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>In related news, another turnaround:
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>In 2006 on the Senate floor:
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>“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.”
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>Obama later joined his Democratic colleagues in voting en bloc against raising the debt increase.
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>Today:
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>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.
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>http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/57493-senate-must-raise-debt-ceiling-above-12t
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>I'd say his statement back in 2006 is true today:
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>“America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.”

Don't you things have changed a little since 2006? If the government had not poured so much money into the economy starting a year ago I think we would be a lot worse off than we are now.

It surprises me (although maybe it shouldn't) that our politics remain as polarized as they were for the past 16 years. The conservative backlash against Obama's speech to school children today is a perfect example. People keeping their kids home so they don't have to hear it, saying Obama is trying to push a socialist agenda. A draft of the speech has been released and there is no socialist or any other agenda other than "stay in school." How can that be objectionable? But it is. If he said the sun rises in the east there would be some who would rant and rave about it.