President Obama

[fetusfacedwindbag]

So the statement that the "deficit was alive and well" is BS.

Oh really? How about this: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

or this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

or this: http://www.marktaw.com/culture_and_media...lDebt.html

We already had this discussion on this very board here: http://fbhw.proboards47.com/index.cgi?bo...1364#29877

Now as to a budget deficit, yes, he eliminated that BY RAISING TAXES (THE HIGHEST EVER TAX RAISE) AND CUTTING MILITARY SPENDING.

The federal deficit was alive and well. They are two different things completely.

I'm saying this and trying to stay out of the argument that I don't know Paul Harvey's half of the story:

I'll read up on this a little more in a few (very busy right now), but can you give the reader's digest version? It seems like you're saying that Bill Clinton had a budget surplus and other presidents before and after him didn't, but he did it by cutting military spending and raising taxes. It seems to me that you're also implying that in order to have your accomplishments considered (for lack of a better term...ummm can't think of one) accomplished, Clinton would have had to have turned the FEDERAL deficit turn into a surplus. Wow. Because that would seem like it would take a miracle worker considering the size. Ok. Correct me. (I really don't know what I'm talking about here and I'm not being sarcastic or trying to stoke the fire)