Jonathan Alter's Blinders: 'White House Free of Scandal'; Obama Asset Is That 'He's Honest'
Jonathan Alter, who spent 28 years at Newsweek, has been a columnist at Bloomberg News since early this year. Just this year, the reliably and insufferably liberal Alter, among many other things, called the Republican House's passage of Paul Ryan's budget plan in April an attempt "to throw Granny in the snow," and coldly calculated that in the wake of her shooting, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was more valuable to Barack Obama's reelection efforts alive than dead.
In early January, Alter, appearing on an MSNBC program, took great offense at Rep. Darrell Issa's suggestion that the Obama White House is "one of the most corrupt administrations ever," claiming that "there is zero evidence" of it. The Washington Examiner's Tim Carney proceeded to identify seven such examples. Alter must have been saying "la-la I can't hear you" during Carney's chronicle, as his October 27 column was an exercise in sheer fantasy from beginning to end (bolds are mine throughout this post):
Story Continues Below Ad ↓Obama Miracle is White House Free of Scandal
President Barack Obama goes into the 2012 with a weak economy that may doom his reelection. But he has one asset that hasn’t received much attention: He’s honest./p>
... Although it’s possible that the Solyndra LLC story will become a classic feeding frenzy, don’t bet on it. Providing $535 million in loan guarantees to a solar-panel maker that goes bankrupt was dumb, but so far not criminal or even unethical on the part of the administration. These kinds of stories are unlikely to derail Obama in 2012. If he loses, it will be because of the economy -- period./p>
Even so, the president’s Teflon is intriguing. How did we end up in such a scandal-less state? After investigating the question for a recent Washington Monthly article, I’ve been developing some theories./p>
For starters, the tone is always set at the top. Obama puts a premium on personal integrity, and with a few exceptions (Tim Geithner’s tax problems in 2009) his administration tends to fire first and ask questions later./p>
... But the White House’s intense focus on scandal prevention has had mixed results. The almost proctological vetting process has ended up wounding Obama as much as prospective nominees. He gets cleaner but often less imaginative officials./p>
... The vigilance about wrongdoing has worked better when it comes to oversight of the $787 billion stimulus program. The money might not always have been spent on the right things. But a rigorous process supervised by Vice President Joe Biden, and made transparent with the help of recovery.gov, has prevented widespread fraud and abuse./p>
... Every time Representative Darrell Issa, the Republican from California who leads a House investigative committee, calls the Obama administration “corrupt” without offering any evidence, he hurts his cause. It’s much harder to make a story register as a bona fide scandal when the political motivation is so obvious./p>
It’s also harder to find room for such stories when so much other news is breaking. Scandals like the Monica Lewinsky affair were almost a luxury of good times, when the nation could afford to obsess about a blue dress. Not these days./p>
.... According to a metric created by political scientist Brendan Nyhan, Obama set a record earlier this month for most days without a scandal of any president since 1977. The streak probably won’t last, especially if he gets a second term, where scandals are more common. But the impression of rectitude will be part of the voters’ assessment of him next year. He’ll need it.
Here's Brendan Nyhan's hysterical definition of a scandal:
Nyhan says that political scientists generally see The Washington Post as a solid indicator of elite opinion -- so for his study, a problem officially curdles into a scandal once the S-word is used in a reporter's own voice in a story that runs on the front page of the Post. Bush made it 34-months before he faced a scandal in the Post. And as of this morning, Obama has beaten that record.
You read that right. A scandal is a scandal when -- and only when -- the Washington Post says it's a scandal, and only on its front page. For what it's worth, the headline at Associated Press story (possibly supplied by the subscribing outlet) called Solyndra a scandal on September 17.
For the rest of us, here is what a scandal is:
1. a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc.
2. an offense caused by a fault or misdeed.
3. damage to reputation; public disgrace.
4. defamatory talk; malicious gossip.
5. a person whose conduct brings disgrace or offense.
In advance of a column I wrote in September in response to American University history professor Allan Lichtman's claim that the Obama administration had to that point been "scandal-free", I compiled a by no means complete list of items which would fit one of the five areas just described. In the column itself, I added Solyndra, LightSquared, and Operation Fast and Furious. Scandal-free? It's more like scandal fatigue.
