Top 10 Obama scandals. The Daily Show.

[dewsgirl]

[Frustratedlady]

1. No wonder the Repukes wanted Obama out of office. I'm surprised they didn't impeach him.

I had forgotten some of these violations. Trump looks like an angel next to Obama.

(Should I even need this?)

[dewsgirl]

2. Not needed.

[UpInArms]

3. The horror!

I cannot believe the way the media carried on and on about freaking nothing ... and now ...

crickets

[dewsgirl]

4. Absolutely absurd, especially compared to this unimaginable

monster.

[tblue37]

5. And don't forget ARUGULA!!!! nt

[Submariner]

6. CNN is as bad as Fox

Tapper and Camerota exposed themselves as major league assholes in that video. Camerota should just rejoin Fox and take Jake with her.

[dewsgirl]

7. I used to love Jake Tapper.😔

[DAMANgoldberg]

8. A very long video...

in Internet time (13 minutes), but well worth every second. Can't say that about most viralistic videos posted.

It does help to be on a true broadband connection, unlike T-Mobile #justsayin.

#awesomesauce

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Shocking. I urge you to add a trigger alert to the title. NT

[smirkymonkey]

18. I agree.

But for another reason. This infuriated me. Nothing he and Michelle EVER did can in any way compare to the current grifting pig in the White House and his mooching family. Not even close.

I had never seen that footage because I have never watched Fox News, but it made me sick. Particularly because of the way they give Trump and his family a pass on absolutely everything. I despise these motherfuckers.

[Niagara]

10. I can add 3 more "scandals"

1.) In 2007, I received a chain email stating that Barack Obama refused to put his hand over heart and say the Pledge of Allegiance on a stage Nov. 8, 2007. The truth of the matter was that the National anthem was playing so he was singing.

Barack Obama replied, "My grandfather taught me how to say the Pledge of Allegiance when I was 2," Obama said at campaign stop in Burlington, Iowa. "During the Pledge of Allegiance you put your hand over your heart. During the national anthem you sing."

2.) On July 16, 2009 President Obama threw the first pitch at the 2009 All Star Game in St. Louis. They ridiculed him for wearing "mom jeans".

3.) Feet propped up on a desk. Apparently it's only alright to do so if one is a republican.

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. I love how worn Obama's shoes are

I know it's hard to give up a comfortable pair of shoes.

[Niagara]

12. Me too

I'm sure when Michelle viewed this photo, she probably sent these shoes out to be resoled. He admitted that Michelle made him get rid of his "mom jeans". This wonderful man is all about comfort.

[NNadir]

13. Adlai Stevenson...

[Niagara]

14. Could you elaborate for me?

I'm not sure what you're referring too. There have been too many flat out lies and attack smears against Barack Obama. I would appreciate your reference and input. Thanks.

[NNadir]

15. Adlai Stevenson ran twice against Dwight Eisenhower.

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During an event during the campaign, it was noticed that that he had a hole in his shoe which a photographer raced to capture.

At the time Stevenson was being derided as an aloof aristocratic intellectual divorced from the common man by Eisenhower's running mate Nixon. He responded to these attacks by emphasizing the hole in his shoe by saying "Better a hole in one's shoe than a hole in one's head."

Richard Nixon was very uncomfortable with intellectuals, and appealed to basic instincts.

He set the Republican party on the course from being the party of Lincoln and Grant to becoming the party of the Ku Klux Klan, which is, of course what it today.

It should be said that Eisenhower was never really comfortable with Nixon, but tolerated him only.

I can't imagine that Eisenhower, having liberated concentration camps and seen them for real, was comfortable with racism. His greatest flaw was tolerating McCarthyism, a subtly antisemitic appeal but nothing like we see today.

[Niagara]

16. I never knew this

I had never heard the story about Stevenson's shoe before as this happened way before my time. My mom was born in 1952, while my dad was 4 years old in 1952. Adlai Stevenson gave a brilliant response.

