Posted on 04/14/2011 1:04:07 PM PDT by sunmars
In my exclusive interview with President Barack Obama, the president acknowledged that Democrats are going to bear the "burden" of extending the national debt limit later this spring – and he explained for the first time that only when he became president did he understand why his 2006 Senate vote against raising the debt limit was wrong:
George Stephanopoulos: You’ve got to extend the debt limit by May. And it seems like you made up the job-- your job is a lot tougher because of your vote in the Senate against extending the debt limit…When did you realize that vote was a mistake?
President Obama: I think that it’s important to understand the vantage point of a Senator versus the vantage point of a…President. When you’re a Senator, traditionally what’s happened is this is always a lousy vote. Nobody likes to be tagged as having increased the debt limit for the United States by a trillion dollars… As President, you start realizing, "You know what? We-- we can’t play around with this stuff. This is the full faith in credit of the United States." And so that was just a example of a new Senator, you know, making what is a political vote as opposed to doing what was important for the country. And I’m the first one to acknowledge it.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
The man really does want to be King, and he sees elections and dealing with congress as nuisances.
I am now totally disillusioned. I have become a cynic. Is there no one that we can trust?
Try Trump and Cain. Myth is done and the Huckster isn’t even hinting at running. The game has moved so there is no need to even think about these two unelectable stiffs. There are new players now. Even Santorum and to some part Pawlenty, who announced, are scrappy enough to do it. The media today is starting to bring the issue up. It is a blatant turn around like Gitmo and Iraq that cannot be brushed under the rug.
LLS
You’ve got a FREE shoe pubbies.
Ever time I hear Dear Leader mentioned in the same paragraph with Stephy, I am reminded of Dear Leader’s muff “...my Muslim faith...” and Georgy quickly correcting him “...you mean your Christian faith...” The truth was given and it hasn’t gone away.
It’s full faith AND credit.
Good Heavens. He has a law degree. Or supposedly does.
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