Guest Post from Dan from Squirrel Hill
Every President, every politician, and every human being tells lies
and engages in acts of hypocrisy. But Barack Obama does these things to a
far greater degree than anyone else that I have ever known of. His
campaign promises were so much better sounding than anyone else’s – no
lobbyists in his administration, waiting five days before signing all
non-emergency bills so people would have time to read them, putting
health care negotiations on C-SPAN, reading every bill line by line to
make sure money isn’t being wasted, prosecution of Wall St. criminals,
ending raids against medical marijuana in states where it’s legal, high
levels of transparency. Obama’s promises of these wonderful things
sounded inspiring and sincere. They sounded so much better than the
promises of any other President. So when Obama broke these promises, it
felt so much worse than when other Presidents broke their promises.
In the 2008 United States election, I wrote in Ron Paul for
President. In the 2012 election, I voted for Libertarian Party candidate
Gary Johnson. Those who are of a more leftist persuasion than myself
might want to consider voting for the Green Party in future elections.
Some of the things on this list are major events that should scare
the daylights out of any true liberal who cares about civil liberties.
Other things on this list are medium things that some Obama
supporters may dislike, but would be willing to overlook in light of the
things that Obama has done which they like.
And some of the things on this list may seem trivial, but I still
think they are an interesting reflection of the kinds of policies that
Obama supports.
Every claim that I make in this list is sourced. Click on the blue
text to see the sources. I have cited a wide variety of sources, from
right wing, to left wing, to middle of the road.
I welcome any comments and criticisms that you may have. If you say
my list is wrong, please back up your claim by citing specific examples.
And now, on with the list:
1)
Carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval
In June 2011, U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said that
Obama had violated the Constitution when he launched military operations
in
Libyawithout Congressional approval.
2)
Gave a no-bid contract to Halliburton – just like Bush did
In May 2010, it was
reported that
the Obama administration had selected KBR, a former subsidiary of
Halliburton, for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through
2011 for military support services in Iraq, just hours after the
Justice Department had said it would pursue a lawsuit accusing the
Houston-based company of taking kickbacks from two subcontractors on
Iraq-related work.
3)
Has an administration full of lobbyists, after promising he wouldn’t have any
While running for President, Obama had promised that, unlike Bush, he
would not have any lobbyists working in his administration. However, by
February 2010, he had more than 40
lobbyists working in his administration.
4)
Has close ties to Wall St., but pretends to support Occupy Wall St.
Although Obama claims to support the Occupy Wall St. movement, the truth is that he has raised
more money
from Wall St. than any other candidate during the last 20 years. In
early 2012, Obama held a fundraiser where Wall St. investment bankers
and hedge fund managers each paid
$35,800 to attend. In October 2011, Obama
hired Broderick
Johnson, a longtime Wall Street lobbyist, to be his new senior campaign
adviser. Johnson had worked as a lobbyist for JP Morgan Chase, Bank of
America, Fannie Mae, Comcast, Microsoft, and the oil industry.
5)
Allowed abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to become even worse than it was under Bush
Under President Obama, abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay became even
worse than it had been under President Bush.
6)
Supported the $700 billion TARP corporate-welfare bailout just like Bush
While Senator, Obama
voted for
the $700 billion TARP bank bailout bill. The bailout rewarded
irresponsible and illegal behavior. It redirected resources from more
productive uses to less productive uses. It punished the hard working
taxpayers who had played by the rules and obeyed the law. It created
horrible incentives, and sent the wrong message. The bailout was evil
because it rewarded the bad people and punished the good people. No
society that does this can expect to remain free or prosperous. Instead
of bailing out these corrupt corporations, we should have let them cease
to exist, like we did with Enron.
7)
Waged the biggest war against medical marijuana of any president, which was the opposite of what he had promised
In May 2008, Obama campaign spokesperson Ben LaBolt
said that Obama would end DEA raids on medical marijuana in states where it’s legal. Also in 2008, Obama
said that
he supported the “basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same
purposes and with the same controls as other drugs” and that he was
“not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent
state laws.”
However, in February 2010, DEA agents
raided a
medical marijuana grower in Highlands Ranch in Colorado, a state where
medical marijuana is legal. Also in February 2010, DEA agents
raided a medical marijuana dispensary in Culver City in California, a state where medical marijuana is legal. In July 2010, the DEA
raided at least four medical marijuana growers in San Diego, California. Also in July 2010, the DEA
raided a medical marijuana facility in Covelo, California. Then in September 2010, the DEA conducted
raids on
at least five medical marijuana dispensaries in Las Vegas, Nevada,
where medical marijuana is legal. In 2011, the DEA conducted
raids on
medical marijuana in Seattle, Washington, West Hollywood, California,
and Helena, Montana, all places where it is legal. In April 2012, the
DEA carried out several
raids on medical marijuana in Oakland, California.
In February 2012, Rolling Stone magazine
wrote that
Obama’s war against medical marijuana went “far beyond anything
undertaken by George W. Bush.” In April 2012, Mother Jones magazine
wrote:
“The president campaigned on the promise that he’d stop federal raids
on medical marijuana operations that were in compliance with state laws,
a vow that Attorney General Eric Holder repeated after the election.
But then the Obama administration raided more than 100 dispensaries in
its first three years and is now poised to outpace the Bush
administration’s crackdown record.” In May 2012, the Washington Post
wrote:
“Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any
president in U.S. history.” In May 2012, U.S. Congressperson Nancy
Pelosi (D-California)
said she
had “strong concerns” about Obama’s forced closure of five medical
marijuana facilities in Pelosi’s congressional district. In April 2012,
commenting on Obama’s crackdown on medical marijuana, U.S. Congressman
Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts)
said, “I’m very disappointed… They look more like the Bush administration than the Clinton administration.”
