people overseas and people with obviously false
identities were able to donate to Obama campaign, in direct violation of
several laws. To this day it is not known what percentage of Obama’s
campaign funds are illegally obtained, since there is no documentation.
• Billions of taxpayer dollars gambled on “green” companies like
Solyndra, NextEra, Ener1, Solar Trust and many others — all of which
went bankrupt.
• An intentional refusal to enforce federal immigration laws.
• Unemployment at or above 8% for almost his entire term in office (which was actually documented to be 43% now.)
• Operation Fast & Furious — a government-sponsored illegal
gun-running scheme designed to purposely go awry so as to induce public
outcry for gun control.
• Spent 20 years listening to a racist anti-American pastor (Rev.
Jeremiah Wright), whom Obama described as a mentor. On March 18, 2008,
Obama gave a speech in which he said “I could no more disown Jeremiah
Wright than I could disown my own grandmother” and “[Wright’s church,
Trinity United] embodies the black community in its entirety.” Now Obama
tries to pretend that Jeremiah Wright doesn’t exist, and that his
extremist anti-white philosophy didn’t influence Obama’s worldview.
• Increased the percentage of Americans dependent on food stamps to
unprecedented levels (now over 48% of the nation’s population).
• Militarily intervened in Libya in 2011 without the Congressional
approval required by the War Powers Act — technically an impeachable
offense.
• Before he entered politics, Obama worked as a lawyer suing banks in
landmark cases, forcing them to give home loans to unqualified minority
borrowers — a practice now understood as one of the primary initial
causes of the eventual housing bubble and market collapse.
• Handed out over 1,200 waivers to politically connected donors exempting them from the onerous requirements of Obamacare.
• Greatly expanding the number of unaccountable “czars,” which
essentially amounts to unilaterally adding new federal departments with
no congressional oversight — leading to a true “bureaucracy” in the
original sense (rule by unelected bureaucrats).
• Using taxpayer dollars to bail out the private pension funds of autoworkers’ unions at GM & Chrysler.
• Illegally ending the welfare-to-work requirements passed by Congress.
• Doling out $800 billion in stimulus cash for “shovel-ready” jobs
that didn’t exist — the money just evaporated with no measurable
economic benefit.
• Alienating and isolating Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East.
• Apologizing to Islamists and terrorists for offending them.
• Under Obama’s watch, for the first time in history America’s credit rating was downgraded, due to his poor economic policies.
• Stopped American oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, allowing other
nations with worse environmental records to drill instead — thereby
managing to both weaken our economy and damage the environment
simultaneously.
• Proposed in 2008 to intentionally bankrupt the coal industry — and
now lies to voters and workers in coal-producing regions about his true
intent.
• Pretends to be concerned about skyrocketing energy prices, when in
fact he vowed to increase them on purpose (so as to make alternative
energy schemes more competitive).
• In a primary debate against Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama said he
would never force people to buy health insurance, since those without it
couldn’t afford to buy it. Less than two years later, he rammed through
Obamacare, which does indeed force people to buy health insurance.
• During the 2008 campaign, Obama repeatedly promised that if he was
elected “No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax
increase.” This promise was broken over and over again once he was
elected.
• In 2008 Obama vowed if elected to increase security along the
U.S.-Mexican border — and then in 2010 stopped construction of a
“virtual fence” on the border and re-routed money earmarked for border
security to other projects.
• Cash for Clunkers, which doled out taxpayer money to anyone who
wanted to replace their old cars, but which mostly only ended up
subsidizing the purchase of foreign-made cars by people who could have
afforded them on their own anyway; meanwhile, the traded-in cars were
all destroyed, creating a shortage and thereby increasing the cost of
used cars, hurting the pocketbooks of poor people.
• Violated the U.S. Constitution by authorizing assassinations and
drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad — without due process.
• Was caught on a “hot mike” promising the President of Russia that
he would cave in to their demands for a weaker missile shield — after he
was re-elected and no longer had to keep up the pretense that he sought
to defend America.
