David
Bernstein & The Heritage Foundation - “Lawless: The Obama Administration’s
Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law.”
“The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A never-ending
story.” Michael
Barone – American Historian – Washington Examiner
Obama has found fortune by greatly benefiting in his
post-presidency from companies who coincidentally benefited greatly during his
time as president.
They knew he was a catastrophe. They
knew ObamaCare was a train wreck. They knew. Yet they proceeded, and they may
have destroyed our country. For that, they can never be forgiven.
They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they
made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made
him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.) ALLAN
ERICKSON
We are talking about the Clintons, Pelosi, Reid,
Schumer, Frank, Wasserman-Schultz, Biden, Leahy, Durbin, Murray, Kennedy,
Hagel, Kerry, Dodd, Hoyer, Baucus, and many others.
They all knew Obama was an empty suit; yet for private
gain and personal advancement, they trampled on the flag, betraying the very
people they claim to serve, preferring Party to principle. During the 2008
campaign, they said he was unqualified, ill-prepared, and unsuited for the
office. Yet when his crooked ways carved out primary victory, they jumped on board
the Ship of Fools, stoking his engine with lies, deception, and propaganda.
Hillary knew he stole victory; but like a good Party operative, she buttoned
her lip and took orders, submitting to authority and covering criminality.
For those of us not seduced by pretty
words and skillful theatrics, the Obama years were a cesspool of corruption
that brought back the stench of the Clinton years in a fashionable new package.
The corruption of Barack Obama
The national media are flabbergasted that Americans won't consent
to President Trump's removal from office. How can so many of his
compatriots be indicted and so many government bureaucrats condemn his behavior
without giving them what they desire: self-assurance that they are "on the
right side of history"?
If they ever wish to understand, the critical starting point in
their education is not the current presidency, but the last one. Although there are numerous ways to
describe the present divide in America, one of the simpler is thus: those
Americans who take Barack Obama at his word that his presidency was
historically "scandal free" and those Americans who see the unrelenting
stream of Deep State attempts to take down President Trump as a continuing coup
and the natural extension of an unethical, criminal, and at times
unconstitutional Obama presidency.
For those of us in the latter camp, Barack Obama presided over a
corrupt administration and used his historic election as the first non-white
American president as a get-out-of-jail-free card to abuse his power while
silencing his critics.
Whataboutery is frowned upon now that President Trump is in
office, but if President Trump had done a tiny percentage of what Obama
orchestrated, he actually would be in federal prison. Imagine what
would have happened if President Trump had done the following:
used a recession to bilk a trillion
dollars from the public to stuff the pockets of campaign donors like
Solyndra
facilitated Agent Brian Terry's
murder by arming the Mexican cartels
targeted American citizens for
assassination without a whiff of due process
lied to voters that their doctors
would be protected and premiums reduced, while illegally funding Obamacare
and covering illegal aliens' health care
stolen from victims of Iranian
terrorism by plundering escrow accounts protected by law while handing over
$1.7 billion in untraceable European currency and planeloads of American
cash, releasing twenty-one Iranian convicts, and shutting down a
decade-long DEA operation against Hezb'allah's double-whammy assault of
smuggling cocaine into the U.S. and financing terrorism against us, all
for the glory of an "Iran deal"
spied on reporters while putting a
record number of their sources in jail
used the IRS as his personal gang
of thugs to target conservatives before the 2012 election
allowed a 9-11 anniversary
terrorist attack to unfold without sending reinforcements while falsely
blaming the four resulting American deaths on a YouTube video and American
free speech
sent an untold number of American
veterans to early deaths through widespread negligence and corruption at
the V.A.
protected his attorney general who
lied to lawmakers on the president's behalf so persistently that Democrats
joined Republicans to make him the first A.G. to be held in contempt of
Congress
protected his CIA director, who
spied on lawmakers and lied about it
protected his director of National
Intelligence, who illegally spied on all Americans and lied about it
protected his heir apparent, who
used an illegal and compromised email server and lied about it
promoted his U.N. ambassador to
national security adviser for unashamedly circuiting Sunday-morning talk
shows and peddling demonstrable lies to the American public
and all of this while betraying his
oath of office by vigorously attacking Americans' constitutionally
protected free speech, religion, and right to bear arms; squeezing
colleges and private companies to submit to his socialist vision; and
punishing his ideological foes by using a corrupt Justice Department and
FBI to hunt his enemies
If President Trump had done all this and everything else Obama
pulled off, well, then the American media might finally see how luminous the
federal government's corruption over these many years truly has
been. Instead, not only have they rebuffed Obama's critics as mere
racists, but they flood their editorials and airwaves with the commentary of
the very actors who took part in his crimes. Never before have we
seen intelligence chiefs and justice department officials so quickly run to
television studios to demean themselves as propagandists intent on protecting
the last president by taking down the current one.
For those of us not seduced by pretty words and skillful
theatrics, the Obama years were a cesspool of corruption that brought back the
stench of the Clinton years in a fashionable new package. Obama ignored court orders and
congressional oversight, protected his friends from criminal prosecutions, and
stirred up racial tensions by creating unnecessary controversies and playing
whites and blacks against each other for electoral gain. He entered the White House as one of our
poorest presidents, and he will die as one of the richest ex-presidents. Whereas the Clintons found fortune
through their charity, Obama
has found fortune by greatly benefiting in his post-presidency from companies
who coincidentally benefited greatly during his time as president. Wherever he goes, he picks up
checks, including a staggering sixty-five-million-dollar book deal advance from
Penguin Random House, a publishing house taken over in 2013 by Bertelsmann, a
privately held German company; one of the world's largest media conglomerates;
and the parent of Bertelsmann Investments, an international network of private
banking funds in the services and natural resources industries, including those
in Iran. The "most transparent president in history" has
now become the "most transparent billionaire in history," adding to
his vast wealth in ways the public can only imagine.
