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Controversies knock Obama off balance
Washington (CNN) -- History shows that second terms in the White House can be much tougher than first ones, and that is proving true so far for President Barack Obama.
Less than five months in, Obama and his administration appear knocked off balance by a barrage of controversies and criticisms exacerbating the bitter political battles that marked his first four years in office.
He's under fire from the right and left, accused by some of conspiratorial machinations to grab even more power than the leader of the free world legally holds.
Headlines are dominated by scandals such as the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups and classified leaks that disclosed details of the vast data mining and surveillance apparatus created after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Meanwhile, Republicans and some Democrats say his attorney general should resign over various issues including secret subpoenas of journalist phone records.
Even the first lady got heckled -- at a Democratic fundraiser, no less. While the issue was gay rights, the incident showed how Obama supporters also were frustrated by what they consider to be a lack of sufficient progress on progressive issues they expect the president to champion.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/11/politics/obama-off-balance/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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He's under fire from the right and left
And clearly in over his head. Too bad this all came out after November. Luckiest politician of my lifetime.
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the only issue that hasn't been a partisan hack job is the NSA issue. Benghazi was handled well, the IRS has nothing to do with him etc.
These are fabricated controversies for the most part. The American public isn't buying the lies, the spying is a serious issue, but who didn't see this coming, the patriot act is stupid and anti-constitutional.
Obama is meh.
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Fabricated...really douche. There is every indication that Washington directed the IRS deal......these people didn't just do it. Obama got lucky with the NSA "scandal"....it will deflect any direct blame for the other crap.
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Fabricated...really douche. There is every indication that Washington directed the IRS deal......these people didn't just do it. Obama got lucky with the NSA "scandal"....it will deflect any direct blame for the other crap.
sure there is, please post this evidence?
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The entire Obama junta has been one scandal after the next since this Kenyan dung heap ran for office in 2007
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The entire Obama junta has been one scandal after the next since this Kenyan dung heap ran for office in 2007
yes yes, Donald trump has the evidence right?
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yes yes, Donald trump has the evidence right?
Ayers, fake BC, wright, khalidi, rezko, dohrn, et al.
Obama is a commie twink
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Obama Schmoozes Reporters At Secret Meeting
buzzfeed.com ^ | June 11 2013 | Evan McMorris-Santoro
Posted on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:14:26 PM by NoLibZone
WASHINGTON — President Obama held an off-the-record meeting with select reporters from some of the nation’s largest print and online outlets Monday, in the White House’s latest effort to placate an increasingly restive press corps.
White House officials regularly meet with reporters for so-called “background briefing sessions,” where the attendees cannot be mentioned by name nor quoted directly, but Monday’s meeting was different. Initially billed as a conversation with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, the president made a surprise appearance — a very unusual move — and the White House placed the proceedings off the record beforehand. The meeting came amid a series of scandals crashing over the White House that has placed the administration on defense in a way it hasn’t been until now.
Relations between the press and the White House have been especially fraught since last month’s revelation that the Justice Department had covertly collected phone records from Associated Press reporters in pursuit of locating the source of a national security leak. When the Justice Department sought to hold an off-the-record meeting with journalists to discuss its investigation, news outlets pushed back, with the New York Times publicly refusing to attend.
Reporters who attended Monday’s session with the president were loathe to discuss it with BuzzFeed, citing the White House’s stipulation that the meeting remain off the record. But the session came after the White House announced a “travel/photo lid” for the day — White House parlance for no more events, and the signal for the pool reporter to go home — and reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Time, McClatchy, Politico, Tribune, NPR, Bloomberg, USA Today, AFP, Yahoo and other outlets were milling around the briefing room waiting to be called in.
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
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And clearly in over his head. Too bad this all came out after November. Luckiest politician of my lifetime.
LOL !
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LOL !
Name one freaking thing that has went well under this disastrous presidency?