• Appointed Van Jones, a former avowed communist who supported a “9/11 Truth” petition, to be “Green Jobs Czar.”
• Appointed Anita Dunn, who said Chairman Mao was her “favorite philosopher,” to be White House Communications Director.
• Appointed John Holdren, who previously entertained the notion of
forced mass sterilization to stop overpopulation, to be Science Czar.
• Appointed Steven Chu, who openly advocated an artificial increase
in gasoline prices to $10/gallon (and similar increases in other energy
prices) to be Secretary of Energy.
• Appointed Kevin Jennings, who led a group that promoted X-rated
“sex-positive” textbooks for 13-year-olds, instructed teenagers at a
conference how to perform “fisting” (anal penetration by fists), who
refused to report instances of statutory rape, and who expressed
admiration for a member of NAMBLA, to be America’s “Safe School’s Czar.”
• When states voted to enforce the federal immigration laws which the
federal government refused to enforced, Obama sued to stop them.
• Blocked continued construction of the Keystone Pipeline, thereby
intentionally reducing energy resources for the US and forcing Canada to
sell more of its oil to China.
• Repeatedly changed his position on gay marriage over the years,
depending on what was politically expedient at the moment and which
intended audience he was addressing.
• Before he was president, Obama staunchly opposed raising the
national debt limit — but once elected, he insisted that it be raised.
• When giving a 2009 speech in France that he must have assumed
Americans would never hear, he described the United States as “arrogant”
and “dismissive” (while also criticizing Europe elsewhere in the
speech).
• When states tried to stop election fraud with voter ID laws, Obama sued to prevent them from doing so.
• Instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to stonewall any
investigation into the voter intimidation case against the New Black
Panthers.
• Promised in 2008 that once elected he would officially recognize
the Armenian Genocide; but to this date he has still failed to do so,
caving in to threats and pressure from Muslims in Turkey.
• Vowed to end the influence of lobbyists in Washington, but under Obama’s watch their influence has only increased.
• When he was first running for President, Obama promised, “I will
not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an
opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five
days.” Needless to say, he has broken that promise with almost every
bill he has signed since.
• Aided and abetted the “Arab Spring” which deposed existing secular
governments across North Africa, leading to a regional power vacuum
which was filled by Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other hardline
Islamists.
• Refused to provide assistance or support the the earlier secular
Iranian democracy uprising, allowing them to be crushed by the Islamic
fundamentalist Iranian regime.
• In his first months in office, Obama bowed to the king of Saudi
Arabia, the president of China, the Emperor of Japan, and President of
Mexico, among others.
• Ordered NASA to make one of its top priorities not space exploration or scientific research but “Muslim outreach.”
• Used Obamacare as a pretext to greatly increase the size and power
of the IRS (which was given 16,000 new agents and additional mandates to
penalize taxpayers for noncompliance).
• Used the IRS to harass conservative businesses. He later used the IRS to delay approval of tax exempt status for TEA Party and other conservative groups which hindered their efforts and most likely helped get Obama re-elected through diminished opposition.
• In the GM bailout, he illegally shortchanged investors who
according to bankruptcy laws were first in line to be recompensed;
instead, he gave their share to the unions.
• Shut down oil drilling in the US, but then turned around and lent
$2 billion to Brazil to support their government-controlled oil-drilling
effort — and then promised the US would become one of Brazil’s biggest
oil customers.
• Sued Boeing in an effort to control where businesses could locate,
kowtow to the unions, and block the creation of 1,000 jobs in South
Carolina, a right-to-work (i.e. no forced unionization) state.
• Adopted a longstanding Socialist political slogan, “Forward!”, as his 2012 campaign motto.
• Sent insulting form letters to the families of dead SEAL's.
• Neither disavowed nor distanced himself from anti-Romney campaign
ads which threatened or implied violence against Republicans.
• Shortly after the recent eruption of anti-American violence in
North Africa, Obama went to Las Vegas to do his debate preparation in a
hotel…with a romanticized North Africa theme.
