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Nearly 300,000 people sign petition to rename Trump Tower's street after Barack Obama

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Hell of an idea!!!!! :2wave:

"We request the New York City Mayor and City Council do the same by renaming a block of Fifth Avenue after the former president whose many accomplishments include: saving our nation from the Great Recession; serving two completely scandal-free terms in office; and taking out Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind September 11th, which killed over 3,000 New Yorkers," creator Elizabeth Rowin wrote.


Trump Tower NYC address: Obama Avenue petition gets more than 200,000 people sign petition to rename 5th Avenue near Trump Tower after President Barack Obama - CBS News
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Yeah, I heard about this on the news today. Funny as hell, lol, although I doubt it will actually happen. Trump would have a stroke on the spot!
 
DiAnna said:
Yeah, I heard about this on the news today. Funny as hell, lol, although I doubt it will actually happen. Trump would have a stroke on the spot!
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Maybe that's the plan. :)
 
BWG said:
Hell of an idea!!!!! :2wave:
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He’s probably already had his lawyers see if it could happen. The idea alone probably made him **** a brick.


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BWG said:
Hell of an idea!!!!! :2wave:
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"serving two completely scandal-free terms in office"

There they go again...liberal pretending not to know things.

Moving on...
 
madasheck said:
He’s probably already had his lawyers see if it could happen. The idea alone probably made him **** a brick.


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That would be a hell of load for his Depends.

I hope he buys the extra strength ones...
 
ttwtt78640 said:
According to CNN none, yet they like to leave out many "controversies" which even they reported on during the Obama administration. The difference between a "controversy" and a "scandal" largely seems to depend on who is reporting on "the matter".

'Facts first'? Don Lemon repeats the ‘no scandals’ myth about Obama's administration
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I think if you don't need a lawyer its really not a scandal, or if your closest appointees and associatesare not in prison in prison it's probably not scandalous.

Hey this is fun it should be a thread of its own...
 
GDViking said:
I think if you don't need a lawyer its really not a scandal, or if your closest appointees and associatesare not in prison in prison it's probably not scandalous.

Hey this is fun it should be a thread of its own...
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There were many lawyers involved with Hillary's private server "matter" - try again.
 
snakestretcher said:
What 'scandals' did Obama suffer apart from Trump's birther idiocy?
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In reality, Mr. Obama has presided over some of the worst scandals of any president in recent decades. Here’s a partial list:

• State Department email. In an effort to evade federal open-records laws, Mr. Obama’s first secretary of state set up a private server, which she used exclusively to conduct official business, including communications with the president and the transmission of classified material. A federal criminal investigation produced no charges, but FBI Director James Comey reported that the secretary and her colleagues “were extremely careless” in handling national secrets.

• Operation Fast and Furious. The Obama Justice Department lost track of thousands of guns it had allowed to pass into the hands of suspected smugglers, in the hope of tracing them to Mexican drug cartels. One of the guns was used in the fatal 2010 shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Congress held then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt when he refused to turn over documents about the operation.

• IRS abuses. Mr. Obama’s Internal Revenue Service did something Richard Nixon only dreamed of doing: It successfully targeted political opponents. The Justice Department then refused to enforce Congress’s contempt citation against the IRS’s Lois Lerner, who refused to answer questions about her agency’s misconduct.

• Benghazi. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed in the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya. With less than two months to go before the 2012 election, the State Department falsely claimed the attack was not a terrorist attack but a reaction to an anti-Muslim film. Emails from the secretary later showed that she knew the attack was terrorism. Justice Department prosecutors even convinced a magistrate judge to jail the filmmaker.

• Hacking. Mr. Obama presided over the biggest data breach in the federal government’s history, at the Office of Personnel Management. The hack exposed the personnel files of millions of federal employees and may end up being used for everything from identity theft to blackmail and espionage. OPM Director Katherine Archuleta, the president’s former political director, had been warned repeatedly about security deficiencies but took no steps to fix them.

• Veterans Affairs. At least 40 U.S. veterans died waiting for appointments at a Phoenix VA facility, many of whom had been on a secret waiting list—part of an effort to conceal that between 1,400 and 1,600 veterans were forced to wait months for appointments. A 2014 internal VA audit found “57,436 newly enrolled veterans facing a minimum 90-day wait for medical care; 63,869 veterans who enrolled over the past decade requesting an appointment that never happened.” Even Mr. Obama admitted, in a November 2016 press conference, that “it was scandalous what happened”—though minutes earlier he boasted that “we will—knock on wood—leave this administration without significant scandal.”
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Now...why do you think there were no scandals? Here's why:

All of these scandals were accompanied by a lack of transparency so severe that 47 of Mr. Obama’s 73 inspectors general signed an open letter in 2014 decrying the administration’s stonewalling of their investigations.

One reason for Mr. Obama’s penchant for secrecy is his habit of breaking rules—from not informing Congress of the dubious prisoner swap involving Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban, to violating restrictions on cash transfers to Iran as part of a hostage-release deal.

