# WTF is Obamagate? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 12, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616 "2020-05-12T01:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/22 "2020-05-12T07:32:16Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Apparently it’s the biggest political scandal in American history, but I can’t seem to figure out what Obama supposedly even did. Is this the first tautological scandal? It exists because someone decided a scandal needed to exist? That pretty well sums it up. As **Thudlow Boink** quotes: Asked by a Washington Post reporter for the second time to name Obama’s exact offence, Trump replied cryptically: “You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.” Dear Leader will let Hannity and his fellow traitors take the lead in throwing out garbage and seeing what sticks to the minds of American morons. (Recall that that’s how The Wall obsession started — Trump thought it a stupid idea until he noticed how much support it had from moronic Trumpettes.) > [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > [Top 10 Obama Scandals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MWxq80oze0) > > Umbrellagate > Tan Suitgate > Dijon Mustardgate > Lapel Flag Pingate > Selfiegate > …and several others. I clicked but lacked your tolerance for pain. After just three “scandals” the hypocrisy of treasonous FoxNews was too much for me, and I clicked X. What you _won’t_ hear are the _real_ reasons that the 38% hate Obama: . . “His wife looks like a gorilla.” . . “His daughters dress like trashy urban sluts.” . . “He pretends to be half-white.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/23 "2020-05-12T07:43:01Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I clicked but lacked your tolerance for pain. After just three “scandals” the hypocrisy of treasonous FoxNews was too much for me, and I clicked X. But that means you missed didn’t-wear-a-jacket-in-the-Oval-Officegate! And Bike Helmetgate! And lattegate! Strong man Putin doesn’t wear a bike helmet. He doesn’t even wear a shirt, and rides a manly horse, not a bicycle. Obama humiliated America with that bike helmet. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/24 "2020-05-12T07:48:33Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > I was going to guess Benghazi. hmmm. this raises the interesting question: why haven’t we heard the word Benghazi recently? there’s so much potential… How about some explosive headlines: “How much did Biden know about Benghazi?”–Fox experts investigate!!! “Biden denies visiting Benghazi–this expert explains why” “the next Benghazi—expert explains how will Biden fail to react decisively” "could Benghazi happen again?–our military panel discusses how Biden wants to deny new weapons to the army. “Wounded vet hero in VA hospital\* claims he saw Biden in Benghazi!!!” (\*psychiatric ward) ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/25 "2020-05-12T12:18:03Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > But that means you missed didn’t-wear-a-jacket-in-the-Oval-Officegate! And Bike Helmetgate! And lattegate! I think we really haven’t spent enough resources investigating “Dijon-Gate”. And what about “Selfie-Gate”. And come on, are we really expected to believe that he actually made that three point shot without a Marine concealed in the rafters dropping the ball in the hoop? The breadth and depth of scandals in the Obama Administration knows no bounds. They’ve even gone back and Photoshopped pictures of the Greater Deity Ronald Reagan to justify their malfeasance. Literally unbelievable! “No president has ever done anything worse.” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/26 "2020-05-12T12:27:55Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Obamagate exists only as an attempt to distract from the global failure of the bankrupt ideology known as conservatism. The United States, The United Kingdom, Brazil…every country with right-wing rule is a death sentence for it’s citizens. Good people have been fooled many times, but that’s coming to an end. Conservatism equals death. Right wing led countries don’t need death squads anymore; they kill with policy. If letting the less fortunate live shorter lives via poisoned environments and inadequate healthcare don’t do the trick, then the conservatives will kill them with an unchecked and uncontrolled viral outbreak. It’s the republican way, from slavery through every other sorry chapter of American history. > > Obamagate. History won’t even record it. The disease of right-wing 'populism, on other hand, will forever be remembered as a goddamn disgrace to every principle America claimed to hold dear. Excellent post. Totally agree. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/27 "2020-05-12T14:48:25Z")
I’m sure guessing is fun, but it only serves the conservative agenda to have people list perceived failures and missteps of the Obama administration (and it reminds them what those were). I think it’s best not to speculate at all and to require anyone speaking seriously about Obamagate to say _exactly_ what they mean. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/28 "2020-05-12T15:09:12Z")
No love for Feet-on-the-Deskgate? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/29 "2020-05-12T15:25:08Z")
Is it not entirely obvious? He walks funny. > [@asahi](#): > > … He won the presidency so he can’t claim that the election - that he won - was rigged… Oh yeah? Were you not paying attention? He has been claiming all along that he won in a popular vote landslide that was all messed up so that it only looked like Hitlary got more votes, because, illegals. Which, of course, was _whose_ fault? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/30 "2020-05-12T15:35:02Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > He’s black. Oh, far, far worse than that. He was _elected_ while black. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/31 "2020-05-12T15:37:45Z")
