What do you believe was the biggest scandal in 2013. Vote in the poll and post your justification or if you have a different scandal then have at it!
Biggest Scandal of 2013
Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by OldRegular, Dec 26, 2013.
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What is Biggest Scandal of 2013
Poll closed Jan 5, 2014.
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Inauguration of Obama
2 vote(s)14.3% -
Obama Lies About Keeping Your Health Care
6 vote(s)42.9% -
NSA Spying
5 vote(s)35.7% -
Snowden's Treasonous Activity
0 vote(s)0.0% -
IRS Targeting Conservatives
3 vote(s)21.4% -
Terrorist Bombing in Boston
3 vote(s)21.4% -
Government Shutdown
1 vote(s)7.1% -
Obamacare
6 vote(s)42.9% -
Harry Reid
1 vote(s)7.1% -
Senate Adopting "Nuclear Option"
2 vote(s)14.3%
Multiple votes are allowed.
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There are too many to choose from. I want to say Benghazi, but Obamacare has to be #1.
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Earth Wind and Fire Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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The bold faced lies about health care. It, IMNSHO, destroyed any credibility or trust the president might have had.
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Yeah. His loss of credibility. What a disaster. :rolls eyes:
What the dems have done to this nation through the exploitation of his race is just peanuts in comparison.
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What I find to be scandalous is the apparent inattention or care for U.S. involvement in the world. We have abandoned our world leadership in favor of an erratic, "lead from behind" (whatever that means) mentality that has the rest of the world scratching its collective head and wondering where our leadership has gone. As examples of this, I give you:
- This man apparently believes that "getting bin Laden" decapitated al-Qaeda, utterly failing to understand that the terrorist group is a multi-headed monster, each group being able to act independently of leadership while still sharing the overall ideal and goals of the group's founder, now shark food in the Indian Ocean.
- In the Syrian conflict, he has set "red line" upon "red line" and done nothing when Assad has crossed them. He repeatedly has backed off of threats to use force, which of course leaves our enemies believing -- quite rightly, in all likelihood -- that he never will. For an overview of the utter farce his so-called Mideast policy is, read here.
- With China, the Great Pretender has chosen kindergarten diplomacy over flexing U.S. muscle. When China declared an East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone in November, rather than address Xi Jinping directly in what should have been a crucial, high-level and public demand the zone not be enforced, he chose to be like the kid on the playground who crosses the line drawn in the sand, by flying planes and sailing ships through the zone.
- He has ceded defense of North Africa to the French. The French!! When Mali was threatened by al-Qaeda fighters, the Great Pretender made all sorts of bluster and promise -- much as he did with Syria -- before simply letting enough time go by that the French decided if anything was going to be done, they would have to do it. So they did.
- With the NSA revelations regarding our nation's spying on French, German, Brazilian and other allied leaders, our credibility is shot as a friend that can be trusted.
Wall Street Journal op-ed writer Walter Russell Mead wrote recently:
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I even forgot to mention Iran, which was virtually falling to its knees ready to do anything to get the sanctions from the international community lifted. That was before the Ignoble Traitor sent over that treacherous collaborator, John "Swift Boat" Kerry, to further undermine U.S. world leadership. He literally lifted Iran to its feet and gave them hope they could still get their nuclear weapon by "negotiating" an agreement that holds Iran to no requirements while leaving them free to continue to building centrifuges. By "negotiating," I believe I mean, essentially, that he asked them what they wanted and he gave it to them!!
And by the way, we have a Secretary of State who likely lied about a third combat injury in order to get a third Purple Heart which let him leave the Vietnam theater of operations immediately, only to show up at the Paris Peace talks and meet with the North Vietnamese delegation only 18 months after he fled the "brown water Navy" where he was fighting the very people he then embraced!! This is our Secretary of State!! Doesn't anyone else find this utterly obscene and traitorous?? Or is it just this old rotary wing pilot thinking men who have served this country ought to honor her, not undermine her? -
Obama would have to look far to find a worse Secretary of State than Kerry [possibly Hillary light] but since he was a Senator his confirmation by the Senate was a given. -
I believe the biggest scandal of 2013 is how American Christians have remained relatively silent while our brothers and sisters in Christ are being martyred and driven from their homelands in the countries where the Washington/Saudi/Israeli regime change policy is taking place.
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And I also imagine listening to preachers telling us to lay down and be silent because "God appoints" psychopathic leaders over us for our own good has had an effect too. Somehow I just can't understand how anyone with half a brain could confuse a lying cheating stealing psychopathic politician with a "minister of God for good". -
I am sure there are more you could add.....
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FollowTheWay Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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I’m still stuck on “The sequester is not something I proposed, it’s something that Congress proposed. It will not happen,” in Oct 2012… as the first stages were already taking place. But that’s because I personally feel the effect.
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