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		<title>Obama&#8217;s advice to Dublin High: &#8216;Play defense.&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dublin mayor Tim Sbranti posted this to Facebook a few minutes ago: Just attended a U.S Mayors&#8217; Conference reception at the White House. It was very crowded and I only had about 5-10 seconds of President Obama&#8217;s attention. Knowing that he&#8217;s a basketball player in his spare time, I asked him to give one bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama to visit Bay Area next month</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama will visit the Bay Area next month, a White House official said this morning. The President is expected to visit Seattle before coming to the Bay Area on Sunday, Sept. 25. He&#8217;ll then visit the San Diego area and the Los Angeles area on Monday, Sept. 26, and the Denver area on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What they&#8217;re saying about Robert Byrd</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., Congress’ longest-serving member ever, died early this morning at age 92. From U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif: “The Senate has lost a giant and America has lost a real fighter for our working families. “Robert Byrd’s eloquence during his amazing tenure in the Senate will forever be a testament to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doves say ditch the war, not just the general</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bay Area Congressional delegation’s two biggest doves said today that President Barack Obama’s dismissal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan (following the general’s and his aides&#8217; critical remarks about the Administration in Rolling Stone) should be only the start. “What is needed in Afghanistan is a change of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California gets foreclosure-prevention funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Housing Finance Agencies (HFAs) in California and four other states can start using $1.5 billion in “Hardest Hit Fund” foreclosure-prevention funding under plans approved by the Obama Administration, the Treasury Department announced this morning. President Obama established the fund in February to provide targeted aid to families in the states hit hardest by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did you think of the President&#8217;s BP speech?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it yesterday&#8230; I&#8217;ve posted a transcript after the jump. I&#8217;m curious to know what people thought about the speech, particularly given today&#8217;s breaking news that BP has tentatively agreed to create a $20 billion fund to pay claims, to be independently administered by the same mediator who oversaw the 9/11 victims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aren&#8217;t elephants supposed to have thick skins?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/06/02/arent-elephants-supposed-to-have-thick-skins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Republican Leader John Boehner’s office just sent me a link to a blog item just published by The Hill regarding President Barack Obama’s speech today in Pittsburgh: President Barack Obama is “diminishing” the U.S. presidency through his rhetoric against Republicans, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) charged Wednesday. Boehner ripped a speech by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About the worker kerfuffle at Solyndra</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/05/26/about-the-worker-kerfuffle-at-solyndra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 23:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KRON-TV reported today that union construction workers had been told to stay home today, losing a day’s pay, due to President Barack Obama’s visit to Fremont-based Solyndra Inc.’s not-yet-completed manufacturing plant. The Republican National Committee and Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee jumped all over it &#8212; &#8220;Obama should be more focused on helping Californians get back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pete Stark, on what the President didn&#8217;t say</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 21:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, didn’t accompany President Barack Obama to a Recovery Act-supported solar panel manufacturing plant in his district today because he was stuck on Capitol Hill amid a steady flow of bills this week. But he weighed in this afternoon on what the President did and didn’t say about making clean energy a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s speech, verbatim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 19:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve filed my article on the President&#8217;s speech this morning at Solyndra Inc. in Fremont, and I&#8217;ll be adding to it shortly. But if you&#8217;d like to read it exactly as it was said, take a gander after the jump&#8230; Thank you. Everybody please have a seat. (Applause.) It is wonderful to be here and [...]]]></description>
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