Zero Legacy

(found online, slightly edited) Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:
1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

Obama's Legacy

The Idiossey by Iowahawk (minor profanity warning)

STAY! Staaaaay!

Obama Issues Executive Order Banning Climate from Changing

pot & kettle

cnn just showed the kenyan islamic communist president calling trump unqualified to be president...

I hate reruns...

A ransom to Iran by any other name...

...is just as criminal:

"Let’s not forget, when North was involved with the mere transfer of weapons and replacement parts for weapons to Iran in exchange for hostages in the 1980s, our nation was at a stand-still as Congress and the media behaved as though the presidency (and quite possibly the future of our Democratic Republic) was hanging in the balance.

Today, the circumventing of federal law by laundering US currency through a Swiss bank and converting it to 500 Euro bills (the preferred denomination of drug cartels and terrorists) and sending it on an unmarked plane in the dead of night while a plane with our American hostages waits for it to land barely warrants one question at a presidential press conference."

one of these things is not like the other

isn't

ask, tell,

via facebook

but sadly, we will

Legacy of Loss

In this otherwise interesting article about the decline of the Democratic party, Politico makes a small mistake:

...this time, there’s neither a Great Depression nor a criminal conspiracy in the White House to explain what has happened.

Just because the term "depression" is not used, and the criminal conspiracy has not yet been prosecuted, doesn't mean they don't exist.

A titan arum by any other name smells just as vile.

no sympathy for the devil

Tomi Lahren:

“Do I care that [gunman Mohammad Abdulazeez] seemed like an 'All-American' young man? Do I care that he was good at mixed martial arts or a smart, quiet guy? Do I care that his high school friends wouldn’t classify him as overly religious? No, I don’t give a flying you-know-what about any of that ****. I care that this **** killed four of our United States Marines, and I care that our commander-in-chief is more concerned with Muslim sensitivity than the honor and sacrifice made by these Marines.”

Obama's Legacy

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The Plague Spreads

Monica Crowley wrote an excellent piece about the Baltimore riots, but a ridiculous amount of popups at the Washington Times website needlessly hinder the message. I intend no infringement, and only hope to remove the frustration caused by their ad-bloated site.

(Emphases mine)

“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“[Expletive] the police!” — rioters in Baltimore.

“We also gave those who wish to destroy space to do that as well.” — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

During the past 40 years, the nonviolent movement for racial justice has morphed into a violent movement for social justice.

The upheaval in Baltimore in the aftermath of the mysterious death of Freddie Gray, who died in police custody, is just the latest in a long line of racial violence, from Watts to Detroit, from Crown Heights to Ferguson.

The Rev. Martin Luther King’s legacy has been destroyed by leftists who depend on racial division. The struggle for civil rights lost its moral power when the demands switched from equal rights under the law to equal results. That changeover, from a movement based on legal justice to one of social justice, corrupted the mission and created a charlatan leadership. The result has been a cult of black victimhood and dependency, leading to endless cycles of crime, poverty, drug abuse and related violence and the general breakdown of the family.

What we have witnessed in Baltimore (and Ferguson last year) is the natural result of allowing leftist-articulated “grievances” to usurp the rule of law and the maintenance of civil order.

Ms. Rawlings-Blake tried to walk back her statement that she gave rioters a “space to destroy” after her comment encouraged more violence. This should not have been a surprise. During the Crown Heights riots of 1991, New York Mayor David Dinkins kept the police back in order to let protesters “blow off a little steam.” The violence, of course, escalated. The Obama administration has also repeatedly called for police “restraint.”

They intend to send a signal of racial sensitivity and social justice, but the result is black communities being burned to the ground.

When there is a lack of strong leadership, sinister characters fill the void. Thugs pour into the streets; few are there out of deep rage about their collective treatment by the police but rather because looting and torching businesses are fun ways to pass the time. Particularly when they know the television cameras are trained on them. After all, who wouldn’t want Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame (or infamy)?

The professional race hustlers then alight on the scene to profiteer and further enflame. The race industry claims to be the black community’s savior, when all it does is keep itself fat and rich.

There are legitimate questions surrounding the death of Gray, and I understand the anger and frustration among many in Baltimore. The investigation, like the ones into the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York, must be allowed to proceed.

But as Winston Churchill is attributed to saying, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” And that was before instantaneous social media.

In America today, ideology — political, racial, religious — drives everything, and the truth takes a back seat, only emerging after a lot of damage has been done.

Some Baltimore rioters have been quoted as saying that they’re lashing out at the “system” they consider “unjust.” OK, but the “system” against which they are lashing is predominantly black. The Baltimore City Council is majority black, the mayor, police commissioner and 63.3 percent of the population are black, and the majority of the Baltimore Police Department is non-white. The problem, it seems, is not white racism, but a “system” they have installed themselves over many decades.

The Baltimore riots also show the limits of elections based on symbolism. Ferguson, Baltimore and general increased racial tension have occurred with a black president, two black attorneys general, a black Homeland Security secretary, and other top black officials. Campaigning in 2008, Mr. Obama told us that he’d be able to unify all races and creeds through his transcendence as a biracial president.