So, for the preening junior senator from Utah who manages to be on
the wrong side of every issue, the formerly esteemed conservative pundits who
now push Bernie Sanders's communism on the United States, and all the news
personalities who pretend to have original thoughts by repeating endlessly what
the Democratic Party has written for them, if you are dense enough to
misinterpret the unprecedented coup against the sitting president instead as
crimes worthy of his repeated condemnation and impeachment, it is way past time
to sit down, open your mind, and begin learning about the presidency of one
Barack Obama. It will be a lot to take in; it certainly was for
those of us who endured it.
David
Bernstein & The Heritage Foundation - “Lawless: The Obama Administration’s
Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law.”
“The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration: A never-ending
story.” Michael
Barone – American Historian – Washington Examiner
Obama’s
50 Lies / Obama Not Exactly
List documents fifty
lies told by Barack Obama.
Claim
A
list circulating online contains 50 false statements by President Barack Obama
· Selma Got Me Born –
LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 – Selma had no effect
on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.
This criticism is based on an overly-literal interpretation of
Barack Obama’s 2007 speech in Selma, Alabama, which we covered in a
separate article .
· Father Was A Goat
Herder – LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work
with the Kenyan Government.
These attributes are not mutually exclusive: Barack Obama’s
(biological) father was all of these things at different times in his life, as
Obama described in his book, Dreams from My Father :
[My father] was as
African, I would learn, a Kenyan of the Luo tribe, born on the shores of Lake
Victoria in a place called Alego. The village was poor, but his father —
my other grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama — had been a
prominent farmer, an elder of the tribe, a medicine man with healing powers. My
father grew up herding his father’s goats and attending the local school, set
up by the British colonial administration, where he had shown great promise. He
eventually won a scholarship to study in Nairobi; and then, on the eve of
Kenyan independence, he had been selected by Kenyan leaders and American
sponsors to attend a university in the United States.
· Father Was A Proud
Freedom Fighter – LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent
governments Kenya has ever had.
We are unaware of Barack Obama’s ever having claimed his father
was a “proud freedom fighter.” Obama has written (and spoken) at length about
his father’s returning to Africa from America to work for the Kenyan
government, with that country’s political turmoil eventually leaving him a
“bitter drunk” and “a defeated, lonely bureaucrat.”
· My Family Has Strong
Ties To African Freedom – LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass
violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It
is the first widespread violence in decades.
As we discussed in a separate article , Kenyan
politician Raila Odinga has recently claimed to be Barack Obama’s cousin, but
there is no substantive evidence documenting his claim, and the two men share
no meaningful familial connection.
· My Grandmother Has
Always Been A Christian – LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am
according to her own interviews. According to the New York Times: “I
am a strong believer of the Islamic faith,” Ms. Obama, 85, said in a recent
interview in Kenya.’ Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have
been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
The author has apparently confused Obama’s grandmothers. In the
instance cited above, Obama was speaking of his maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham , not his paternal grandmother. (In 2007 Obama described
his maternal grandparents as “nonpracticing Baptists and Methodists.”)
· My Name is African
Swahili – LIAR, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means
‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
Many Swahili words and names are of Arabic origin (just as many English words originated with other
languages). “ Barack ” is a Swahili name that entered the language via historical
trade and cultural ties with Arabia.
· I Never Practiced
Islam – LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a
Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so
you could run for office.
The topic is already covered in our separate article about the
(false) claims that Barack Obama is a Muslim .
· My School In
Indonesia Was Christian – LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in
trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
Barack Obama
attended more than one school in Indonesia, one of which was a public school
that included Islamic religious instruction among its curriculum, and one of
which was a private Catholic school.
· I Was Fluent In
Indonesian – LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
We are unaware of Barack Obama’s ever having claimed he was
“fluent” in any Indonesian language (beyond the level of competence that could
reasonably be expected of the non-native child speaker he was at the time he
lived in that country). He did acquire (and apparently still has) a passable
command of Bahasa, as Time magazine noted in a 2007 article:
When prominent
Indonesians visit the U.S., the first person they want to meet is Obama, says
Parnohadiningrat Sudjadnan, the Indonesian ambassador to the U.S. “Back home
people think of him as one of us, or at least one who understands us,” he says,
adding that they are delighted to find that Obama speaks passable Bahasa, the
language spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia.
· Because I Lived In
Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience – LIAR, you were there from the ages
of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language.
