Obama Attempts to Spin Himself as Deficit Hawk

2009 May 15
by Kelly Estes

Anyone else incredulous at the political cajones of Pres. Barack Obama in proclaiming that the U.S. needs to stop racking up debt?

This from Obama — who has spent trillions of U.S. dollars in the short time he has been in office.

From Bloomberg.com:

“President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

Did Obama steal that line about mortgaging our children’s future from the Republicans? Gasp. Isn’t that what the minority in Congress, and the outraged American taxpayers have been shouting to Obama? Now Obama is attempting to position himself as the Deficit Hawk?

What do you make of Obama’s attempt to portray himself as a fiscally responsible president?

Will Americans fall for Obama's spinning himself as a Debt/Deficit Hawk?

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