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Comment on The U.S. Is Downgraded, and Obama Will Be Too by Bentley H. Boyer
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For the first time, the creditworthiness of the United States has been called into question by an independent entity, Standard and Poor’s, which has downgraded the country’s credit rating from AAA to AA+.
This is a grinding battle that will lead to an intellectual and ideological stalemate.
But the ideological stalemate does not mean the political fallout will be evenly distributed.
This is a colossal disaster for Barack Obama, and anybody who says otherwise is kidding himself or trying to spin you.
We know that the election of 2012 is going to be fought on jobs, the economy, and the wisdom of health care.