Obama Vacations at $70 Million Dollars, 177 Days And Counting - Way Up From Bush , Others By the end of his term, it's possible President Obama may end up having traveled almost one year or 14% of his time in office on vacation. (Some will say he's been on vacation the whole time.) This for a president who often doesn't begin his days until 10 am and end them early, as one can see on his daily presidential schedule
Below is a rather typical day in the life of President Obama Dec. 15
There was the weekend trip for President Barack Obama and his daughters to New York, including a Broadway show and a private museum tour.
The ski trip to Aspen, Colorado, for first lady Michelle Obama in February.
And lots and lots of golf in Florida, Southern California and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
Now as the Obama family departs Friday on its annual holiday vacation to Hawaii, new estimates put the price tag of the Obamas’ 2015 trips that are all or largely personal at $11.6 million for travel costs alone, according to the conservative group Judicial Watch, based on federal government records. That brings the overall cost of personal or largely personal travel to at least $70.5 million since Obama took office in 2009, according to the group’s analysis. MORE
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With Nixon it was Watergate, Clinton it was Lewinski-gate, Bush it was Weapons-of-=Mass-Destruction-Gate... With Obama it's Benghazi-gate, IRA-gate, NSA-Gate, Obamacare-Gate and the beat goes on... How quickly we forget older ones like 'Fast and Furious' and some you probably don't even know about WE'RE GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT, like 'Navy Seals-Gate' , plus some possible new, developing scandals. So, Stay tune
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Cold Hard Facts: OBAMA INVITING THOUSANDS TO AMERICA TO KILL US
In a recent American Pew Poll a full seven percent of Muslim repondents said they were in support of ISIS. In perhaps, a more significant survey conducted in the Middle East (Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies) a full 13% of respondents said they have a 'positive' or 'positive to some extent' view of ISIL' (ISIS). 4% were fully 'supportive' . (See poll graph below.) Going by that statistic, a full 400 of the initial 10,000 or more Syrian refugees Obama is bringing to America are potential terrorists and killers, not to mention Islamic sympathizers already in America. (We know that there were approximiately 1,000 reported threats of Islamic terrorism in all 50 states in the U.S., recently and there are currently about 90 ongoing investigations by the FBI of potential Islamic attacks in America . ) As Obama has now expressed interest to at least double the number of Syrian refugees to America we could well end up with into the thousands of terrorists here to kill us - and many more incidents like the one in San Bernadino. Syria, Refugees, Obama, Poll, Poster, Hillary, Alinsky,Pew, survey
We now have the San Bernadino police department condemning the largest American killing in America as 'Islamic terrorism'as well as our own FBI director admitting to an Islamic terrorist threat in America , yet our own president to date has not recognized or even spoken the words 'Islamic Terrorism' .
Meanwhile, too few of our other 'leaders' have come out to address this life-threatening issue that would be common sense for the great majority of the population. However, there remain many like Hillary Clinton, herself, who continue to support the importation of Syrian refugees even after the French and San Bernadino attacks.
Twenty years ago the great Russian comic Yakov Smirnoff declared, positively, of the United States, 'What a country,' but , sadly, today the words have opposite meaning. Certainly, our President's and Hillary's mentor, Saul Alinsky , and his teachings 'to obfuscate and distract' appear to be the chickens coming home to roost. And, our next potential president, Hillary Clinton , appears poised to continue the mantra .
'My definition of leadership is leading on climate change'
sounded more like an SNL spoof somebody would do on Obama rather than actual words coming from the leader of the Free World. If it weren't so serious, it would be almost humorous that the Obama considers 'climate change' the key leadership issue, as he told Steve Croft on 60 Minutes October 11 in what was perhaps the first real 'grilling' of Obama by the mainstream media since Obama took office seven years ago. Many have felt that Obama has had a 'free pass' from what many consider the 'left-leaning' mainstream media during his entire presidency. Not so this time - what may be a piece of history, the one and only interview of its kind.
Steve Croft, 60 Minutes First Mainstream Media To Grill Obama, Make Him Squirm
STEVE MALZBERG offers key excerpts of the interview, such as the first clip where Croft questions the $500 million given for training Syrian soldiers which resulted in a total of five being trained.
Other topics that would appear to get under Obama's skin would include:
- Russia's Putin taking over world leadership of the Middle East War in Syria and Iraq.Croft to Obama 'Mr Putin seems to be challenging your leadership ' at which point Obama makes an exagerated grimace. Croft backs his question with a series of facts and figures to which Obama seems to evade with a long, rambling answer.
