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Obama’s past comes back to haunt him on debt

By Washington Examiner
Published September 5, 2016 4:01am ET
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Obama’s past comes back to haunt him on debt
Barack Obama was right in 2006 that the large increase in the national debt was a failure of leadership. Now, more than 10 years later, the president should look in the mirror and accept blame for having made the problem a whole lot worse. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) | CHARLES REX ARBOGAST

As a senator, President Obama famously said in 2006, “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.” He criticized President George W. Bush for presiding over a $3.5 trillion increase in national debt during his first five years in office.

What does it say about Obama that the national debt has now risen by $8.9 trillion during his presidency?

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