The Obama White House (a running tally)

[Lhalo]

- IRS Scandal

- National Debt from $10 Trillion to $17 Trillion

- Benghazi

- NSA Spying (both on allies and US citizens)

- Obamacare Disaster

- GTMO Still Open

- Syriah Debacle

Am I missing anything?

[arch stanton]

The IRS scandal is overblown and the debt will rise regardless of who is president.

 

-Drone strikes and the redefinition of imminent threat

[mtangelsfan]

there is no "h" in Syria.

 

Increase of patriot act powers in illegal searches and seizures, warrants from secret courts and denial of habeus corpus.

[Blarg]

The IRS scandal is overblown and the debt will rise regardless of who is president.

-Drone strikes and the redefinition of imminent threat

The Clinton Administration had left office with a surplus.

[Schildog]

yet the repubs impeached him for getting domed up in office.

[mtangelsfan]

four posts in and already some misdirection.  Well done people.  Well done.

[arch stanton]

The Clinton Administration had left office with a surplus.

Desert Storm wasn't quite as expensive as Iraq and Afghanistan. They will keep costing for years to come.

[fan_since79]

Billions funneled to solar energy companies that failed. Solyndra, etc.

[Schildog]

Billions funneled to solar energy companies that failed. Solyndra, etc.

 

nothing was funneled to halliburton and others under the previous administration. 

Edited October 29, 2013 by Schildog

[fan_since79]

nothing was funneled to halliburton and others under the previous administration. 

 

Halliburton is still in business.

[Kevin]

Schildog, we know the Bush administration sucked. It's been covered. This thread is about how awful the Obama administration is. You can "hope" to "change" it though.

[mtangelsfan]

nothing was funneled to halliburton and others under the previous administration. 

that would be an awesome post if this thread was about all administrations or if this the op stated that only this white house had done bad things or made mistakes.

 

considering neither of those things occurred I can only consider the above post a very poor attempt at misdirection.  

[Blarg]

four posts in and already some misdirection. Well done people. Well done.

There was no misdirection in my post, I was addressing directly a post preceding and both are related to the topic. Edited October 29, 2013 by Eric Notti

[Stradling]

misdirection is the new strawman

[Jay]

Fast and Furious

[Tank]

i have a recurring fear. all of the screw-ups by this administration are being done intentionally so that that hilary can come in and promise to clean up his mess and sweep her way to victory in '16. she'll be hailed as the saviour of the party, and of america itself.

Edited October 29, 2013 by Tank

[acro2008]

Executive branch are puppets. The rest of the goveernment is not much  different.   IMO,  the White House mostly does what big money tells it to do.  There aren't many screw ups as much as there are intentional actions done for specifiic reasons that the White House(controlled by big money), all ready with the cover story and lies simply does not tell the public.  The western elite are still playing a grand game of chess as in war games for profit and for their own domination and control.  Obama is Pinocchio spewing garbage such as "Keep America free" Bull sh&t  as people just keep dying. 

[Angel Oracle]

Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Whatever, it's what keeps politicians rich and destroying America.

[Brandon]

I was always curious how big money financial companies couldn't stop all the regulation that came with the bubble burst.

[Lhalo]

I was always curious how big money financial companies couldn't stop all the regulation that came with the bubble burst.

They love the regulation. It allowed them to profit while it hurt all the little firms/banks.

[Brandon]

You have a point. It blew out the Countrywides, Bear Stearns, and a ton of other fly by night banks. Even bigger banks like Washington Mutual were swallowed up.

I've been out of the game since just after the regulation laws went into effect, and even then it was like Obamacare where no one knew what to do, even the lawyers, and it was a cluster****. I think the banks and mortgage companies have found the loopholes and ways to work with the system, but I'd have no idea what we'd look like if it all changes like it did and the Fed didn't keep the rate down.

[Adam]

Regulation facilitates Cronyism/Crony Capitalism

Edited October 31, 2013 by Adam

[Jim]

The IRS scandal is overblown and the debt will rise regardless of who is president.

 

-Drone strikes and the redefinition of imminent threat

I disagree with the notion that the IRS scandal is overblown. If anything, it is under blown. The American media should be outraged that this government agency can do what they want, when they want, to whomever they want, with very little (or no) retributions.

 

The fact they are currently picking sides is quite concerning.

[Spirit]

Joe Blanton

[Tank]

The Big Lie needs to be added to this list.