# Barack Obama And The "Blagogate" Scandal **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 4, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906 "2022-02-04T16:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/21 "2022-02-04T18:21:05Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > What is it you Fox News thinks was left uncovered? And what proof do does you Fox News think you they have? This is too silly even for Fox. OAN, maybe… ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/22 "2022-02-04T21:57:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I contend that the OP is really a badly abused lab monkey somewhere in China. Lately they’ve been playing with his dosages. Because if he is really a human being, we need to recalibrate the IQ scale downwards to fit him in. I think **CHealy7** is a persona adopted by a rotating cast of characters. Say, the person with the least time in service at a troll farm somewhere in St. Petersburg. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/23 "2022-02-04T22:20:28Z")
Now I feel sad that maybe there Is an abused lab monkey somewhere. And it’s shaking it’s head at CHealy7.🙉 ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/24 "2022-02-04T22:29:23Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > I think **CHealy7** is a persona adopted by a rotating cast of characters. Like an anti-Dread Pirate Roberts! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/25 "2022-02-05T01:00:16Z")
Where have you gone, **@CHealy7**? A messageboard turns its lonely eyes to you. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/26 "2022-02-05T01:02:01Z")
He’s fellating Putin’s dog. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/27 "2022-02-05T01:08:57Z")
Oh boy, that’s a lot more hazardous than it sounds. Have you seen his dog? [![](https://barbarapijan.com/bpa/Politics/PutinTiger.PNG) ](https://barbarapijan.com/bpa/Politics/PutinTiger.PNG) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/28 "2022-02-05T01:17:05Z")
So, he’s down in Mar-a-Lago? ---
**Author:** ![Boycott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boycott/32/6741_2.png) [@Boycott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boycott)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/29 "2022-02-05T01:26:46Z")
Right wing media threw everything at Obama no matter how tenuous the link so the fact this got very little play from them must mean there is nothing here to look at. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/30 "2022-02-05T01:40:18Z")
Trump only dreams of being Putin’s dog. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/31 "2022-02-05T07:55:02Z")
Seriously, @CHealy7 . (Are you still there?) Why are you bringing this up now? Just getting caught up in the backlog of the news, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/32 "2022-02-05T08:05:11Z")
I still think Obama should have resigned in disgrace after wearing that tan suit. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/33 "2022-02-05T08:24:39Z")
Indeed. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7dtSIvD9uDA/maxresdefault.jpg) ](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7dtSIvD9uDA/maxresdefault.jpg) [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwLF1PcCMAAi_81.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwLF1PcCMAAi_81.jpg) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/NixonLBJLibrary1971.gif) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/NixonLBJLibrary1971.gif) [![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/18556/production/_107207699_048121124.jpg) ](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/18556/production/_107207699_048121124.jpg) [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdYVSfKWoAIX2m5.png) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdYVSfKWoAIX2m5.png) ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/34 "2022-02-05T08:49:11Z")
Dear @CHealy7 - We have established conclusively that you suck. The question before us for debate, now, is to determine whether there is any way in which you do not suck. I am skeptical, myself. But your input will be considered. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/35 "2022-02-05T09:06:32Z")
I must admit this thread has bigly gained in entertaining value since it was moved to the Pit. Now not whishing to hijack or derail this heart-warming **Chealy7** thrashing, my curiosity is still piqued about this obsession some people apparently have with those cream coloured garments they call “tan suits”. Knowing nothing about that subject, it somehow feels insufficient for an own thread. And now after this brief intermission back to the OP’s lambasting! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/36 "2022-02-05T09:12:15Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Now not whishing to hijack or derail this heart-warming **Chealy7** thrashing, my curiosity is still piqued about this obsession some people apparently have with those cream coloured garments they call “tan suits”. Knowing nothing about that subject, it somehow feels insufficient for an own thread. "On August 28, 2014, Obama held a press conference about the situation regarding ISIS in Syria, and how the US military was planning to respond to it. At the conference, Obama said that the U.S. had yet to develop a plan regarding the removal of ISIS, and talked extensively about his concerns in the region. During the conference he wore a tan suit, which up until that point was uncommon for Obama to do. A light-colored suit is considered casual summer wear that was seen by conservative media outlet Fox News as being too casual for a press conference on such a serious matter. The controversy was seen in the context of the slow news season before the run-up to the 2014 election campaign. The suit received mixed reviews from a fashion perspective. There was significant backlash from some conservative circles. Republican Representative Peter King of New York called Obama’s wearing of the suit while talking about the economy instead of terrorism unpresidential, and stated that “There’s no way, I don’t think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching.” According to conservative Justin Sink of The Hill, most people viewed Obama’s fashion choice to be a mistake." > **[Barack Obama tan suit controversy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_tan_suit_controversy)** > > On August 28, 2014, U.S. president Barack Obama held a live press conference in which he discussed the prospect of escalating the U.S. military response to the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria. For the conference, he wore a tan suit. It received considerable attention, with whether it was appropriate for the subject matter of terrorism being discussed in the media. The issue remained prominent for several days and was widely discussed, often humorously, on television talk shows. > On August 28, 2... [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5sl3GRuE0ao/maxresdefault.jpg "Remember When Obama's Tan Suit Was a Presidential Scandal? | NowThis") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sl3GRuE0ao) In a nutshell; one of the right-wing media’s most ridiculous attempts to take every single thing Obama said or did and turn it into the most shocking, scandalous, most dastardly of deeds committed by any president since Harding. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/37 "2022-02-05T09:17:32Z")
Oh. Yes, well… thank you. “They’re crazy, those 'murricans!”, as Obelix would say \ ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/38 "2022-02-05T16:30:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Republican Representative Peter King of New York called Obama’s wearing of the suit while talking about the economy instead of terrorism unpresidential, and stated that “There’s no way, I don’t think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching.” Right. The proper way to look “presidential” is to spray yourself with orange dye, wear the pelt of a deceased orange marmoset on top of your head, and call a press conference to announce to the world that you are a “very stable genius”. For added impact, it doesn’t hurt to have a piece of toilet paper stuck to your shoe. These photos, for example, show a proper presidential dark suit: [![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/059f7168d744d95c511833da9877b18935703093/354_227_1283_770/500.jpg?quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dc499fd611f6f5f5fe937edde233202c) ](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/059f7168d744d95c511833da9877b18935703093/354_227_1283_770/500.jpg?quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dc499fd611f6f5f5fe937edde233202c) [![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/41FB/production/_113919861_hi045965426.jpg) ](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/41FB/production/_113919861_hi045965426.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/39 "2022-02-05T17:02:54Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > But who commuted Blago’s sentence? Shouldn’t that be considered more of a scandal? I agree. This should be investigated. What was the quid pro quo here? The whole commutation of Blago’s sentence smelled fishy from the outset. ---
**Author:** ![lum\_s\_husband](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lum_s_husband/32/3698_2.png) [@lum\_s\_husband](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lum_s_husband)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/40 "2022-02-05T17:34:05Z")
If those tan suits are the color of your cream, I suggest getting a better quality of cream. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906.md?page=3)