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Most Believe Govt Corruption is Worse Under Obama

Larrry

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Poll: Most Believe Govt Corruption is Worse Under Obama
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Thursday, 26 Dec 2013 12:54 PM

By Sandy Fitzgerald


Most Americans believe that government corruption has gotten worse under the Obama administration, according to a new national survey conducted by two conservative organizations.

The survey, conducted by the conservative Judicial Watch in partnership with Breitbart.com, shows 77 percent of the 1,000 adults questioned are concerned about government corruption and 52 percent of them think the problem has gotten worse over the past five years since President Barack Obama first took office.

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"The Judicial Watch-Breitbart poll shows that the American people are thoroughly disenchanted with a government they see as corrupt and secretive," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

"The support for the rule of law on immigration runs against the establishment narrative pretending there is overwhelming support for mass amnesty. On a host of issues – ranging from corruption to transparency, to election integrity, to Obamacare – President Obama is completely out of touch with the American people."

The poll taken Dec. 15-16 also sought information on attitudes concerning other subjects, including voter fraud, immigration policy, and Obamacare.

When it comes to government corruption, Republicans tended to be more concerned, the survey revealed, with 88 percent being most concerned, followed by independents at 75 percent and Democrats at 68 percent.

Overall, the poll found that Americans think the government is doing a worse job at policing its own corruption, with 52 percent saying matters have gotten worse in the past five years. Only 18 percent of those surveyed thought the government is doing a better job at self-policing. The survey also found specifically that four out of five respondents do not believe that Obama has fulfilled his 2008 campaign pledge to have "the most open and transparent [government] in history."

The respondents also expressed skepticism about several other Obama agenda items, including immigration and healthcare reform. Forty-nine percent said they believe immigration laws currently on the books should be enforced, and think illegal immigrants should return home rather than stay in the U.S. Of those polled, 71 percent favor enforcing current immigration laws, while 21 percent support changing the laws.

The survey also revealed that most respondents are more confident in their states' ability to handle healthcare issues than they are the federal government's. But nearly one-third of the respondents don't have confidence in government at any level to coordinate healthcare.

As for Obamacare, two-thirds of those surveyed said they are satisfied with the insurance they have now.

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Tam

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The Obama White House’s war against leaks, and its penchant for secrecy and noted lack of transparency, are the worst “since the Nixon administration,” according to a major new study that relied on interviews from leading Washington reporters and news organization chiefs.

The report, released Thursday by the Committee to Project Journalists, found that reporters from many major media outlets consider the Obama administration the most closed-off in recent memory, and that there is not “any precedent” for its often hostile relationship toward the press.

More than 30 veteran reporters were interviewed for the piece, which was written by CPJ’s Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post and now a professor at Arizona State's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

The massive study goes into great detail in discussing the administration’s battle against leakers such as Edward Snowden; its “Insider Threat Program” that asks government employees to monitor their colleagues’ behavior; and general lack of transparency, despite repeated promises from Mr. Obama that his White House would be the most open in history.

“This is the most closed, control freak administration I’ve ever covered,” wrote New York Times Washington correspondent David Sanger, one of the journalists interviewed for the report.

At least six government employees and two contractors — including Mr. Snowden — have been subjects of felony criminal prosecutions since 2009, when Mr. Obama came to power.

Other investigations are under way, and notable instances of White House press crackdowns have included Justice Department subpoenas of reporters’ phone logs and emails; the inspection of Associated Press phone records; the accusation that a Fox News reporter was an “aider, abettor and/or conspirator” of an indicted leak defendant.

As a result, top journalists now say “officials are reluctant to discuss even unclassified information with them because they fear that leak investigations and government surveillance make it more difficult for reporters to protect them as sources.”

“I worry now about calling somebody because the contact can be found out through a check of phone records or emails,” said veteran journalist R. Jeffrey Smith, who now works at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit government accountability news group. “It leaves a digital trail that makes it easier for the government to monitor those contacts.”

Another reporter said there is a “real problem” with the way the Obama administration deals with the press. Another is quoted as saying this White House is one of “unprecedented secrecy and unprecedented attacks on the press.”

But the White House continues to defend its behavior.

Press secretary Jay Carney was interviewed for the study, and he said “the idea that people are shutting up and not leaking to reporters is belied by the facts.”

White House national security adviser Ben Rhodes also disputed the report’s findings.

“We make an effort to communicate about national security issues in on-the-record and background briefings by sanctioned sources. And we still see investigative reporting from nonsanctioned sources with lots of unclassified information and some sensitive information.”


