“[Rep. Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.)] said she had ‘very little tolerance for people who tell me they graduate with debt because there’s no reason for that,’” Obama told the students at UNC Chapel Hill. “I’m just quoting here, I’m just quoting.”
“She said students who rack up student loan debt are just ‘sitting on their butts having opportunity dumped in your lap,” he added. “I’m reading it here. So I didn’t make this up.”
But the full Foxx quote is very different.
“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that,” Foxx said last week, per the Huffington Post. (Emphasis mine.)
Of course Obama makes Rep. Foxx look like a raving lunatic, seemingly going after anyone who has taken out college loans. And it should be noted that whenever President Obama goes out of his way to tell everyone that he is "just quoting" and that he "didn't make this up," that's exactly what he is doing. Somewhere, Bill Clinton is smiling.
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