If there's a lack of scandal under obama, i'd attribute it to the fact that he's a right wing plant.
He's continuing most bush era policy. Fast & Furious was happening under GWB also. OMG he assassinated an accused terrorist who was a US citizen!!! Alot of left wingers back him because of party lines, and then there are some right wingers who go against him because of party lines.
With Obama we also have the recent signing of NDAA. If we learned anything from the Patriot act, it's been made clear that laws like this that they say are for terrorists will be used on other people.
I believe the patriot act was used some 1500 times against average criminals and only 1-2 times in actual terror related cases.
That gives opponents of NDAA a clear reference to how the government works. NDAA, SOPA... we might have to censor ourselves in the future on forums like these.
Negative, Fast & Furious was only under Obama. BATFE has done many similar things under other Presidents though, which is why I suspect Obama had nothing to do with authorizing it. BATFE is simply batshit crazy and un-American. You're right about the rest, but it's not because Obama is a right wing plant, it's because the two parties are more similar than not. In a two-party, winner-take-all system, they have to be to compete. And that's not necessarily a bad thing; I'd certainly hate to see our government swing back and forth between two polar opposites. Imagine four years of
Dreams from my father Obama (as opposed to the Obama we have had) followed by four years of
Dreams of killing gays Santorum. It would be madness, no long term stability at all.
I largely disagree but will limit my remarks to one issue: Subordinating the govt's loan to that of individual investors very late in the deal when the company's dire financial condition was known in apparently conflict with federal statutes prohibiting such may well elevate this to scandal level when it's all said and done.
(I think that's the longest single sentence I've ever written.)
Fern
I agree completely, that's one of the most scandalous things I've seen government do. If that was not done at Obama's direction, he needs to seek out and prosecute or at the very least fire whomever did that. It's nothing less than theft from taxpayers for the benefit of big contributors.
Like Infohawk I give Obama a pass on the actual loan, even though it was turned down under Bush. I think Obama is honestly much more bullish on solar energy than was Bush, as am I. So I could understand how an Obama administration could honestly see Solyndra in a rosier picture than would a Bush administration, even though the numbers are exactly the same. That Bush was right is not necessarily evidence of malfeasance; it only means that Obama was wrong. If I don't see what I consider to be valid evidence of malfeasance, I'll give my President the benefit of the doubt and assume that like anyone can, he simply made an honest mistake based on his own personal bias.
Actually, with the exception of the loan subordination flip the problem that concerns me is that we apparently can't complete at any level with the Chinese in a huge, high tech growth market even with a state-of-the-art automated factory, not that we lost half a billion on Solyndra.
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