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Most corrupt secretive Administration in recent history, Spying on law abiding US citizens through the NSA, Spying on the Press core through the DOJ, targeting political opponents through the IRS, lying to voters about their healthcare through HHS, lying about true terrorist attacks resulting in deaths of American citizens through the DOS, no bid contracts that cost billions, bailing out campaign donors with tax payer money, raising taxes on everyone through midnight passed back room dirty deal bills, Lack of leadership in Domestic and foreign affairs as Prez is too busy golfing, AND the taking credit for missions they had nothing to do with while blaming everyone else for the Prez's failures. CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN. :mad:

I guess we can all count our lucky stars that the investigative press core vetted this corrupt idiot when he as an inexperienced junior senator decided to run for President to the most powerful office in the world. NO WAIT they didn't vet him, they took one look at his SKIN COLOR and ran for fear of being called a racist giving him a pass to all his corruption until their own lives were effected by his bold face LYING.


And now that they have been burned by him, they are WAKING UP, and awarding him with the LIE OF THE YEAR. I would say better late than never if it had not cost trillions.

THE WORLD HAS THE US PRESS CORE, AND THEIR FAILURE TO DO THEIR FRIGGIN JOBS, TO BLAME FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS OF OBAMA'S DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY AND SECURITY. :mad:
 

Steve

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liberal response said:
they just forgot to clock back in after the Bush coffee break ..

in my opinion it is a good reason to start firing folk.. especially those at the top.. sort of a bit of trickle down policy.. as those at the top get booted and end up in jail,.. you could bet good money the others would get the hint..
 

Tam

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The thing that makes this corrupt Administration the worst of all is NOBODY IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE. They lie to the public OH WELL, they plead the fifth OH WELL, they lie under oath OH WELL. Obama comes out and tells everyone he didn't know anything about the latest scandal and claims nobody is madder than him about it and promises to hold people accountable for they action. Then he goes back to the Oval Office and ignores the mess for weeks. When he is forced to speak again about the mess he claims they are ALL PHONY SCANDALS MADE UP BY THE RACISTS THAT HATE THE IDEA OF A BLACK PRESIDENT AND ANYONE STILL ASKING QUESTIONS ARE RACISTS THEMSELVES.

Every friggin thing that goes wrong he knows nothing about it until he read it in the newspaper. You would think after the first time he was caught looking ignorant to what is going on in his administration, HEADS WOULD HAVE ROLLED. but nope everyone keeps their jobs and he continues to claim HE DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING.

This guy is the perfect picture of an INCOMPETENT TWIT THAT CARES MORE ABOUT THE POWER THAN THE JOB HE WAS HIRED TO DO. :mad:
 

Traveler

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This regimes actions should at least make young people think twice about the liberal indoctrination they've received, disguised as education.
 

hypocritexposer

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Why would anybody have trusted a guy that refused to show his birth certificate?????

I asked that question 5 years ago. That was the first indication that this was not going to turn out well.
 

ranch hand

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I am beginning to think he doesn't know what is going on and there is a reason for it. He is a front for who ever is backing him, Valarie Jarrett gives him his orders and tells him to golf so he doesn't mess up the plans of the ones that got him this far.
 

hypocritexposer

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ranch hand said:
I am beginning to think he doesn't know what is going on and there is a reason for it. He is a front for who ever is backing him, Valarie Jarrett gives him his orders and tells him to golf so he doesn't mess up the plans of the ones that got him this far.

You are not serious are you? You just noticed that he is an empty suit, that cannot even read what comes across the teleprompter :???:
 

Larrry

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Larrry

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Excedrin headache No. 2013: 2-in-3 call it a 'bad year,' 4-in-10 a disaster for their family
By PAUL BEDARD | DECEMBER 27, 2013 AT 3:14 PM
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Overshadowed by the bungled debut of Obamacare and congressional gridlock, most Americans in a new poll dubbed 2013 a bad year that will be quickly forgotten. For more than four-in-10, the perils of 2013 hit home hard.

“Put simply, most Americans are happy to see 2013 go,” said the latest Economist/YouGov Poll.

— 54 percent called 2013 a “bad year” for the world. Another 15 percent called it a “very bad year,” with just 3 percent calling it a “very good year” and 29 percent a “good year.”

— Only 13 percent of Republicans say 2013 has been a good year for the world.

— Obamacare is a failure. “There are almost no issues where a majority of Americans have seen improvement. Only a quarter say health care coverage is better today than it was a year ago; more than half say it has gotten worse, reflecting the continued poor assessments given to the Administration’s health care reform (in this week’s Economist/YouGov poll, for example, a majority continues to call it a failure, and nearly half think it should be repealed).”
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— 41 percent called 2013 a bad or very bad year for their families.
Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner's
 
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