Posted on 01/28/2009 7:31:05 PM PST by Libloather
Obama worries US debt may shape legacy
Tue Jan 27, 5:21 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama told Republicans behind closed doors Tuesday that he worried about the soaring US debt because "I will be judged by the legacy I leave behind" on the economy, a source said.
Wooing lawmakers openly hostile to his stimulus plan, Obama also warned that the current recession was "different, deeper, and global," and that inaction could cause "irreparable" economic damage, said a Republican participant.
But "nobody is more worried about the deficit and the debt than me," he told Republicans who charge the 825-billion-dollar stimulus plan is far too large and packs far too little economic punch, the source told AFP.
"I will be judged by the legacy I have left behind. I don't want to leave our children with a legacy of debt. I am inheriting an annual yearly debt of over one trillion," the official quoted Obama as saying.
Obama, who had been pressed for assurances that the stimulus plan would not be an excuse to raise taxes or tolerate runaway spending, also promised that his first budget would have "a realistic approach to eliminate debt, and bring down spending."
But he also warned that the current paralyzing recession was "different, deeper, and global" and that "at the pace we are going, we are doing irreparable damage to our economy," the source said.
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If that wasteful pork bill makes it, there should be no problem!
I don't want to leave our children with a legacy of debt.
Stop spending very expensive American taxpayer money on things no one (except radical leftists) wants.
What a leader!
so we’ll find out about his BC AFTER he leaves office?legacy? roflmao
he’s such a narcissist!
Hussein Obama’s legacy will be the destruction of the USA.
Asshole. Concentrate on governing and providing inspirational leadership and the “legacy” takes care of itself. Only the world’s most immature and egotistical person would even THINK about his “legacy” on day 8 of a failed administration.
OholiO... FU
Actions speak louder than words.
He’s wrong, his legacy is secure. Zero will forever be the first elected, black empty-suit to the US presidency.
Coulter is right - libs love playing the victim role. This was just Bambi’s way of wiping the current situation off on Bush again.
8 days in he’s worrying about what people will think of him? There are few other things he should be worrying about IMO. His arrogance doesn’t allow him to worry about the job ahead of him apparently, just how it will be percieved and affect his ego.
The man wanted the job, and now he has it. Welcome him to the real world.
Behind closed doors, eh? Poor Hussein.
"I don't want to leave our children with a legacy of debt"
Yet he spends like a drunken Somali pirate.
It’s not too late Barry, to come forward with that vault birth certificate. You might could get out of the job on a technicality - if you’re not U.S.-born.
Obama only cares about himself, not the American people. His legacy, how about fixing the damn economy Obama, besides trying to make this country into a Socialist country!! Obama wants love, if he doesn’t get it, he will wither away like a prune
What a fool.
Tax and spending cuts stimulate the economy (not wealth redistribution) Oh Barak the Naive.
...and inflaming hatred toward Israel.
Closet conservative? I think not.
BINGO! “He’s such a narcissist!”
Yes
Then veto the stimulus bill
“Asshole. Concentrate on governing and providing inspirational leadership and the “legacy” takes care of itself. Only the world’s most immature and egotistical person would even THINK about his “legacy” on day 8 of a failed administration.”
This is appalling. It’s going to be a very long four years.
“I will be judged by the legacy I have left behind. I don’t want to leave our children with a legacy of debt. I am inheriting an annual yearly debt of over one trillion,” the official quoted Obama as saying.”
To sum it up....Obama is going to raise taxes shortly after he’s run the deficit up with his bloated stimulus package. This is what he is clearly saying.
So will the 0bamessiah veto the bill?
LOL!
LOL!!! This is beyond hilarious. He's so over his head, the Messiah. All things to all people, and the economy is going to fall off the cliff and he's clueless on what to do. Gotta love it
I know he’s worried about his legacy and all, but could someone tell this boy wonder when to properly use, “I” in a sentence and when to use, “me” in one?
On the eighth B. Hussein Obamamas
0bama gave to me
A pork barrel 0bama packageee
The idea Obama proposes that “irreparable damage” is occurring shows he is way over his pay grade.
Of course there are solutions to repair the current economic crisis(Reagan faced far worse)- the fact that he doesn’t have the political courage to stand up to the special interests and actually enact them is his own personal shortcoming.
0Bama; too big to fail...
Is Obama a Wuss?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Does a Bear poop in the woods?
etc....
The combine Pacific and Atlantic oceans couldn’t float this guy’s ego!
the title of that thread screams narcissism- the dude is in office less than 2wks? roflmao
“I will be judged by the legacy I have left behind.”
* * * *
Then quit now while you still have some sheeple who still believe in your cult.
