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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
from 2006:
In 2006, Mr. Obama struck a high moral tone in opposing legislation to raise the debt ceiling. “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,” he said on the Senate floor.
Harry Reid---ditto
Why is it right to increase our nation's dependence on foreign creditors?” Reid said on March 16, 2006. “Democrats won't be making an argument to support this legalization, which will weaken our country.
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I did see that. I thought you were talking about a more recent flip-flop.
No good explanation on that one. The best Obama can do is to say that he was young and foolish then.
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...How can anyone trust anything they say, or even the reasons they give--They are shown to be pure political animals--unfit to lead or govern.
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That's a stretch. By that standard, who would be left to run the country?
Fortunately, we don't have to rely on them to know that we should not play games with the debt ceiling. It was wrong then and it is even wronger now because of our precarious economic situation.