Obama Compares Debt Situation To Getting Stuck With Dinner Tab

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President Obama compared the situation of inheriting debt from President George W. Bush to being left with someone else’s restaurant bill at a fundraiser in Baltimore Tuesday.

From the pool report:

“It’s like somebody goes to a restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, a martini, all that stuff, and then just as you’re sitting down they leave and accuse you of running up the tab!”

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