Posted on 08/24/2011 8:28:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Flashback: Obama in 2008: Adding $4 Trillion to National Debt ‘Unpatriotic’ Wednesday, August 24, 2011 By Matt Cover
(CNSNews.com) – Although the national debt under President Barack Obama has increased $4 trillion since he took office in 2009, as a presidential candidate in 2008 Obama criticized then-President George W. Bush for adding $4 trillion to the national debt, saying it was “unpatriotic” and also “irresponsible” to saddle future generations with such a large national debt.
“The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion dollars for the first 42 presidents -- number 43 added $4 trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion dollars of debt that we are going to have to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child,” Obama said on July 3, 2008, at a campaign event in Fargo, N.D.
“That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic,” said candidate Obama.
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Hello Drudge, Rush, etc.....can this go viral???
Zero is a master of misdirection. He criticized Bush spending in public just to convince us that he was fiscally conservative. Behind the scenes he was happy because he knew what his agenda would be. This creep is not even worthy of any number of expletive deleted’s
CNS news is one of my favorite sites. Wish they would have a 24/7 cable news network.
Funny. I think it works better with the word “now”.
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