Barack Obama actually said...

You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and have nothing to do with the debt.

Context

Obama denounces the use of the debt ceiling as a means of political leverage.

09/17/2013

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