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Obama's $5 Trillion Moment

CaptainMike Wrote: Apr 19, 2012 6:06 PM
Just a thought, when a president leaves office there’s a presidential library built in remembrance of their service. When Obama has his presidential library built will there be a debt clock installed to let everyone know how he screwed up the economy?
Anonymous9838 Wrote: Apr 19, 2012 7:38 PM
He has had all his personal papers sealed from the public. What's the point of a library?
Frank98 Wrote: Apr 19, 2012 6:25 PM
The LIEbrary will be built in Mombasa
homernoble Wrote: Apr 19, 2012 6:08 PM
An Obama library? All he has are two ghost written books, neither of which is worth reading.
CaptainMike Wrote: Apr 19, 2012 6:14 PM
Homernoble,
I agree, but this man has a super inflated ego that he’s going to have a library built. I wouldn’t past him if he made his birthday a national holiday.
Olbermann's Bath Tub Wrote: Apr 19, 2012 6:22 PM
THE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HIS BIRTHDAY ACTUALLY IS. DEPENDS ON WHICH BIRTH CERTIFICATE YOU GO BY.

I buried this item at the bottom of my early morning post on Romney's rhetoric, but I think this staggering milestone merits a separate post.  The Obama legacy:
 

In the 39 months since Barack Obama took the oath of office as president of the United States, the federal government’s debt has increased by $5,027,761,476,484.56. Although he has served less than a term, Obama is now the first American president to see the federal government's debt increase by more than $5 trillion during his time in office. During the full eight years that George W....

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