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I say there have been quite a few on departments the president controls and appoints people to lead. After all we do not get to vote those positions. Obama is right there with Nixon in that regard. Remember Nixion did nothing himself.
Obama is not there with Nixon! If he was he would have been impeached. The GOP has nothing tangible on this man...
In order to have a 'scandal,' I think the public actually has to care. When some echelon of government (ATF, IRS, State Department, etc.) makes a minor error (and yes, a handful of casualties is minor in terms of government F-ups -- see 'Iraq War') at some level far beneath the president's direct supervision, it's too routine to sustain interest.
Exactly. While there have certainly been screw ups, it hasn't been anything major compared to most other recent presidents. Claims to the contrary for so many posters basically amount to this: 'Wah, wah, wah! We don't like him! Because he we don't like him, these things must be scandals! Wah, wah, wah! "
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Obama is not there with Nixon! If he was he would have been impeached. The GOP has nothing tangible on this man...
Yeah, pretty much. Most of Obama's detractors don't understand how comparatively clean he's been. I have a problem with the massive information gathering Snowden revealed, and Obama is certainly intimately involved. But since Republicans and some Democrats also support it Congress won't do anything.
David Axelrod's commented that a significant achievement of the Obama Administration is that there are no scandals (unlike other presidential tenures.)
Who do you think sent Rice out with instructions on what to say?
She serves at the pleasure of the president.
Obama did claim it but Rice was going on her campaign with it to the Sunday morning news talk programs like Face the Nation, Meet the Press and State of the Union and spreading it much more than Obama. If Obama did tell her to say that or not is a different story. But let's remember it's not the first time a politician believed one thing caused an event but was wrong like the Spanish-American War, the Vietnam War, and even World War 1 (Zimmerman Note) for example.
The fact is Obama had a number of non-scandals but because of distrust in American presidents peaking in the mid 1960's-1970's (LBJ on Nam, Nixon with Watergate and Ford's pardon of Nixon) there is a lot of people who inherently don't trust the government and rightfully so with the Spoils System, Grantism, the explosion of money in politics starting in 1896, Whitewater, Halburton, Solyndra, etc.
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