Of course, if you look up in the dictionary you'll find that deficit and debt are distinct words:
debit: something that is owed or that one is bound to pay
to or perform for another
deficit: the amount by which expenditures or liabilities
exceed income or assets
The Federal deficit was about $1.4T when Obama started and its about $600B now. Obama has been very fiscally conservative. In particular, he put the Afghanistan and Iraq wars on normal rather than emergency funding basis.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.ht...