The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama, Part 10: Loose Odds and Ends of Failure

Over the past week or so we have been reviewing the many ways and perspectives on how the Obama Presidency has been an abject failure:

• We reviewed the many, many lies and deceptions of this administration and this President, from cutting the annual budget deficit in half to promising that you could keep your doctors under Obama Care to many others.
• We reviewed the many high ranking Obama administration officials that have illegally and immorally conducted government business, and likely government shenanigans, using personal, unofficial computers and email accounts, undermining the spirit and letter of the Freedom of Information Act, other laws, and Obama; own promise to operate the most transparent administration ever
• We reviewed the many instances where this administration has either allowed government functions and departments to continue to overspend but under deliver or allowed them to get even worse than when he took office.
• We also reviewed some past posts that we had done previously that laid out numerous reasons and actions that should have already led to the impeachment of this Presidency, based on violations of existing law, judicial rulings, and the Constitution.

Yesterday and today we are updating these transgressions, lies, failures, illegal actions, etc. that have occurred more recently. I will let you decide if they are moral, impeachable, criminal, etc. They are certainly numerous, when considered with the many failures we have already discussed, and are probably not over, given that this administration might actually be in power for another 21 months or so.

Today is focused on tying up loose ends and looking at failure lists that others have already compiled. Thus, in no particular order, the latest failures of the Obama administration:

1) ISIS torturing, beheading, and rampaging through the Middle East. Iran about to get a sweetheart deal from the West, enabling them to get nuclear weapons in a relatively short time. Israeli and U.S. relations at an all time low. Unemployment and economic growth still a major problem. All government functions still broken and expensive. North Korea threatening to go nuclear on the U.S.

A lot of bad things going on in the world but the President again had to take time out of his schedule to do an extended video piece on ESPN. On that video he went through every single NCAA men’s basketball tournament game to give his opinion, as if anyone cared who he thought would advance out of the first round. Bad, bad priorities again.

2) The Obama administration recently decided that it would kill a Federal regulation that subjected the White House Administrative Office to the tenets and requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). While legally this does not violate any laws and courts have ruled that the Office is not subjected to FOIA requests, it has been complying with requests for over thirty years.

But the timing of announcing the shutdown of information flows is either ironic or suspicious or both. Ironic that it occurred on National Freedom of Information Day and suspicious that it occurred more than six years into the administration’s tenure and during a time when the need to get information to investigate administration wrong doing (e.g. Benghazi, email scandals, etc.). Certainly not consistent with the spirit of the FOIA law or Obama’s now broken promise to operate the most transparent administration ever.

3) The President does not even think that Iran wants to get a nuclear weapon since in his world: “And if in fact what they claim is true, which is they have no aspiration to get a nuclear weapon, that in fact, according to their Supreme Leader, it would be contrary to their faith to obtain a nuclear weapon, if that is true, there should be the possibility of getting a deal.” Given that Iran’s leaders have publicly said at one time or another that they want to wipe out Israel and the U.S., seems like the President is quite out of touch with reality, a condition that could get a lot of human beings killed.

4) Rather than try to explain all of the deceptions, hypocrisies, and lies let’s go to some videotapes where we have the President lie and deceive in his own words. In the first video, let’s look at a compilation of hypocritical remarks the President has made over time. The video compares and contrasts the statements made by the President to show how he changes his views and opinions to suit the situation.

The actual President’s words can be viewed at:

http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2014/02/24/do-as-i-say-obamas-hypocritcal-moments/

5) Let’s move from hypocritical Presidential remarks to outright lies over the years from this President. The video with his lies can be accessed at:

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/politics/joe-wilson-was-right-obamas-lies-through-the-years

6) Let’s move from the President's own words and how they show that he lies, deceives, and changes his positions just to satisfy his needs and ego to the compilation of lists done by others who have documented why this is the worst, failed President in a long time. 

The first compilation of failures comes from the Blacksphere website. We have already covered many of these lies and failures but we include their list in its totality:

• “I, Barrack Hussein Obama, pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.”
• I will have the most transparent administration in history.
• The stimulus will fund shovel-ready jobs.
• I am focused like a laser on creating jobs.
• The IRS is not targeting anyone.
• It was a spontaneous riot about a movie.
• If I had a son.
• I will put an end to the type of politics that “breeds division, conflict and cynicism.
• You didn’t build that!
• I will restore trust in government.
• The Cambridge cops acted stupidly.
• The public will have 5 days to look at every bill that lands on my desk
• It’s not my red line – it is the world’s red line.
• Whistle blowers will be protected in my administration.
• We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks and auto companies, with interest.
• I am not spying on American citizens.
• Obama Care will be good for America . You can keep your family doctor. Premiums will be lowered by $2500. If you like it, you can keep your current healthcare plan. It’s just like shopping at Amazon.
• I knew nothing about “Fast and Furious” gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels.
• I knew nothing about IRS targeting conservative groups.
• I knew nothing about what happened in Benghazi .
• I have never known my uncle from Kenya who is in the country illegally and that was arrested and told toleave the country over 20 years ago. And, I have never lived with that uncle. He finally admitted
• (12-05-2013) that he DID know his uncle and that he DID live with him.

The list and their discussion of the list can be accessed at:

http://theblacksphere.net/2015/03/ongoing-list-obama-lies/

7) The Americans Freedom Fighters website did their compilation of Obama failures, false promises and deceptions under the theme. “First President to…”:

• First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
• First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
• First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
• First President to violate the War Powers Act. 
• First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
• First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
• First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs.
• First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
• First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
• First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
• First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
• First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
• First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
• First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
• First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
• First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
• First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
• First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
• First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
• First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
• First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
• First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
• First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
• First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
• First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
• First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
• First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
• First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.
• First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
• First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
• First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
• First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
• First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth
• First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
• First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”
• Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. (Thank God he didn’t get away with THIS one.)

Their list and article that contained this list can be accessed at:

www.americasfreedomfighters.com

8) Let's finish today with three of the latest foreign affairs failures of the administration:

Obama called ISIS the junior varsity of terrorist groups. Now they are the worse, most cutthroat terrorist group the world has ever seen.

Obama said that Iraq was safe and secure when he withdrew U.S. troops from that country. Now, Iraq is one of the most lawless, most terrorist intensive place in the world.

Obama said Yemen was a tremendous success and the model to follow from a counter terrorism strategy. Now, Yemen is essentially a lawless country, the U.S. embassy has been shut down, and the country is now being divided and fought over by Iranian backed terrorists, ISIS terrorists, and Al Qaeda terrorists.

Three different foreign affairs situations, three failures of catastrophic proportions.

This will complete our extensive, and depressing, review of the failures of the Obama administration. Many of his actions and failures are certainly impeachable, especially the numerous times he violated the tenets of the Constitution, the times he denied the Constitutional rights of citizens, and the many times he ignored, violated, or suspended existing laws. Other failures, while not impeachable, are certainly detrimental to the country’s well being, from skyrocketing debt to the unfolding disasters of Obama Care to effective government functions to all time lows in trusting government officials and politicians.

Six years into the administration and he can no longer blame Bush for the failures. His record now stands by itself and his record stands for failure. The question is whether the country, its citizens, and our democracy can withstand two more years of the same behavior and lack of competency. I believe in Americans but this administration has certainly put that hope to the test.

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