In July 2012, federal prosecutors
filed civil
forfeiture actions against Harborside Health Center, a medical
marijuana dispensary in Oakland, CA, which claims to be the world’s
largest, and which claims to serve more than 100,000 medical marijuana
patients. In April 2012, federal agents
raidedOaksterdam
University, an educational institution in Oakland, CA, which teaches
people about medical marijuana. In April 2012, federal agents
raideda
medical marijuana facility which had been serving 1,500 patients near
Lake Elsinore, CA. In June 2012, the Obama administration
filed asset-forfeiture
lawsuits against two landlords who rented their buildings to medical
marijuana stores in Santa Fe Springs, CA. The Obama administration also
sent warning letters which threatened similar legal action to dozens of
other, nearby landlords. During the first seven months of 2012, the DEA
shut down40 medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, all of which had been operating in compliance with state and local law.
In July 2013, the DEA conducted multiple medical marijuana
raids in Washington state, including the cities of Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle.
In May 2012, ABC News
reported that
during Obama’s youth, he often smoked large quantities of recreational
marijuana. Obama’s marijuana smoking wasn’t even medical – it was
recreational. And yet now, he is taking large scale, widespread action
to prevent people with AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, and
other illnesses, who have prescriptions from their doctors, from using
their prescription medicine – how cold hearted can a person be?
8)
Nominated a six-time tax cheater to head the government agency that enforces the tax laws
Obama nominated Timothy Geithner, a repeat
tax cheater, to head the government agency that enforces the tax laws.
Prior to his nomination, Geithner had:
1) Illegally failed to pay more than
$34,000 in social security and medicare taxes
2) Illegally declared the cost of his children’s
summer camp as a form of day care.
3) Illegally failed to pay the early withdrawal
penalty when he took money out of his retirement plan
4) Illegally declared non-eligible items as a
charitable deduction
5) Illegally declared something which was ineligible as a
small businessdeduction
6) Illegally declared
utility expenses which had actually been for his personal use
9)
Gave tax dollars to AIG executives, then pretended to be outraged about it
Obama
signed a stimulus bill that spent money on bonuses for AIG executives. Prior to signing this bill, Obama had
said,
“when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are
not spending money unwisely.” However, after reading “line by line” and
signing the stimulus bill that protected the AIG bonuses, Obama
pretended to
be shocked and outraged at the bonuses, and said, “Under these
circumstances, it’s hard to understand how derivative traders at A.I.G.
warranted any bonuses at all, much less $165 million in extra pay… How
do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the
company afloat?” and also said that he would “pursue every single legal
avenue to block these bonuses.”
10)
Expanded Bush’s unconstitutional government faith based programs
Obama
expanded the federal government’s faith based programs which had been started by President George W. Bush.
11)
Supported Bush’s unconstitutional Patriot Act
In May 2011, Obama
signed a renewal of the Patriot Act.
12)
Increased the national debt more in one term than Bush did in two
The national debt
increased more during Obama’s first three years and two months than it did during all eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency.
13)
Agrees with Bush’s support of unconstitutional, indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without filing any charges
In December 2011, ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero
criticized Obama for signing a bill that gave the U.S. government the
power to
indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without any charges being filed or any trial taking place.
14)
Agrees with Bush’s support of unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping
President Obama has
defended warrantless wiretapping.
15)
Avoided prosecution of Wall. St criminals
Although Obama had
promised to prosecute Wall St. criminals, during
his entire first term, his administration did not file any criminal charges against any of the top financial executives.
16)
Had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process
Obama had
four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process.
The ACLU
accused Obama of violating the U.S. Constitution for doing this.
U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
said that Obama’s actions might be an impeachable offense.
17)
Ordered private company to fire 1,000 employees
In 2011, after Boeing had hired 1,000 new employees to work at its
new factory in South Carolina, the Obama administration ordered Boeing
to
shut down the factory, because the factory was non-union.
18)
Stole money from retired teachers and police officers
During the Chrysler bankruptcy, Obama violated the Fifth Amendment
and more than 150 years of bankruptcy law by illegally treating secured
creditors
worse than
unsecured creditors. Some of these secured creditors were retired
teachers and police officers from Indiana. Richard A. Epstein, a law
professor at New York University School of Law,
wrote,
“Upsetting this fixed hierarchy among creditors is just an illegal
taking of property from one group of creditors for the benefit of
another, which should be struck down on both statutory and
constitutional grounds.” Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason
University School of Law,
wrote that Obama’s treatment of secured creditors was “dangerous to the rule of law.” The Economist
wrotethat
Obama’s actions could “establish a terrible precedent. Bankruptcy
exists to sort legal claims on assets. If it becomes a tool of social
policy, who will then lend to struggling firms in which the government
has a political interest?” Francis Cianfrocca, the CEO of Bayshore
Networks,
wrote that
Obama’s actions were “an astonishingly reckless abrogation of contract
law that will introduce a new level of uncertainty into business
transactions at all levels, and make wealth generation more difficult
going forward… An extraordinary uncertainty has been created when the
most powerful man in the world can rewrite contracts and choose winners
and losers in private negotiations as he sees fit. Since this is an
unquantifiable uncertainty, and not a quantifiable risk, its effect on
business and investor confidence will be large and unpredictable. As in
the 1930s, a time when government also cavalierly rewrote private
contracts, the prudent approach for business will be to invest minimally
and wait for another administration.”
19)
Supported release of convicted mass murderer
In 2010, Obama supported
releasing Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi (who had been
convicted of murdering 270 people) from prison.
20)
Illegally put thousands of guns into hands of criminals
In Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration
ordered gun storeowners to illegally sell thousands of guns to criminals.
21)
Fired Inspector General for discovering that Obama’s friend had embezzled government funds
In June 2009, Obama
fired Inspector
General Gerald Walpin, after Walpin accused Sacramento mayor Kevin
Johnson, an Obama supporter, of misuse of AmeriCorps funding to pay for
school-board political activities. In a letter to Congress, the White
House said that Walpin was fired because he was “confused, disoriented,
unable to answer questions and exhibited other behavior that led the
Board to question his capacity to serve.” A bipartisan group of 145
current and former public officials, attorneys, and legal scholars
signed a
letter that was sent to the White House, which defended Walpin, said
the criticisms of him were not true, and said that his firing was
politically motivated. The letter can be read
here.