As to Obama's honesty, the contrived tale of his mother's supposed lack of health insurance during the time leading up to his death will do for openers. There are roughly three dozen more arguable lies identified here since his term began. Honest, schmonest.
Jonathan Alter is of course entitled to his opinion, but he's not entitled to his own comprehensive set of made-up facts. Bloomberg executive Washington editor Al Hunt should have laughed Alter's column out of the building -- but as another bondafide far-lefty, the odds are he thought it was brilliant journalism.
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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Comments
Thanks for clarifying:
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:21pm.
You read that right. A scandal is a scandal when -- and only when -- the Washington Post says it's a scandal, and only on its front page.
I guess that's like the principle that a liberal is innocent until he admits he's guilty.
Providing $535 million in loan guarantees to a solar-panel maker that goes bankrupt was dumb, but so far not criminal or even unethical on the part of the administration.
So far??? Does that mean next week it might be, at the very least, unethical?
The howler of the piece? The whole piece is a howler!
Reminds of this character
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:28pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuN-tFvgRc0&feature=player_detailpage#t=31s
MORON ALERT!! I've never seen
Submitted by Rowane on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:37pm.
MORON ALERT!! I've never seen such unadulterated drivel.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything. (Aaron Tippin)
Rowane, I can't belive you
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 3:40am.
Rowane, I can't belive you have never watched an Obama press conference, election commerial or personal interview.
Cronyism is one of the most
Submitted by harris65 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:38pm.
Cronyism is one of the most insidious forms of corruption and exists in all branches of our government.
Consider also what just happened in a federal court in Texas as described at http://LawInjustice.com. A Dallas business owner was involved in a civil dispute and paid millions of dollars to lawyers, and when he objected to additional fees after settling the case, they had a “friendly” judge seize all of his possessions, without any notice or hearing, and essentially ordered him under “house arrest” as an involuntary servant to the lawyers. The business owner has been under this "servant" order for 10 months and is prohibited from owning any possessions, prohibited from working, etc..
...and some quotes from the judge:
THE COURT: "I'm telling you don't scr-w with me. You are a fool, a fool, a fool, a fool to scr-w with a federal judge, and if you don't understand that, I can make you understand it. I have the force of the Navy, Army, Marines and Navy behind me."
THE COURT: "You realize that order is an order of the Court. So any failure to comply with that order is contempt, punishable by lots of dollars, punishable by possible jail, death"
ROFLMAO!
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:44pm.
And funnier still, this commie propagandist actually gets paid to write this BS.
The Dear Ruler is making Richard Nixon look like an alter boy.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Hell, Dave, Tricky Dicky WAS
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:09am.
Hell, Dave, Tricky Dicky WAS an alter boy compared to der Schlickmeister,and even though Slick Willie can out-think and out-talk Boy Blunder - on his WORST day - I don't think that Bubba is in the same league of dishonesty, obscurity (as opposed to transparancy), corruption, sedition, treason, un-Americanism, and out-and-out intent to bring destruction to this country as Boy Blunder is..................and that's saying something!!!
And Nixon got run out of office for things that would be child's play these days...........hell, child's play during Clinton's era, much less during the Obama REGIME!!!
Solyndra will be a
Submitted by zenman1661 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:50pm.
black mark (is that racist?) against Obama and should be a factor in 2012. But for Issa to call this the most corrupt administratons ever when compared to Nixon or Clinton is an exaggeration. Unless, there is more going on then what has been revealed yet.
Issa says ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:02am.
... it's ONE OF THE MOST corrupt admins ever. That allows for Nixon and Clinton to be worse.
But if you consider corruption to include massively usurping authority extraconstitutionally, serially defying court orders, and gaming the bankruptcy system, this crew is head and shoulders "above" (i.e., worse than) Nixon and Clinton.
Obama scandals
Submitted by MominMD on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 11:51pm.
LMAO!
Is this guy FOR REAL?
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:25am.
Or does he just want a bed in Bam-Bam's Vivos shelter?
If it weren't so over-the-top PATHETIC it would be laughable.
