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Senator Barack Obama Explaining his 2006 Vote Against Raising the Debt Limit (Jan 4, 2011)
NRO ^ | January 4, 2011 11:49 A.M | Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on 01/12/2012 2:15:40 PM PST by DJ MacWoW

From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006:

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

At the time, Senator Obama was urging Congress not to tolerate an increase that would bring the debt ceiling to $9 trillion. Under President Obama, the debt ceiling has been raised to $14.3 trillion. Even without counting most unfunded liabilities, the national debt is now calculated to be nearing $14.1 trillion. It increases about $4.22 billion per day (each citizen’s share stands at roughly $45K). Thus, Democrats will soon demand that the debt ceiling be raised, lest the sky fall. When they do, they will be asking for a significant boost in a ceiling that is already 60 percent higher than the one Barack Obama said was “a sign of leadership failure” five years ago.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; debt; debtceiling; democrats; elections; flipflop; nobama2012; obama; obamalied; obamalies; obamunism
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To: DJ MacWoW

They should take his direct text (updated with today’s number) and send it back to him. Let Obama argue with himself.

And when he does every Repub should get in front of every single microphone or TV camera they can find and point out that their responses are just Obama’s own words.


21 posted on 01/12/2012 7:37:27 PM PST by BFM (CLINTON is and always will be a rapist. Never forget!)
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To: musicman

Yeah. That’s him.


22 posted on 01/12/2012 7:40:38 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: BFM

I wish we had some congresscritters with that kind of courage.


23 posted on 01/12/2012 7:41:21 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: JoeProBono

24 posted on 01/12/2012 7:48:21 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never 'free'.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
"I wish we had some congresscritters with that kind of courage."

I Agree!!


25 posted on 01/12/2012 7:48:46 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: musicman

Too true to be funny. :-)


26 posted on 01/12/2012 8:01:31 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Thanks for taking the time to post this thread!!

I’ve “bookmarked it” and already sent it out to two friends!!

If this quote doesn’t get thrown back in Barry’s face by some reporter at “Carney’s Daily Carnival”, I’ll be really surprized.


27 posted on 01/12/2012 8:07:21 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: DJ MacWoW; FReepers; everyone; y'all
GONNA NEED ANOTHER TRILLION


**End this madness & click to help FR**

* * * *

L I A R

noun

a person who tells lies.

Synonyms

falsifier, perjurer, prevaricator.

* * * *

HYPOCRITE

noun

1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.

2. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

Synonyms

deceiver, dissembler, pretender, pharisee.


28 posted on 01/12/2012 8:11:15 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: musicman; Jean S
If this quote doesn’t get thrown back in Barry’s face by some reporter at “Carney’s Daily Carnival”, I’ll be really surprized.

I hope that it does!

And I can't take credit for posting it as Jean S suggested it.

29 posted on 01/12/2012 8:12:12 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: STARWISE

Wow!


30 posted on 01/12/2012 8:13:28 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: STARWISE

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!


31 posted on 01/12/2012 8:18:40 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: DJ MacWoW

We need every member of Congress to get up and make the same speech that then Senator Obama made in 2006. Word for word. That would set heads to explode now wouldn’t it?!


32 posted on 01/12/2012 10:09:35 PM PST by abigkahuna
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To: DJ MacWoW

Stalinists lie. In America, they prefer to be called Alinskyites.

It isn’t about making a pervasive argument or having any principles.


33 posted on 01/12/2012 10:15:46 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Candidate Barack Obama was never vetted. America is his employer, his job review sucks. End of story)
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To: manc

The scum choding socialists in the media will NOT get the write the text books that cover the past 40 years of American history. Their deceit is plain to see. Now print THAT in the textbooks.


34 posted on 01/12/2012 10:19:17 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Candidate Barack Obama was never vetted. America is his employer, his job review sucks. End of story)
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To: STARWISE

“It’s not a lie if you don’t give a damn about the truth.” - Joseph Stalin’s brother George.


35 posted on 01/12/2012 10:21:08 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Candidate Barack Obama was never vetted. America is his employer, his job review sucks. End of story)
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To: molson209



36 posted on 01/13/2012 4:46:09 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: DJ MacWoW

There is the material for an ad for the GOP, if they can find it. I’m sure video exists, although You Tube long ago took them all down.


37 posted on 01/13/2012 8:17:17 AM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: mojitojoe

I don’t know as the Republicans have the courage to use it. Honestly I don’t think so.


38 posted on 01/13/2012 8:31:24 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Gooooood video here:

DEBT LIMIT - A GUIDE TO AMERICAN FEDERAL DEBT MADE EASY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li0no7O9zmE


39 posted on 01/14/2012 8:27:36 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: molson209

“He never listens to to what he says .He has no clue what he says.”
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As strange as that sounds it does seem to be the case. He reminds me of a young punk who owned a tiny company that I accidentally found myself working for for a few months when there seemed to be no other immediate option. He lied with total abandon, seeming to have no idea of the difference between truth and lies. During my first few days of employment I quoted something he had said and a coworker who had been with the company a couple of years broke out laughing at the idea that I even took him seriously. When he realized my confusion he explained that the man was prone to say anything and everything and most of what he said he immediately forgot within the next few minutes. He would speak of elaborate plans as if he meant to follow through with them and it meant no more than if he had simply observed that the weather is nice today. I think he would have sworn in court to tell the truth and then lied about everything. When I accepted the job he listened to someone else tell me how badly they needed me right in the area where I lived, he didn’t open his mouth to say anything different. Within one month of my first day he told me that I needed to relocate because he didn’t have enough work for me where I was. I wound up leaving him and starting a business as his competitor. Obama seems to be very much the same sort except that this guy did at least manage to keep a business running, I don’t think obama has a single clue about business of any size or type.


40 posted on 01/14/2012 10:06:00 AM PST by RipSawyer (This does not end well!)
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