22)
Lied about putting health care negotiations on C-SPAN
Although Obama had made a campaign
promise to have all of the health care reform negotiations broadcast on C-SPAN, he broke that promise after he was elected.
The secrecy of these negotiations was so strong that U.S. Congresswoman and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California)
said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
23)
Lied about letting people keep their health insurance
Before Obamacare was passed, Obama
said:
“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise
to the American people… If you like your health care plan, you’ll be
able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no
matter what.”
Also before Obamacare was passed, Obama
said:
“Here is a guarantee that I’ve made. If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance.”
However, after Obamacare was passed, the Congressional Budget Office said that the law would cause
seven million people to lose their employer provided insurance.
After Obamacare was passed, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East announced that it would
drop health
insurance for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home
attendants. Mitra Behroozi, executive director of benefit and pension
funds for 1199SEIU stated
“… new federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with
dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26… meeting this
new requirement would be financially impossible.”
Also, after Obamacare was passed, the Franciscan University of Steubenville
dropped its coverage in response to the law.
Universal Orlando
dropped its coverage for part time employees in response to Obamacare.
In addition, after Obamacare was passed, Forbes
reported
“The House Ways and Means Committee has released a new report
that sheds light onto how Obamacare incentivizes companies to dump their
workers onto the new law’s subsidized exchanges.”
Also after Obamacare was passed, MSN
reported
“The Affordable Care Act mandate most commonly known as Obamacare
has some tight stipulations that, CNN says, are forcing health care
companies to rip up most of their current plans and draft new ones that
comply. According to a University of Chicago study, just about half of
the individual health care plans currently on the market won’t cut it
once key provisions of the Affordable Care Act kick in next year.”
Furthermore, it was
reported that Obamacare would cause 58,000 Aetna and UnitedHealth Group customers in California to lose their insurance.
In response to Obamacare, some employers have
dropped coverage for their employees’ spouses.
The chain of Wegmans supermarkets
cancelled the policies of its part time employees in response to Obamacare.
In July 2013, leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE sent a
letterto Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi which said that Obamacare
“will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits… these
restrictions will make non-profit plans like ours unsustainable… we can
no longer stand silent in the face of elements of the Affordable Care
Act that will destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along
with millions of other hardworking Americans”
24)
Lied about the cost of Obamacare
Before Obamacare was passed, Obama
promised
“I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits –
either now or in the future. I will not sign it if it adds one dime to
the deficit, now or in the future, period. And to prove that I’m
serious, there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come
forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don’t
materialize.”
However, after Obama signed it, the Washington Post
reported that it would add more than $340 billion to the budget deficit over the next decade.
In March 2012, the Congressional Budget Office said that over the next decade, Obamacare would cost
twice as much as what Obama had promised.
In May 2013, it was
reported that Obamacare’s program for high risk patients was more expensive than what Obama had promised.
25)
Gave tax dollars to campaign contributors and lobbyists, and falsely claimed the money was for “green energy”
In 2009 the Obama administration
gave $535 million to Solyndra, claiming that it would
create 4,000
new jobs. However, instead of creating those 4,000 new jobs, the
company went bankrupt. It was later revealed that the company’s
shareholders and executives had
made substantial
donations to Obama’s campaign, that the company had spent a large sum of money on
lobbying, and that Solyndra executives had had many
meetings with White House officials.
It was also revealed that the Obama administration had already been
aware of Solyndra’s financial troubles. For example, according to the
company’s security filings in 2009, the company had been selling its
product for
less than the cost of production. In 2010, Obama visited the Solyndra factory and cited it as a role model for his stimulus program,
saying “It’s here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future.” The Washington Post
wrote of
this, “Administration officials and outside advisers warned that
President Obama should consider dropping plans to visit a solar startup
company in 2010 because its mounting financial problems might ultimately
embarrass the White House.” Solyndra was a private company, but had
been planning to use its government loans as a means of going public –
so when Obama knowingly overstated the company’s condition in order to
help his friends at Solyndra, he
broke the same law that Martha Stewart had been sent to prison for breaking.
In September 2011, federal agents
visited the
homes of Brian Harrison, the company’s CEO, and Chris Gronet, the
company’s founder, to examine computer files and documents. Also in
September 2011, the U.S. Treasury Department
launched an investigation.
On September 13, 2011, the Washington Post
reported on
emails which showed that the Obama administration had tried to rush
federal reviewers to approve the loan so Vice President Joe Biden could
announce it at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company’s
factory. The company was a hallmark of President Obama’s plan to support
clean energy technologies.
The New York Times
reported that
government auditors and industry analysts had faulted the Obama
administration for failing to properly evaluate the company’s business
proposals, as well as for failing to take note of troubling signs which
were already evident. In addition, Frank Rusco, a program director at
the Government Accountability Office, had found that the preliminary
loan approval had been granted before officials had completed the
legally mandated evaluations of the company.
The New York Times
quoted Shyam
Mehta, a senior analyst at GTM Research, as saying “There was just too
much misplaced zeal at the Department of Energy for this company.” Among
143 companies that had expressed an interest in getting a loan
guarantee, Solyndra was the first one to get approval. During the period
when Solyndra’s loan guarantee was under review, the company had spent
nearly $1.8 million on lobbying. Tim Harris, the CEO of Solopower, a
different solar panel company which had obtained a $197 million loan
guarantee, told the New York Times that his company had never considered
spending any money on lobbying, and that “It was made clear to us early
in the process that that was clearly verboten… We were told that it was
not only not helpful but it was not acceptable.”
The Washington Post
reported that
Solyndra had used some of the loan money to purchase new equipment
which it never used, and then sold that new equipment, still in its
plastic wrap, for pennies on the dollar. Former Solyndra engineer
Lindsey Eastburn told the Washington Post, “After we got the loan
guarantee, they were just spending money left and right… Because we were
doing well, nobody cared. Because of that infusion of money, it made
people sloppy.”
On September 29, 2011, the Washington Post
reported that
the Obama administration had continued to allow Solyndra to receive
taxpayer money even after it had defaulted on its $535 million loan.