I think that by your
Submitted by coin of the realm on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:33am.
scandal threshold and the definitions that determine it's occurrence, there are thousands of scandals at the highest levels in the media and government. I think that Nyhan's comments on the meawsure of a scandal are less focused on the dictionary definition of the word and more on the political meaning. Fox News et al can scream scandal all day long, but those voices are clearly coming from Obama's political enemies, not the voice of journalists or those of the elites inside the beltway.
He said that "..political scientistS GENERALLY see...as a solid indicator..."
Given that general, informal consensus, combined with the WP record of being the first to report and/or be the lead source of reporting for the biggest scandals in modern history, that metric makes sense.
The so-called Solydra scandal is something that is relentlessly hyped by the right wing media who are concerned with one thing and one thing only--getting Obama out of the WH. It isn't really a scandal, no less one of damaging proportion. Most people just don't fall prey to that propaganda pouring out of Fox.
Further, there have been actions to correct the mistakes made with Solyndra's loan and people have lost their jobs. There is no coverup or evidence of misdeeds by the president.
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws. Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Good Boy, Coin!!!
Submitted by NC Cop on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:41am.
"Fox News!!", "Right Wing Conspiracy!!", "Obama Haters!!".
You regurgitate your DNC talking points well!!
I'll tell ya sumpin, lead
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:26am.
I'll tell ya sumpin, lead plug..................I keep running into your stupid posts all over the place here on NB, and I have to give you credit for being consistant - consistantly WRONG!!! Except for the times that you swerve into the truth........but you usually do that by trying to make some other point, and get busted for actually exposing reality for what it is.
The 'so-called Solyndra scandal' has been relentlessly hyped by the 'right wing media'??? Let me ask you this - has it even been mentioned by the 'left wing media'??? It seems to me that one lady, who works for the MSM, was ripped a new 'okole' (that's Hawaiian for rear-end) by the REGIME, and then was put on ice by her newspaper, for actually FOLLOWING this 'so called scandel'. Am I wrong about this, meat??? And the REGIME is stonewalling any efforts to show any information or paperwork about this 'so called scandel' too. Am I wrong about this too, meat??? And didn't Solyndra's lawyers show up at a Congressional hearing and invoke the 5th Amendment?? Maybe you missed that, lead nickel. And I believe that there has been more reports of nefarious and unethical activities by the officers and backers of Solyndra...........but that's just kind of inconsequential, right???
Oh yeah, 'there have been actions to correct the mistakes..........and people who have lost their jobs'. Right. I believe that the Federal Government is going to use MORE of OUR money to 'rehab' these people and teach them some other way to get paid for...............what??? I'm not sure............did I miss something???
Do we need to get into 'Fast and Furious'??? Or any number of other 'non scandels' that haven't occured during the Obama disaster???
Reality is an aversion to out of the realm................KILLA.
Yes it is, Killa...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:49pm.
...and this is his theme song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XXpzF1xqMw
There is a word for the guy who calls himself...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 3:32am.
"coin of the realm" and it is hack! He is of the same coin as Jonathan Alter.
You
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:12pm.
truly are just a talking head are`nt you? EPIC FAIL.
I'm still waiting for this
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:37pm.
I'm still waiting for this clown to actually back up ANYTHING that he has posted here on NB, since he showed up. But then again, I'm not holding my breath.
C`mon Killa
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:56pm.
give him a bit more time. He has to call Arianna and research DKos before he answers any questions.
Good evening killa
Submitted by cocodrie on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 12:01am.
I take it y'all are not impressed by plugged nickel's juvenile attempts to sound mature and educated with it's misuse of $3 words.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Plug Nickle
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:36am.
you still here?????? Call your mom on the phone or just yell out to her from the basement and ask her to home school you a bit or spank your buttocks for being so dumb.
Please Spare me My Stomach Hurts from Laughing
Submitted by Avitar on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 1:00am.
Scandle free, Obama?? Honest?
only Al Hunt a former DNC butt boy would think that anyone would think anyone was dumb enough to believdf
I read this yesterday, but as
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:30am.
