Anyone notice the lack of scandals under Obama?

[cybrsage]

You know, looking back over the Iran-Contra issue when Reagan said he did not recall things...he might not have been lying. He had the beginning stages of Alzheimers.

 

[Pulsar]

I'm a little surprised that no one mentioned the more-than-blatent vote buying that occured for retired folks just before the congressional elections.

Of course, it got dropped faster than a hot potato by the media, so I'm not terribly surprised.

His blatent move denying bond holders their fair share of GM was a scandal that got dropped pretty damn quickly too.

See, there's the rub. A scandal is only a scandal if the main stream media bothers holding on to it. Bush vomitting at an overseas dinner got more play that blatent vote buying. Ask yourself why that was.

 

[Craig234]

I'm a little surprised that no one mentioned the more-than-blatent vote buying that occured for retired folks just before the congressional elections.

Of course, it got dropped faster than a hot potato by the media, so I'm not terribly surprised.

His blatent move denying bond holders their fair share of GM was a scandal that got dropped pretty damn quickly too.

See, there's the rub. A scandal is only a scandal if the main stream media bothers holding on to it. Bush vomitting at an overseas dinner got more play that blatent vote buying. Ask yourself why that was.

A link to the story would help. I'm sure *someone* wrote about it?

Was that an Obama issue?

 

[sm625]

It's easy to forget it seems, that we've normally had a ton of scandals, and this has been the most scandal-free period I remember in American politics.

Jesus are you kidding me? Maybe if you actually read what's going on instead of reading everything the debt pushers shove in your face you'd know that the scamming and looting is unprecedented and out of control. It's just not being prosecuted or reported.

 

[dank69]

Completely OT, just saw this gem in Binarycow's sig ...



Subtle, yet provocative.



So Mexicans do roofing and yardwork, and koreans eat dog, anymore racist stereotype you want to let roll tonight?

So these comments get your panties in a bunch, but Ron Paul gets a free pass?

 

[FerrelGeek]

That can be said of most scandals.

Agree nothing terribly huge yet.

Yeah, fast and furious was no big deal. Just got people killed. Nothing to see. Move along.

 

[cybrsage]

Holder either needs to be fired because he knew about wrt Fast and Furious or he needs to be fired for NOT knowing about Fast and Furious. In the former he was inept, in the latter he has no control over his group.

Either way you slice it, Hold needs to be gone.

 

[woolfe9999]

The restructure deal MIGHT be legal but it reeks of cronyism. Restructuring a loan so that the taxpayers take the inevitable loss rather than one's contributors and friends isn't just a bad idea, it's the very worst of politics.

The evidence of cronyism here is weak at best. The restructure itself doesn't make that case very well. The idea behind any kind of restructure is to prevent the belly up in the first place. We don't know all the details of what was going on and why it was restructured that way.

 

[HomerJS]

Nothing Obama has done or will ever do can eclipse the scandal of starting a war under false pretenses costing the lives of over 5000 of our brave soldiers and almost 1 trillion dollars.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Bush is gone, Obama is prez and is ultimately responsible for what his admin does. It's 2012. Get with it. Bush doing A does not mean that it's no big deal for the Obama admin to do B.

 

[FerrelGeek]

The evidence of cronyism here is weak at best. The restructure itself doesn't make that case very well. The idea behind any kind of restructure is to prevent the belly up in the first place. We don't know all the details of what was going on and why it was restructured that way.

Don't have time to read back. Are you refering to Solyndra? If so, why wasn't the loan structured so that the taxpayers were the first to get repaid if things went bust? That strikes me as cronyism.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Holder either needs to be fired because he knew about wrt Fast and Furious or he needs to be fired for NOT knowing about Fast and Furious. In the former he was inept, in the latter he has no control over his group.

Either way you slice it, Hold needs to be gone.

Somebody in the DOJ ought to be strung up for criminal negligence for this. People died because of this. If Ashcroft had done this, the media would be shrieking for his head.

 

[Zargon]

yeah I would call actively undermining an amendment to the constitution as pretty bad.

 

[Craig234]

Yeah, fast and furious was no big deal. Just got people killed. Nothing to see. Move along.

Yes, those drug cartels had no access to guns without these. If this program wasn't done to infiltrate cartels, no one would have been shot, obviously.

 

[Craig234]

Jesus are you kidding me? Maybe if you actually read what's going on instead of reading everything the debt pushers shove in your face you'd know that the scamming and looting is unprecedented and out of control. It's just not being prosecuted or reported.

Proof that the federal government has 'scamming and looting' at 'unprecedented levels'?

 

[Genx87]

It is amazing how one poster can have so many fail thread of the year candidates. And he doesnt waste any time either. Gets right to business in 2012 with this gem.