On October 7, 2011, The Washington Post
reported that
newly revealed emails showed that Energy Department officials had been
warned that their plan to help Solyndra by restructuring the loan might
be illegal, and should be cleared with the Justice Department first.
However, Energy Department officials moved ahead with the restructuring
anyway, with a new deal that would repay company investors before
taxpayers if the company were to default. The emails showed concerns
within the Obama administration about the legality of the Energy
Department’s actions. In addition, an Energy Department stimulus
adviser, Steve Spinner, had pushed for the loan, despite having recused
himself because his wife’s law firm had done work for the company.
In January 2012, CBS News
reported that
Solyndra had thrown millions of dollars worth of brand new glass tubes
into garbage dumpsters, where they ended up being shattered. Solyndra
told CBS that it had conducted an exhaustive search for buyers of the
glass tubes, and that no one had wanted them. However, CBS discovered
that Solyndra had not offered the glass tubes for sale at either one of
its two asset auctions that took place in 2011. In addition, David
Lucky, a buyer and seller of such equipment, told CBS that he would have
bought the tubes if he had had a chance to do so. Greg Smestad, a solar
scientist who had consulted for the Department of Energy, also agreed
that the tubes had value, and had asked Solyndra to donate any unwanted
tubes to Santa Clara University. Smestad stated, “That really makes me
sad… Those tubes represent intellectual investment. These could have had
a better value to do public good. I think they owed the U.S. taxpayer
that.”
In April 2012, CBS News reported that Solyndra had left a substantial amount of
toxic waste at its abandoned facility in Milpitas, California.
Solyndra was not the only “green energy” company involved in this
type of fraud. After Obama gave Raser Technologies $33 million to build a
power plant, the company declared
bankruptcy,
and owed $1.5 million in back taxes. After Obama gave Abound Solar,
Inc. a $400 million loan guarantee to build photovoltaic panel
factories, the company
halted production
and laid off 180 employees. After Obama gave Beacon Power a $43 million
loan guarantee to build green energy storage, the company filed for
bankruptcy.
After Obama approved $2.1 billion in loan guarantees for Solar Trust of
America so it could build solar power plants, the company filed for
bankruptcy.
Although Obama stated that all of the “green energy” companies that
received taxpayer money were chosen “based solely on their merits,” the
truth is that 71% of these grants and loans went to
Obama donors and fundraisers,
who raised $457,834 for his campaign, and were later approved for
grants and loans totaling more than $11 billion. By November 2011, the
Energy Department’s inspector general had begun more than 100 criminal
investigations related to Obama’s
stimulus.
Although an “independent” review said that Obama had not done anything
wrong, it was later reported that Herbert M. Allison Jr., the person who
had conducted this “independent” review,
donated $52,500 to Obama’s campaign.
26)
Had “off the record” meetings with lobbyists
In June 2010, the New York Times
reported that
Obama administration officials had held hundreds of meetings with
lobbyists at coffee houses near the White House, in order to avoid the
disclosure requirements for White House visitors, and that these
meetings “reveal a disconnect between the Obama administration’s public
rhetoric — with Mr. Obama himself frequently thrashing big industries’
‘battalions’ of lobbyists as enemies of reform — and the
administration’s continuing, private dealings with them.”
27)
Falsely claimed to believe in public education
Although Obama
said, “We need to uphold the ideal of public education,” he expressed his true opinion of America’s public education system by
sendinghis own children to private schools while living in Chicago and Washington D.C.
28)
Had armed SWAT agents raid a law-abiding guitar factory because it was owned by a Republican
President
Obama had
armed SWAT agents
raid the Gibson guitar factory, ordered the employees to leave, and
seized guitars and other property from the factory – and all of this
happened
without any charges being filed.
It was later
reported that Gibson had not broken any U.S. laws.
Obama’s
so-called justification
for the raid was that Gibson had broken environmental laws from India
regarding the imported wood that Gibson had been using.
However, Gibson
claimed that it had not broken any Indian laws – and
no charges were filed against it.
In addition, it was also
reported that Henry E. Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson, was a
Republican donor.
Meanwhile, C.F. Martin & Company, Gibsons’s competitor, had used the exact same imported wood, but had
not gotten raided. Chris Martin IV, the CEO of Martin, was a
Democratic donor.
29)
Shut down Amish farm
In February 2012, Obama shut down an
Amish farm for selling unpasteurized milk across state lines, even though the customers were happy with what they were buying.
30)
Rewarded his fundraisers by giving them federal jobs
Although Obama had promised to have “the most sweeping ethics reform
in history,” and had often criticized the role of money in politics, the
truth is that after he was elected, he
gave administration jobs to more than half of his 47 biggest fundraisers.
31)
Ignored constitutional requirements for appointees
In February 2009, U.S. Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)
expressedconcern
that Obama’s dozens of czars might violate the U.S. Constitution,
because they were not approved by the U.S. Senate. U.S. Senator Russ
Feingold (D-Wisconsin)
expressed a similar concern in September 2009.
32)
Gave tax dollars to corrupt private contractors
While Obama was a state Senator in Illinois, he used tax dollars to
build 504 units of slum housing, which had mice and backed up sewage.
Federal inspectors graded the condition of the housing so
bad that the buildings faced demolition.
33)
Used tax dollars to glorify murderers
The Obama administration spent $1.6 million to restore graffiti that
glorifiedcommunist murderers Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
34)
Falsely claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court had never overturned any laws that had been passed by Congress
Despite having taught constitutional law at one of the most prestigious law schools in the country, in April 2012 Obama
falsely claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court had never overturned any laws that had been passed by Congress.
35)
Supported new bailouts for speculators who caused housing bubble
In March 2012, Obama announced a
new set of bailouts for speculators who had caused the housing bubble.
36)
Spent $205,075 of taxpayer money on a shrubbery which nurseries sell for $16
As part of his economic stimulus, Obama
spent $205,075 of taxpayer money to relocate and care for a single specimen of
Arctostaphylos franciscana, a shrubbery which nurseries sell for $16.