We have not found any citation for Obama’s having claimed that
his childhood in Indonesia qualified him as having “more foreign experience”
(what the comparative “more” refers to also isn’t clear). Barack Obama did live
in Indonesia for four years as a child, and he could in fact speak the local
language passably well. Whether his time in that country provided him more
“foreign experience” is argumentative, but people other than Obama himself have
suggested that it might:
Some would argue that
his childhood experiences, as well as his mixed heritage (his father was
Kenyan, his mother from Kansas), gives him a better inner compass on foreign
policy than most Americans. They cite the pioneering work of Ruth Hill Useem,
the late sociologist of Michigan State University, who spent her career
studying what she called Third Culture Kids — the millions of U.S. children (an
estimated 20 million since the advent of mass air travel) who have been carted
abroad by their missionary, diplomatic, corporate or military parents. These
frequent-flier kids don’t spend enough time in their adopted countries to
become fully bicultural, but they take pieces and add it to their home values
and traditions — creating millions of “Third Cultures.” Studies have shows that
kids who have spent time abroad are more likely to go to college, to relate to
one another despite the influences of vastly differing cultures, and to latch
on to one aspect of their culture — in Obama’s case African Americanism.
· I Am Stronger On
Foreign Affairs – LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East
(bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus
have NO experience with our closest allies.
Barack Obama has lived in, traveled to, or otherwise spent time
in countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, including Russia, Ukraine,
Azerbaijan, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Territories,
Afghanistan Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Africa, as well as
serving as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Whether his
experiences make him “stronger on foreign affairs” is argumentative, but again,
people other than Obama have suggested that it might:
“Living abroad does
give you a wider view of the world,” says Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National
Security Adviser under Jimmy Carter, and a Polish-American who spent four years
as a child living in Germany with his diplomat father. Obama is “a person with
genuine sensitivity of world affairs,” says Brzenzinski, who is supporting
Obama. “It’s not the conventional mouthing of culture sensitivities.”
Brzezinski points to Obama’s greater willingness to meet leaders of hostile
nations and his early resistance to the war in Iraq as examples of his superior
intuition on foreign policy.
· I Blame My Early Drug
Use On Ethnic Confusion – LIAR, you were quite content in high school to be
Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify – your
classmates said you were just fine.
Obama wrote at length in his two books about his experiences
growing up as the child of mixed-race parents and the issues that accompanied
that status, and he noted in his first book, Dreams From My Father that
before entering politics he had used marijuana and cocaine. His drug use, he
wrote, was “… something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind,
something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of
my memory” and said in a 2006 interview that his drug use was “… reflective of
the struggles and confusion of a teenage boy. Teenage boys are frequently
confused.”
· An Ebony Article
Moved Me To Run For Office – LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you
mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
We could not find an instance in either of Barack Obama’s books
(or elsewhere) where he claimed that his decision to run for public office was
influenced by an article in Ebony magazine.
· A Life Magazine
Article Changed My Outlook On Life – LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you
mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
In Dreams from My Father , Barack Obama writes of a
childhood experience occurring on a day when his mother dropped him off at a
library on her way to work, and he began thumbing through issues of LIFE magazine:
Eventually I came
across a photograph of an older man in dark glasses and a raincoat walking down
an empty road. I couldn’t guess what this picture was about; there seemed
nothing unusual about the subject. On the next page was another photograph,
this one a close-up of the same man’s hands. They had a strange, unnatural
pallor, as if blood had been drawn from the flesh. Turning back to the first
picture, I now saw that the man’s crinkly hair, his heavy lips and broad fleshy
nose, all had this same uneven, ghostly hue.
He must be terrible
sick, I thought. A radiation victim, maybem or an albino — I had seen one of
those on the street a few days before, and my mother had explained about such
things. Except when I read the words that went with the picture, that wasn’t it
at all. The man had received a chemical treatment, the article explained, to
lighten his complexion. He had paid for it with his own money. He expressed
some regret about trying to pass himself off as a white man, was sorry about
how badly things had turned out. But the results were irreversible. There were
thousands of people like him, black men and women back in America who’d
undergone the same treatment in response to advertisements that promised
happiness as a white person.
I felt my face and neck
get hot. My stomach knotted; the type began to blur on the page. Did my mother
know about this? What about her boss — why was he so calm, reading through his
reports a few feet down the hall? I had a desperate urge to jump out of my seat,
to show them what I had learned, to demand some explanation or assurance. But
something held me back. As in a dream, I had no voice for my newfound fear. By
the time my mother came to take me home, my face wore a smile and the magazines
were back in their proper place. The room, the air, was quiet as before.
As far as we
know, no one has yet found any matching article in the pages of LIFE magazine.
However, that does necessarily not mean Barack Obama saw no such article; it
may simply mean that, writing decades after the fact, he misremembered the
title of the magazine he was viewing.
· I Won’t Run On A
National Ticket In ’08 – LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that
you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having
experience first.
In 2004, just after winning election to the U.S. Senate, Barack
Obama said during a press conference , in
response to a question about his possibly running for national office, that:
I am a believer in
knowing what you’re doing when you apply for a job, and I think that if I were
to seriously consider running on a national ticket I would essentially have to
start now, before having served a day in the Senate. Now, there are some people
who might be comfortable doing that, but I’m not one of them.
· Present Votes Are
Common In Illinois – LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have
130 NO VOTES.
A legislative “present” vote (which essentially counts as a “No”
vote but does not go on record as such) is, as the New York Times observed,
“not unusual in Illinois,” a tactic often used in concert with other party
members and leaders:
An examination of
Illinois records shows at least 36 times when Mr. Obama was either the only
state senator to vote present or was part of a group of six or fewer to vote
that way.
In more than 50 votes,
he seemed to be acting in concert with other Democrats as part of a strategy.
In other cases, Mr.
Obama’s present votes stood out among widespread support as he tried to use
them to register legal and other objections to parts of the bills.
