{"id":35965,"date":"2019-04-26T16:27:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35965"},"modified":"2019-04-26T16:27:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T20:27:38","slug":"prepare-the-popcorn-the-show-is-about-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35965","title":{"rendered":"Prepare The Popcorn, The Show Is About To Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has entered the Democratic presidential race. Prepare for amazing statements by someone who seems to have no relationship with reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/biden-no-scandal-in-obama-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> posted an article today about a recent statement by former Vice-President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;The thing I&#8217;m proudest of is we, coincidentally, we were each in a different part of the country and we were each talking to groups of people that were being televised. On the same day, purely coincidentally, we were asked what are you proudest of from your administration? You know what I said\u2014he said the same thing, though probably a bit more clearly than I did: Not one single whisper of scandal,&#8221; Biden said on ABC&#8217;s <em>The View<\/em>. &#8220;That&#8217;s because of Barack Obama.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This has been a common refrain among Democrats and<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/cnn-panel-there-were-no-scandals-in-obamas-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> people in the media<\/a>. In 2018, Obama himself\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/obama-scandal-free-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared<\/a> his presidency was free from scandal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t have scandals, which seems like it shouldn&#8217;t be something you brag about,&#8221; Obama said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Despite Obama&#8217;s claim of a scandal free presidency, his administration was plagued by numerous scandals. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-31806907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email scandal<\/a>, the administration&#8217;s response to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2016\/06\/benghazi-scandal-hillary-clinton-state-department-obama-administration-house-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2012 terror attacks<\/a>\u00a0on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/10\/27\/560308997\/irs-apologizes-for-aggressive-scrutiny-of-conservative-groups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scandal<\/a>\u00a0involving the IRS targeting conservative organizations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/atf-fast-furious-sg-storygallery.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Operation Fast and Furious<\/a>, Department of Justice&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/justice-departments-scrutiny-of-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-in-leak-case-draws-fire\/2013\/05\/20\/c6289eba-c162-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_story.html?utm_term=.bc8c9b0608cf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tracking of reporter James Rosen<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/specialreports\/solyndra-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Solyndra scandal,<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/05\/21\/a-guide-to-the-va-and-the-scandals-engulfing-it\/?utm_term=.062ea535bef5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">failures<\/a> of the Department of Veterans Affairs are a few of the scandals to have occurred throughout Obama&#8217;s time in office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wow. Maybe he just forgot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has entered the Democratic presidential race. Prepare for amazing statements by someone who seems to have no relationship with reality. The Washington Free Beacon posted an article today about a recent statement by former Vice-President Biden. The article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,3947,69,10369,678,5578,453,8803,9103,9385],"class_list":["post-35965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-benghazi","tag-department-of-justice","tag-email-scandal","tag-irs","tag-james-rosen","tag-operation-fast-and-furious","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton","tag-the-washington-free-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35966,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35965\/revisions\/35966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}