Says Malzberg, 'Nobody treats Obama this way and gets away with it.' Well, Steve Croft and 60 Minutes did, and probably for the first and last time. Doubt Obama will be back on 60 Minutes anytime soon, if ever.
As to whether that attention will evaporate, the president declines to speculate. "I'll leave it up to the pundits to make that determination," Obama says. "I don't think he'll end up being president of the United States."
At different moments in the interview, the president turns reflective, taking stock of his time in office and eyeing the year ahead. In the unaired clip below, he tells Kroft that, at this point, he's learned to trust his instincts.
"The nice thing about being a veteran in anything is your fear kind of goes away," he says. "There's no doubt I'm better at this job now than I was when I started."
At the end of the interview, Kroft asks Obama if he's glad he can't run for president again. Obama says he feels a mixture of satisfaction at what he's accomplished and a desire to still do more. "But by the time I'm finished, I think it will be time for me to go," he says, adding that new blood in the White House is essential for a healthy democracy.
"Do you think if you ran again, could run again, and did run again, you would be elected?" Kroft asks.
"Yes," says Obama, without missing a beat.
From Breitbart:
A frustrated President Obama reacted angrily to tough questions during an interview aired last night from CBS interviewer Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes.
Regarding Syria and ISIS, Kroft pointed out that it had already been a year since Obama announced military action in the region with little signs of progress.
Obama was dismissive of the notion that it was his job to eliminate ISIS.
“Over time, the community of nations will all get rid of them, and we will be leading getting rid of them,” he said.
When challenged over his failed $500 million training program for fighters in Syria, Obama quickly added that he was “skeptical from the beginning” but that it was important to “try different things.”
As Obama expressed skepticism about multiple theoretical solutions for the Middle East including training or arming Syrian rebels, he remarked that there were no “silver bullets” in Syria.
“I feel like I’m being filibustered Mr. President,” Kroft interrupted.
“No, no, no, no, no. Steve,” Obama replied with a flash of annoyance. “I think if you want to roll back the tape, you’ve been giving me long questions and statements, and now I’m responding to ‘em. So let’s — so — if you ask me big, open-ended questions, expect big, open-ended answers.
When challenged over Putin, Obama dismissed the idea that somehow he was outmaneuvered even though he admitted that intelligence indicated that they knew he would act in Syria.
“He’s challenging your leadership Mr. President,” Kroft said, prompting a strong reaction from Obama.
“Steve, I gotta tell you, if you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we’ve got a different definition of leadership,” he said. “My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change, an international accord that potentially we’ll get in Paris.”
Obama insisted that his critics would only be content if thousands of American troops and trillions of American dollars would continue to be spent in the region to try to solve the political situation in the Middle East and combat Putin.
After the contentious interview, Kroft informed his viewers that the pair halted the interview for a water break before resuming their conversation.
“What else do you got?” Obama challenged Kroft with a grin as the interview resumed.
Perhaps Obama was surprised by Kroft’s unusual toughness, after years of 60 Minutes interviews where he was allowed to answer questions at his own pace. The most surprising portion of the interview was hearing Kroft repeatedly interrupting the president and pressing him on foreign policy.
A frequent interviewer of the president, Kroft has been mocked by critics for giving Obama softball questions, allowing him to distract from the questions by lengthy responses.
After Kroft sat down with both Hillary Clinton and Obama in 2013 to discuss the nature of their relationship, many journalists marveled at the coziness that Kroft was experiencing with the Obama White House.
The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf called that interview “a performance that ought to earn him a rebuke from his peers in the news business.”
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan described that interview as “so soft, so dazzled, so supportive, so embarrassing.”
Other journalists recalled a 2013 interview with Piers Morgan where Kroft admitted that “we’re not going to play ‘gotcha’ with him” and that 60 Minutes was “not going to go out of our way to make him look bad or stupid.” “We’ll let him answer the questions,” he said.
Now that Obama is in the fourth quarter of his presidency, perhaps Kroft decided it was time to turn up the heat. But after last night’s contentious interview, it will be interesting to see if Kroft ever interviews this president again.
Steve Croft, 60 Minutes First Mainstream Media To Grill Obama, Make Him Squirm
ˈtrēzən/ nounthe crime ofbetraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.