In Illinois, political
experts say voting present is a relatively common way for lawmakers to express
disapproval of a measure. It can at times help avoid running the risks of
voting no, they add.
· Oops, I Misvoted –
LIAR, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change
your misvote.
We’re unsure what supposed “misvote” this line references.
· I Was A Professor Of
Law – LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
Barack Obama was indeed a professor at the University of
Chicago’s Law School, a fact verified by that institution itself:
The Law School has
received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as
“Senior Lecturer.”
From 1992 until his
election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the
Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from
1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior
Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are
regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of
Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct
status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers has high-demand
careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching.
Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was
invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he
declined.
· I Was A
Constitutional Lawyer – LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
· Without Me, There
Would Be No Ethics Bill – LIAR, you didn’t write it, introduce it, change it,
or create it.
It’s unclear what ethics bill this statement references. Obama
did help pass a major ethics reform bill as an Illinois State Senator,
and 110th U.S. Congress passed the Legislative Transparency and
Accountability Act , which
“closely mirrored and drew key provisions from a bill (S. 230) that Senators
Obama and Feingold introduced in January 2007.” We could find no reference to
document Obama’s supposedly having said that neither of those bills would exist
if not for him.
· The Ethics Bill Was
Hard To Pass – LIAR, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
Again, it’s unclear which ethics bill this statement references,
nor could we find any reference to document Obama’s supposedly having said such
a bill was “hard to pass.’
· I Wrote A Tough
Nuclear Bill – LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering
and lack of all regulation – mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from
which David Axelrod came.
As the New York Times reported in February
2008:
When residents in
Illinois voiced outrage two years ago upon learning that the Exelon Corporation
had not disclosed radioactive leaks at one of its nuclear plants, the state’s
freshman senator, Barack Obama, took up their cause.
Mr. Obama scolded Exelon
and federal regulators for inaction and introduced a bill to require all plant
owners to notify state and local authorities immediately of even small leaks.
He has boasted of it on the campaign trail, telling a crowd in Iowa in December
that it was “the only nuclear legislation that I’ve passed.”
“I just did that last
year,” he said, to murmurs of approval.
A close look at the
path his legislation took tells a very different story. While he initially
fought to advance his bill, even holding up a presidential nomination to try to
force a hearing on it, Mr. Obama eventually rewrote it to reflect
changes sought by Senate Republicans, Exelon and nuclear regulators. The new
bill removed language mandating prompt reporting and simply offered guidance to
regulators, whom it charged with addressing the issue of unreported leaks.
Those revisions
propelled the bill through a crucial committee. But, contrary to Mr. Obama’s
comments in Iowa, it ultimately died amid parliamentary wrangling in the full
Senate.
· I Have Released My
State Records – LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for
have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
We couldn’t find a reference for Barack Obama’s supposedly
claiming that he had “released” his state records, only that he said he “didn’t
have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records” and that they
might not exist. Politico.com noted in October 2008 that:
Obama’s Senate files
became an issue after he pressed Hillary Rodham Clinton during their nomination
battle to release the schedules from her eight years as first lady.
When her campaign
demanded Obama release his state Senate files, he told reporters he did not
“maintain a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I didn’t
have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records.” The records
“could have been thrown out. I haven’t been in the state Senate now for quite
some time,” he said.
His campaign later said
that “files pertinent to ongoing casework” were passed to his successor, but
Obama didn’t save correspondence with the general public, state associations or
lobbyists, or memos on legislation and correspondence with Illinois state
agencies. Some of the records that have surfaced have done little to dampen the
demand for a more complete accounting.
· I Took On The
Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess – LIAR, you were part of a large group of people
who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself,
in your books.
In Barack Obama’s book Dreams from My Father ,
beginning at the start of Chapter 9, he writes in detail about the
efforts of community organizers to push a grassroots campaign advocating the
removal of asbestos from the Altgeld Gardens housing project in Chicago.
Although in his book Obama emphasizes his own role in the effort, many other
people who took part in are indeed mentioned as well.
· My Economics Bill
Will Help America – LIAR, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal
which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
It is unclear to us what bill or statement is supposedly being
referenced here.
· I Have Been A Bold
Leader In Illinois – LIAR, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD
action on your part.
We couldn’t find a reference for Barack Obama’s having described
himself as a “bold leader in Illinois,” but certainly some of his supporters have
claimed that of him (just as some of his critics have claimed the opposite).
· I Passed 26 Of My Own
Bills In One Year – LIAR, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you,
after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher
office.
Barack Obama did pass 26 bills in his final year as an Illinois
state senator. We could not find any reference to his claiming that all of them
were “my own” bills, but he certainly received a boost in passing them from
Illinois Senate President (and fellow Democrat) Emil Jones, who “helped Obama
learn the ways of the state legislature and gave Obama the chance to work on
the ethics legislation and death penalty reforms that Obama now boasts about in
his presidential campaign”:
Emil Jones Jr. helped
Obama master the intricacies of the Legislature. When Democrats took control of
the state Senate, Jones, though he risked offending colleagues who had toiled
futilely on key issues under Republican rule, tapped Obama to take the lead on
high-profile legislative initiatives that he now boasts about in his
presidential campaign.
And when Obama wanted a
promotion to the U.S. Senate, Jones provided critical support that gave the
little-known legislator legitimacy, keeping him from being instantly trampled
by the front-runners.
· No One Contacted
Canada About NAFTA – LIAR, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo
of the conversation your campaign had with them.
