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Oct 19, 2013 21:39:33   #
20 and 21-already answered. Did Obama downplay the "terrorist" aspect for a few days? Most likely. Lies? Most likely CYA, starting with State.

The Acorn and "Black Panther" thing-really? Acorn has proven, after much ado, to be a small, localized cluster screw. And I'm from Philly-even the old-school Blank Panthers disavowed any affiliation with two black guys in black leather jackets and black berets CLAIMING to be the "New Black Panthers" in ONE polling place in Philly during ONE election Please.

I'll really have to look into the US Census Bureau being moved from Commerce "right into the White House." I seriously doubt it. If it has been moved to another federal agency, so what? The Constitution calls for a counting of the population every 10 years. It doesn't call for the Department of Commerce, which wasn't even a gleam in the Founding Fathers' eyes, to do it.

The list is long-the same list like-a-Fox "news" has been yammering about for the past six years. And not any of it- none-has stuck. Not because of a lack of trying, but because given the bloated federal bureaucracy, aside from the NGOs like Acorn (now disbanded), there's going to be these types of cluster screws going on all the time.

Not like a concerted attempt to lie, repeatedly, from the White House to the Secretary of Defense to the Secretary of State, who, belatedly, came clean with his sins, in sending more than 5,000 young US citizens to their deaths while killing tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of citizens of a former ally. (yes, Reagan and Bush I backed Iraq in it's war with Iran, leading the last the last use of chemical weapons with a wink and a nod, as well as some ariel photography, of Iranian defenses. Remember the USS Stark? Goggle it. And, yes, Reagan violated international law, as well as US law, when mining the harbors of Nicaragua and sending arms, via Iran and Israel, to the Contras, whom he said where like "The Founding Fathers" of the United States. I saw Contras up close and they were a bunch of Miami based coke dealers and arms runners, or the henchmen for a bunch of Miami coke dealers and gun runners. )

Get back to me when the current administration goes down the same road. Meanwhile, perhaps you should read Buckley, or George Will, or some other righty who at least understands how the federal government works. (I know Buckley's dead and he was a pompous as*. At least he got the crimes of Johnson and Kennedy down pat. Remember Bobby Baker? Google him. Remember Kennedy's mysterious 1960 wins in Chicago and Texas? Remember Mayor Daley-the first one? The news cycle wasn't a fraction as long or an iota as curious as it is today. And both, well, Kennedy, at least, had the good sense not to declare war on the news media. Obama would have done well to study Kennedy's astute cultivation of the news media.)
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Oct 19, 2013 20:47:01   #
Fast & Furious-I'm sure Obama directed this cluster screw directly from the Oval Office. In fact, Fast &Furious was started in the last administration, just like the Bay of Pigs was hatched in the previous administration.

Bengazi--what a few US lives compared to the more than 5,000 US dead in Iraq? A screw-up, no doubt- but I'll bet Obama didn't know about this until Hillary decided to call him. Do you really think the President keeps tabs on the security of every US embassy and consulate? If you do, I have a bridge you might want to buy. I'll bet Hillary didn't know about it until the bodies were cold.

IRS? They also gave close scrutiny to groups that had "progressive" in their names. You think Issa just let that one slide?

Affordable Care Act is a convoluted mess, but at least it's something the feds and the states have been in for decades. Through Medicare, Medicaid and state charity care funds, government already pays for almost 50% of all heath care in the US-the chronically sick, the old and the very poor. Why not try and bring the young and healthy into the same pool?

Is anybody looking at what every nation in the world, save Somalia, Chad and China, is doing to take care of their population's health care needs? We spend a world record high of 17% of all health care dollars on paperwork-administration-all wasted because we are "health care consumers" in a "free market health care system" instead of patients in need of a basic need. And yet we range 17th in outcomes-tied with Costa Rica-where my brother, a gringo and non-citizen, gets health insurance for $40 a month. Our system is broken and every president in the last 40 years-Nixon included-as offered some sort of 'cure." Perfect, no, but at least an area where the feds are already deeply involved. Not like education, which is the last bastion of local control.

I'm sure you'll find something-throw enough pasta against the wall and something will stick. Again, I was hoping for a cogent discourse here. Guess I'll look elsewhere.
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Oct 19, 2013 18:28:54   #
Let's be specific. Yes, Obama breaths air. I know that irks some people, but hat, specifically has he done to warrant impeachment?

Resorting to "you can go back to sleep" indicates you have no real idea of what impeachable offenses are, much less what offenses the current resident of the White House has committed other than not being white.

I remember when House Democrats mentioned impeaching George W. Bush for leading the nation into an unwarranted, illegal war based on known fabrications, a war that killed more than 5,000 US servicemen and women and one that was put on the nation's credit card. The GOP was outraged.

Now the GOP is outraged that they lost another presidential election.

Even Buckley agreed that Nixon deserved to be driven from the White HOuse although he muttered endlessly about the alleged crimes of past Democratic presidents.

So I ask, specifically, what has Obama done to warrant impeachment? Can you key in a few words, a few coherent thoughts, on why this should happen? A few words other that "go back to sleep."
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Oct 19, 2013 16:07:30   #
I was reading recently the late William F. Buckley's "Execution Eve" written shortly after Nixon left office and it contained a bunch of the same old Right Wing gripes: "Why was Nixon forced out of office when Kennedy and Johnson did as bad or worse?" and "The press favors Democrats."

Well. yes the press (sans ; like a Fox"news") favors the center and just left of center. News organizations are a commodity out in the free market. One can chose to
what news organizations to follow and since most people are in the center, centrist news organizations flourish. Now that a minority are flipping to right of center, we have crazy lie a Fox news.

Obama's done nothing vaguely impeachable. Nothing like Nixon. Or like Reagan's illegal war against leftists movements in Central America or his illegal dealings with Iran or George W. Bush's lies about Iraq and shredding the Constitution with No Child Left Behind Act (an unprecedented federal intrusion into the last vestige of local control-education) and the so-called "Patriot Act."

Obama isn't my cup of tea, by any means. But I fail to sees why the GOP is fixated on taking him down, just as they were with Clinton and Carter. My guess is that since Nixon was forced out the White House, the GOP won't be happy until the force a Democrat from the White House.

As far as "The Affordable Care Act goes, it doesn't go far enough-we need universal, single-payer health care, be it funded by the states (not a good idea), the feds Only a little better idea" or a single non-profit with a condoned monopoly just like Old Ma Bell.

Impeach Obama? Only after George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are tried for war crimes.
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