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This is why many Americans hate politics.
The young senator from Illinois presumably did not want to buck the rest of his party establishment in voting for increasing the debt limit — not when there were just enough Republicans willing to support a president from their own party. But Obama would be on much more solid ground today if he had given a speech back in 2006 that sounded more like his news conference in 2013.
For making an argument that the president now decries as politics, he earns the upside-down Pinocchio, signifying a major-league flip-flop. (We have rarely given this ruling, but are eager for other examples from readers.)
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.
I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.
ownbestenemy
reply to post by Bassago
It is, just review the Congressional Record for that day. March 16, 2006 Congressional Record
Senator Obama:
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.
That sounds familiar no?
I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.
Those were his word on the floor of the Senate....
Maluhia
But, no one will know (or remember) because NO ONE in the MSM will call him on it.