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Scandals sidetrack Obama campaign (Oh what a tangled web we weave.....)
US Politics & Policy ^ | April 22, 2012 | Richard McGregor, John Paul Rathbone

Posted on 04/23/2012 7:34:48 AM PDT by yoe

A salacious scandal involving US Secret Service agents cavorting with prostitutes in Colombia ahead of last week’s presidential visit has overshadowed Barack Obama’s efforts to build his re-election campaign.

But more significantly, the scandal, which has run in parallel with revelations of overspending by the federal government’s property agency, is further corroding public respect for the country’s governing institutions.

The daily parade of details of incompetence and impropriety among Washington agencies accentuates the findings of a Gallup poll last year which found an alarming loss of public faith over the last decade in US government institutions.

Only the military held up at a high level in public esteem, while the ratings of the Supreme Court, the news media and schools all fell steeply. Confidence in Congress dropped the most, down 17 points, to below 10 per cent.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; hookergate; nobama2012; obama; obamascandals; secretservice; secretservicescandal
The Clinton's ushered in the 1960's disregard for values and respect for our nation...Bubba and bride gave new meaning to 'tawdry'; The Bush years were about Honor and Country with enormous Class but making political errors along the way. The Obama's are void of any patriotic feelings for America. Instead of praising Her, both Obama's apologize for Her to our enemies...while displaying precious little class as they play the race card and cavort about on the taxpayer's dime.

The Obama administration is called the "most crooked administration" in history....Obama does exactly what a community organizer does rather than lead this great nation, he is hard at work to destroy America while joking about being called a Socialist...rather than a Marxist which he also is.

1 posted on 04/23/2012 7:34:54 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

And therein lies the Socialist’s Conundrum.

You cannot sell support for more government when public confidence in government is collapsing all around you.


2 posted on 04/23/2012 7:46:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I don’t know where it came from, but every time I read a quote from Michelle, the theme song to “The Jeffersons” starts playing in my head. It doesn’t happen with Barry, only Michelle.


3 posted on 04/23/2012 7:46:37 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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"The Obama administration is called the "most crooked administration" in history"

An Administration, like a fish, rots from the head down.

4 posted on 04/23/2012 7:51:26 AM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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The attitude of the staff is a reflection of the attitude of their management and it starts at the top.

Corruption, vice and dishonor are trickling, in not flowing, down into our country.


5 posted on 04/23/2012 7:56:26 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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This isn’t a sidetrack, its a RESULT OF.

When you put incompetent folks in charge of any organization, you create a vaccuum, and in that vaccuum you wind up with this sort of thing happening.

It is blindingly obvious we have a petty and small man, in a very very big job and he’s completely unable to handle it. As such, over the past 3 years, cultures prone to abuse have recognized this vaccuum and expanded to fill it.

If you were looking at one organization, you could say its a one off, the fact there are 3 or more major scandals all the obvious result of lack of oversight and leadership, tells you all you need to know.

Never hire a small man to do a big job, and the man-child that is Obama is one of the smallest men around.


6 posted on 04/23/2012 7:59:43 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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A scandal does not exist until the liberal media declares it so. Thus, noting to see here, folks...


7 posted on 04/23/2012 8:04:14 AM PDT by Baynative (Please check this out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIcZkEzc8I)
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DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO said Obummer.....

At the Fifth Summit all the participant nations signed the following agreement. in the declearation of agreement:

http://fifthsummitoftheamericas.org/downloads/Declaration_of_Port_of_Spain_English.pdf

18. We reiterate our commitment to protect all people, particularly women, children and adolescents, from all
forms of trafficking in persons and sexual and economic exploitation, and to provide protection and attention
to the victims. We call on Ministers responsible for education, labour, social development, security and justice
to adopt coordinated national strategies to prevent and eradicate the worst forms of child labour by 2020 at
the latest, in accordance with the Plan of Action of the Fourth Summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and in
accordance with national legislation, and to develop innovative strategies to bring children and adolescents
who are victims back into healthy learning environments. We also reiterate our commitment to eliminate
forced labour before 2010.


8 posted on 04/23/2012 8:06:31 AM PDT by ncfool (OMG 2012)
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Exactly; what are you guys so upset about forgoshsakes?? It’s only about SEX, you puritanical Republicans! And all the cool people know there’s nothin wrong with a little or a lotta sex!


9 posted on 04/23/2012 8:39:28 AM PDT by punditwannabe
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To: yoe
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10 posted on 04/23/2012 8:51:06 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (You mean we have a choice between M.R. and B.O.?)
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