Trouble in threes Scandals hamper Obama's message

mlurp · #1 (**permalink**) 04-20-2012, 02:22 PM

Yep things could be better or worst. I guess the past 2+ weeks have not been the best for Obama.

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.Trouble in threes: Scandals hamper Obama's message

By JIM KUHNHENN | Associated Press – 11 hrs ago. 20 April 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — It isn't Mitt Romney who's giving Barack Obama fits as the president moves into re-election mode. It's those federal bureaucrats carousing in Las Vegas, the Secret Service consorting with Colombian prostitutes and U.S. soldiers posing with bloody enemy corpses.

The scandals are taking a toll. They are distracting embarrassments that are dominating public attention while Obama seeks to focus on difficulties abroad and jobs at home. And they are giving Republicans an opportunity to question his competence and leadership, an opening for Romney in a race so close that any advantage might make a difference.

Even if the Democratic president escapes being defined by these flare-ups, they still feed a story line that can erode public confidence in Washington institutions, fuel a perception of federal excess and frustrate Obama's argument that government can be a force for good.

The White House response has been textbook — a mix of outrage and deflection.

"The president has been crystal clear since he was a candidate about the standards that he insists be met by those who work for the federal government and on behalf of the American people and for the American people," says White House spokesman Jay Carney.

But taken altogether, the events have overwhelmed the president's agenda. The Secret Service scandal broke while Obama was in Cartagena last weekend for a Summit of the Americas with more than 30 Western hemisphere leaders. Back home the headlines and the news anchors were hardly focusing on the summit, instead playing up the fact that 11 Secret Service agents and uniformed officers had been sent home on accusations of misconduct.

By the time the president got home, General Services Administration officials were appearing before congressional committees about a lavish Las Vegas conference and junkets to resorts, and more evidence of excess was beginning to emerge. Obama's attempts to draw attention to his efforts against oil market manipulation on Tuesday and to help the economy on Wednesday were drowned out by further Secret Service revelations and by the publication of gruesome photos depicting GIs with the bodies of Afghan insurgents.

"Even though you may not be losing ground because it's not the White House taking the hits, you're no longer gaining ground because the White House doesn't get its message out," said Ari Fleischer a former spokesman for President George W. Bush.

I can do without the same old tired messages copming from the W.H.
Other like to hear him speak.

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Infidel Dog · #2 (**permalink**) 04-20-2012, 02:46 PM

Hookergate, GSA Babylon, and the GI photos were only the most recent.

Others are still around. Fast and Furious hasn't gone away yet, and Solyndra comes up every time a new stimulus backed, green energy business flops, or a new report surfaces showing the promised green energy jobs aren't there. There's others that keep popping up from yesteryear too. The Zimmerman thing reminded us Black Panthers are allowed to stand in front of Polling stations with billy clubs. Come Mayday when the Black bloc clicks it into gear we'll be reminded how the Big O endorsed Occupy.

mlurp · #3 (**permalink**) 04-20-2012, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Infidel Dog

Hookergate, GSA Babylon, and the GI photos were only the most recent.

Others are still around. Fast and Furious hasn't gone away yet, and Solyndra comes up every time a new stimulus backed, green energy business flops, or a new report surfaces showing the promised green energy jobs aren't there. There's others that keep popping up from yesteryear too. The Zimmerman thing reminded us Black Panthers are allowed to stand in front of Polling stations with billy clubs. Come Mayday when the Black bloc clicks it into gear we'll be reminded how the Big O endorsed Occupy.

Add to the above the Dem's who voted to allow the pipe line which Obama is against.

saltwn · #4 (**permalink**) 04-20-2012, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by mlurp

Yep things could be better or worst. I guess the past 2+ weeks have not been the best for Obama.

Trouble in threes: Scandals hamper Obama's message - Yahoo! News

not exactly world shattering scandals...

Infidel Dog · #5 (**permalink**) 04-20-2012, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

not exactly world shattering scandals...

No, but he's had some that should have been world shattering, or at least presidency shattering, or at least would be without a lapdog media.

I mean, c'mon Fast and Furious. That's not worse than Watergate?

saltwn · #6 (**permalink**) 04-20-2012, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Infidel Dog

No, but he's had some that should have been world shattering, or at least presidency shattering, or at least would be without a lapdog media.

I mean, c'mon Fast and Furious. That's not worse than Watergate?

I don't even know what fast and furious is. I'll tell you what I think it is. A program where our gov't tracked guns in drug producing countries and the guns were used in felonies.

was I right?

Infidel Dog · #7 (**permalink**) 04-20-2012, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

I don't even know what fast and furious is. I'll tell you what I think it is. A program where our gov't tracked guns in drug producing countries and the guns were used in felonies.

was I right?

Yes, and there's all kinds of evidence suggesting Holder knew about it, and maybe it went as high as the President. The suggestion is it was planned to put pressure on for gun control. The Mexican government wasn't warned. Hundreds of Mexicans, and an American border control agent were killed.

Now that's a scandal. Or should be.

larryr · #8 (**permalink**) 04-20-2012, 08:11 PM

Not as bad as that four letter word -- Iraq. You know, cost hundreds of billions, lives etc. never could find those weapons right? Wasn't that a little more serious than these miscellaneous obama scandals that have you guys drooling? Let's have an answer, yes or no.

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Originally Posted by Infidel Dog

No, but he's had some that should have been world shattering, or at least presidency shattering, or at least would be without a lapdog media.

I mean, c'mon Fast and Furious. That's not worse than Watergate?

saltwn · #9 (**permalink**) 04-20-2012, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Infidel Dog

Yes, and there's all kinds of evidence suggesting Holder knew about it, and maybe it went as high as the President. The suggestion is it was planned to put pressure on for gun control. The Mexican government wasn't warned. Hundreds of Mexicans, and an American border control agent were killed.

Now that's a scandal. Or should be.

were the hundreds of Mexicans drug dealers?
I doubt seriously gun control is on Obama's radar.

40yearfan · #10 (**permalink**) 04-21-2012, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by larryr

Not as bad as that four letter word -- Iraq. You know, cost hundreds of billions, lives etc. never could find those weapons right? Wasn't that a little more serious than these miscellaneous obama scandals that have you guys drooling? Let's have an answer, yes or no.

No. Iraq was done legally with the consent of Congress.

Fast and Furious was a deliberate attempt to discredit gun suppliers in the west and help the liberals in their fight to get rid of the second ammendment. Every attempt was made to hide it from the American public. Chicago politics. We can't expect anything else from the Obama Administration.

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