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Ari Fleischer: “Barack Obama has a similar flip-flop problem. It's not only on those issues when he was a senator he said that we…”

On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
Barack Obama has a similar flip-flop problem. It's not only on those issues when he was a senator he said that we shouldn't raise the debt limit and then of course he voted against it. And then when he became president he said we have to raise the debt limit.
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Ari Fleischer
Republican · New York

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Fleischer points out Obama's inconsistent positions on key issues.

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