At a press conference today in Argentina, President Obama says that people in Boston “taught America a lesson” after the marathon bombing. He said “they grieved,” “we apprehended those who had carried this out, but a few days later folks were out shopping.”

But in 2008, he attacked President Bush for saying, following 9/11, people should shop. “Instead of a call to service, we were asked to shop.”

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