Obama denies any wrongdoing on IRS, Benghazi

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  1. Professor Peabody

    Professor Peabody Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Isn't this the guy who spoke what Polifacts called the lie of the year 37 times?

    Lie of the Year: 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it'

    He uttered the Lie of the Year 37 times, why on Earth should we believe him when he says.......

    there was “not even a smidgen” of corruption in the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and that his team did not try to deceive the nation about the terrorist attack in Benghazi to aid his reelection bid in 2012

    Why should we believe you Mr. President? WHY? An Independent Council should be appointed by the House Oversight Committee to see if there was really “not even a smidgen” of corruption. After getting the "Lie of the Year" 37 times from you, with all due respect, I wouldn't believe a word out of your or any one in your administrations mouths if your tongue's came notarized.
     
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    zbr6 Banned

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    No time for this!

    Must discover truth of the traffic jam that nearly ended all life on Earth as we know it!

    :eyepopping: :eyepopping: :eyepopping: :eyepopping:
     
  3. JJ Gettes

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    Since the IRS were investigating groups from both sides that may or may not have fit a new sort of criterium for non-profit designation, isn't it kind of obvious that there is no scandal here. A conservative Republican at the IRS has testified to this.

    You folks are like little critters that go into hibernation when the right-wing narrative is finished, and pop out from it every once in a while, having missed all developments in the meantime, repeating it.
     
  4. creation

    creation New Member

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    A pity you havent chosen to respond to his actual comments in clear detail, rather youre telling us....since politifact called his healthcare statement, the lie of the year then everything else he says cant be believed.

    Politifact can say what it likes, its up to you and I to make sense of what he's saying. Youve chosen not to do that.
     
  5. toddwv

    toddwv Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah, that's because there is no indication of corruption. Just more overblown attempts by the right to make everything and anything into a "scandal."

    Want to know why the public doesn't really care anymore? Well, have you ever heard the fable of the "Boy Who Cried Wolf?" Yeah, it's like that.
     
  6. Pardy

    Pardy Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    When a real scandal comes along, and I doubt it will, nobody is going to take the far right seriously. All of those tantrums and wasted inquiries made them feel better but it made everyone else distance themselves from the GOP, which now has its lowest approval ratings ever.

    President Obama didn't seem to do anything wrong regarding Benghazi or the IRS "scandals". Why wouldn't he deny wrongdoing?
     
  7. Gatewood

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    Wishing doesn't make it so, a fact that applied to Barack Obama's meaningless campaign slogans of "Hope and Change!" and "Yes we Can!" of 2008. If wishing doesn't at some point down the line get replaced by an actual set of comprehensive plans that are handled with competence then an administration never gets out of the mere wish-fulfillment stage. For instance, Obama merely WISHED for ObamaCare to be a good law and be methodically implemented in a good way by competent people; and the Glorious Leader's wishing . . . just did not make it so. That's Obama and his administration in brief summary -- a bunch of second rate amateurs with a laundry list of pie-in-the-sky goals and no ability or competence at administration. Oh . . . and very definitely corrupt to boot.

    Fast and Furious, Benghazi Cover Up, AP scandal, IRS scandal, NSA scandal; and all of that with three years remaining? Oh my! Yeah people in general do care and yet they also can see that the Mainstream Media continues of the whole to have Barack's back with only Conservative talk radio and Fox News being willing to DARE buck this vindictive administration and continue to cover issues that Obama really wants to vanish. People know that the MSM is essentially working for Obama, and that's why there's no nationwide fervor . . . the in-the-tank-for-Obama media keeps downplaying or outright ignoring the issues in favor of -- for instance -- gushing over Queen Michelle Obama's freaking fiftieth birthday for a forking damn week. Polling data however generally indicates that -- in the case of both the IRS and Benghazi scandals -- most citizens seem inclined to think that the administration not only WAS corrupt but engaged in cover-ups.

    Where the "Cry wolf!" syndrome comes into play on the other hand is the left's and Barack's chronic and kneejerk playing of the Race Card every time he receives criticism or the polling numbers sag another couple of numbers. Citizens in general finally understand that it really is just the Left and Obama crying "Wolf!" which is why nowadays they just don't pay much attention any more to the frenzied playing of the Race Card all the damn time for everything under the sun.
     
  8. BestViewedWithCable

    BestViewedWithCable Well-Known Member

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    um.... no...

    Lets ask obama.....

    [video=youtube;N9-LkEH9Owc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9-LkEH9Owc[/video]

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    HAAHHAHAHA WTF?

    Which obama should we believe?

    [video=youtube;N9-LkEH9Owc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9-LkEH9Owc[/video]
     
  9. logical1

    logical1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Obama should get an Oscar for lying with a straight face.
     
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    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    From what I heard, most of the groups complaining about the IRS scandal, have never even been interviewed by the FBI.
     
  11. doombug

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    Well Obama is part right. The people who voted him in office are mostly to blame.
     
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    Obama came across as arrogantly superficial in the interview. O'Reilly was clearly frustrated with the presidents dodges, denials and attempted filibusters but respectively maintained his composure even when the president made his little "play ground level" dig at FOX.

    As far as the IRS investigation, here's the question; "Mr. president, if, like you claim, there's not a smidgen of corruption involved with the IRS targeting, why did L. Lerner feel it necessary to claim the 5th?"

    I almost fell down laughing at the end of the interview when Obama said "I enjoyed it"...
     
  13. JJ Gettes

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    I suspect Lerner pled the 5th amendment on the advice of her lawyer.
     
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    No kidding? Gee, I didn't think of that, genius...:roflol:
     
  15. JJ Gettes

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    So tell me, where's the scandal?
     
  16. BestViewedWithCable

    BestViewedWithCable Well-Known Member

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    I dont get how now obama can say there was no scandal, after hes already told us there was a scandal.

    [video=youtube;N9-LkEH9Owc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9-LkEH9Owc[/video]

    Which lie are expected to believe?

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    Did you watch the video of obama saying there was a scandal and wrong doing, and that he actually fired someone over it?

    Did you watch the oreilly interview where he said there was no scandal?

    Which lie do you believe?
     
  17. creation

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    Why are you lying? The prior video was of his initial statements and actions, the latter was after the audits were conducted and he accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner. There is no admission of corruption.

    Why are you trying to deceive us like this again?
     
  18. BestViewedWithCable

    BestViewedWithCable Well-Known Member

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    You obviously didnt watch the video, I provided you with.

    [video=youtube;N9-LkEH9Owc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9-LkEH9Owc#t=55[/video]
     
  19. JJ Gettes

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    At what minute in either video does he say there is a scandal?
     
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    No you should watch it, I already have. Youre deluded if you think its an admission of corruption. And if youre not deluded then youre just lying.
     
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    Well if it is on you tube it must be true like crop circles and aliens.
     
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    Makes perfect sense for Lois Lerner to plead the 5th if there wasn't more to the story. I can't possibly think of any reason she wouldn't want to testify, her testimony would have silenced those claiming it was a scandal. Maybe someone from the fringe left can explain the logic here.
     
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    The whole IRS thing was fundamentally corrupt because the criteria for who got the rundown by the IRS never should have been biased against conservative terms to begin with.
     
  24. BestViewedWithCable

    BestViewedWithCable Well-Known Member

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    So was he lying in the video I provided you with, or was he lying in the Oreilly interview?

    You get to pick, was he lying before, or is he lying now, or is he lying in both?
     
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    0:30 where he says,"Ive reviewed treasury departments watch dog report, and the misconduct it uncovered is inexcusable. Its inexcusable, and the American people are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it.I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS"

    duh
     

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