As FactCheck.org noted in March 2008 about the ‘ NAFTA-Gate ‘controversy:
It’s now clear that a
Canadian news report that started this flap wasn’t accurate. No evidence has
surfaced to show that any Obama “staffer” telephoned the Canadian ambassador in
Washington, and all concerned deny that any such conversation took place. But
it is equally clear that Obama’s senior economic adviser did
visit Canada’s consulate in Chicago on Feb. 8, and that NAFTA was one
of the several topics discussed.
Exactly what was said
is not so clear, however. The memo says Obama’s anti-NAFTA stance was described
as just “political maneuvering,” but the adviser says he said no such thing.
The campaign says the adviser wasn’t authorized to convey any message from the
candidate anyway. No audio recording or verbatim transcript of the disputed
conversation is available, and there’s no reason to expect that any exists.
· I Am Tough On
Terrorism – LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism.
In September 2007, the U.S. Senate voted on a resolution to
designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization:
Charged with defending
the system put in place after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Guards answer
to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and are revered by many for their defense of the
country during the 1980s war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
The legislative move to
classify Shiite Muslim-dominated Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard force as
terrorist would be first such move against a foreign government entity and
would freeze any of its assets under U.S. jurisdiction.
It would also allow the
U.S. Treasury Department to move against firms subject to U.S. law that do
business with the Guard, which have vast commercial interests at home and
abroad.
Senator Obama
was on the campaign trail at the time and did not return to Washington for the
vote.
· I Am Not Acting As
President Yet – LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in
Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together
on getting FARC recognized officially.
On March 1, a Columbian Army strike on a FARC (Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia) rebel camp in Columbia killed 24 people, including
Raul Reyes, the FARC’s foreign minister. Files in a laptop computer seized from
the wreckage of the rebel camp included references to U.S. diplomatic overtures
which the Associated Press described as “scintillating, if vague”:
In a Dec. 11 message to
the secretariat, [Ivan] Marquez writes: “If you are in agreement, I can receive
Jim and Tucker to hear the proposal of the gringos.”
Writing two days before
his death, Reyes tells his comrades that “the gringos,” working through
Ecuador’s government, are interested “in talking to us on various issues.”
“They say the new
president of their country will be (Barack) Obama,” he writes, saying Obama
rejects both the Bush administration’s free trade agreement with Colombia and
the current military aid program.
Exactly who
the referenced “gringos” were and whether they had any substantive connection
to Barack Obama is unknown.
· I Didn’t Run Ads In
Florida – LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two
weeks – and you still lost.
In August 2007, major Democratic candidates signed a pledge to
not campaign in Florida because that state had moved its primary election up
to 29 January 2008, one week earlier than the Democratic national
rules allowed. In January 2008, the Obama campaign launched national television
advertisements on CNN and MSNBC that were also shown in Florida. Obama campaign
spokesman Bill Burton maintainted that they had asked CNN and MSNBC to pull
Florida from the ad buy, but those networks said they could not.
· I Won Michigan –
LIAR, no you didn’t.
Senator Obama didn’t seriously claim to have “won” Michigan;
during an 8 March 2008 Today Show interview he misspoke and
inadvertently mentioned Michigan among a list of states which he had won. In
accordance with the agreement mentioned in the previous entry, Barack Obama’s
name didn’t even appear on the Michigan ballot.
· I won Nevada – LIAR,
no you did not.
Senator Obama didn’t claim to have “won” Nevada (a state that
holds caucuses rather than direct-election primaries); he noted, correctly,
that although Senator Hillary Clinton tallied more overall votes at the Nevada
caucuses, he actually picked up more national delegates from that state:
Mitt Romney took
Nevada’s Republican caucuses, while Democrats debated whether their party had
rendered a split decision.
New York Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton won the vote count among those at the caucuses, but Illinois
Sen. Barack Obama claimed a slight advantage in national convention delegates
on the strength of his showing in rural areas.
Obama said in a
statement released by his campaign that he came from 25 points behind
and nearly beat Clinton today because he did well across all of Nevada —
“including rural areas where Democrats have traditionally struggled.”
Obama’s campaign said
his performance in rural areas of the state helped him win a total of 13
national convention delegates, versus 12 for Clinton.
· I Want Americans To
Decide – LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters,
force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
Senator Obama has no influence or power over the holding of
caucuses rather than primary elections; that choice is made by each state
individually, and candidates have to abide by whatever is decided.
· I passed 900 Bills in
the State Senate – LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write
yourself.
We could not find any reference to document Barack Obama’s
having claimed he passied “900 bills in the [Illinois] state senate.”
· My Campaign Was
Extorted By A Friend – LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not
stop saying this. Obama has stopped saying this.
We are unsure what “extortion” claim this statement supposedly
references.
· I Believe In
Fairness, Not Tactics – LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from
running against you.
In April 2007, the Chicago Tribune wrote of
Barack Obama’s first campaign for public office:
The day after New
Year’s 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of
the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
There they began the
tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating
petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from
the city’s South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of
Obama’s four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.
Fresh from his work as
a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded
access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois
Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens.
But in that initial bid
for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckled arts of Chicago
electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to
gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like
Palmer.
· I Don’t Take PAC
Money – LIAR, you take loads of it.
Senator Obama didn’t say that has never accepted money from
political action committees. (He used PAC money in his previous U.S.
