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Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« on: June 18, 2013, 10:38:09 PM »
There are so many different Obama scandals going on that I thought a summary might be good.  The list below is all the things I could list off the top of my head and from scanning recent threads and headlines.  Please post with anything I may have forgotten.  I am thinking of things hitting his administration.  They don't have to point to him personally.  I guess I was also avoiding issues that are the fault of a lazy biased media.  
The order bears no meaning for size or importance.

1.  Benghazi cover up
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=39528.0
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=39466.0

2.  IRS TEA Party Harassment Scandal
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=39565.0

3. IRS Immigrant Refund Scandal
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/06/18/the-irs-immigration-fraud-scan
just saw this one today.  Thought I'd throw it here.

4.  NSA Spying Scandal
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=39949.0
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=39842.0

5.  Fast and Furious Gun Smuggling by BATFE
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=34814.0
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=35657.0

6. Obamaphone Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=39974.0

7.  State Department - Coverups of misconduct and halted investigations of staff and ambassadors.  
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/11/politics/state-department-allegations/index.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57588456/state-department-memo-reveals-possible-cover-ups-halted-investigations/
Never saw this one posted.  

8.  Use of fake email accounts by EPA head and others to bypass FOIA requests and public scrutiny.  
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/12/epa-chiefs-secret-alias-email-account-revealed/
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/12/epa-under-investigation-for-using-fake-emails-to-hide-info/

9.  EPA working with Green groups to help them in lawsuits.
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=39884.0

10.  Obama administration selectively not prosecuting environmental crimes.
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=39722.0

11.  DOJ bugging the phones of the Associated Press
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=39537.0

12.  Solindra (sp?) Scandal with the Stimulus Bill.  BS business grants to liberal owned businesses that amounted to nothing.  Probably should roll all the stimulus scandals into one.  
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/obama-administration-solyndra/story?id=13640783

13.  General Motors buyout - I consider this a scandal in how the company was essentially siezed from stockholders and given to unions.  
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/10/truth-about-gm-bailout/
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/18/what-gm-bailout-really-cost-american-taxpayers/

14.  General Motors dealership shut down - I was pretty sure it was proven that "conservative" owned dealerships were targeted for closure.  Any argument there?
http://www.examiner.com/article/were-republican-owned-gm-dealerships-targeted-for-closure-2010


Other things I don't like that are hard to define as scandals (so far).
a.  DHS ammo purchasing
b.  DHS incompetence.
c.  I would consider Obamacare to be one big scandal, but that points to Congress as much or more than the administration.
d.  massive debit spending.
e.  Obama's missing personal records and information.  I am mainly referring college paperwork and transcripts and other records (not birth certificate) that are nowhere to be found and no media seems interested in digging.  
f.  Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize. 

I wasn't really trying to start discussion on these here, just trying to get a good list of the scandals with links to the individual threads or headlines.  If you see anything missing, please assign the next number and post it.  There are so many of them poping up, I am sure I forgot some new and old.  I recall that a bunch of his appointees had tax evasion problems, but I wasn't sure how far back I wanted to go.  Might as well go back to how Obama's major Senatorial opponent suddenly found his "sealed" court records splashed all over the media.  

I'll try to update the list later.  Thanks for any help adding additional items.  Some of the headine links were just to whatever articles I could find.  There are likely better links.
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2013, 10:43:36 PM »
I haven't looked into it myself, but there seems to be a growing list of ways that Christians and political conservatives are being hounded and even persecuted by the military.  =(
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2013, 10:52:16 PM »
Is it possible to throw the TSA in there somehow, just for fun?
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2013, 10:56:54 PM »
Is it possible to throw the TSA in there somehow, just for fun?
Sure!  Would it be scandal or just stupidity and incompetence?  Is it any worse now than before Obama became President?

I guess we could mention the TSA pat down of children scandal from a few years ago.  Rush pointed out that it was only happening at a few well traveled airports.  It was likely done solely for political maneuvering or distraction.  

Any good links?
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2013, 11:09:17 PM »
Sure!  Would it be scandal or just stupidity and incompetence?  Is it any worse now than before Obama became President?

I guess we could mention the TSA pat down of children scandal from a few years ago.  Rush pointed out that it was only happening at a few well traveled airports.  It was likely done solely for political maneuvering or distraction.  

Any good links?

If you include stupidity and incompetence in this list for the Obama administration I think we may need a whole new subforum to fit it all.

And that might even overload the servers...
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2013, 01:38:28 AM »
If you include stupidity and incompetence in this list for the Obama administration I think we may need a whole new subforum to fit it all.

And that might even overload the servers...


Considering that Biden is in the mix, we may need a second internet just devoted to it.
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2013, 02:11:19 AM »

Considering that Biden is in the mix, we may need a second internet just devoted to it.