37)
Spent taxpayer money to see if using cocaine helped rats to enjoy the music of Miles Davis
Obama’s administration funded a
study to see whether or not rats’ enjoyment of the music of Miles Davis was increased when the rats were high on cocaine.
38)
Tried to outlaw family farms
In April 2012, the Obama administration
proposed new
regulations which would prohibit farm children under 18 from working at
grain elevators, silos, feed lots, stockyards, and livestock auctions,
as well as from storing, marketing and transporting farm product raw
materials. Critics claimed that this would prevent children from the
common practice of working on their friends’ and relatives’ farms, and
that farm children did not need “help” from a community organizer in
Washington.
39)
Auctioned off ambassadorship to the Netherlands
In April 2012, Obama
nominated Timothy Broas, who had “bundled” more than $500,000 for Obama’s 2012 campaign, to be U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.
40)
Claimed that written tests are a form of “racial discrimination”
The Obama administration accused fire and police departments in
Jacksonville, Florida,
New York City, and
Dayton, Ohio of
“racial discrimination” because they required potential firefighters
and police officers to take a written test. Ten real examples of these
“racist” questions from the New York test can be read
here.
41)
Made the TSA even more abusive and ridiculous than it had been under Bush
The Obama administration gave a very invasive patdown to a
three-year-oldboy in a wheelchair, which caused the boy to tremble in fear. The Obama administration gave an aggressive patdown to a
seven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. The Obama administration said that a
four-year-old girl was a “high security threat.” The Obama administration placed an
18-month-old girl on its no fly list. The Obama administration gave a patdown to
Henry Kissinger. The Obama administration forced a
95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper and fly without it. The Obama administration ripped open the urostomy bag of a
61-year-old bladder cancer survivor, and forced him to fly covered in his own urine.
42)
Illegally demanded monetary payment for Freedom of Information Act request
The Obama administration demanded that the Goldwater Institute pay
$78,935.80 before it would share public records which it had requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
43)
Fined public school $15,000 for selling soda
The Obama administration
fined a high school $15,000 for selling soda to students during lunch.
44)
Conducted dangerous and illegal scientific experiments on people
From January 2010 through June 2011, the Obama administration conducted illegal scientific experiments which exposed
42 people to dangerous levels of toxins.
45)
Gave middle finger to Vietnam veterans, their families, and their friends
On Memorial Day 2012, Obama
prevented Vietnam
veterans and their friends and families from visiting the Vietnam
memorial for seven hours, so Obama could have his picture taken.
46)
Had the government take 60.8% ownership of General Motors
In July 2009, Obama had the government take 60.8%
ownership of General Motors, and
fired the CEO.
47)
Forced banks to give mortgages to people who could not afford to pay them back
While working as a “community organizer,” Obama filed
lawsuits which
forced banks to give mortgages to people with bad credit and low
incomes. As a result, many of these people ended up defaulting on their
mortgages. As their attorney, Obama collected $23,000 in legal fees for
himself.
Then in April 2013, during Obama’s second term as President, the Washington Post
reported that President Obama was still pressuring banks “to make home loans to people with weaker credit.”
48)
Stole money from retired Delphi employees
In 2009, Obama
eliminated the pensions of 20,000 retired Delphi employees.
49)
Used taxpayer money to buy soda for $3.40 per can
During Obama’s presidency, the federal government repeatedly purchased soda for a cost of
$3.40 per can.
Obama did not express any desire to switch to a cheaper seller, such as
Costco, amazon.com, or Wal-Mart – or to an even still cheaper seller
such as a wholesaler. Instead, Obama repeatedly forced taxpayers to pay
these outrageous prices for soda.
50)
Paid $7 million per household to connect people to the internet
Obama’s stimulus paid to connect some households in Montana to the internet, at a cost of
$7 million per household.
51)
Had a double standard for Bain Capital
Although Obama criticized Mitt Romney for his involvement with Bain Capital, Obama hired
Jeff Zients, a former consultant at Bain (and who had an estimated personal wealth of $200 million) to be his budget director.
52)
Broke promise to teen campaign volunteers
Obama had
promised to
his teen campaign volunteers that if they each spent nine hours going
door to door on Obama’s behalf, he would invite them to attend his
speech of September 6, 2012. However, after the teens did the volunteer
work, Obama broke his promise. One of these volunteers, Madeline Frank,
age 16, of Charlotte, North Carolina, said of this “I’ve been looking
forward to this for a really long time. I am just feeling really let
down and like bummed. It was kind of my dream to see him speak, so
definitely really sad.”
53)
Falsely claimed to know more about Judaism than any other President
Obama
falsely claimed to know more about Judaism than any other President.
54)
Exempted wind farms from the penalties that other electric producers get for killing birds
In May 2013, NPR
reported:
The Obama administration has charged oil companies for drowning
birds in their waste pits, and power companies for electrocuting birds
on power lines.
But the administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind-energy company, even those that flout the law repeatedly.
“What it boils down to is this: If you electrocute an eagle, that
is bad, but if you chop it to pieces, that is OK,” said Tim Eicher, a
former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enforcement agent based in Cody.
More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country’s wind farms
each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and
eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed
Wildlife Society Bulletin.
Nearly all the birds being killed are protected under federal
environmental laws, which prosecutors have used to generate tens of
millions of dollars in fines and settlements from businesses, including
oil and gas companies, over the past five years.
Wind farms are clusters of turbines as tall as 30-story
buildings, with spinning rotors as wide as a passenger jet’s wingspan.
Though the blades appear to move slowly, they can reach speeds up to 170
mph at the tips, creating tornado-like vortexes.
Flying eagles behave like drivers texting on their cellphones;
they don’t look up. As they scan for food, they don’t notice the
industrial turbine blades until it’s too late.
The rehabilitation coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Raptor
Program, Michael Tincher, said he euthanized two golden eagles found
starving and near death near wind farms. Both had injuries he’d never
seen before: One of their wings appeared to be twisted off.
