"perfectly good used vehicles and fill their engines with sand"
Of all programs aimed to help people, this is my most hated. I can't stand trashing stuff.

I could understand his frustration, but he missed an opportunity early in his administration. The Republicans in congress, like many of us, had heard his entreaties during his campaign, to work together, and presented their ideas for addressing issues he had, expecting dialogue to follow. He refused to consider any of their ideas, essentially telling them that because he won, he didn't have to listen to anything they had to say. That came back to bite him.

I think Congress is sometimes happy to leave it to the president to avoid responsibility if things go bad. President Obama said aloud if Congress fails to do its job, the executive branch would act (without regard to its Constitutional role).

LOL.

You think Maduro is a sheep?

Sorry, I can't take you seriously after what you have just posted here. There is no possible basis to have a normal discussion when you ignore reality.

I fault congress for failing to check many past presidents for abuse of power. Obama just took it a notable step further. He isn't the first president to get called on it by the judiciary, just the latest.

It is a fact that Obama consulted with congressional leaders far less than his predecessors. Even Schumer admitted he had much less contact with Obama than he did with Bush. Again, he isn't the first president to keep to his inner circle, but you have to cringe when it's been noted that he matched Nixon in that respect.

You will note that I didn't point any of these directly at Obama, but I do contend that his statement that his administration was free of scandals is patently false.

The only one of those that I suspect might have happened and been related to President Obama was the IRS scandal. I don't know if it was investigated and proven. It smelled bad.

I think all of this patently false with a few exceptions:
- President Trump's airstraikes were the correct response, given the post-WWII order.
- President Obama's executive orders expanded the power of the Executive branch and the presidency beyond their Constitutional limits.

We'd have to take the rest of the partisan talking points one at a time.

"Let me ask you this:"
We cannot have a normal discussion if you start with calling me a sheep.

"Policies have economic impact. Add stifling environmental policies will add cost to business operations.""
I do not agree that fluctuations in the economic cycle can be traced to policies. I things like debt and global warming are very costly long-term because they slow growth, but I don't think you can say particular presidents didn't do enough on these issues and that caused the cycle to move to the next stage. We are in expansion now. The next stage is contraction. It has nothing to do with this year's policies.

"Obama's fiscal policy has the lasting legacy of doubling the national debt accumulated by all of his predecessors. That has negative impact on our economy."
Yes. You could replace "Obama" with any president in my lifetime except for Clinton in that sentence, and it would be true. And with Clinton, it was the Newt Gingrich Republicans who deserve at least half the credit.

Hi Herb! I'm not Jewish, but thanks to my Jewish friends I knew its meaning. :)

That word just felt appropriate to use, although some may take it as an offense to their manhood. To those, I humbly apologize. ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFR8...

Unfortunately History will NOT tell the truth about Obama and what he did or didn't do. It will ultimately continue the lies. His followers will remain hypnotized by his words, whatever they are, and that's what History will record. I base this theory on what our youth (those younger than me) seem to have learned about Vietnam, it's mostly a bunch of lies based only on the political rhetoric of the day, not on the real facts. I guess it really doesn't matter much as we'll all be gone before we feel the real effect of the false History and everyone else will just have to experience the truths over again.

Your Name Goes Here:
I'd like to thank you for your use of the word "Schmuck" It's a great old Yiddish word designating the male reproductive organ , but is actually a word translated literally as "Jewell." I am trying to revive this grand old word because it fits so many politicians of this era.

"It's someone staying late and working OT to help a business and earn extra money. It's someone offering to take away my junk so she can fix it up and sell it."

Absolutely, but Obama wanted none of this.

It was Obama who introduced the "cash-for-clunkers" program, where in exchange for complete government oversight of your automobile sales business, you could buy perfectly good used vehicles and fill their engines with sand, preventing others from fixing them up and selling them to others.

