It doesn't happen so much anymore, but whenever Barack Obama pops up in the news, some clown has to tweet that his was a "scandal-free" presidency and that the biggest scandal in his eight years in office was wearing a tan suit one day. Of course, conservatives can rattle off a bunch of scandals, from Fast and Furious to IRS targeting of conservative groups (which liberals still deny happened, even though the IRS admitted it).
I refuse to believe that conservatives ever made Obama's tan suit a "scandal," but that's what they claim. As far as I remember it, no one cared. Maybe one high-profile conservative tweeted about it and that covered all conservatives.
Here's someone in 2023 wondering why Obama's tan suit was a scandal. James Surowiecki is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and Fast Company:
Ronald Reagan regularly wore tan suits to official events while he was president. So why did right-wingers pretend it was scandalous when Obama wore one to a press conference? pic.twitter.com/y1ad7Hob0b
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) July 24, 2023
Do you guys think it’s possible that someone who still talks about the tan suit in 2023 is capable of new thoughts or is their brain just like a stack of flash cards https://t.co/3jRXbPXyE7
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) July 24, 2023
Narrator: we didn’t
— GOPPouncer (@Mellecon) July 24, 2023
This is the propaganda the left uses to try to assert this was Obama’s only scandal while ignoring things like the droning of a 16 year old American kid from Colorado. https://t.co/ovzTUiwARb
Bingo.
I regret to inform you that the libs are still going on about the tan suit. https://t.co/wGgEcX0rnn
— Will, supporter of those things you don’t like (@spudhawg) July 24, 2023
Must be a slow day if we’re just firing up this subject again. https://t.co/O46Fo5UZ9i
— BWH (@BWH85) July 24, 2023
They didn’t. It was a Democrat talking point so they could pretend that Obama didn’t have other scandals.
— Max-a-Lago (@MaxNordau) July 24, 2023
Swing and miss.
— Daniel (@TomHillsisyphus) July 24, 2023
What is even the point of resurrecting this? Two people said something. Give me a break.
— Ashlee Lee (@ashlee_leeee) July 24, 2023
It’s almost as if the tan-suit scandal was a damn lie.
— Jack Kentner (@Jack_Kentner) July 24, 2023
The liberals in the replies who actually buy this hypothesis are certain that it wasn't the color of the suit, but the color of Obama's skin.
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But if this journalist actually knows any conservatives, he could ask them to name the first scandal that comes to mind when he mentions the Obama administration. Absolutely no one is going to mention the suit.
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