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In related news, another turnaround:

In 2006 on the Senate floor:

“Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren,” Obama said in a 2006 floor speech that preceded a Senate vote to extend the debt limit. “America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”

Obama later joined his Democratic colleagues in voting en bloc against raising the debt increase.

Today:

Now Obama is asking Congress to raise the debt ceiling, something lawmakers are almost certain to do despite misgivings about the federal debt. The ceiling already has been hiked three times in the past two years, and the House took action earlier this year to raise the ceiling to $13 trillion.


http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/57493-senate-must-raise-debt-ceiling-above-12t

I'd say his statement back in 2006 is true today:

“America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”