I read this yesterday, but as soon as I saw that it was written by Jonathan 'Bowing at the' Alter (of Obama), I discounted it for being exactly what it is.............pure and unadulterated dreck. Hey Jonathan..............man-up, OK?? Take the knee-pads off. Get a paper towel and wipe your mouth. Try and act like a normal male. Oh.............you can't??? OK............then keep groveling and crawling around on your hands and knees............I guess it suits your personality and mentality.
Barack Obama's Assault on the Middle Class
Submitted by Retired Geek on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:42am.
Why has Barack Obama and Liberal Progressives launched a 'Full Scale Assault' against the Middle Class?
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were dead set against having a strong middle class.
Barack Obama and his Mentor Jeremiah Wright are dead set against a strong middle class as declared in point 8 of the TUCC platform:
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness".
Barack Obama sat and listened to Jeremiah Wright 'Rail' against the middle class over twenty Years.
Approximately 40,000,000 (million) people are on food stamps or 1 in 7 Households.
Why no middle class?
Harder to conduct 'class envy and struggle' which is the lifeblood of Communism.
Simply put - the Middle Class is the 'First Line of Economic Defense' against Marxism.
http://thpatriots.blogspot.com/2011/10/retired-geek-obamas-presidency_25...
There is a word for people like Jonathan Alter and it is...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 3:29am.
"hack".
A new standard has been set
Submitted by 4Deuce on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:30am.
The Obama Administration = More corrupt than Nixon's. More inept than Carter's.
Obama speaks one language - Lies!
Submitted by iamsaved on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:40am.
Obama's natural tongue is to lie. The left accused Bush of lying but could offer no verifiable proof. Obama's own recorded words have proved him for what he is. After a while, you can't trust a thing he says. Even his so-called truths will have elements of a lie in it.
I do have a comment for Newsbusters. I didn't see any coverage of the OWS protests during the recent snow storm and cold spell. I wanted to see the dedication of these people standing outside in the frigid air.
Can a complete phony be honest?
Submitted by lgeubank on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:45am.
Obama hasn't said an honest word since he's been president. Every time he speaks, you can almost hear him saying to himself, "What do I have to tell these 'folks' to get what I want?"
During the Obamacare debates he showed he'll say whatever it takes to get what he wants. He'll make any lying promise, and demonize doctors, insurance companies, anybody, if he thinks the people will buy it.
That's his only standard for what to say: "Will they buy it?"
He's a complete hypocrite and phony. He never says what's really on his mind. He's always speaking in order to manipulate and bamboozle the people.
He's a dumbed-down Mussolini -- a retarded version, like Mussolini's dumber brother, fit for a people dumb enough to buy his routine.
Wrong about several things
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:59am.
I'm going to correct you about a few things. There have been times that Soetoro (his real name, not Obama) has been honest. It's when he's off the teleprompter and he'll speak "off the cuff" that you see the real him slip out. You are right in the sense that he seems like he's saying "what do I have to tell these 'folks' to get what I want?" But during some of those times, (happened when he was on prompter too), he'll come across as a petulant child demanding his way, and that's when you see the real him.
As for calling him a retarded Mussolini, I wouldn't go that far. He knows what the hell he's doing. And his goals are getting more and more evident. Look at his gleeful reaction about Libya and Egypt when they said they were going to take on Sharia as their form of government.(along with Tunisia) The State Department might have been dismayed(have to verify that unless someone else knows?) but a sitting potus that is bogus, gleeful about the harshest form of Islam?(not that there's any nice form of it) That's a conflict of interest.
There are people in his cabinet that are incompetent, and I'm quite positive that's by design, but trust me, everything he's been doing up till now has not been the act of an idiot or "retarded" as you say. He was raised to hate American values and that's evident in EVERYTHING he's been doing.
-Jon
Outrageous
Submitted by cobokat on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:05am.
It is almost coming to the point where I can barely watch the news or cable programs anymore. That Bloomberg would allow Jonathan Alter to print this garbage is unreal. I don't think it matters who gets the Republican nomination...the liberal media is now in high gear to do everything in their power to assure BO a second term. If this happens this country may be forever changed and may never ever recover. I can only hope that whoever gets the Republican nomination...NO MATTER WHO IT IS...That the Republicans can come together-put all there differences aside and support the nominee. We all cannot get everything we want but this administration must be voted out of office before it is too late.
