Quote Of The Day – Obama Was Against Raising The Debt Limit Before He Was For It Edition

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… America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.

Senator Barack Obama on March 20, 2006 (via NRO) addressing raising the debt ceiling during the Bush administration. He spoke today on the debt ceiling and miraculously found no fault in his leadership and danced around his votes against raising the debt ceiling when he was a Senator. Here’s video of that exchange with Major Garrett today:

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Posted by Doug Johnson on January 14, 2013.
Filed under Barack Obama.
Doug Johnson is a news junkie and long time blog reader, turned author.

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