No, actually a quick glance will show you that some of the circumstantial points are really just there as filler because it confirms the bias of those already predisposed to agree with it politically. Some of these are the equivalent of the media claiming President Trump mocked a disabled reporter when, as we know, getting more than surface deep into that story shows that it’s not intellectually honest (but people from that side eat it up, just like people from this side read this list approvingly).
No, the reason I’m intrigued is because I’ve lived through this list. I see it’s errors and fallacious conclusions. But other parts of this list are intriguing because President Trump was just impeached over a phone call where he used the undue influence of law “to better himself politically”.
Regardless if you agree with that italicized text (for the purpose of this post, I don’t care), it is interesting to see the media’s treatment of President Barack Obama’s actions.
What questions go through your head when you read this list? I had many. Do you think this new impeachment standard will apply to Presidents going forward? Do you think this is the “Deep State” at work? Is this just partisan divisiveness in list form? Do you think this is just Trump Derangement Syndrome in effect? Do you think the list is just Republican Talking Points baloney? Why isn’t there a #26? (You can say Yes to more than one of those questions).
1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense)
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
20 First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case. (By today’s standards, this would definitely have been an impeachable offense.)
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. (By today’s standards, this would definitely have been an impeachable offense.)
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it. (Speechless!)
29. First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers. (Probably not impeachable, but by today’s standards, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. would have been all over this had this been President Trump.)
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife. (Probably not impeachable, but by today’s standards, CNN, MCNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. would have been all over this.)
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense. (Probably not impeachable, but by today’s standards, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. would have been all over this.)
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense. (Probably not impeachable, but by today’s standards, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. would have been all over this.)
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.” (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. (Probably not impeachable, but by today’s standards, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc. would have been all over this.)
38. The First President that did not know how many states in the union. (He said 57). (Speechless!)
39. THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO GIVE IRAN BACK$150 BILLION IN CASH TO PLEASE SIGN HIS NUCLEAR DEAL THAT WAS CRAFTED BY SOCIALIST JOHN KERRY. (By today’s standards, this would have been an impeachable offense.)
Source: Liberty LOL – "Quit Trashing Obama's Accomplishments" A Look At Confirmation Bias