It’s yet another Republican Right smear campaign designed to destroy the reputation of someone who is totally superior to their own candidate in every single way possible. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/32 "2020-05-12T15:38:33Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Terrorist fist bump. Terrorist fist _jab_. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/33 "2020-05-12T15:48:25Z")
Uh, middle name is “Hussein”. All right-minded Americans all know you don’t get a name like that unless you hate America. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/34 "2020-05-12T15:48:46Z")
Well you can’t spell ObaMAGAte without MAGA. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/35 "2020-05-12T15:57:55Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > No love for Feet-on-the-Deskgate? And we must _never_ forget [Latte Salutegate](http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/23/politics/obama-coffee-cup-salute/index.html), which scandalized the presidency AND the military, and led Obama’s detractors and [concern trolls](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/09/25/the-insiders-why-the-latte-salute-is-a-big-deal/) alike to opine that he may (or may not, let’s be fair!) have done it intentionally to insult the troops. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/36 "2020-05-12T16:02:04Z")
For a more serious list: The [IRS targeting controversy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy) Obama-administration school regulations led to [widespread violence in Minnesota schools](https://www.city-journal.org/html/no-thug-left-behind-14951.html) [ATF gunwalking scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal) [Black Panther intimidation case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party_voter_intimidation_case) [Veterans Health administration scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Administration_scandal_of_2014) [Project Cassandra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cassandra)alongside of the IRS, the [Federal Elections Commission also targeted specific groups](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323681904578642180886421040) [EPA employees earned overtime without the required waivers](https://freebeacon.com/issues/obama-epa-employees-earned-overtime-pay-without-justification/?utm_source=Press+List&utm_campaign=b4f1dacd88-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5b0ef94baa-b4f1dacd88-21317033) [Numerous civilian casualties in Pakistan from Obama-administration drone strikes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan#Civilian_casualties) [classified information about the bin Laden raid was leaked](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2148682/Obama-administration-leaked-classified-information-filmmakers-Osama-bin-Laden-raid.html) ATF used [mentally handicapped teens to run stings](https://reason.com/2013/12/09/unbelievable-atf-using-mentally-disabled/) Benghazi - note that the belief that Obama or Hillary deliberately withheld aid or wanted ambassador Stevens to die is absolute nonsense; however, one can legitimately argue that the US normalized relations with Libya too soon, or that there should have been additional security at the compound to begin with ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/37 "2020-05-12T16:08:25Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > For a more serious list: Which one of those is the greatest political crime in American history? Trump is clearly not just talking about a shopping list of past “scandals”, he’s talking as though this is something specific. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/38 "2020-05-12T16:22:05Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > …or that there should have been additional security at the compound to begin with There was going to be, but congressional Republicans didn’t want to pay for it. The deficit, you see. Always so problematic when we have a Democratic White House. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/39 "2020-05-12T16:24:39Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Which one of those is the greatest political crime in American history? Trump is clearly not just talking about a shopping list of past “scandals”, he’s talking as though this is something specific. \*\*Jas09 \*\*nailed it in post #8. Scandal or not, that’s the one the name refers to. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/40 "2020-05-12T16:31:27Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Which one of those is the greatest political crime in American history? Trump is clearly not just talking about a shopping list of past “scandals”, he’s talking as though this is something specific. More to the point, which of those ten Obama “scandals” would be even in the same ballpark as any of the fifty worst examples of Trump incompetence or malfeasance? Obviously **Velocity** is intelligent and is just playing “Devil’s advocate” here, but when actual Trumpists point to “scandals” of Obama (or any of the top Democrats) one’s mind boggles to imagine their disconnect from reality. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616/41 "2020-05-12T16:44:12Z")
GWB- Governing While Black. I think it’s likely to be they caught Obama saying before the election “Gee I prefer that Hillary wins”. SCANDAL! Or maybe they’re going to paint the Mueller probe as a coup orchestrated by BLM. Or they want to whine about Obama giving the Iranians back their own money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-obamagate/853616.md?page=3)