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![Barack Obama - "[It's] not a lack of plans or policies that's the problem here. It's a lack of political will in Washington. It's the insistence on drawing lines in the sand, a refusal to put what's best for the country ahead of self-interest or party or ideology. And that’s what we need to change," President Obama said in response to Standard & Poor's downgrade of the nation's credit.](https://images.paramount.tech/uri/mgid:arc:imageassetref:shared.bet.us:91b700b6-4918-11e7-a442-0e40cf2fc285?quality=0.7&gen=ntrn)
![Barack Obama - "If in November [American voters] feel like I've been on their side, and I have been working as hard as I can and I've been getting some things done to move us in the right direction, I'll win. If they don’t then I'll lose," Obama said when asked who in the Republican field can beat him. "And that's not to say the other candidate is irrelevant. But it does mean I'll probably win or lose based on their assessment of my stewardship."](https://images.paramount.tech/uri/mgid:arc:imageassetref:shared.bet.us:aa9f12fe-491b-11e7-a442-0e40cf2fc285?quality=0.7&gen=ntrn)
