Barack Obama on credit rating downgrade: U.S. 'always will be a triple-A country'

President Barack Obama came out swinging against S&P on Monday — but Wall Street delivered an even harder 634-point punch in the gut over Washington’s handling of the debt and deficit crisis. - Feisty Obama fails to calm jittery markets - POLITICO
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