It was Obama who pushed for the ACA which demanded that everyone - except for those companies he granted an illegal executive stay to - provide the most expensive healthcare to their employees and demanded that even those who wanted to opt out, could not. It was also his HHS department that paid a Canadian firm two billion dollars to put together a website that never worked. (They had to hire a second company to put out the actual ACA website which was still plagued with delays and all kinds of other problems.) And it was Obama who repeatedly lied to the American people that "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor", "if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan", and "every American family is going to save $2500." In reality, healthcare costs doubled in many areas and many healthcare insurers closed up shop entirely.

It was Obama who pushed for de facto firearms controls by pushing banks to stop doing business with firearms dealers. See Operation Chokepoint.

It was Obama who pushed so-called "green" energy by upping fuel economy standards to the realm of the absurd, pushed for government tax dollars to fund failed companies like Solyndra, and signed an executive agreement (despite the Senate's rejection) of the Paris Climate accords. He also pushed for more adoption of engine-damaging and energy-draining ethanol.

It was Obama's taxes which prolonged unemployment and the economic malaise from the crash in '08. And he doubled down on his policies by telling Americans that this was "the new normal".

It was during Obama's reign that the Fed implemented "Quantitative Easing" as a way to transfer billions of dollars of wealth from taxpayers to the Federal Reserve.

It was during Obama's reign that bureaucratic rules and rule-makers imposed trillions of dollars of new costs on American businesses, among them EPA regulations meant to cripple the coal industry and which he, himself repeatedly touted.

And this doesn't even get into the outright scandals such as the IRS targeting of conservative groups during the 2012 elections, the politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice and FBI (as we are still seeing being exposed with the Hillary Clinton email scandals and politically-motivated Mueller investigation). It doesn't cover Benghazi where a US Ambassador was assassinated despite his calls for increased security. Nor does it include the Fast and Furious program which resulted not only the deaths of several US Border Patrol agents, but thousands of Mexicans to drug cartels. It doesn't include Obama's meddling in Israel's elections. It doesn't include his feckless policies in the Middle East which facilitated the rise of ISIS and trivialized Al Qaeda. It ignores Obama's failure to respond to the Russian invasion of Crimea or his "red line" in Syria.

I don't admire Obama one bit. He was the most corrupt President in the History of the United States, bar none. That he wasn't Impeached for his efforts was more an indictment of the feckless Republicans in the House than it was a proof of Obama's greatness.

Yes, you have a point.

The fact is that at FOX Tucker and Hannity regularly put on these characters, what's more, invite them to the studio to debate them. Which means we are exposed to their crap as if watching MSNBC or CNN. No, thanks.

I usually find out what they are currently doing anyway. There is no escaping from that.

The former narcissistic Liar-In-Chief has slimmed on to become the Narcissist Deep State Subverter.
He was already a a Constitution-despising traitor before he became Candidate Oblowhard, and I'm talking about his winning that Senate seat where he liked to vote "present" a lot.

It depends on what you call a scandal. It's clear that Obama himself had no personal, obvious moral slip ups, but the actions of some of his administration give one serious pause. Weaponizing the IRS indicates a desire for dictatorial power. Is that scandalous? It depends.

Fast and Furious was an obvious, blundering attempt to "sting" law abiding gun dealers, to be able to accuse them of supplying Mexican narcoterrorists. Was using criminal straw buyers as a foil, then failing to have in place the means to track those guns a scandal? It depends. The death of a Border Patrol member, and the deaths of innocent Mexicans from the guns the ATF placed in the hands of the cartels was a tragedy, but was it a scandal? It depends. Was the attempt by Holder's DOJ to cover up the botched project a scandal? It depends.

Was Obama's Secretary of State hesitating to rescue the Americans in Benghazi out of fear it would be embarrassing to the toothless Libyan government a scandal? If you view the resulting deaths of our ambassador and three other Americans as a result an outrage, is it a scandal? It depends.

Obama's Secretary of State committed a crime by her negligent disregard for the risk to national security in using a private personal server for the conduct of official business. Is that a scandal? Was the subsequent collusion with the DOJ and FBI to cover up and disregard her crime a scandal? It depends.

The Russians' attempt to influence American elections was first discovered by the Obama administration. Was the failure to disclose this to the American people a scandal? Again, it depends.