It's one thing that the U.S. must notify Iran 24 days in advance of nuclear inspections per the new Nuclear Pact, but we learn from our own U.S. Attorney General Susan Rice that Only pro-Iranian IAEA Inspectors Will Be Allowed. If this isn't giving away the store and opening the floodgates to sure nuclear weapons by the Iranians nothing is... And that's only the beginning. Rice also admits that the Iranians will likely spend some of the $100 billion the U.S. is giving them on military weapons that will likely used against us. If the above is not 'betraying one's country' we can't imagine what is.
This the same day that 4 marines were murdered by a likely 24-year-old muslim terrorist in Chattanooga where arms are not allowed (on military bases based on a January, 1993 action by former president Bill Clinton.
This the same day President Obama spoke at an Oklahoma prison trying to get more 'young' out of prision, the same day a young person just killed four of our military.
Susan Rice: NO AMERICANS Will Be Allowed to Inspect Iranian Nuclear Sites
This wasn’t a nuclear deal – This was a surrender
Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice, of Benghazi fame, went on CNN to promote the P5+1 nuclear deal with the Iranian regime.
During the discussion Rice admitted that NO AMERICAN EXPERTS will be allowed in to inspect the Iranian nuclear sites.
Iran will also have $100 billion to spend on military operations in the region.
BLITZER: “Let’s clarify a few points as far as the nuclear deal with Iran is concerned. I take it that all of the IAEA inspection teams, all inspectors who go in will have to be from country that have formal, full diplomatic relations with Iran. As a result, no Americans will directly be involved in any on the ground inspections in Iran — is that right?”
RICE: “Wolf, yes. The IAEA, which is a highly respected international organization, will field an international team of inspectors. And those inspectors will in all likelihood come from IAEA member-states, most of whom have diplomatic relationships with Iran. We of course are a rare exception.”
BLITZER: “No Americans — I want to be precise on this. Sorry for interrupting. No Americans will be on the ground in Iran actually inspecting?”
RICE: “No Americans will be part of the IAEA inspection teams.”
BLITZER: “Will Americans be outside –”
RICE: “There are Americans in Iran on a daily basis, Wolf. I’m not sure what you are asking.”
BLITZER: “American government officials or military officials who could be inspecting?”
RICE: “They’re not going to be independent American inspectors separate from the IAEA. The IAEA will do the inspections on behalf of the United States and the rest of the international community.”
BLITZER: “I know there are American tourists and Americans who go visit family members in Iran. I’m talking U.S. government sent people, diplomats or others to go in there and see what is going on. I take it they will not be doing that?”
Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Benghazi Investigation Requests
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Hillary Rodham Clinton accepted an award from Emily’s List on Tuesday night. Her use of a personal email account at the State Department kept a significant amount of her correspondence from investigators and the public.CreditJabin Botsford/The New York Times
WASHINGTON — In 2012, congressional investigators asked the State Department for a wide range of documents related to the attack on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The department eventually responded, furnishing House committees with thousands of documents.
But it turns out that that was not everything.
The State Department had not searched the email account of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton because she had maintained a private account, which shielded it from such searches, department officials acknowledged on Tuesday.
It was only last month that the House committee appointed to investigate Benghazi was provided with about 300 of Mrs. Clinton’s emails related to the attacks. That was shortly after Mrs. Clinton turned over, at the State Department’s request, some 50,000 pages of government-related emails that she had kept on her private account.
It was one of several instances in which records requests sent to the State Department, which had no access to Mrs. Clinton’s emails, came up empty.
In 2013, Nitasha Tiku, then a reporter for Gawker, filed a Freedom of Information Act request, seeking all correspondence on Mrs. Clinton’s private email account between her and Sidney Blumenthal, a close adviser and onetime staff member in the Clinton White House. Some of those emails had already spilled into public view and been reported in the news media. But the State Department told Gawker that it could find no records responsive to the request, Gawker reported.
Mrs. Clinton’s aides on Tuesday sought to play down the significance of her exclusive use of a personal email account for State Department business. But an examination of records requests sent to the department reveals how the practice protected a significant amount of her correspondence from the eyes of investigators and the public.
Mrs. Clinton’s exclusive use of personal email for her government business is unusual for a high-level official, archive experts have said. Federal regulations, since 2009, have required that all emails be preserved as part of an agency’s record-keeping system. In Mrs. Clinton’s case, her emails were kept on her personal account and her staff took no steps to have them preserved as part of State Department record.
In response to a State Department request, Mrs. Clinton’s advisers, late last year, reviewed her account and decided which emails to turn over to the State Department.
The State Department says it will now search the 50,000 emails Mrs. Clinton provided in response to Freedom of Information and congressional requests.
The White House, in its first response to the news, said it frowned on the practice of officials using their personal email accounts.
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