“There is nothing in the evolution of eagles that would come near
to describing a wind turbine. There has never been an opportunity to
adapt to that sort of threat,” said Grainger Hunt, an eagle expert who
researches the U.S. wind-power industry’s deadliest location, a northern
California area known as Altamont Pass. Wind farms built there decades
ago kill more than 60 per year.
Under both the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden
Eagle Protection Act, the death of a single bird without a permit is
illegal.
But under the Obama administration’s new guidelines, wind-energy
companies — and only wind-energy companies — are held to a different
standard.
Eagles take five years to reach the age when they can reproduce, and often they only produce one chick a year.
55)
Falsely claimed that he had never belonged to the New Party
Obama
falsely claimed that he had never belonged to the New Party, which is a third political party.
56)
Supported punishing students based on their race instead of on their behavior
Obama expressed
support for a proposal which would punish students based on their race instead of on their behavior.
57)
Used “off the books” funding for military interventionism
In April 2009, antiwar activists who helped elect Obama
accused him
of using the same “off the books” funding as his predecessor George W.
Bush when Obama requested an additional $83.4 billion from Congress for
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – a provision which Obama had voted
against when he was a Senator.
58)
Tried to silence criticism of auto-bailouts
The Obama administration
pressured Ford Motor Company to stop airing a TV ad that criticized Obama’s bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler.
59)
Dismissed charges of voter intimidation, despite video evidence
In May 2009, the Obama administration
dismissed charges
that had been filed by the Bush administration against members of the
New Black Panther Party who had been videotaped intimidating voters and
brandishing a police-style baton at a Philadelphia polling station
during the November 2008 election. In August 2009, the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights
demanded that
the Justice Department explain why it dismissed the charges. In July
2010, J. Christian Adams, a former lawyer for the Justice Department,
testified before
the Commission on Civil Rights that the case was dropped because the
Justice Department did not want to protect the civil rights of white
people.
60)
Falsely claimed to support the second amendment
Although Obama
stated,
“I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of
individuals to bear arms,” the National Rifle Association
gave Obama a rating of ‘F’ based on his voting record.
61)
Nominated a communist who said 9-11 was an inside job
In September 2009, Obama’s green czar Van Jones
resigned after it was reported that he was a self described “communist” and had blamed George W. Bush for the September 11 attacks.
62)
Falsely said he would not raise taxes on the poor and middle class
On September 12, 2008, Obama
promised,
“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than
$250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax,
not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your
taxes.” However, less than three months into his Presidency, he broke
that promise when he raised the cigarette tax. Studies show that poor
people are more likely to smoke than rich people.
63)
Falsely said he wanted to simplify the tax code, when he actually wanted to make it more complex
Although Obama
said that he wanted to simplify the tax code, his proposals would actually
add thousands of pages to the tax code.
64)
Oversaw some of the world’s worst increases in corruption
In December 2010, Transparency International
reported that corruption was increasing faster in the U.S. than anywhere else except Cuba, Dominica, and Burkina Faso.
65)
Falsely said “This is the most transparent administration in history.”
In February 2013, Obama
said, “This is the most transparent administration in history”
However, that same month, ABC News White House reporter Ann Compton,
who covered Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, both Bushes, and
Obama,
said “The
president’s day-to-day policy development… is almost totally opaque to
the reporters trying to do a responsible job of covering it. There are
no readouts from big meetings he has with people from the outside, and
many of them aren’t even on his schedule. This is different from every
president I covered. This White House goes to extreme lengths to keep
the press away.”
In July 2009, White House reporter Helen Thomas
criticized the Obama administration for its lack of transparency.
Also, this list contains a huge number of things that Obama has done which contradict his statement.
66)
Falsely claimed he would wait five days before signing bills
Although Obama had promised to wait five days before signing all non-emergency bills, he
broke that promise at least 10 times during his first three months in office.
67)
Falsely claimed stimulus spending would be transparent
Although Obama had
promised that
the website recovery.gov would list all stimulus spending in detail, a
400 page report issued by the Government Accountability Office stated
that only 25% of the projects listed on the website provided clear and
complete information regarding their cost, schedule, purpose, location
and status.
68)
Announced plans to send military to Australia
In November 2011, Obama announced that he would send 2,500 Marines to
Australia.
69)
Falsely promised to accept public campaign financing and spending limits
During the 2008 campaign, Obama
broke his promise to accept public campaign financing and the spending limits that came with it.
70)
Tried to silence video on YouTube
In June 2011, Obama
asked a Jewish singing group to remove its video from the internet.
71)
Rejected international help to clean up BP oil spill
After the BP oil spill, Obama
rejected offers
of cleanup help from Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico,
the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the
United Kingdom, and the United Nations.
72)
Falsely said he opposed government waste, when he actually loves it
On September 22, 2008, Obama
said,
“I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every
government program just because it’s there… We will fire government
managers who aren’t getting results, we will cut funding for programs
that are wasting your money and we will use technology and lessons from
the private sector to improve efficiency across every level of
government… The only way we can do all this without leaving our children
with an even larger debt is if Washington starts taking responsibility
for every dime that it spends.” However, Citizens Against Government
Waste
gaveObama a 2007 rating of only 10%, and a lifetime rating of only 18%.
73)
Nominated past frequent user of illegal drugs to keep illegal drugs out of schools
In September 2009, it was
reported that
Kevin Jennings, Obama’s Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of
Safe and Drug-Free Schools, had written about Jenning’s own past
frequent illegal drug use in his 2007 autobiography.
74)
Avoids firing aides who owe back taxes
In January 2012, it was reported that 36 Obama aides owed a combined total of $833,000 in
back taxes.
75)
Used Abbott and Costello style economics as a basis for national policy
In 2010, Obama gave $16.3 million to First Solar, a company that
manufactures solar panels, so the company could sell solar panels to
itself.
76)
Sent U.S. troops to Africa
Obama
sent U.S. troops to Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
77)
Made secret plans for his second term
In March 2012, when Obama was talking to Russian President Dmitri
Medvedev and did not know that the microphone was turned on, Obama
stated,
“On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can
be solved but it’s important for him to give me space… This is my last
election. After my election I have more flexibility.”
