# Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 15, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463 "2016-06-15T21:02:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/301 "2016-07-04T22:53:37Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > [PolitiFact | Prior to Benghazi, were there 13 attacks on embassies and 60 deaths under President George W. Bush?](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/may/12/john-garamendi/prior-benghazi-were-there-13-attacks-embassies-and/) > > [Attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_U.S._diplomatic_facilities) Whoosh, I believe Mr. Chimera… unless you’re actively shooting for the double whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/302 "2016-07-05T01:07:42Z")
> [@Space\_Vegetable](#): > > > [@DinoR](#): > > > > The American Investment and Recovery Act was an application of Keynesian principles for dealing with a recession. > > Pardon me, but I’m pretty sure Obama’s principles were only half Keynesian. What a bunch of morons on this board. It’s spelled “Kenyan.” ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/303 "2016-07-05T01:25:02Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Whoosh, I believe Mr. Chimera… unless you’re actively shooting for the double whoosh. I don’t know about this particular case, but it’s far more likely than not for right wingnuts to believe that there were no significant attacks during the GHW Bush, and especially the Reagan, administration. It might be slipping out of the memory window now, but 20 years ago, it was extremely common for Reaganophiles to claim that Reagan’s air strikes on Libya were in retaliation for Qaddafi blowing up the airliner over Lockerbie, and that after those air strikes, Qaddafi saw what a tough guy Reagan was and ceased his belligerence. In fact, the attack over Lockerbie was two years after the air strike that allegedly killed Qaddafi’s adopted daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/304 "2016-07-05T02:19:33Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I don’t know about this particular case, but it’s far more likely than not for right wingnuts to believe that there were no significant attacks during the GHW Bush, and especially the Reagan, administration (…) Maybe it wasn’t a whoosh. I figured **Watchwolf 49** was asking for a cite for this part of **Chimera** ’s post: _But Buddy, you picked the wrong damned board. Not because we’re all liberals or anything, but because we don’t allow bullshit to be presented as truth without calling it out. Yeah, you have to defend your beliefs and claims here, left, right, up, down, pseudo-whatever._ ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463/305 "2016-07-05T12:52:35Z")
Boy, I sure wish I could take credit for all the nice things y’all are saying about me … but I was just being an asshole is all … nothing more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama/757463.md?page=15)