Instead, we’ve seen escalating racial animus, thanks largely to the signals he’s sent: from claiming that the Cambridge police “acted stupidly” in their exchange with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates to calling for police restraint in Ferguson to inviting ignominious agitator, the Rev. Al Sharpton, to be his top adviser on race issues to his muted response when two New York City police officers were assassinated while sitting in their patrol car.

The left, of course, needs chaos and division in order to thrive. Therefore, it stokes them whenever possible.

Perhaps this is why Mr. Obama has failed to do the one thing a black president could do that a white one could not: speak directly to the black community about personal responsibility, the need for fathers to raise their children, the strength to be derived from strong families and faith, the need to be productive and decent human beings.

He could have served as their ultimate role model, but instead he put his ideological desire to “fundamentally transform the nation” above all else.

I wish he — and the nation — would focus less on the words of Rev. Sharpton and more on the words of Rev. King: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

Iowahawk

King of Twitter:

Don't let a nuclear-armed Iran distract us from America's #1 threat - Indiana bakeries

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 29, 2015

US peace partners Egypt & Saudi Arabia ready to invade US peace partner Yemen to fight US peace partner Iran http://t.co/Xv5XP3238U

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 27, 2015

"OMG ISRAEL SPIED ON US" - government currently spying on you

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 24, 2015

Voting should be mandatory, says guy who missed over 300 roll call votes in his 4 years in the Senate http://t.co/QEeXymYbjK

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 19, 2015

Obama tried harder to influence the Israeli election of 2015 than to support the Iranian uprising of 2009.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 18, 2015

#AskHamas How much did you pay the Ku Klux Klan for wardrobe advice? pic.twitter.com/qrEfUoF6pP

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 13, 2015

The Hillary story is starting to resemble a mashup of House of Cards, Fatal Attraction, Caine Mutiny, Election, Carrie, and Cocoon

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 12, 2015

Live Long and Prosper

...at other people's expense?

An interesting take on Spock's philosophy.

Not only do Spock’s peacenik inclinations routinely land the Enterprise and the Federation into trouble, his “logic” and “level head” mask an arrogant emotional basket case. Unlike the superhuman android Data, a loyal officer whose deepest longing is to be human, Spock spends most of his life as a freelancing diplomat eager to negotiate with the worst enemies of Starfleet...

...in Star Trek VI... Spock has taken up secret negotiations with the Federation’s mortal enemy, the Klingon Empire, to dismantle the neutral zone and end the military dimension of Starfleet. Then Spock decides the best person to accompany the Klingon high chancellor to a galactic peace conference is Kirk, whom the Klingon’s despise... Furthermore, Spock volunteers Kirk for the job without the captain’s permission. His decision thoughtlessly plays into the hands of the interstellar conspiracy to foment war between the Federation and the Klingons, because the plot’s leaders see Kirk as the perfect fall guy for the assassination of Chancellor Gorkon...

...and it gets better.

the cognitive dissonance was deafening

at work after the election, one person told us about having voted straight-ticket democrat and being sad that none of them won.

at work tonight, the same person was railing against political machines.

i'm guessing they've never been to chicago.

he is the very model

...of the monster that jefferson recognized

(via imao)

Move along, no bias to see here

update 1: it's october, no surprise. i just wanted to bump this to the top in time for the midterm elections.

scary, isn't it?

update 2: an additional source (some overlap this list, some are different)

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Irritable Pundit via IMAO:

So, in just one day we had approximately 17 times as much coverage of a political traffic jam in New Jersey, as we did of Obama's use of the IRS as a political weapon for six long months. No, seriously.

see also...

Well, i was going to just note a few of the under-reported missteps, misdeeds, misdemeanors, felonies, and treasons that obama has inflicted on America, then i found some much-more-thorough sources (primarily InvestmentWatch). Brace yourself:

