A very John Kerry-like Barack Obama was against raising the debt limit before he was in favor of it. It’s all excusable, of course, because he was against it when George Bush was for it, which is like a Papal dispensation to Democrat flipfloppers.
The Associated Press tells the story of the President’s press secretary twisting himself into knots in an attempt to explain away the Presidential contradiction:
The White House says President Barack Obama regrets his vote as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt limit.
A fight over raising the debt limit is looming, and the White House is trying to explain away the apparent contradiction between Obama’s previous opposition, and his position now that it must be increased.
Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Obama believes his vote was a mistake. He said Obama now realizes that the debt ceiling is too important to be trifled with.
Can we all accept this as an admission that he trifled with it back in 2006?
Source: Associated Press