Senate and Illinois state Senate races.) He pledged that he would not
accept PAC money for his 2008 presidential bid, a pledge that he has upheld.
· I don’t Have
Lobbysists – LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
As Politico.com noted in May 2008:
In his campaign for the
Democratic presidential nomination, Obama is refusing donations from federally
registered lobbyists and excluding them from his official campaign staff. (They
can still be advisers and volunteers, and their spouses’ checks are certainly welcome.)
The Wall
Street Journal observed in November 2008 that:
Democratic lobbyists
are wondering about their future in an Obama administration. Although Sen.
Obama has taken a tough line toward registered lobbyists, he has allowed
himself some maneuvering room. Like Sen. McCain, Sen. Obama has banned
lobbyists from working on his campaign until after they quit their lobbying
jobs.
Senator Obama
also said that his administration would not employ federally registered
lobbyists, although (as the New York Times noted) he has
allowed himself some “wiggle room” in that regard:
Turning to campaign
promises in which he pledged sweeping ethics restrictions, President-elect
Barack Obama will bar lobbyists from helping to pay the costs of his transition
to power or working for it in any area in which they have represented clients
in the last year, his transition team said.
The new rules do seem
to leave some wiggle room. Aides to Mr. Obama, who declared during the campaign
that lobbyists would not “find a job in my White House,” said the guidelines
allowed for lobbyists to work on the transition in areas where they have not
done any lobbying.
Further, the rules
apply to lobbyists who must register with the federal government; many people
who work for lobbying firms or in other areas of the influence business in
Washington do not have to register, because they do not personally lobby
federal officials on specific issues.
· My Campaign Had
Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad – LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on
his Apple in one afternoon.
A widely-circulated spoof of Apple Computer’s famous 1984 television advertisement
for their (then-new) Macintosh computer was not created by an Obama campaign
worker. It was, as explained in a statement issued by the managing director of Blue State Digital (a
firm contracted to provide technology services to the Obama Campaign), created
without authorization by an employee of that company:
Statement from Thomas
Gensemer, Managing Director, Blue State Digital
On Wednesday afternoon,
March the 21st, an employee at our firm, Phillip de Vellis, received a call
from Arianna Huffington of “The Huffington Post” regarding the “1984” video
currently circulating online. Initially, de Vellis refused to respond to her
requests. He has since acknowledged to Blue State Digital that he was the
creator of the video.
Pursuant to company policy
regarding outside political work or commentary on behalf of our clients or
otherwise, Mr. de Vellis has been terminated from Blue State Digital effective
immediately.
Blue State Digital is
under contract with the Obama Campaign for technology pursuits including
software development and hosting. Additionally, one of our founding partners is
on leave from the company to work directly for the campaign at headquarters.
However, Blue State
Digital is not currently engaged in any relationship with the Obama Campaign
for creative or non-technical services.
Mr. de Vellis created
this video on his own time. It was done without the knowledge of management,
and was in no way tied to his work at the firm or our formal engagement [on
technology pursuits] with the Obama campaign.
I have spoken with
David Plouffe, Sen. Obama’s campaign manager, to inform him of this action and
am appreciative of his understanding and ongoing support of our work.
· I Have Always Been
Against Iraq – LIAR, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have
voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out
gutting you Obama. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date –
AGAIN.
Senator Obama expressed opposition to the war in Iraq well before
he gained a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2004. (The vote that authorized U.S.
military action in Iraq was held in 2002.) He has since voted in the Senate to
authorize funding for that war, for reasons he defended in a February 2008
Democratic debate:
The two Democrats
exchanged pointed words over each other’s records on the war in Iraq, which
contrast sharply even as economic and domestic concerns become dominant in the
race. Clinton voted in 2002 to authorize the invasion, which Obama opposed from
the start. After Obama again touted a high-profile antiwar speech he gave in
Chicago before the war, Clinton pointed out that he, like her, had subsequently
voted for war funding, and that their records on Iraq were similar since he
came to the Senate in 2005.
“When it wasn’t just a
speech, but it was actually action, where is the difference?” she said. “Where
is the comparison that would in some way give a real credibility to the speech
that he gave against the war?”
Obama shot back: “Once
we had driven the bus into the ditch, there were only so many ways we could get
out.”
· I Am As Patriotic As
Anyone – LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin and you don’t put your hand over your
heart during the Anthem. There is a Cuban Flag with Che Guevara Displayed at
Barack Obama Campaign Office which you allow to be displayed. You voted against
making english the official language of the United States. You voted to give
illegal aliens social security benefits, which would bankrupt the social
security system for Americans legally paying into it.
Obama spearheads campaign against Sanders’ nomination as Democratic presidential candidate
2 December 2019
The first votes for the Democratic presidential nomination will be cast in two months’ time, in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. With former President Barack Obama taking the lead, the Democratic Party is moving to ensure that issues of social inequality and wealth distribution are excluded from the elections.
An article in Politico last week (“Waiting for Obama”) reported that the “Democratic establishment is counting on [Obama] to stop Trump and, perhaps, stave off Bernie as well.”
While noting that Obama’s public position is that he will support whatever candidate is nominated, the article states, “There is one potential exception: Back when Sanders seemed like more of a threat than he does now, Obama said privately that if Bernie were running away with the nomination, Obama would speak up to stop him.”