The president’s journalistic allies are happily echoing the “scandal-free” myth. Time’s Joe Klein claims Mr. Obama has had “absolutely no hint of scandal” in his presidency. The media’s failure to cover the Obama administration critically has been a scandal in itself—but at least the president can’t be blamed for that one.
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Obama’s ‘Scandal-Free Administration’ Is a Myth | The Heritage Foundation

You really do need to realize that just because you pretend that something doesn't exist, that does NOT mean it actually doesn't exist.
 
GDViking said:
How many did Obama have???
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All of them who were on the federal payroll, yet many seemed to be defending Hillary or at least seeking reason not to prosecute "the matter". It is odd how you wish to include Trump administration personnel in Trump's "scandals" but want to exclude Obama administration personnel from Obama's "scandals".
 
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bongsaway said:
Like trump is a white nationalist and everyone on the right disagrees?
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Irrelevant, since the question here concerns Obama's scandals.
 
Mycroft said:
Irrelevant, since the question here concerns Obama's scandals.
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Let me know when you find an obama 'scandal'. Heck, let us all know.

Not the imaginary ones invented by the right, the ones where he has to answer legally.
 
Mycroft said:
Now...why do you think there were no scandals? Here's why:



Obama’s ‘Scandal-Free Administration’ Is a Myth | The Heritage Foundation

You really do need to realize that just because you pretend that something doesn't exist, that does NOT mean it actually doesn't exist.
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I'm sorry but nothing from the far-right Heritage Foundation can be relied on for accuracy or truthfulness in reporting, as my links show. You know this yet insist on citing a heavily biased source, founded and funded by conservatives, and which appears to rely on ideology rather than facts in its reportage.
Next time maybe find something non-partisan.

Heritage Foundation - SourceWatch

Is The Heritage Foundation Credible? | Accuracy.Org
 
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snakestretcher said:
I'm sorry but nothing from the far-right Heritage Foundation can be relied on for accuracy or truthfulness in reporting, as my links show. You know this yet insist on citing a heavily biased source, founded and funded by conservatives, and which appears to rely on ideology rather than facts in its reportage.
Next time maybe find something non-partisan.

Heritage Foundation - SourceWatch

Is The Heritage Foundation Credible? | Accuracy.Org
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There are no "non-partisan" sources. The best you can hope for from any source are facts.

So dispute what they say based on facts instead of what some "source" says about them.
 
snakestretcher said:
What 'scandals' did Obama suffer apart from Trump's birther idiocy?
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No scandals huh. Obama has presided over some of the worst scandals of any president in decades.

State Department email.
In an effort to evade federal open-records laws, Obama’s first secretary of state (Hillary) set up a private server, which she used exclusively to conduct official business, including communications with the president and the transmission of classified material.

Operation Fast and Furious.
The Obama Justice Department lost track of thousands of guns it had allowed to pass into the hands of suspected smugglers, in the hope of tracing them to Mexican drug cartels. One of the guns was used in the fatal 2010 shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Congress held then-Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt when he refused to turn over documents about the operation.

IRS abuses.
Obama’s Internal Revenue Service did something Richard Nixon only dreamed of doing: It successfully targeted political opponents. The Justice Department then refused to enforce Congress’s contempt citation against the IRS’s Lois Lerner, who refused to answer questions about her agency’s misconduct.

Benghazi.
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others were killed in the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya. With less than two months to go before the 2012 election, the State Department falsely claimed the attack was not a terrorist attack but a reaction to an anti-Muslim film. Emails from the secretary later showed that she knew the attack was terrorism. Justice Department prosecutors even convinced a magistrate judge to jail the filmmaker.

Hacking
Obama presided over the biggest data breach in the federal government’s history, at the Office of Personnel Management. The hack exposed the personnel files of millions of federal employees and may end up being used for everything from identity theft to blackmail and espionage. OPM Director Katherine Archuleta, the president’s former political director, had been warned repeatedly about security deficiencies but took no steps to fix them.

Veterans Affairs.
At least 40 U.S. veterans died waiting for appointments at a Phoenix VA facility, many of whom had been on a secret waiting list—part of an effort to conceal that between 1,400 and 1,600 veterans were forced to wait months for appointments. A 2014 internal VA audit found “57,436 newly enrolled veterans facing a minimum 90-day wait for medical care; 63,869 veterans who enrolled over the past decade requesting an appointment that never happened.” Even Obama admitted, in a November 2016 press conference, that “it was scandalous what happened”—though minutes earlier he boasted that “we will—knock on wood—leave this administration without significant scandal

All of these scandals were accompanied by a lack of transparency so severe that 47 of Mr. Obama’s 73 inspectors general signed an open letter in 2014 decrying the administration’s stonewalling of their investigations.

One reason for Obama’s penchant for secrecy is his habit of breaking laws—from not informing Congress of the prisoner swap involving Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban, to violating restrictions on cash transfers to Iran as part of a hostage-release deal.

Obama is a corrupt criminal and in the near future the evidence of his involvement in spying on an incoming administration will be reveled.
 
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