To BHO:
As your predecessors have learned time and time again; getting elected was the easy part.
LOL!!! This is beyond hilarious. He's so over his head, the Messiah. All things to all people, and the economy is going to fall off the cliff and he's clueless on what to do. Gotta love it
He’s out to destroy us as a super power, period.
NWO.
These are the people that the Liberal God and Liberals in the US Congress wish to sell out:
I received this in an email this morning from my cousin:
My son came home from Gaza just a few minutes ago. He came home as we had sent him off, only more tired, worn and dirty. Thank you Hashem for bringing him home. To his
wife, his brothers and sisters and his loving brood of nieces and nephews. All of us have been waiting patiently these past three weeks to hold him in our arms. Barely able to wait to embrace him, I ran across the highway where his ride had dropped him off. I grabbed him in the middle of the road and cars driving into my yishuv had to veer around this sight of me standing on tiptoes reaching for my tall, handsome son’s face. The drivers waved at us. A few rolled down heir windows to say “todah — thank you” to my son. I whispered Todah again to Hashem. I helped him toss his heavy bags into the trunk of the car. The heaviest among them being the one weighted down with foodstuffs that Israel’s citizens sent to our soldiers. Tens of thousands of kilograms of food poured into the bases in the south. Cartons upon cartons of instant soups, nuts, pretzels, cookies and nosh of every kind. All sent by individuals, families, schools and businesses from throughout the country. We could barely lift his ‘booty’ and we both shared a laugh as we flung it onto the back seat. The words that had been in my heart for so long melted on my tongue. My eyes drank him in, tall, bearded now and his face and soul, a bit darker than before he left us that Sunday morning. He reached his hand to his head and apologized for the fact that he was bareheaded. In the midst of everything his kippa had fallen off. “No matter — easy enough to replace,” I said as his hand slipped into mine. I reached up to grab his neck and felt his lips touch my cheek, and I knew that his presence, like this, was all that I had prayed for each day since he packed his bags and left before the sun even rose that cold morning. I pulled in front of his apartment, a few kilometers from my home, and as we descended the steps I heard him speak gently and lovingly with his wife at work, telling her how anxious he was to see her. He turned on the boiler and laughingly told me “I’m not getting out of this shower for the next hour.” The bags fell to the floor and he leaned against the kitchen counter to untie his boots swiftly flinging them aside and letting his bare feet rest on the tile floor. He was exhausted and I hesitated to start with the barrage of questions that had been streaming through my head every day, every hour for these past few weeks. He smiled as he opened the bag of goodies and told me about the elementary school children from Mevasseret Zion who had attached notes with their gifts. He spoke with three of them to thank them personally. One child wrote a three page letter and the soldiers in my son’s unit were grateful to learn more of this 8-year old’s daily life, his favorite subjects and his fondness for playstation. When they called to speak with him, he was overwhelmed and kept calling them “gibborim” heroes. “Ima” he said, “I’m tired now, but I have to tell you how extraordinary this nation is. The children who wrote to us, the people who sent their good wishes with their packages of food, the businesses that sent truckloads of goods. The soldiers I served with, each one caring deeply about the other one. Zahal who made sure that we were well trained and well equipped for our mission. But mostly, this was a war that was guided by the Hand of G’d. Everyday we felt His presence — whether deciding to enter a building by smashing down the back wall rather than entering through the front door, only to discover that the front door had been booby trapped, or searching rooms in a house and uncovering a tunnel under a bed we had lifted where tens of Hamas terrorists were hiding in the hopes of kidnapping one of us, or dozens more stories.” I looked at this child’s face and saw the extraordinary young man he had become. Filled with faith. Feeling a passion for those values that have held this nation together for thousands of years. And, his very presence. His very modesty. His deep felt pride at being part of this nation. All of this wrapped around my heart and left me humbled. Humbled and grateful. “And I will lift up my eyes unto the mountains, from where my strength will come.” From: Ilene Bloch-Levy,
The Messiah wants to ram his economic stimulus package thru based on the assumption that the economy will improve in the Fall so he can take credit for it.
The House Republicans think the economy will continue to tank for the next couple of years. So they will vote against the Messiah’s proposals in vain. Thus allowing the Dems to completely own the poor economy.
The question is who is correct?
Oh, my. The twelve days of Hussein.
I'll take the Pubbies gamble, myself.
It’s about meeeee!!
It's now okay to print the word God.
Let's see what the Senate RINOs do now. ...MeCain and his Mimi-Me?
That’s what you get when you spend $1 trillion in pork barrel.
answering the tuff questions...
Thank you for pinging me to this!
“I will be judged by the legacy I leave behind”
You will be judged a lot sooner than that, Kenyan.
Malignant narcissism.
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