He may have become America’s first black President based on his looks, charisma, community organizing, impressive senate record, and the subconscious guilt of middle class caucasians, but after nearly four years as our Chief Executive President Barack Hussein Obama has amassed an impressive number of “Firsts”: A list that will no doubt come in handy as Americans decide if he deserves re-election this November.
Caveat: The following list, in various forms, has been appearing in emails and on websites since at least June, 2011 – I’ve simply added to it and included sources which may or may not match those found in other lists.
Barack Hussein Obama’s List of “Firsts” as President
- First President to say that America is “not a Christian nation”.
- First President to seal his personal records from public view (Note: It was his first Executive Order).
First President to have a social security number from a state he’s never lived in. - First President to preside over a downgrade of the United States’ credit rating.
- First President to cause America’s Debt to exceed it’s GDP during a peacetime economy.
- First President to violate the War Powers Act.
- First President to issue himself the authority to declare Martial Law during peacetime
- First President to demand a company hand over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
- First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
- First President to terminate subsidizing America’s Manned Space Flight programs by defunding NASA.
- First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
- First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
- First President to require that religious employers, colleges, and universities provide birth control pills.
- First President to threaten action against insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
- First President to spend $800-billion-plus dollars on ’shovel-ready’ jobs he later admitted didn’t exist.
- First President to bypass Congress and implement the DREAM Act through executive fiat.
- First President to order a secret amnesty program stopping the deportation of illegal aliens across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
- First President to have a law signed by an “auto-pen” without being present.
- First President to refuse to enforce an existing law by arbitrarily declaring it unconstitutional (the Defense of Marriage Act)
- First President to publicly vilify U. S. Supreme Court Judges during a State of the Union address while they were in attendance.
- First American President to have a White House press conference with no US flags in prominent view.
- First President to lose more than 1 Million jobs during a recovery.
- First President to chair the United Nations 15-member Security Council, in possible violation of Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.
- First President to issue an unlawful “recess-appointment” while the U.S. Senate remained in session, against the advice of his own Justice Department.
- First President to sue states for requiring a valid ID to vote, despite requiring a valid ID for air travel
- First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his Union supporters.
- First President to pressure an automobile company to remove an ad critical of the federal bailout of it’s US competitors.
- First President to propose an Executive Order demanding companies disclose their political contributions in order to bid on government contracts
- First president to be sworn in by a justice he voted against (Supreme Court Justice John Roberts).
- First president to use the word “Muslim” in an Inaugural Address (“To the Muslem world, we seek a new way forward.”)
- First President to acknowledge atheists in an Inaugural Address.
- First president to air his weekly address via YouTube.
- First president to have their official portrait taken with a digital camera instead of painted.
- First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory (Boeing).
- First President to file lawsuits against states he swore an oath to protect (eg: AL, AZ, IN, OH, WI, UT).
- First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued by the EPA four years earlier.
- First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching his friend (Mayor Kevin Johnson) in a corruption case.
- First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
- First President to golf 73 times durnig his first two-and-one-half years as President – over 90 times to date.
- First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for his peacemaking potential – not actual peacemaking.
- First President to go on multiple ‘apology tours’ around the world.
- First President to go on 17 lavish taxpayer-funded vacations. (Not including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends).
- First President to take a 17-day family vacation, in Hawaii, costing taxpayers $4 Million.
- First President to “scout out” future vacation spots for his family while visiting Columbia (as his own Secret Service detail was “scouting out” prostitutes).
- First President to mis-pronounce the word “corpsman”.
- First Presidential candidate to declare we have “57 states“.“57 states“
- First president to home-brew beer inside the White House
- First president to not attend the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention, or send a top-tier representative.
- First President to not to invite journalist and fellow black man Tavis Smiley to the White House
- First President to recognize US Citizens as possible threats to National Security (H.R. 1955 (110th): “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007″)
- First President to have 24 taxpayer-funded personal servants for his wife.
- First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
- First President to openly admit the Islamic call to worship, Azan, “…is one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset“.
- First president to authorize the assassination of a United States citizen (Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Al Qaeda terrorist killed in Yemen by an Air Force drone)
Yep… 53 items, but I’m sure they’ll be additions as the election unfolds – either send me a comment and I’ll update the list, or copy this page, update it yourself, and “post it forward”
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