Posted on 09/19/2012 5:00:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Am I giving him too much credit in thinking that he does know — rounding within, say, a trillion dollars — and is simply playing dumb to deflect an “unhelpful” question, or have we reached the point where we’re hemorrhaging money so quickly that even the president can’t keep count? C’mon. The Five Trillion Dollar Man knows.
Here’s a better question: Why did Letterman broach this subject? Partisan that he is, there were a million things he could have asked O to make life easier for him (“Tell us the story about killing Osama Bin Laden again, papa”) and yet he asked him about one of his biggest political liabilities. I’m thinking the White House must have requested the question because this was their big chance to speak directly to casual voters in rebutting one of the GOP’s strongest attacks, and that Dave somehow wandered off-script by trying to pin Obama down on the number. Or it could be that, in his own odd way, he was trying to help O out by purposely floating a much lower figure on the debt ($10 trillion) for the benefit of semi-comatose low-information voters. The problem with that, though, is that “$10 trillion” is likely as startling a figure to an LIV as “$16 trillion” given that they have no mental benchmarks on federal spending over the past decade to reference. Can’t figure out why Dave would bring it up.
No serious talk of entitlement reform here. Of course.
Guess he didn’t see that big debt clock spinning like a tornado at the GOP convention. The Dems didn’t have one, because there were too many of them begging for things like free contraceptives and free college tuition to think about a debt clock.
I know he is BSing. At least I hope he is. What ignorant tool of a president doesn’t know we just went over 16 trillion?!
Since he is indifferent to the amount of the national debt, 0bama probably doesn’t know the precise number.
Obama is a babbling idiot who freaking doesn’t know what to do but is managing to pull the wool over the stupids who are voting for their own destruction (and OURS in the process). I. AM. OUTRAGED.
Well, you have to forgive him, ya know. After all, that kind of stuff is "above his paygrade".
When you’re “all wee weed up” a lot of brain cells get fried.
When you’re “all wee weed up” a lot of brain cells get fried.
That clip should be played over and over - He doesn’t even know what our national debt is - AND it’s not important now!
Oh, HE KNOWS the Debt.....he increased it by about 60%....and doesn’t want to admit that he may have to own up to that! His voters, however, do NOT know....nor, likely, do they care.
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