Alter is an Idiot
Submitted by NVRAT on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 9:27am.
Scandal and Honesty are to different things. Obama is offering the same thing that the Muslims are offering the rest of the world. Lies, distortion, threats, terror and many other things that add up to a Dictatorship.
ALTERnut reality
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:02am.
For those on here who think Nixon was the more corrupt you are victims of Liberal history. Nixon was no saint. Watergate was just a botched third rate burglary where the scandal was the President and the Whitehouse staff obstructed the investigation into the crime. Compare that to todays blatant corruption of the government agencies under obama. Never has a President been able to move billions of taxpayer dollars to politically connected donors or corrupt the DOJ in such a wholesale manner. We have a President who pushes legislation against the will of the people and circumvents congress to rule by fiat. This current President would already been behind bars had he operated in this manner during the years Nixon was President. Why? Because the political power back then was still controlled by the WWll generation and after fighting a terrible war to preserve freedom they would not tolerate politicians who threatened America's honor or freedom. If only we had them back to deal with a President that apologizes for this country and is determined to 'fundamentally change' the United States.
Headlines in Nevada!!!
Submitted by gailannr on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:17am.
http://www.rgj.com/article/20111030/COL0602/110300345/Jon-Ralston-What-h...
Sweet
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:28am.
"A political leper" says it all
As uncomfortable as relative
Submitted by PeskyDane on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:25am.
As uncomfortable as relative thinking is for me, I'm not convinced that Obama rises beyond the level of dishonesty that we have come to expect from our politicians regardless of their place in the pecking order.
Obama is a true believer - perhaps more's the pity in that regard, but is he a liar in the sense that he knowingly pushes false information onto the public in a serial fashion? Is it a "lie" if you beleive it?
It's useful to point out that he is a complete Fabian character. Plucked from obscurity, and shepherded from one position to another. Mediocre accomplishments beyond the offices he has held, no writings, no editorializing, two books written for him... the list simply goes on.
All this leaves me with the impression that he is just not intelligent enough to know what is true and what is not.
Nap,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:44am.
He knows what he is doing. You cant thoroughly demolish the US economy with-out a plan. And it helps when you have a bunch of squishy adversary's who are more interested in polls, then doing the right thing. Yep, Obama, and his lap dog media are up to their necks in this corruption and misery.
OK, that's where I am
Submitted by PeskyDane on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:51am.
OK, that's where I am skeptical. Bolsheviks are inherently ignorant of the 2nd and 3rd order effects of their policies. Ask the typical revolutionary back in 1917 if he or she thought that a third of them would be shoved up against a wall and shot by the other two thirds within a generation. My strong suspicion is that not only does he not know what he is doing, but that he could not stop it if he wanted to. But this brings us back to him being a true believer. Unless he is really, really good at playing blind and stupid, he has demonstrated absolutely no knowledge on economic matters. Others are pulling his strings, and he is simply dancing accordingly.
What an interesting topic
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:02pm.
Is Obama a product of his Masters, or is he one of them? Hhmm
Lots of gray area.
Submitted by PeskyDane on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:10pm.
Lots of gray area. Historians will be arguing that one for a while.
We can't tell
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:08pm.
Those records --like so many--have been sealed or destroyed.
I don't believe any other
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:54am.
I don't believe any other president has knowingly hired an avowed Communist (van Jones) to play an important part of his administration. In fact, I'm not sure any president has hired an avowed communist, period.
This avowed Communist was put in charge of creating green jobs. As a "Czar" -- a position created by o'bama specifically to avoid Congressional approval.
My question -- did a Communist in o'bama's administration funnel $1/2B to a money laundering company?
__________
“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
I'm pretty sure that Boy
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 2:25pm.
I'm pretty sure that Boy Barry is the first candidate to win the Presidency of the USA who had the backing and support of the communist party. And the socialist party.
McGovern might have ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:37pm.
... in 1972.