• "Green" payments and bankruptcies of Solyndra, NextEra, Ener1, Solar Trust and many others
• Refusal to enforce federal immigration laws
• AP Spying
• Rosengate
• Jeremiah Wright
• Sequestration
• Eric Holder Serial Perjury
• The ATF “Fast and Furious”
• Sebelius ObamaCare Bribery
• Sponsored performances by radical rappers like Michael Franti and Common, both of whose lyrics are anti-police, anti-white, and anti-America
• The Pigford scandal
• Blocking WW2 veterans from their memorial while having fundraisers on other government facilities.
• GSA gone wild
• Veterans Affairs in Disney World
• Hosted at the White House many Islamist members of groups associated with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc
• Sebelius violates the Hatch Act
• AKA Lisa Jackson
• Failure to prosecute The New Black Panthers
• Violation of War Powers Act in Libya
• Obama’s Solicitor General (and now Supreme Court Justice) Elena Kagan prevented the families of 9/11 victims from appealing their lawsuits against the Saudi royal family for financing the 9/11 attacks
• Biden press bullying
• Intentionally misquotes the Declaration of Independence
• Intentionally blundered oath of office to avoid swearing on the Bible
• Paid David Axelrod, AKPD Message and Media, to promote passage of Obamacare
• Lied about his close associations with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers
• Labeled Nidal Malik Hasan's terrorist shooting as “workplace violence”
• The 2009 National Christmas Tree in the White House was decorated with ornaments depicting Chairman Mao, a drag queen, and a picture of Mount Rushmore with Obama’s head next to George Washington’s.
• Air Force One Manhattan flyover
• False “recess appointments” to avoid Senate approval
• Obama’s own author bio in his literary agent’s catalog and on their Web site stated for 17 consecutive years that he was born in Kenya; this claim remained intact despite other portions of the bio being altered and updated repeatedly. It was only in 2007 after he decided to run for the presidency that the “born in Kenya” claim was taken down.
• Compelled Catholic and other religious organizations to provide health plans with free contraception
• Ignored Simpson-Bowles commission recommendations
• Joe Sestak forced to drop out
• Efforts to bankrupt the coal industry
• Selective Law Enforcement
• Sided with Argentina in its new claim on the Falklands
• Repeatedly broke “No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase” campaign promise
• America’s credit rating was downgraded
• $800 billion in stimulus cash for “shovel-ready” jobs that didn’t exist
• Defied “WARN Act” and told defense contractors to delay layoff notices until after 2012 election
• Illegally ending the welfare-to-work requirements
• Big-Brother-style “Attack Watch”, “Flag@Whitehouse.gov”, and “Truth Team”
• Insulting ally Israel: 1967 border demand, Benjamin Netanyahu feud, bowing to Arab tyrants
• Appointed his own underage daughters as “senior staff members” so that their vacation to Africa would be paid for with taxpayer money
• "Choom Gang"
• Sided with Hugo Chavez and the Castro regime regarding the Honduran Constitutional Crisis of 2009
• Promoted Cap and Trade energy tax
• Exposing Navy SEALs to retaliation
• Sharyl Attkisson’s computer hacking
• Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher defamation
• “The future must not belong to those who slander The Prophet of Islam”
• “you didn’t build that”
• Canceled plans to complete a missile defense shield in Poland
• Established list of people (including Americans) Obama claims the right to kill on sight, and then bragged about it
• Hired tax cheat Timothy Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury
• Appointed Maoist Anita Dunn to be White House Communications Director
• Appointed Communist Van Jones, who supported a “9/11 Truth” petition, to be “Green Jobs Czar.”
• Appointed John Holdren, forced mass sterilzation advocate, to be Science Czar.
• Appointed Steven Chu, who openly advocates artificial energy price increases, to be Secretary of Energy.
• Appointed Kevin Jennings, who promoted X-rated “sex-positive” textbooks for 13-year-olds, instructed teenagers at a conference how to perform “fisting”, refused to report instances of statutory rape, and expressed admiration for a member of NAMBLA, to be America’s “Safe School’s Czar.”
• Cash for Clunkers
• Blocked continued construction of the Keystone Pipeline, which intentionally reduced energy resources for the US and forced Canada to sell more of its oil to China
• Promised Putin to cave in to Russian demands
• Obama praised anti-Western anti-Israel academic Edward Said
• Numerous visits from Union boss and far-left activist Andy Stern
• National Debt Ceiling flip-flop, then doubling the National Debt
• GM & Chrysler buyout, a.k.a. Union payola
• Implicit approval of anti-Romney campaign ads which threatened violence against Republicans
• Appointing numerous unconstitutional and unaccountable "czars"
• Aided and abetted the “Arab Spring” which replaced existing secular governments with hardline Islamists
• Refused to aid secular Iranian uprising
• Shut down oil drilling in the US, then lent $2 billion to support Brazil's government-controlled oil drilling effort
• Interfering with voter fraud prosecutions
• Nakoula Basseley Nakoula arrest
• Ordered NASA to prioritize “Muslim outreach.”
• Obamacare waivers to political friends
• Inspector General Gerald Walpin retaliatory firing
• Alejandro Mayorkas Influence Peddling
• Increased food stamp dependency to 15% of the nation’s population
• Obama campaign disabled the credit card verification system for Web site donations
• "57 states" *
• "marine corpse" *

and of course Benghazi, which includes:

• The failure of administration to protect the Benghazi mission.
• Talking points changed to falsely blame an anti-Muslim video
• The refusal of the White House to say what President Obama did the night of the attack
• Relied on an Islamic fundamentalist militia group called “The Martyrs of the February the 17th Revolution Brigade” to provide security at the American mission in Benghazi

(sorry for the inconsistent tenses, capitalization, punctuation, etc. i might try to find links for each story later - if i have a spare week. the wikipedia category is a start)

update: welcome imao readers, and thanks to the anonymous commenter for two additions (marked *)

Obama's Legacy

...summarized in visual and verbal form.

(both links via imao)