Thank you for elaborating and sharing this past event!

[NNadir]

20. My pleasure. I corrected some of the spelling mistakes from the phone's autocorrect.

I shouldn't post using the phone, but sometimes it's just convenient. The autocorrect can make one look foolish, which is a happy consequence of the Turing Test. Computers are still not better than humans, at least at the things that count, yet...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. I immediately thought of Adlai Stevenson too.

Source: https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/adlai-stevenson-with-the-hole-in-his-shoe/

[Collimator]

22. Adlai Stevenson was also

divorced. This led many to question how he could run a country if he couldn't keep his home together.

[NNadir]

23. I have read that his wife was mentally ill.

I had a housemate who was mentally ill, a schizophrenic - a remarkably nice guy during his remission periods; I met him during one.

It's very, very, very hard to live with it.

Of course, we are now seeing a person with multiple divorces, driven by "pussy grabbing," managing the country worse than he managed his appalling personal life.

It's not working out well.

In fact, the first divorced President - that would be Ronald Reagan - didn't work out all that well either.

I believe that Stevenson would have been a fine President. Whether he would have been better than Eisenhower is an open question. Eisenhower brought a lot of prestige to the office. My feeling as that Eisenhower would be seen as a dangerous left wing radical today, criticized to death by the crazies at Fox News, because he didn't like - and there's considerable evidence that he didn't - Nazis.

In fact, Eisenhower had a long history of killing Nazis. Don't expect that ignorant lunatic Bill O'Reilly, who writes books about "killing so and so and so and so" to write a book called "Killing Nazis" since killing Nazis would probably involve some of his friends, at least in modern times.

I do think - I know this makes me a bit of a dinosaur - that one's personal life does reflect on one's public life, although we can carry it too far. Our greatest President, Abraham Lincoln, had a very problematic marriage, by most accounts, but perhaps as a result, he learned to manage people, something he did better than any other President.

Speaking only for myself, my marriage is the thing of which I am most proud. But still, Stevenson would have been a fine President. Intellectuals in office, generally do quite well, not always, but often.

[Collimator]

24. Eisenhower also objected to

adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. Or so I have read.

Another factoid: Jefferson owned a Koran. And I am pretty sure that one of the first Muslim members of Congress asked to use it when he took his Oath of Office.

[NNadir]

25. I have some problems with Eisenhower, notably his silence on McCarthyism...

...the 1954 Guatemala action, and most notably, the installation - with British help - of the Shah of Iran which definitely led directly to the problems we face in that region today. (Jimmy Carter's active embrace of the Shah certainly didn't help either.)

Still, with the possible exception of Gerald Ford, I think that Eisenhower was among the last Republicans to actually care more about his country than himself. He and, I think, Ford, actually exhibited some shred of human decency.

It is hard to imagine racists like Reagan, Trump, Nixon, and either of the Bushes having sent in troops to enforce a desegregation ruling in Little Rock.

Trump might send in troops to shoot or at least cage, the African American students.

I have, by the way, heard that story about Jefferson. I think the founding fathers overall had a decidedly tolerant view of religion and were anxious that it not become a part of American politics, which it did in the end anyway.

Trump of course has no religion other than himself. The same people who went crazy when John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ have no problem with Trump being declared the equivalent of Christ. I think many of these people can recite Biblical passages without the slightest comprehension of what they mean. They obviously couldn't care less about what the Bible says.

I don't either, but at least I don't claim I do while rejecting Christian ethics in practice. I don't think there's a book in the Bible that implies that Jesus would approve of putting children in cages isolated from their parents. There are many aspects of Christian ethics that I have internalized, albeit without the hocus pocus.

[mopinko]

17. ah the good old days.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. Just shocking. I must renew my supply of brown paper bags.

No eye holes. To avoid seeing Trump's face on my screens........

We should all write Hannity a letter and ask why tRump can't afford a properly fitted suit and makeup artist that looks presidential.

KY....