Maybe so...........he would
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 4:53pm.
Maybe so...........he would be the type............but last I heard, he got shellacked.
Excuse the fatigue ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:22pm.
... but I missed the "win" part.
I think the Communists would have supported FDR in 1932 if FDR had really said what he was going to do -- which he didn't.
No el problemo,
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:43pm.
No el problemo, Tom...............I'd be more than 'fatigued' if I had to try and keep up with all of the lib BS that you guys at NB do.
Since the Communist Party and the Socialist
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:34pm.
Party fielded their own presidential candidates in 1972, it's unlikely either party endorsed McGovern.
Jer
Was it Gus Hall again?
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:50pm.
Or did they choose Angela Davis?
drsam...I think any time the Jeopardy answer is
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:02pm.
"He was the CPUSA candidate for President of the United States in 19xx"....
" Who is Gus Hall" is your best bet.
Jer
Not true,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:14pm.
Now that they have taken over the Dimwitted party, they have lots of different candidates
LOL! He was after Harold Stassen's record!
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 7:23pm.
Earl Browder was long disavowed since that time....
alter aka blotter for obama
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:08am.
get serious this alter is a fraud and a lackey for obama.
Obama never did outright say
Submitted by Minarchian on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:27am.
Obama never did outright say that he was going to destroy this country.
So, I guess one *could* say he is honest.
You sure about that?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:22pm.
What do you think he meant when he said he was going to fundamentally transform this country?
A sitting US President would never say something like that and do the things he has been doing without violating the US Constitution, which he has done several times over. The oath of office charges a US President to PRESERVE, DEFEND, and UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAWS.(Remember DOMA? He's ignoring that, and verbally said so)
If he's not destroying the country by way of ignoring the US Constitution, what is he doing?
-Jon
Where has this guy been
Submitted by jessieH on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 11:54am.
Where has this guy been hiding his head? I don't think it was in the sand.
Alter & Newsweek
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:09pm.
I stopped buying/reading Newsweek because of liberal cretins like Jonathan Alter and that was long before this fool named Obama showed up and started wrecking our country. That Alter can write an article about the lack of scandals in the Obama regime (my word) is a testament to the lack of journalistic integrity and credibility of Alter. Alter and Obama have 2 things in common: they are both arrogant as the day is long and both think Americans are stupid enough to buy Obama's song and dance.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:46pm.
You gotta love a liberal!!
Obama administration / BP oil spill - not a scandal?
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:47pm.
Obama administration / BP oil spill - not a scandal?
But, i see what they mean. Since the national MSM did not call it a scandal, it's not a scandal. However, if the MSM's audience had seen what we'd seen - they, the folks - would call it a scandal.
This article, from the Associated Press (sorry, the link is now dead -- Hmm):
Panel: Gov't thwarted worst-case scenario on spill
Anyone remember out national MSM pouring over that commission's findings? Simply scandalous.
This piece, from Heritage's Foundry, still works, however:
Simply a scandal, waiting to be called a scandal.
The second scandal, in this whole picture, as well as so many other dear leader potential scandals, is that the MSM, itself, is a scandal.
(;~/ gary
As the internet community would say...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 12:50pm.
"Not sure if trolling or very stupid."
If Ear Leader puts such a premium on personal integrity, why...
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 6:55pm.
...doesn't he bother explaining Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, Blago, etc. etc. etc.
Whatever hallucinogen Alter is currently smoking, shooting, inhaling or otherwise ingesting, it must be quite powerful and have a very long half-life.
Obama Honest?
Submitted by djm159 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 8:23pm.
Compared to who? Compared to Bill and Hillary Clinton he might appear honest, but the man cannot even define the word.
Der Schlickmeister is a
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 9:25pm.
Der Schlickmeister is a pathological liar..................Nurse Ratchett is a liar by choice..............and Boy Barry is a liar by birth - his whole life has been a lie, so he knows no other way.
Alter Cocker
Submitted by greatj on Sun, 10/30/2011 - 10:26pm.
This proves that Alter is an Obama toady that will say all kinds of disinformation lies for the Democratic party in their 2012 election campaign.I don't believe anything this piece of trash says.