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President Obama Visits Flint and Drinks Their Water

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Four months after he declared a state of emergency in Flint over its toxic water crisis, Barack Obama’s first visit to the Michigan city. The president’s address to a restive crowd he called “feisty” included an obligatory sip of Flint water. “This isn’t a stunt,” Obama insisted, while stressing that people could drink the water, if it is properly filtered.But rather than focus on the practicalities of rebuilding Flint’s water infrastructure two years after a fateful decision was made to switch the supply to the Flint river, without treating it for lead, Obama railed against the “corrosive attitude” that government should remove itself from people’s lives. “This myth that government is always the enemy; that forgets that our government is us. It’s us, that it’s an extension of us, ourselves,”

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