• Said in an interview that the Muslim call to prayer was “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.”
• Union boss and far-left activist Andy Stern has visited Obama in
the White House at least 53 times, at last count — greater access than
any other private citizen.
• Hosted at the White House many Islamist members of groups associated with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc.
• Sponsored performances by and attended fundraisers with radical
rappers like Michael Franti and Common, both of whose lyrics have in
some cases been anti-police, anti-white, and anti-America.
• Hired Timothy Geithner, who is documented as cheating on his own personal taxes, to be Secretary of the Treasury.
• Told Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher that it was good to “spread the wealth around.” (You will, however, notice that Obama is very stingy with HIS wealth and doesn't even bother to help his own family).
• Told small business owners nationwide in a 2012 speech that “you
didn’t build that” — implying that they should not claim credit for
their own success, since taxpayers (i.e. themselves and other business
owners) had funded the national infrastructure.
• Insulted the British people by rudely returning to them a bust of
Churchill which previously had been a ceremonial gift on display at the
White House; when later confronted on this inexplicable action, he lied
about it.
• Canceled plans to complete a missile defense shield in Poland, a
move which was highly praised by Russia — the very nation whose missile
threat would have been neutralized if the shield had been completed.
• By loudly publicizing (for personal political gain) the identity of
exact SEAL teams who had killed Osama bin Laden, Obama made them a
target for reprisals by Islamist's; a short time later 22 SEALS were shot
down and killed in Afghanistan, their worst loss of life ever. (as a side note the Afghan military team going in with those SEALS was mysteriously removed from the aircraft just prior to departure..... none of them were killed as a result)
• Established an extra-Constitutional top secret “kill list” of
people (including Americans) Obama claims the right to kill on sight,
and then bragged about it publicly.
• Set up a special email account, “Flag@Whitehouse.gov,” to which
Americans were supposed to inform the government of anyone they heard
spreading “disinformation” about Obama’s health care overhaul. (This was
the first of three different “spy on your friends and neighbors”
programs.)
• “Attack Watch” was Obama’s second Big Brother attempt, a Web site
on which you would report “attacks” on Obama’s proposals and ideology;
it was quickly shut down due to outrage and mockery.
• Finally, Obama set up the “Truth Team” program which encouraged
citizens to report to the government any friends or relatives they hear
repeating “lies” about Obama. The Truth Team site still exists.
• Twisted the arms of defense contractors to not issue layoff notices
in early November, so as to avoid causing bad news for Obama right
before the election — even though federal law (the “WARN Act”) requires
such notices.
• After the attacks on American interests in North Africa on
September 11, 2012, Obama gave a speech to the U.N. and declared “The
future must not belong to those who slander The Prophet of Islam” —
transferring the blame from the attackers onto the makers of a film
trailer that supposedly “offended” the Islamist's.
• Repeatedly snubbed and got into public tiffs with Benjamin
Netanyahu, who as the leader of Israel is supposed to be Obama’s closest
colleague in international affairs.
• On May 19, 2011, Obama told Israel they must return to the 1967
borders as a pre-condition for continuing talks with the Palestinians —
even though the status of the borders was the main issue the talks were
supposed to address.
• Encouraged politically biased hiring practices in the Justice Department.
• Soon after taking office, Obama rescinded the “Mexico City Policy,”
which previously had banned NGOs which are supported by American
taxpayer funds from using those funds to perform abortions in foreign
countries.
• Attempted to force returning veterans to pay huge increases for
their health coverage…as a way to generate more funding for his
Obamacare provisions.
• In June of 2011, he anointed his own underage daughters as “senior
staff members” so that their vacation to Africa would be paid for with
taxpayer money.
• Interviews with high school classmates revealed that Obama was a
heavy and frequent user of marijuana in his teenage years (not to
mention his self-admitted cocaine use in college).
• Played over 100 rounds of golf during his first three years in
office, meaning that he was on the links close to 10% of the days he has
been president.
• Voted to allow post-birth abortions (i.e. facilitating the deaths
of babies who survive late-term abortions) not just once but three times
in a row as an Illinois state senator.