If you're a moral, law abiding, dedicated patriot, I maintain they were all scandals that make Nixon's sins pale by comparison. If you're a Clintonian moral relativist, then I guess none of them are scandals. It depends.

You're actually trying to argue facts? Good luck.

Depends on who writes the history. Considering that the MSM called Trump "inflammatory" from the get-go, and Antifa violence spiked after he took office, it will be all too easy to blame him for the gasoline.

The only miracle here if there are such things as miracles is that the country survived his presidency.

People respected Obama personally because he had a polished demeanor, but his stumbling around in foreign affairs was a disaster. Generic apologies for whatever we might have done presented a sense of someone who wasn't entirely sure of what he was talking about. His thinking about maybe if we started being nice to the really bad actors internationally they would themselves become nicer was pathetic. He viewed America's enemies as entirely domestic, and spent more time attacking Americans than he did America's real foreign enemies.

Obama's response to Syria's use of poison gas on helpless civilians was an embarrassment. After drawing a "red line" implying action if Assad used the weapons, he did nothing about it when Assad stepped over that line. Trump responded by hammering Syria's air force. Obama's response painted a picture of an impotent America, while Trump's response made it clear we were not afraid to use force in defense of our people or the helpless.

Obama fed Iran lots of cash to fund terrorist actions, and signed a meaningless agreement with them that he didn't dare present to Congress for consent, given bipartisan opposition. Trump stepped away from the agreement because he recognized Iran as an untrustworthy, dangerous element in the Middle East.

Obama whined about our NATO allies not meeting their defense expenditures, and they ignored him, having realized his words had no follow up. Trump threatened to walk away from the NATO treaty if the Europeans didn't meet their obligations, and they responded, because by then it was clear he meant what he said. That's what known as respect.

Obama signed on to the Paris accords that punished America, which is the only developed country that has really reduced its GHG emissions, and gave China a pass to continue increasing its emissions until 2030. Once again, Obama didn't dare give Congress the chance to weigh in on this agreement. Trump walked away from the accords, and even many Democrats agreed with him.

Obama again made us a doormat with the Pacific trade agreement that penalized the U.S. and mashed smaller Pacific nations economies. Again he avoided passing this by Congress out of fear they would veto it. Trump walked away from this travesty, insisting that America and other nations would have better trade relations with bilateral agreements that recognized each other's best interests. China didn't like Trump's action, but most of the other Pacific nations applauded him for it. That's called respect.

America in the past had avoided responding to North Korea's angry blusters (not just Obama this time) except by trying to appease them by handing out goodies that made no change. Trump warned NK that they risked devastation with unending threats and cheating on agreements. Apparently Trump gained respect from Kim Jong Un, which appears to have made peace on the Korean peninsula a real possibility.

Obama acted very much as an authoritarian leader, using his executive orders as imperial decrees, rendering Congress impotent. Trump pushes Congress to do its job, and has withheld executive power even when he could use it. He could have fired Mueller over a year ago, but has allowed the witch hunt to continue in spite of the drag it puts on his ability to do his job.

Obama was an arrogant narcissistic snob, rarely consulting with Congressional leaders, even the Democrats. Trump consults with anyone he feels has skin in the game, even Democrats. One acted as though he was a monarch, the other as the leader of a free people. Regardless how inelegant Trump may be, the results of his actions have earned him respect.

I certainly understand the sentiment; however, I find it useful to keep an eye on what the bad guys are up to. As distasteful as that is!

Good to be one of the sheep in the herd.

Hussein was the most scandalous presidents the country ever had, hopefully the last.

If you don't consider the scandals Dobrien listed as such, what do you think they were? Business as usual? You may be right, that was how Obama "ran" the country.

To me the most heinous of scandals was his intent to influence the 2016 elections in favor of Clinton. Mind you, he was equally ruthless when he ran against Clinton, but that was all forgotten in the name of sticking together as good communists do.

The extent of the conspiratorial effort to prevent Trump become president is huge and we are still suffering the consequences as many Hussein acolytes are still in place. Apparently that is all nil to you.

Let me ask you this: what do you think of Maduro?