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Quote from Obama. "We don't have a spending problem."

Posted: Jan 7, 2013

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How can they ridicule you? - pek

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Obama actually did say that.

Well, I do say... - RC

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When you make a statement and follow it up with "waiting for ridicule," you're kind of inviting it by bringing it up in the first place. And also, it's a bit...martyrish.

Anyway, back to the topic. What was the context?

From the Wall Street Journal, a few paragraphs - backwards typist

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Some on this board will probably say, "Well, Boehner's a liar" but I disagree. I'm pretty sure I saw a video of a speech in which Obama said it in his first term, but I don't have time to look for it.

"What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during his prolonged closed-door budget negotiations with Barack Obama was this revelation: "At one point several weeks ago," Mr. Boehner says, "the president said to me, 'We don't have a spending problem.' "

I am talking to Mr. Boehner in his office on the second floor of the Capitol, 72 hours after the historic House vote to take America off the so-called fiscal cliff by making permanent the Bush tax cuts on most Americans, but also to raise taxes on high earners. In the interim, Mr. Boehner had been elected to serve his second term as speaker of the House. Throughout our hourlong conversation, as is his custom, he takes long drags on one cigarette after another.

Mr. Boehner looks battle weary from five weeks of grappling with the White House. He's frustrated that the final deal failed to make progress toward his primary goal of "making a down payment on solving the debt crisis and setting a path to get real entitlement reform." At one point he grimly says: "I need this job like I need a hole in the head."

The president's insistence that Washington doesn't have a spending problem, Mr. Boehner says, is predicated on the belief that massive federal deficits stem from what Mr. Obama called "a health-care problem." Mr. Boehner says that after he recovered from his astonishment—"They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system"—he replied: "Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is about to get worse with ObamaCare. But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem." He repeated this message so often, he says, that toward the end of the negotiations, the president became irritated and said: "I'm getting tired of hearing you say that."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323482504578225620234902106.html

Thanks, BT - RC

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Well, I don't know if Boehner is a liar, but it would be nice to know what Obama said it in response to.

I'm afraid I agree. I just searched 4 pages of google - hits and didn't find this verified by even

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one reputable journal. The right wing smear machine was extremely well represented, however. I also would like to understand what conversation this supposedly continued.

I'm sure you agree there's reason to hold off opinion on this, and to be suspicious. After all, there are literally dozens of examples where the President is accused of saying or meaning something he did not.

Isn't that interesting? - just

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Only what you call "right-wing smear machine" sites verified the quote, but the left-wing dodge-cover-ignore machine had no comment. If it were a false quote, the left would have been shouting it from the rooftops, don't you think?

No, they did not. And shouting at every lie and distortion - would require devoting our lives to it.nm

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When will you people learn? MSM simply (sm) - Observer to this thread

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DOES NOT REPORT anything that might look bad for The One. Why they protect him like this, I have no idea, but as you can see, even a little comment like that is kept hidden. This is the main reason, IMO, why this country is in such serious trouble, IF Obama has any nefarious intentions.

and dozens where he actually did and it wasn't reported. - Wise up.

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Would you please do the entire quote so we can - discuss it? Thanks. nm

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Boehner made the quote, quoting the President. - bootstraps

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I can't find the full context of the quote either. Boehner said Obama said it. What backward typist linked is all I'm finding in one form or another. But no official transcription of the meeting.

We all know how "we didn't build that" was used out of context, so I'm reluctant to take seriously something that is hearsay without the full context.

I agree. Especially because on its own out of context - no one would say and mean it. nm

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Closed door meetings aren't even entered into the - Congressional record unless

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the relevant chamber votes to allow them to be recorded. Yeah, like that's gonna happen. Why should they do that when Boehner can conduct WSJ interviews, report only his side of the story and basically say whatever he pleases, knowing full well there is no way to verify his claims one way or the other?

On the other hand, since this has only received attention from regularly discredited winger sites and media outlets, the best they can hope to gain is coverage of a useless non-issue no one can take seriously in the absence of the full context, especially considering how much of a beating their overall credibility has taken of late.

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