The report conforms to what Obama has said in statements over the past two weeks to party donors and fundraisers in Washington, DC and California. He claimed that the American people were opposed to any radical change. “This is still a country that is less revolutionary than it is interested in improvement,” Obama said. “They like seeing things improved. But the average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it… They just don’t want to see crazy stuff.”
He continued, “We also have to be rooted in reality and the fact that voters, including the Democratic voters and certainly persuadable independents or even moderate Republicans, are not driven by the same views that are reflected on certain, you know, left-leaning Twitter feeds. Or the activist wing of our party.”
BLOG: BARACK OBAMA'S BANKSTER INFESTED ADMINISTRATION SPEARHEADED THE GREATEST TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE RICH IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
While he did not name them, the meaning was clear, as the New York Times noted: “His comments offered an implicit critique of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren…”
The concern of the Democratic Party establishment is not over Sanders and Warren, both of whom are tested political operatives. Rather, they do not want to run an election that appeals even in a limited way to the class-based concerns of the vast majority of the population.
Beginning with Obama’s statement that the 2016 election was an “intramural scrimmage” between two sides of the same team, the Democrats have sought to redirect popular hostility to Trump behind their militarist, anti-Russia campaign, the focus of the impeachment drive. This will be combined with efforts to promote divisions based on race and gender.
Obama was only the most prominent spokesman for a right-wing campaign throughout the month of November, including commentaries and editorials in the Times and the Washington Post (owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos), an op-ed from former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, and public statements from billionaires Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Mark Cuban and Leon Cooperman, all attacking proposals by Warren and Sanders for a tax on accumulated wealth.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg went even further, officially announcing himself as a belated candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and funding a $30 million advertising blitz that began last week.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined in with an attack on the health care proposal identified with Sanders and Warren. “I’m not a big fan of Medicare-for-all,” she said on Bloomberg TV, the cable network controlled by the billionaire now-candidate. She claimed that “there is a comfort level that some people have with their current private insurance.”
Both Warren and Sanders have responded by shifting to the right. Warren has
backpedaled on her “Medicare for All” proposal, releasing a “Plan B” that backtracks on the main component of her campaign.
For his part, Sanders was queried in last month’s Democratic presidential debate about Obama’s repudiation of revolution. “Is President Obama wrong?” the moderator asked Sanders. The Vermont senator shelved his rhetoric about “political revolution” and meekly replied, “No, he’s right. We don’t have to tear down the system, but we do have to do what the American people want.”
Both Sanders and Warren accept the fraudulent presentation of the Obama administration as a “progressive” government that laid the basis for further social reforms. They make no criticism of Obama’s bailout of Wall Street, his wage-cutting attacks on auto workers, or his slashing of federal support to public education and other social programs. They do not address the undeniable political fact that it was the alignment of the Obama administration with corporate America that drove sizeable sections of workers to turn their backs on the Democratic Party and either vote for Trump or stay home on Election Day in 2016.
Most critically, they support the foreign policy consensus in the Democratic Party that underlies the campaign to impeach Trump, not for his real crimes against immigrant workers and the democratic rights of the American people, but for his transgressions against the demands of the military-intelligence apparatus in relation to Ukraine, Russia and the Middle East.
Warren has publicly embraced the Trump administration’s efforts to strangle Venezuela with financial sanctions, while tacitly supporting the overthrow of Bolivian President Evo Morales by a right-wing US-backed campaign in which the Bolivian military played the central role. Sanders has referred to the overthrow of Morales as a “coup,” but offers no alternative to the aggressive assertion of US imperialist interests around the world, which is supported by both the Democrats and Republicans.
And like most Democrats, Sanders has criticized Trump’s trade war policies towards China from the right, demanding even more aggressive protectionist measures that would only add fuel to the mounting global tensions that bring with them the danger of a third world war.
The working class cannot defend its social rights to good-paying jobs, decent schools, medical care and other social services, or fight the growing danger of imperialist war, by means of the Democratic Party. This requires the independent mobilization of the working class in both industrial and political struggle, through strikes, mass demonstrations and the building of an independent political movement directed against the capitalist system based on a socialist program.
Obama panicking about his legacy? Advises left to pick any Democrat
President Obama, who has yet to endorse anyone for president, has one piece of advice for voters: Pick a Democrat, any Democrat, doesn't matter who.
"Everybody needs to chill out about the candidates, but gin up about the prospect of rallying behind whoever emerges from this process," Obama told the millionaire techies, according to far-left news channel CNN . "There will be differences" between them, he added, "but I want us to make sure that we keep in mind that, relative to the ultimate goal, which is to defeat a president and a party that has ... taken a sharp turn away from a lot of the core traditions and values and institutional commitments that built this country," those differences are "relatively minor."
"The field will narrow and there's going to be one person, and if that is not your perfect candidate and there are certain aspects of what they say that you don't agree with and you don't find them completely inspiring the way you'd like, I don't care," he went on to say. "Because the choice is so stark and the stakes are so high that you cannot afford to be ambivalent in this race."
Which is nuts advice to that audience, given that several of the candidates are all but pledging to put those companies out of business. Should Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, go vote for Elizabeth Warren, who can't stop singling him out as her model bad guy? It's not exactly in tune with what the Silicon Valley is up against. How about Bernie Sanders? Should they vote for a guy like that? Some will, but probably not the ones who know that the Sanders idea is annihilation.
What we have here is Obama being Obama, always looking out for himself.
