Quote of the decade!!

[donpeeps]

The Quote of the Decade: Confirmed TRUE by Truth or Fiction

"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 US Government cannot 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."

~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

[Crossfire]

Oh, that's going on my Facebook page...

[Teamless]

Mine too!

[RPBrown]

Oh, that's going on my Facebook page...

Just went on mine

[PUCKER]

Even snopes verified it.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/debtlimit.asp

[Jim Beaux]

The Quote of the Decade: Confirmed TRUE by Truth or Fiction

"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 US Government cannot 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."

~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

But afterwards he had a change of heart and his reason for doing so was.....

(someone 'splain what he is sayin)

In a 15 April 2011 Good Morning America interview, President Obama said this of his reasons for doing so:

I think that it's important to understand the vantage point of a senator versus the vantage point of a president. When you're a senator, traditionally what's happened is, this is always a lousy vote. Nobody likes to be tagged as having increased the debt limit — for the United States by a trillion dollars. As president, you start realizing, you know what, we, we can't play around with this stuff. This is the full faith and credit of the United States. And so that was just an example of a new senator making what is a political vote as opposed to doing what was important for the country. And I'm the first one to acknowledge it. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/debtlimit.asp

[jimlongley]

Too late, it's on my FB page.

[JJVP]

Here is what he said during the 2008 campaign.

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[XinTX]

Certainly not his ONLY flip flop.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski ... s-flip-flo