• The pastor whom Obama selected to give the national benediction at
his 2009 inauguration recently declared that “all white people are going
to Hell.”
• Sided with Hugo Chavez and the Castro regime regarding the Honduran
Constitutional Crisis of 2009, the first time ever that the U.S. formed
a political alliance with socialist governments in Latin America.
• Obama Administration OK'ed the nomination of Chas Freeman to chair
the National Intelligence Council (which coordinates intelligence
reports from all government agencies), despite the fact that he was
openly hostile to Israel and strongly favored Arabist goals. (He later
withdrew under pressure.)
• Chinese pianist Lang Lang played an offensively anti-American song
at a 2011 White House dinner where Obama hosted Chinese president Hu
Jintao, to the delight and amazement of the communist Chinese visitors,
while Obama just sat there and smiled (the song’s Chinese lyrics
describe Americans as “warmongering jackals”).
• There was a great deal of (still unverified) suspicion that the
company LightSquared received favorable treatment from the Obama
administration for approval of its broadband technology which interfered
with the GPS system; an Air Force general claimed he was pressured by
the Obama administration to downplay his criticism of LightSquared’s
technology in sworn testimony.
• Obama’s Department of Energy awarded $529 million to Fisker
Automotive to build their Karma hybrid electric cars — even though they
are manufactured in Finland, cost over $100,000 each, and tend to
explode.
• When Inspector General Gerald Walpin discovered during a 2009
investigation that one of Obama’s political allies (the mayor of
Sacramento) was misusing government funds for personal gain, Obama
unceremoniously fired Walpin — even though rooting out fraud was the job
description of the Inspector General.
• More than once Obama made so-called “recess appointments” when the
Senate was not actually in recess, which directly violates
Constitutional rules about how appointments must be made; in each case
it was his way of getting his political allies into certain key
positions without them being vetted or approved by the Senate, as
required.
• After Nidal Malik Hasan massacred 13 people at Fort Hood while
shouting “Allahu Akbar” so as to become a martyr for Islam, the Obama
administration refused to classify his action as “terrorism” and instead
deemed it merely “workplace violence.”
• Despite the fact that the Falkland Islands have been part of Great
Britain since 1833 and that Great Britain is supposed to be our
strongest ally, Obama essentially sided with Argentina in its new claim
on the Falklands, not only by adopting the Argentine position that their
status is open to negotiation, but even by (attempting to) refer to the
islands by their Spanish name (Malvina).
• Convened the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and
Reform (a.k.a. the Simpson-Bowles commission) in order to address a
major economic crisis…and then summarily dismissed and ignored their
recommendations.
• Criticized the Supreme Court’s legal reasoning (about the Citizen’s
United decision) during a State of the Union address, which many
considered a dangerous precedent as it appeared to place political
pressure on the court, violating the Constitution’s separation of
powers; but his bullying seems to have later paid off, when the Supreme
Court apparently altered its Obamacare decision so as to not ruffle any
political feathers.
• On April 27, 2009, Obama’s staff (possibly at his direction)
ordered Air Force One to make an unnecessary very low flight over part
of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty, which many residents mistakenly
assumed must be a second 9/11 attack in progress; turned out that it was
just a stunt to get a photo op of Obama’s plane next to the Statue of
Liberty.
• Obama somehow managed to insert mentions of himself into the
official biographies of earlier presidents on the White House Web site —
even presidents from the 19th century. After public outcry, the
narcissistic Obama mentions were quietly removed without comment.
• Intentionally misquotes the Declaration of Independence in
speeches, often leaving out the words “by their Creator” in the famous
passage “…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,”
which Obama instead has recited as “…are endowed with certain
unalienable rights.”
• In June of 2009, Obama’s Solicitor General (and now Supreme Court
Justice) Elena Kagan filed a legal brief to prevent the families of 9/11
victims from appealing their lawsuits against the Saudi royal family
for financing the 9/11 attacks.
