# Barack Obama And The "Blagogate" Scandal

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-blagogate-scandal/958906/15 "2022-02-04T17:55:20Z")

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Hey, remember this thread from 2019 where he dredged up a non-issue about the Obama administration some nine years later?

> [@Barack Obama and the "Tighty-Whitey Bomber"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama-and-the-tighty-whitey-bomber/829735):
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> Why did Obama wait three days to say anything at all about this incident on Christmas Day 2009? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest\_Airlines\_Flight\_253](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_253)

And the Henry Gates thing, a decade later?

> [@The Henry L Gates Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-henry-l-gates-case/826947):
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> A decade on from [this case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_arrest_controversy),would you agree with Barack Hussein Obama’s statement that the police “acted stupidly”?

And Obamacare?

> [@Obamacare](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamacare/841364):
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> Five year on from its introduction, is it fair to say that this was a scandalous disaster?

Not sure why these random topics about Obama seem to trigger this kind of JAQing off.

And on another running theme, there’s this one, where he wondered why Justin Trudeau hadn’t “resigned in disgrace”:

> [@Justin Trudeau \[why no resignation?\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justin-trudeau-why-no-resignation/840767):
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> Can someone explain why he has not resigned in disgrace?

And even one about Donald Trump:

> [@Donald Trump \[what will it take to force him to resign?\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-what-will-it-take-to-force-him-to-resign/826578):
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> What will it take for the American people to force this man to resign from office?

And all largely launched with minimal substance and then minimal actual participation from the OP.

One might hope that as **CHealy7** “can’t be bothered to write a decent OP” after several years of threads like this, he might consider what the point of posting them at all is.

Top tip: it is extremely difficult to get a world leader to “resign in disgrace” (as the UK are currently finding out) and they certainly are not and were never going to do so on such flimsy premises as these. And if one wishes to argue that they should, then one should actually present an argument rather than dropping a “here’s a link/what do you think” OP and running away.

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