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politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:44 PM May 2018

All you have to ask yourself is, "What would this Congress do, if this were Barrack Obama?"

and the circumstances were exactly the same?

What would this Congress do if Barrack Obama had met with foreign intelligence officers, or Heads of State during his Presidential Campaign to strategize about how to defeat John McCain? or Mitt Romney?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama decided to use tweets to denigrate his perceived enemies, attack the Press, and to insult anyone he felt like.

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama decided he didn't want to come into the office at 9:00a.m. and decided instead to spend the first three hours of his day up in his family quarters watching Fox and Friends and getting his talking points, and then come into the office pissed off about some lie he saw on TV.

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama had appointed Michelle Obama as his Attorney General?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama refused to read his Presidential Daily Briefings? Asked them to cut them down to size; first to a couple of pages, then to a few paragraphs, then to just maybe a few sentences? And finally asked them to use Pictures instead of bigly words?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama had refused to cooperate with the White House Ethics Director until the Director finally quit?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama was spending most weekends at his own private estate in Florida, costing millions of unbudgeted dollars to the federal government for extra secret service agents for securing the large estate, plus agent's paying the president's estate for their own accommodations and food at resort prices, transportation of secure vehicles, with no consideration of the additional expense to the Budget and taxpayers? and charging the Secret Service thousands of dollars of rental fees to rent the estate's golf carts, to follow him around on the course?

What would this Congress have done if the National Security Adviser told Barrack Obama that his cell phone was not a secure phone line and Barrack Obama wanted to keep using his own personal cell phone, because it would be too much trouble to switch over, putting himself, staff, and state secrets at risk?

What would this Congress have done if Michelle Obama met with the Russians to discuss establishing a back channel communication route to Russia?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama took money for personal construction projects from foreign leaders or Heads of States?

What would the Congress have done if Barrack Obama was picking fights with private sector real Billionaires who owned big businesses just because they were making billions of dollars and he wasn't? What if he threatened to make the Post Office General double their shipping rates, just because he wanted to?

What would this Congress have done if Michelle Obama wanted to keep her job as an Attorney, and charge people $400,000 for access to the President, after all, she knows him better than anyone?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama had made over 3,000 false statements in public speeches in his first year in office?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama had said that John McCain was not a war hero? and that he liked people who didn't get captured?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama had been recorded saying he likes to grab women by the pussy? and that they let him?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama had failed to release his Tax Returns? refused to put his business assets in a Trust until he left office?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama had a mistress or mistresses and had lied about it? had paid them off to silence them? or had made them sign a None Disclosure Statement which would force them to pay a $1,000,000 for each unauthorized disclosure of the affair?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama's Mother-in-Law had offered U.S. business owners and foreign Heads of State, access to the President in exchange for $400,000?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama had offered White House jobs to Michelle's Mother, Michelle's Brother, his Brother's Wife, etc? What if he offered them those jobs in spite of them failing to pass a security backfground investigation? in spite of their failure to disclose contact with foreign nationals and contacts during the campaign? since taking office?

What would this Congress have done if Barrack Obama and/or members of his campaign had secret meeting in the Seychelles Islands with the Head of Blackwater to strategize about how foreign nationals would help them win the White House over John McCain, by stealing campaign data from the RNC, and using fake ads in Facebook to demoralize Republican Voters?

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All you have to ask yourself is, "What would this Congress do, if this were Barrack Obama?" (Original Post) politicaljunkie41910 May 2018 OP
Good points...though, Michelle appears way too many times. Caliman73 May 2018 #1
I agree about Michelle. As you noted the references to Michelle and her family politicaljunkie41910 May 2018 #3
If ANY democrat profited from renting out their house on AirBNB for one night Eliot Rosewater May 2018 #2

Caliman73

(11,728 posts)
1. Good points...though, Michelle appears way too many times.
Wed May 23, 2018, 06:55 PM
May 2018

There is no corollary with Trump as he hasn't really appointed Melania or (Melanie) as she is also known, to any real positions of power. I am assuming that some of those were put in because of Don Jr., Eric, Kushner, and Ivanka.

That said, Obama did none of those things and right wingers still painted him as a dictator, tyrant, corrupt, etc... The man was one of the most graceful, eloquent, cool, smart, and humble people to hold office and they flipped the "f%@k" out because that is what right wingers do. If it is one of their guys then it is all good, nothing to see here.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
3. I agree about Michelle. As you noted the references to Michelle and her family
Wed May 23, 2018, 08:18 PM
May 2018

was to compare similar behaviors of the two family (though the Obama behaviors were what if's and not real) to see if the Repugs would find it as acceptable coming from the Obama's as they do coming from the Trumps. I also agree with you that the Obama's played by the rules, stayed within all the legal boundaries and for that they mocked, vilified, and their actions and motives always questioned, by lying right wingers always trying to stir up shit for their base who didn't think they were worthy enough to be there.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
2. If ANY democrat profited from renting out their house on AirBNB for one night
Wed May 23, 2018, 07:03 PM
May 2018

they would be impeached.

If this was a democrat it would have been over the instant the inauguration was over because he was in massive emoluments clause violations instantly.

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