Categories: Money & The Economy

Obama on deficit in 2004: I think it’s “an enormous problem”


In 2004, Barack Obama ran for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois and stated that the deficit was “an enormous problem” and referred to then President Bush as leading “THE most fiscally irresponsible administration in certainly my memory.”  Oh the irony…

Matt Vespa

I'm a staunch Republican and a politics junkie who was recently the Executive Director for the Dauphin County Republican Committee in Harrisburg. Before that, I interned with the Republican Party of Pennsylvania in the summer of 2011 and Mary Pat Christie, First Lady of NJ, within the Office of the Governor of NJ in 2010. I was responsible for updating his personal contact list. My first political internship was with Tom Kean Jr's. U.S. Senate campaign in 2006.

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