Here’s a complete video of President Barack Obama’s televised comments tonight on the debit ceiling limit crisis. Rather than tell you what we thought it meant, watch it for yourself and draw your own conclusions. And feel free to leave them in comments:
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Here’s the text of the speech as prepared for delivery.
And here’s Speaker of the House John Boehner’s rebuttal comments. Again, watch it and draw your own conclusions and feel free to leave them in comments:
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Here’s the text of the speech as prepared for delivery.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.