• The 2009 National Christmas Tree in the White House was decorated
with ornaments depicting Chairman Mao, a drag queen, and a picture of
Mount Rushmore that included Obama’s own head next to George
Washington’s.
• Compelled Catholic and other religious organizations to provide
health plans with free contraception, even though such requirements
violate their rights of religious freedom and conscience.
• It was revealed only after Obama became president that during the
1990s he was a leading member of the “New Party,” a socialist-aligned
far-left radical group in Chicago.
• Lied about his close associations with former Weather Underground
terrorist Bill Ayers; pretended the two barely knew each other, when
multiple sources document they were friends and close colleagues for
years.
• When Obama was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2009, he at
first flubbed the oath of office, so he had to re-take it behind closed
doors for his inauguration to be valid. He did so, but during this
second, true inauguration in private, he purposely failed to place his
hand on a Bible, as is traditional — the first president ever to not
swear the oath of office on the Bible.
• Obama’s own author bio in his literary agent’s catalog and on their
Web site stated for 17 consecutive years that he was born in Kenya;
this claim remained intact despite other portions of the bio being
altered and updated repeatedly. It was only in 2007 after he decided to
run for the presidency that the “born in Kenya” claim was taken down.
The original info must necessarily have come from Obama himself; some
theorize he likely falsely claimed foreign birth in order to gain
admission or scholarships in college, and never bothered to fix his lie.
• After winning the 2008 election but before being sworn in, Obama
bombastically concocted the official-seeming “Office of the
President-Elect” as if it was some kind of real government department;
in fact, it was just a self-congratulatory title he made up to look
important before he actually became president.
• Obama administration came up with the bizarre euphemism “man-caused
disasters” to describe acts of terrorism — because he wants to downplay
terrorism as a significant political issue.
• For three years in a row his official budget proposals to Congress
received exactly zero votes — not even a single vote from Democrats.
• Relied on an Islamic fundamentalist militia group called “The
Martyrs of the February the 17th Revolution Brigade” to provide security
at the American mission in Benghazi — and they not only failed to
prevent the attack but perhaps even joined in on it.
• During the debate over Obamacare in 2009, Obama bluntly stated that
doctors like to perform amputations rather than practice preventive
medicine for no other reason than that they make a greater profit from
amputations. The American College of Surgeons demanded an apology, which
never arrived.
• Since 2008 the Los Angeles Times has been in possession of a
videotape showing Obama honoring and praising anti-Western anti-Israel
academic Edward Said, but they have steadfastly refused to release it to
this day, for no discernible reason other than their belief it would
damage Obama’s reputation.
• When the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
recently held a conference on human rights, Obama sent an American
representative — Salam al-Marayati, a Truther who blamed Israel for the
9/11 attacks and who also praises Hezbollah and Hamas. To the nations of
Europe, al-Marayati spoke for all Americans on the topic of human
rights.
• Obama’s Department of Homeland Security specifically warned that Americans who are “dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration” are
potential terrorists, as are libertarian-minded voters who “favor of
state or local authority” over centralized power. These “right-wing
extremists” (who hold political beliefs shared by a majority of
Americans) are deemed a greater threat to the nation than actual
revolutionaries or jihadists.
• While campaigning in 2008 Obama declared that it was “unpatriotic”
that Bush had increased the national debt at a rate of half a trillion
dollars per year; but under Obama the rate of national debt increase has
accelerated to almost three times the Bush rate ($6 trillion in new
debt in under four years) — yet Obama has never apologized nor declared
himself unpatriotic.
• For decades, every president has attended a “daily intelligence
briefing” which updates him on critical world events each morning. Obama
has skipped 60% of his daily intelligence briefings, including the ones
leading up to the attack in Benghazi.
So who says Mr. Obama hasn't really done anything since taking office?? By golly he's been an amazingly busy man...... managing to fit all that destruction in while still playing well over 100 rounds of golf by this time! So.... at tip of the hat to Mr. O........ American can only hope and pray that there's not another one like him one earth. Really...... we couldn't take that much destruction again.