78)
Holds double standard for people who use crude and vulgar language toward women
Concerned Women for America accused Obama of hypocrisy after Obama
criticized Rush Limbaugh for using crude and vulgar language to describe
Sandra Fluke, but Obama did
not criticize
Bill Maher (who had donated one million dollars to an Obama PAC) for
using the same kind of crude and vulgar language to describe Sarah
Palin.
79)
Illegally gave Obamacare exemptions to unions that supported the passage of Obamacare
Obama gave some organizations an
exemption from
some of the requirements of Obamacare. Many of these organizations
were unions that had supported the passage of Obamacare, but now wanted
exemptions from the very same law that they wanted to force everyone
else to obey. This reveals an extreme level of hypocrisy among many of
the supporters of Obamacare.
In addition, these exemptions are illegal, because the Constitution requires the law to treat everyone the same.
The Washington Times
wrote of this:
“Selective enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny. A
government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside
the rule of law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and
those with the best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably
leads to corruption, and corruption invites extortion. Ultimately, the
rule of law ceases to exist in any recognizable form, and what is left
is tyranny.”
“The now-familiar monthly trickling down of new waivers is, at
best, a tacit admission that Obamacare is a failure. So far, seven
entire states and 1,372 businesses, unions and other institutions have
received waivers from the law. The list includes the administration’s
friends and allies and, of course, those who have the best lobbyists.”
“More than 50 percent of the Obamacare waiver beneficiaries are
union members, which is striking because union members account for less
than 12 percent of the American work force. The same unions that
provided more than $120 million to Democrats in the last two elections
and, in many cases, openly campaigned in favor of the government
takeover of your health care, now celebrate that Obamacare is not their
problem.”
80)
Defended Bush administration’s unconstitutional, unwarranted use of GPS device
In January 2012, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Bush
administration for having put a GPS tracking device on someone’s car
without having a warrant, the Obama administration opposed the court ruling
81)
Opposes newspapers reporting the news
Obama spokesman Jay Carney
criticized the Los Angeles Times for publishing photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with corpses in Afghanistan.
82)
Supported Bush administration for fining CBS for showing Janet Jackson’s breast
Obama came out
in favor of the FCC’s fining of the CBS TV network $550,000 for showing Janet Jackson’s breast during the 2004 Super Bowl.
83)
Allowed campaign contributors to bring lobbyists into White House
In April 2012, the New York Times
reported,
“Although Mr. Obama has made a point of not accepting contributions
from registered lobbyists, a review of campaign donations and White
House visitor logs shows that special interests have had little trouble
making themselves heard. Many of the president’s biggest donors, while
not lobbyists, took lobbyists with them to the White House…”
84)
Falsely said that criminal background checks constituted “racial discrimination”
In 2012, the Obama administration
accused Pepsico of “race discrimination” because it used criminal background checks to screen out job applicants.
85)
Was cited by nine states for committing 21 illegal acts
Attorneys General from nine states
issued a
report, titled “A Report on Obama Administration Violations of Law,”
which cited 21 illegal acts which had been committed by the Obama
administration.
86)
Tried to seize hotel because some of its customers had used illegal drugs
The Obama administration tried to
seize a mom-and-pop bed-and-breakfast because some if its guests had used illegal drugs.
87)
Falsely said his campaign was not funded by large donors
Although Obama has received many large campaign donations from corporate executives and Hollywood celebrities, his spokesperson
said that his campaign was funded “not from huge donors at all.”
88)
Holds double standard for subsidizing solar power companies
Although Obama gave taxpayer money to numerous American solar power companies, he placed a 30%
tariff on solar panels imported from China, because he was against the Chinese government giving subsidies to its own companies.
89)
Tried to create an administration full of tax cheaters
Obama nominated tax cheater
Tom Daschle to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. After Daschle said he didn’t want the job, Obama then nominated tax cheater
Kathleen Sebelius for the same position. Obama nominated tax cheater
Nancy Killefer to be his administration’s Chief Performance Officer. Obama nominated tax cheater
Hilda Solis to be the Secretary of Labor. Obama nominated tax cheater
Ron Kirk be the White House Chief Trade Representative.
90)
Hired a Communications Director who admires a mass murderer
Anita Dunn,
Obama’s White House Communications Director, said that one of her
favorite political philosophers was Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese dictator
who murdered tens of millions of innocent civilians.
91)
Tried to replace science with political correctness
In July 2010,
Charles Bolden,
the administrator of NASA, said that Obama had told him that the
primary purpose of NASA was “to reach out to the Muslim world.”
92)
Made recess appointments when Congress was not in recess
In January 2012, Obama
violated the
Constitution by making four recess appointments when Congress was not
in recess. Recess appointments themselves are constitutional, but only
if they are made when Congress is actually in recess.
In January 2013, a federal appeals court
ruled that Obama’s appointments had violated the Constitution.
In May 2013, a
second federal appeals court also ruled that Obama’s appointments had violated the Constitution.
In July 2013, a
third federal appeals court also ruled that Obama’s appointments had violated the Constitution.
93)
Said the health insurance mandate was not a tax, but later told the Supreme Court that it was
Before Obama’s health care reform was passed, he
said that
the mandate was not a tax. However, after it was passed, the Obama
administration argued in front of the Supreme Court that the mandate
really was a tax.
94 )
Lied about being his “brother’s keeper”
Although Barack Obama likes to cite the Bible phrase “We are our
brother’s keeper,” when his real life poverty stricken brother George
Obama needed $1,000 for health care bills, Barack Obama
refused to pay it, so conservative author Dinesh D’Souza paid it.
95)
Punishes hospitals for saving the lives of patients with heart disease
Obama’s health care reform contains a
provision that
reduces Medicare payments to hospitals with high 30-day readmission
rates. Sunil Kripalani, MD, a professor with Vanderbilt University
Medical Center, said of this, “Among patients with heart failure,
hospitals that have higher readmission rates actually have lower
mortality rates. So, which would we rather have — a hospital readmission
or a death?”
