Adding $4 trillion to the national debt in four years is unpatriotic, so President Obama didn’t.

Instead, he drove it up $5 billion.

Via Insty, some old footage from 2008:

A partial transcript:

“Driving up our national debt from five trillion dollars… the first 42 presidents – number 43 added four trillion dollars by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back… that’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.”

Previously:

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