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Ex-Obama Spox Earnest Blames Republicans for Obama Inaction on Russian Meddling
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/26/2017 6:13:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

In a transparent attempt at blame-shifting, former Obama spokesman Josh Earnest has tried to place responsibility for President Obama’s failure to respond effectively to Russian meddling in the election . . . on Republicans.

It’s been reported that Obama was paralyzed into inaction by fears of seeming to help Hillary during the campaign. Appearing on today’s Morning Joe, Earnest said:

“The first time, [McConnell] didn’t have time to schedule time to talk about it. This is something that Republicans did not take seriously, and that did hamstring our efforts to respond to this as effectively as we would have liked.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: bho44; blamegame; joshearnest; mitchmcconnell; ronbrownstein; russianhacking; russianmeddling; trumprussia
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1 posted on 06/26/2017 6:13:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; ...

We blame global warming and George W. Bush!

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 06/26/2017 6:14:22 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Good to see that Josh Earnest is still lying.

It’s as reliable as the Sun coming up.

Like Robert Gibbs lying. Or Jay Carney lying.

There are just some things you can always count on.


3 posted on 06/26/2017 6:16:45 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The whole thumb on the scale argument is just silly. The election was rigged for Hillary but Trump won anyway.


4 posted on 06/26/2017 6:22:18 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

This cannot be the first election the Russians totally controlled. What about 2008 and 2012?


5 posted on 06/26/2017 6:25:24 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Just on the face of it. How is a Russian attack a cause to confer with the legislative branch when the immediate security of the nation is in the hands of the executive?

A weak leader looking for an excuse.

Joshng Earnestly is living up to his name.


6 posted on 06/26/2017 6:29:40 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Obama was paralyzed into inaction

Inaction? That was his S.O.P.

7 posted on 06/26/2017 6:29:53 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (GO TRUMP!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
We're missing the point. Hillary and her minions were all using vulnerable computers. Everyone was a back door to the DNC. Has nothing to do with Russia.

Like she said....I wouldn't do it again. That means it was indeed intentional since she was warned several times AND did not turnover all her emails. And then there's Huma's perv hubby who was at one time, a powerful Dem in NYC. Alas

8 posted on 06/26/2017 6:30:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Personally, I do not care if they blame McConnel... He is a typical Lott type Republican Senate Majority Leader. A bag of spineless and mindless mush. Obviously, Mitch the Senate was suppose to help Hillry get elected.. and they are calling Mitch the Senate out for his dereliction of duty.
9 posted on 06/26/2017 6:31:17 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It’s been reported that Obama was paralyzed into inaction by fears of seeming to help Hillary during the campaign.

His "help" would only be scrutinized if reported by the media, and we know that for 8 years, the media had NO stomach for reporting ANYTHING negative about the Obama administration and its activities.

This was a President that shipped untraceable amounts of cash to Iran, deliberately thumbed its nose and insulted anyone conservative, Christian, or outwardly American. Do you think he felt "paralyzed" by any of those actions?

10 posted on 06/26/2017 6:31:51 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: DBrow

That is all common knowledge as well as over 5 million illegals voting for Obama —— yet no one does anything about it! This crap has to stop. My suggestion is no absentee ballots. Make military bases polling stations. ID’s proving citizenship that will be run through police departments to ensure no fakes. Results from polling stations to a clearinghouse of sorts over the phone with passwords and such so no internet interference. Everyone else votes in their own district on maybe a two day voting window and everyone gets purple ink on their left pinky finger. Warnings to all that voter fraud will be investigated with mandatory jail sentences and no statute of limitations.


11 posted on 06/26/2017 6:37:22 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home)
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To: Titus-Maximus

‘A weak leader looking for an excuse.’

This is the answer. The question was, “What was President Obama?”


12 posted on 06/26/2017 6:37:43 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

‘Inaction? That was his S.O.P.’

So true. Whenever actual leadership was called for, Obama was pathologically passive. The only time he acted was when he could do it sneakily, behind the scenes. Examples, weaponizing the IRS, FEC, the FBI, the CIA, etc. Then others could do Obama’s dirty work, and he had what he took to be plausible deniability.


13 posted on 06/26/2017 6:42:17 AM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic wotk using Inernet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Little weasel still being a little weasel.


14 posted on 06/26/2017 6:46:48 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The real reason the kenyan did nothing is that they thought Hildabeast would win and planned on another Russia “reset” after the election.


15 posted on 06/26/2017 6:51:18 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Ha ha ha!!

Like 0bama ever waited for or wanted Repub input on anything!! Hardee-har-har!

16 posted on 06/26/2017 6:51:20 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: SaveFerris; GOPJ; MinuteGal; jsanders2001; V K Lee; Tennessee Nana; AuntB; scott says; ...
Huh? Josh Ernest is still peaking for Obama? Did the Royal Idiot put him on the govt payroll. Is Ernst also cashing pension checks.

Its a classic pol trick----putting hand-picked factotums on the govt payroll----long after you think they're gone.

The half-caste also put his MIL on the govt pension plan---she gets 165,000 for "baby-sitting" his kids.

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17 posted on 06/26/2017 6:53:04 AM PDT by Liz
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That is a totally lame excuse. Obama was campaigning for Hillary. He was interfering in the election. Trump as using “the Russia thing” against Hillary, mocking that maybe Russia had her 30,000 e-mails. The “Russia subject” was fair game in the campaign.


18 posted on 06/26/2017 6:53:12 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Titus-Maximus
Obama's pathetic attempt at revisionist history to cover his half/caste *** forgets the voluminous paper trail he left behind." The half/caste sez he told Putin to "stop it. (prove it you boob)

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PAPER TRAIL EXAMPLE: the Obama admin announced on Oct. 7, 2016 that the theft and release of DNC emails was part of a widespread campaign “intended to interfere with the U.S. election process.”

Looking back, this Oct move by Obama was clearly intended to fend off his collusion w/ then-DNC head Debbie Wassermann Schultz, in the Pakistani spy network on Capitol Hill.

The buzz is the Pakistani Muslims were hired by Debbie Wasserman Schultz----she got them security clearances and humongous salaries and helped them abscond....

The more you examine the Paki/infiltration, the more you sense that D/W/S did not act alone on this......(that fact does not exonerate her treasonous activity).

This gal D/W/S is super-ambitious. She actually has a spreadsheet of those that "owed her" .......people she did favors for.

D/W/S was especially keen on getting into the good graces of the half-caste Royal Idiot b/c it suited her crass self-serving ambitions.

Strangely enough, on the surface it seemed like the half/caste kept shrugging her off.....as she pursued him w/ a vengeance.

Distilling the info, one concludes, she was a willing "doer of tasks," but he had to give the appearance that they were not connected.

The Pakis could not have (A) gotten security clearance, and, (B) could not have absconded without some pretty high-level help.

The grotesque salaries are also problematic.....could be one way she was paid off........campaign contributions, kickbacks, wire-transfers, and the like.

19 posted on 06/26/2017 6:57:08 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Sacajaweau

Tried explaining this to a friend. He didn’t get it.

1) Hillary used an outside server. That’s illegal; she belongs in prison.

2) Hillary destroyed evidence. Doesn’t matter if it was recipes and wedding stuff. 33,000 emails of recipes and wedding stuff? I don’t think so. She belongs in prison.

NSa has her stuff. Kim Dotcom told everyone how to get to it.


20 posted on 06/26/2017 7:07:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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