96)
Supports guns for himself and his wife, but opposes them for everyone else
On January 10, 2013, President Obama
signed a bill that provides armed guards to himself and his wife for the rest of the lives.
However, in 2004, when Obama was an Illinois state Senator, he voted
against allowing people in their own homes to use guns to protect themselves and their families from rapists and murderers.
97)
Falsely claimed that he “cut spending by over a trillion dollars in 2011?
On “Meet the Press” on December 30, 2012, Obama
said:
“I cut spending by over a trillion dollars in 2011?
In reality, spending during that time period was
not cut at all, and was actually
increased by $147 billion.
98)
Practices environmental hypocrisy
In May 2008, Obama
said,
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes
on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries
are going to say OK.”
However, just one week later, Obama was photographed exiting an
SUV.
In addition, Obama keeps the White House thermostat
turned up so high that David Axelrod, Obama’s senior adviser, said, “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Environmentalists criticized Obama for eating
Wagyu beef, which was called “the
Hummer of beef.”
Obama had a chef
fly round trip from St. Louis to Washington D.C. so he could make Obama’s favorite pizza.
99)
Pressured public schools to replace Catcher in the Rye with a book on window insulation
The Huffington Post
reported that Obama’s education policies
“are increasingly worrying English-lovers and English teachers, who feel they must replace literary greats like The Great Gatsby
and Catcher in the Rye
with Common Core-suggested ‘exemplars,’ like the Environmental Protection Agency’sRecommended Levels of Insulation
.”
100)
Approved giving 20 F-16 fighter jets to a Sharia dictatorship
Obama approved giving 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, which is a
Sharia dictatorship.
101)
Falsely claimed that his “Cash for Clunkers” program would help the environment
Although Obama claimed that his “Cash for Clunkers” program would help the environment, it actually caused
net harm to the environment. Because the program required cars to be shredded instead of recycled, it
wasted 24 million barrels of oil. Many of the cars that were destroyed were in
perfectly good condition. Because the program’s minimum requirement for so-called “fuel efficiency” was only
22 mpg, the reduction in pollution was
negligible.
102)
Violated the very same campaign finance laws that he claims to support
In January 2013, it was
reported that Obama’s campaign had been fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violating campaign finance laws.
103)
Lied about how he had answered a questionnaire on gun control
In 1996, when Obama was answering a questionnaire on his political views, one of the
questions was “Do you support state legislation to: ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns?”
Obama’s
answer to the question was “Yes.”
However, in 2008, Obama
said “My writing wasn’t on that particular questionnaire.”
However, ABC News later
reported that the questionnaire “appears to have Obama’s handwriting.”
104)
Falsely claimed that his 2013 inauguration was not funded by lobbyists
Although Obama
claimed that his 2013 inauguration was not funded by lobbyists, its sponsors had actually spent
$160 million on lobbying during Obama’s first presidential term.
105)
Encouraged medical device manufacturers to lay off employees
In response to the medical device tax that is part of Obamacare, some medical device manufacturers have
announced plans
to layoff employees, including Welch Allyn (275 planned layoffs),
Stryker (1,170 planned layoffs), and Medtronic (1,000 planned layoffs).
In December 2012, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, John Kerry, and 15
other Democrats who supported the passage of Obamacare wrote a
letter to
Harry Reid, asking him to delay the tax on medical devices, claiming
that the tax would hurt job creation in their districts.
106)
Encouraged employers to switch their employees from full time to part time
The New York Times
reported that Obamacare
“sharply penalizes full-time employment in favor of part-time employment.”
In response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, some restaurants
have announced plans to switch some of their employees from full time to
part time, including some franchises of
Olive Garden,
Red Lobster,
Wendy’s, Taco Bell,
White Castle, and
Fatburger.
Community College of Allegheny County
switched 200
professors and 200 other employees from full time to part time in
response to Obamacare. Clint Benjamin, an English professor at Community
College of Allegheny County,
said that this would reduce his own monthly pay by $600.
Also in response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, other colleges have
announced plans
to switch some of their employees from full time to part time,
including Florida’s Palm Beach State College, Ohio’s Youngstown State
University, and New Jersey’s Kean University.
In Virginia, thousands of government employees had their hours
reducedbecause of Obamacare.
The Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh
reduced the hours of 48 of its employees in response to Obamacare.
Regal Entertainment Group, the largest chain of movie theaters in the country,
announced that it would be switching thousands of its employees from full time to part time in response to the Obamacare mandate.
Utah’s Granite School District
reduced the hours of 1,200 of its employees in response to Obamacare.
In response to Obamacare, many Wal-Mart stores have
stopped hiring full time workers.
In July 2013, leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE sent a
letterto Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi which said that Obamacare will
“destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the
backbone of the American middle class… the law creates an incentive for
employers to keep employees’ work hours below 30 hours a week. Numerous
employers have begun to cut workers’ hours to avoid this obligation.”
107)
Broke his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term
On February 23, 2009, Obama
said “Today, I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.” Obama
broke that promise.
108)
Had Freedom of Information Act record worse than Bush’s
In September 2012, it was reported that when it came to honoring
requests under the Freedom of Information Act, Obama’s record was
worse than that of George W. Bush.
109)
Supports installation of hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant
In October 2012, Obama’s Justice Department
argued in favor of installing hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant.
110)
Used “stimulus” money to pay people to play cards, board games, and video games
In October 2012, it was
reported that LG Chem
, a
lithium-ion battery plant in Holland, Michigan, was using money from
Obama’s “stimulus” to pay its employees to play cards, board games, and
video games.
111)
Spent half a million tax dollars on “Prom Week” video game
In 2012, the Obama administration spent
$516,000 on a video game called “Prom Week.”
112)
Hypocritically pays his female employees less than his male employees
Although Obama
claims to support equal pay for men and women, his own adminstration pays its female employees
18% less than its male employees.
113)
Falsely said that Romney’s pension was bigger than his own
During a debate in October 2012, Obama
falsely stated that Mitt Romney’s pension was bigger than his own.
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