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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2013, 02:14:47 AM »
Well played.
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« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2013, 06:24:40 AM »

Considering that Biden is in the mix, we may need a second internet just devoted to it.
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2013, 06:51:49 AM »
I have wanted for a while a comprehensive and non-tinfoily list of not just scandals, but every other embarrassing or non-presidential thing this clown troupe has done. I used to be a news junkie, I pretty much quit after 2008 election. in shock. Then he gets a noble peace prize goes on the global tour of bow to everyone and apologize for being America.  Saddest thing ever.
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I'm so contrarian that I didn't respond to the thread.

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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2013, 07:19:18 AM »
I forgot about the Dynamite Guy Peace Prize.  Added it to the second list. 

Another might be John Robert's "vote change" on Obamacare.  No real information there.
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2013, 08:16:27 AM »
I have wanted for a while a comprehensive and non-tinfoily list of not just scandals, but every other embarrassing or non-presidential thing this clown troupe has done. I used to be a news junkie, I pretty much quit after 2008 election. in shock. Then he gets a noble peace prize goes on the global tour of bow to everyone and apologize for being America.  Saddest thing ever.

Well, documenting the embarrassing and inept things this president has done would also require another internet.

Fortunately, it seems most journalists are concerned about overloading the internet and have, therefore, chosen not to document these actions in their respective newsrooms.

Most of them can be summed up as insulting our allies and/or paying deference to our enemies. 
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2013, 09:07:36 AM »
Here's another one:

15: Black Panther voter intimidation case dropped by Obama's Justice Department:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html
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« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2013, 09:18:27 AM »
Who would have ever expected this sort of thing from a Chicago politician  ???   :O
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2013, 02:16:04 PM »
Who would have ever expected this sort of thing from a Chicago politician  ???   :O
Yeah, I can't believe all this is actually public information. 
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« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2013, 02:34:51 PM »
Yeah, I can't believe all this is actually public information. 

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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #17 on: June 19, 2013, 03:27:12 PM »
OUCH....You win the internets for 12 hours.
ALRIGHT!!!!  Except for the cash, that is almost better than a Dynamite Man Peace Prize! 

As an aside, what is the best nickname for Nobel?  Dynamite Man or Smokeless Man?  I was thinking he or his company developed both, but I slept since I saw that documentary. 
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« Reply #18 on: June 19, 2013, 03:29:44 PM »
ALRIGHT!!!!  Except for the cash, that is almost better than a Dynamite Man Peace Prize! 

As an aside, what is the best nickname for Nobel?  Dynamite Man or Smokeless Man?  I was thinking he or his company developed both, but I slept since I saw that documentary. 

According to Wikipedia: Dynamite Man is the appropriate name.
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #19 on: June 19, 2013, 05:05:12 PM »
ALRIGHT!!!!  Except for the cash, that is almost better than a Dynamite Man Peace Prize! 

As an aside, what is the best nickname for Nobel?  Dynamite Man or Smokeless Man?  I was thinking he or his company developed both, but I slept since I saw that documentary. 

The Blood God of Modern Warfare?

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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #20 on: June 19, 2013, 07:23:52 PM »
I nominate this thread for Sticky Status.  It is as close to a fight card as we'll see.  Maybe an APS'er with graphics design skills could put up a fight card or program.
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2013, 07:02:51 AM »
The Blood God of Modern Warfare?
You might also go the other way and say guys like him developed the tech that empowers the individual.  

I just find it funny that guys like him worry about their legacy when they are older. 
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« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2013, 08:07:01 AM »
I nominate this thread for Sticky Status.  It is as close to a fight card as we'll see.  Maybe an APS'er with graphics design skills could put up a fight card or program.

Good idea.  Done.
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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #23 on: June 23, 2013, 09:24:03 PM »
I guess I can't edit the original post now. 

Hank added #15 above.

Add these linkx for Scandal # 2 on IRS refunds to illegal aliens.
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=40039.0
http://michellemalkin.com/2013/06/22/tax-administration-ig-irs-sent-over-46-million-in-refunds-to-thousands-of-unauthorized-aliens-at-single-address-in-atlanta/

16.  The Cover up of the Camp Bastion Attack
http://michellemalkin.com/2013/06/21/uncovering-the-camp-bastion-cover-up/
Michelle Malkin sums it up pretty good I think.  Major security failure and military leadership was not questioned or held accountable and the general in charge was inline for a promotion.

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Re: Current Scandal List for the Obama Admin
« Reply #24 on: June 24, 2013, 11:24:19 AM »
#17:

Obama Recess Appointments previously held to be unconstitutional by two courts to be heard by USSC.
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=40058.0

and #18:
EPA prevents Science from studying Fraking.  "We know it's bad, just 'cause, trust us."
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=40059.0

Can we fire him yet?
 
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