Obama in 2006 on the Debt Ceiling Debate: Do you believe Obama 2006 or 2011?

[Soul Crusher]

Sorry... There's not much fact for why someone didn't vote for McCain here.

It's more opinion that it's the economy and not the katie couric interview... I still disagree.

You can disagree all you want - you still are not correct on this.  i know you hate sarah, and thats fine, but she helped mccain, not the other way around. 

McCain hurt himself with his bullshit in suspending the campaign, refusing to attack obama, "fundamentals of the economy", "McSame", etc etc 

She brought out the base and if she were not picked, McPOFS would have lost even worse. 

[tu_holmes]

You can disagree all you want - you still are not correct on this.  i know you hate sarah, and thats fine, but she helped mccain, not the other way around. 

McCain hurt himself with his bullshit in suspending the campaign, refusing to attack obama, "fundamentals of the economy", "McSame", etc etc 

She brought out the base and if she were not picked, McPOFS would have lost even worse. 

So you don't think the base of the republicans were voting republican anyway?

[Soul Crusher]

So you don't think the base of the republicans were voting republican anyway?

No, they would have sat home.   The base hates McCain but likes Sarah! 

MCcain was a disaster as a candidate.   

[Soul Crusher]

BUMP FOR 16 TRILLION! 

This is from a speech Obama made in 2006:


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.

Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion.That is “trillion” with a “T.” That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.

Numbers that large are sometimes hard to understand. Some people may wonder why they matter. Here is why: This year, the Federal Government will spend $220 billion on interest. That is more money to pay interest on our national debt than we’ll spend on Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. That is more money to pay interest on our debt this year than we will spend on education, homeland security, transportation, and veterans benefits combined. It is more money in one year than we are likely to spend to rebuild the devastated gulf coast in a way that honors the best of America.

And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006

[Kazan]

It's only bad when the other guy does it apparently