The only real reason he could really be so tin-earred toward his audience is that a Democrat in place instead of a Republican would be his best hope of saving his legacy.
President Trump's been dismantling that piece by piece, and any president who manages to stay in power is going to leave a mark.
The problem with Obama is that his legacy is built on water. Having rammed through signature legislation such as Obamacare on strictly partisan lines, and having enacted regulations such as DACA by executive order after Congress refused to pass his proposed legislation, dismantling his one-man rule is pretty much a given, a matter of time, given that pendulums swing for a reason. President Trump's unusual election was likely a bid to correct Obama's nonpartisan rule by fiat at least in part, he was only possible because Obama was so extreme. Historically, only bipartisan bills stand the test of time as power shifts from one side of the political aisle to the other. Unless your party's rule is permanent, unpopular fiats are going to get swept aside in favor of better stuff. That's the real way democracy works. Obama's legacy as I noted here , was all but certain to be erased as the pendulum swings, and doubly so if voters give the next party a stronger mandate on a second term.
Obama always dismissed bipartisanship as Republican recalcitrance, and never attempted to cut deals with them. He was always the holy one, calling his one man rule things such as "core traditions and values and institutional commitments that built this country," as he said above. It's a laughable statement if there ever was one, given his far-left and Marxist past and associations.
In any case, the ex-president can see the writing on the wall as Trump surges in the polls, and most Democratic presidential candidates fall flat on their faces. (How's Joe Biden doing these days, Barack?) They're all a disaster and he knows they're a disaster yet they're his only hope for keeping a scintilla of his legacy intact. So he throws out that desperate plea to vote for anyone, for nothing more than to beat Trump.
For all of George Bush's shortcomings, we never saw the man do that.
But Obama's a bit different.
Color me doubtful that anyone listens to him.
Obama Seeks Brother of "Chicago Mob Boss" for Top White House Post
The roaches and con-artist, fake journalist on cable news are all lying about William Daley being all this and all that, this man is an open borders, down with America, free trade globalist. MSNBC and Gretta "the Scientology" Van Susteren from Fox News are knowingly deceiving the public about D. Issa & his letter to "business owners"=which they made into such a BIG DAM DEAL, but no one says anything when Barrack Hussein Obama, comes around with all of these shady bankers, hedge fund managers and Wall St. Tycoons, which he puts in his cabinet. All of Obama's meeting with Wall Street asking, "What can I do for you?" is never something covered by Keith Oberman or Rachel Maddow.
(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is considering naming William Daley, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive and former U.S. Commerce secretary, to a high-level administration post, possibly White House chief of staff, people familiar with the matter said.
BOOK
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics, investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s Obamanomics.
Congressman Ron Paul says, “Every libertarian and free-market conservative needs to read Obamanomics.” And Johan Goldberg, columnist and bestselling author says, “Obamanomics is conservative muckraking at its best and an indispensable field guide to the Obama years.”
If you’ve wondered what’s happening to America, as the federal government swallows up the financial sector, the auto industry, and healthcare, and enacts deficit exploding “stimulus packages,” this book makes it all clear—it’s a big scam. Ultimately, Obamanomics boils down to this: every time government gets bigger, somebody’s getting rich, and those somebodies are friends of Barack. This book names the names—and it will make your blood boil.
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same “special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers, small businesses, and consumers.
Investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s Obamanomics. In this explosive book, Carney reveals:
* The Great Health Care Scam—Obama’s backroom deals with drug companies spell corporate profits and more government control
* The Global Warming Hoax—Obama has bought off industries with a pork-filled bill that will drain your wallet for Al Gore’s agenda
* Obama and Wall Street—“Change” means more bailouts and a heavy Goldman Sachs presence in the West Wing (including Rahm Emanuel)
* Stimulating K Street—The largest spending bill in history gave pork to the well-connected and created a feeding frenzy for lobbyists
* How the GOP needs to change its tune—drastically—to battle Obamanomics
Praise for Obamanomics
“The notion that ‘big business’ is on the side of the free market is one of progressivism’s most valuable myths. It allows them to demonize corporations by day and get in bed with them by night. Obamanomics is conservative muckraking at its best. It reveals how President Obama is exploiting the big business mythology to undermine the free market and stick it to entrepreneurs, taxpayers, and consumers. It’s an indispensable field guide to the Obama years.”
—Jonha Goldberg, LA Times columnist and best-selling author
“‘Every time government gets bigger, somebody’s getting rich.’ With this astute observation, Tim Carney begins his task of laying bare the Obama administration’s corporatist governing strategy, hidden behind the president’s populist veneer. This meticulously researched book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how Washington really works.”
—David Freddoso, best-selling author of The Case Against Barack Obama
“Every libertarian and free-market conservative who still believes that large corporations are trusted allies in the battle for economic liberty needs to read this book, as does every well-meaning liberal who believes that expansions of the welfare-regulatory state are done to benefit the common people.”
—Congressman Ron Paul
“It’s understandable for critics to condemn President Obama for his ‘socialism.’ But as Tim Carney shows, the real situation is at once more subtle and more sinister. Obamanomics favors big business while disproportionately punishing everyone else. So-called progressives are too clueless to notice, as usual, which is why we have Tim Carney and this book.”
—Thomas E. Woods, Jr., best-selling author of Meltdown and The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to American History
· Hardcover: 256 pages
· Publisher: Regnery Press (November 30, 2009)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 1596986123
· ISBN-13: 978-1596986121
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