Adinnieken said:
richardhutnik said:
EdHieron said:
richardhutnik said:
GW Bush didn't get impeached. Clinton wasn't removed from office due to impeachment hearings. Why would Obama? Fast and Furious? Remind me how much worse this is than Iran-Contra. |
I don't know how much worse it is. I just know that due to the strengths of their various propaganda outlets that it looks like a lot of public opinion in the US is with the Conservatives and the last thing Obama needs is impeachment charges hanging over his head down the homestretch of the Presidential election.
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My brother, who I hardly ever hear from, sends me a message over Facebook about this, and goes, "What is Obama hiding?". He is a partisan Republican. These individuals gave the last administration a pass. I do have to wonder about this. As far as I am concerned, Fast and Furious is more government incompetency found in the war on drugs. Do something even more desperate by letting guns through and then hope to trace where they end up. They return and shoot up U.S law enforcement officials.
GW had Abu Graib, and this would likely be comparible. The way politics works, doing what Obama did gets turned around as a weapon. The denial is worse than the act sometimes.
Of course, it could be spun as some sort of partisan attack, and used to score points. Obama did allow the birthers to really rail and scream about that issue. Once things went real nuts, out came the long form birth certificate, causing Trump to drop out of the race.
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Fast and Furious was a program begun in 2006. Obama was elected in 2008, in office in 2009.
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The predecessor to Fast and Furious begain in 2006. Fast and Furious was begun in 2009. Similar idea, done much broader.
