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Audacity of Truth
"Diplomacy":
"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
Senator Obama calls Pres. Obama “unpatriotic” for adding trillions to national debt
Confused? Don’t be. First, the CNS write-up:
(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.
However, in less than three years in office, Obama has driven up the national debt by $4 trillion himself.
Here’s video of then-candidate-for-President Senator Obama slamming Bush on the national debt issue:
I’m trying very hard here to figure out whether or not there is anything this guy said on the campaign trail about his political opposition that he has not done a complete 180 on since he was elected. Nope. Nothing comes to mind.
Peter Kirsanow quips:
Is [Obama's raising the national debt by $4 trillion] irresponsible? Is it unpatriotic? Or do the new rules regarding civility in public discourse render such questions (especially when uttered by Tea Partiers/terrorists) irresponsible and unpatriotic?
Heh.
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The only position that I can think of that he has not reversed is the statement that energy prices must necessarily skyrocket. So he is presiding over a doubling of gas prices, slowing and slalling oil and gas development in this country, closing of nuclear and coal power plants all on his march to price energy so high that green energy becomes feasible.
Btw, these policies disproportionately harm the poor and lower class and squeeze the middle class. Not that he seems to care about anyone but himself in the slightest.
Obama and democrats in congress have trillionized our latest budget deficits. Thankfully, “inflation” isn’t keeping with inflation! I suppose if all those rising prices were taken into account, then prices would actually be going up. Thankfully we’re not doing that. What a relief.
I sure wish the government was honest enough to give a real accounting of prices. Heck, they just count the everyday stuff, knowing fuel and food prices have gone through the roof (have you priced mayo lately? Two years ago you could find a 32 oz bottle on sale for $1.79, now a 30 oz bottle is over $3.50!).
Of course Obhammud is happy with that because it prevents his energy policies from being blasted into next year because of what is in reality inflation nearly as bad as Peanut Cawtuh’s.
And he will not give a rat’s patootie about anything until 1) he needs someone’s vote or 2) he’s missing his specially imported French cheese.
Is this Obama’s YouTube Waterloo?
http://politicalclownparade.blogspot.com/2011/08/king-of-debt.html
@ Carlos, et al: I’m beginning to notice that some of my favorite eating establishments are holding fast to their long-standing prices. Are any of you seeing something similar in your locales? In some respects, it is nearing the point that it may cost the same to take a meal at your favorite restaurant as it would if you purchased the same from the shelves of your favorite grocery store and prepared it at home. The downside is that eventually these restauranteurs will need to respond to inflation and it will hurt their revenue.
@H Hazell: excluding fast food joints, I’ve noticed that, too, except that they make up a little of that with slightly smaller portions (OK with me because being fat and old doesn’t look good) and slightly slower service because they’ve cut back on wait staff (not so OK with me, but I understand the economics of it).
A new joke going around is that Presidents Day is the day Obama steps out of the WH. If he sees his shadow we will have another year of severe unemployment.