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From NBC's Athena Jones





After his whirlwind trip through Europe and Turkey, the Obama administration today kept the focus on domestic issues, touching on veterans health care, housing, child care, and vaccinations.Flanked by Defense Secretary</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888009</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:45:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888009</guid><dc:creator>Malcom, East Tennessee</dc:creator><description>Obama: &amp;quot;Too many who once wore our nation's uniform now sleep in our nation's streets. It's time to change all that.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It will change all right. With Obama's spending and tax plans, soon all of us will be sleeping on the streets.</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888016</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:47:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888016</guid><dc:creator>Your bush excuse is worn out</dc:creator><description>And reporters tried to get Obama to respond to the pirate issue and he refused to answer. &amp;nbsp;Sounds like he doesn't even care about that brave captain that sacrificed himself for his crew. &amp;nbsp;Obama is too busy sacrificing his country for himself. &lt;br&gt;Keep the Change (Sent Thursday, April 09, 2009 2:53 PM) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And Bush would have?????? &lt;br&gt;eagle1776 (Sent Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:30 PM)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;-----------------------------------&lt;br&gt;eagle, yes - there is no doubt in my mind that Bush would have answered the reporters. &amp;nbsp;There is no doubt in my mind that Bush would have cared deeply about the captain.</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888018</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:48:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888018</guid><dc:creator>Capital Zero</dc:creator><description>Obama doesn't really have a clue now does he? You can't take advantage of low interest rates if all your capital, all your wealth, has dissappeared. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama hasn't redistributed the wealth. He's destroyed it.</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888022</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:50:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888022</guid><dc:creator>Sal, San Jose California</dc:creator><description>States are already fed up with the so called stimulus plan. Many government agencies in California have given up trying to get any money. There is so much red tape to getting the money from the feds to the state and local governments, it's not even worth the effort.</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888023</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:51:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888023</guid><dc:creator>eagle1776</dc:creator><description>Veterans deserve the best we can offer. The VA system has become old and despicable. This didn't happen over night it took decades. There seem to be places that money comes from when politicians need money for pet projects and those include Social Security and Veterans Benefits. It is time to restore both and show that we truly do care about our veterans and our elderly. Both have contributed so much to this great land of ours. They need our gratitude and improving the VA medical system and Social Security are major steps in the right direction. Healthcare in general also is important for a strong and vibrant nation. When we can't afford it, for whatever reason, we have a nation of sick people unable to compete in a global market. </description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888027</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:52:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888027</guid><dc:creator>Please - No More Change - We Can't Afford It</dc:creator><description>There is a lot of &amp;quot;Largest funding increases ever&amp;quot; parts to Obama's budget. Soon to be followed by the &amp;quot;Largest tax increases ever&amp;quot;.</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888043</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:05:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888043</guid><dc:creator>Keep the Change</dc:creator><description>Why do parents need daycare for their children if they have no jobs to go to? WHERE ARE THE JOBS OBAMA PROMISED???!?!?!?</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888089</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:53:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888089</guid><dc:creator>Julie, Palm Desert, CA</dc:creator><description>Let's see, our County offices that were closed every other Friday are now open again every day. &amp;nbsp;Several infrastructure projects that were cancelled are starting back up again and all of those means JOBS. &amp;nbsp;And how is it Obama's fault that Wall Street melted down. &amp;nbsp;It melted down on Bush's watch. &amp;nbsp;And guess what, Wells Fargo reported PROFIT. &amp;nbsp;And my taxed went down a bit not as much at Obama wanted but REPUBLICAN'S WOULD NOT LET HIM GIVE THE MIDDLE CLASS THE TAX BREAK HE WANTED. &amp;nbsp;They made him lower it. Because they hate the middle class.</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888093</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:57:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888093</guid><dc:creator>The Truth</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;...various mortgage programs that have been put in place.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What did you do with all the money Quick Loan Funding gave you ? &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888113</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:24:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888113</guid><dc:creator>Caroline, Wyoming</dc:creator><description>People, seriously it's been four months, give him a little bit of a break. Remember how long it took to get into this mess, fixes don't happen overnight. If they did, everyone would live in mansions and drive porches... we don't.</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888141</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:51:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888141</guid><dc:creator>Not only ACORN is nuts</dc:creator><description>Our Chia Pet head Obama, is now asking 83 million for troop funding. that he opposed 2 years ago, Spin this you left wing america haters</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888142</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:51:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888142</guid><dc:creator>MSierra, SF</dc:creator><description>Sal, San Jose California: '... Many government agencies in California have given up trying to get any money. There is so much red tape to getting the money from the feds to the state and local governments, it's not even worth the effort...'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;WHICH AGENCIES, Sal ?&lt;br&gt;The Bureau of funny Walks ??&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I HAVEN'T HEARD A THING About Agencies 'giving up' on stimulus money&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Any FACTS to back up your statement ???&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lay off the Booze, Sal&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888181</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:30:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888181</guid><dc:creator>JTatEHT</dc:creator><description>Obama has inherited the worse economy since the great depression and has a range of progressive policies (e.g. affordable Health Care) that he wants to implement. Politically impossible? Not if he starts by reforming Health Care for our Veterans! Irrespective of one's politics, it is great to have a President who is intelligent (not George W Bush) and who has no serious psychological problems (not Bill Clinton). Yes!!!!</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888201</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:53:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888201</guid><dc:creator>john roberts, Portland,Or.</dc:creator><description>Why on Earth would any Political figure want to reward &amp;quot;Illegal entry&amp;quot; into this country, enheritely to gain the Hispanic vote?? Most any U.S. citisen wouldn't configure a reasonable theroy that rewards employee's as well as illegal &amp;quot;Felons,&amp;quot;with robbing jobs from established buisness's &amp;amp; employers from centuries of &amp;quot;Down-Economic&amp;quot; times. this system allows those of higher wage jobs, to survive untill better financial times return. </description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888202</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:54:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888202</guid><dc:creator>john roberts, Portland,Or.</dc:creator><description>ME</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888233</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:32:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888233</guid><dc:creator>peter pan </dc:creator><description>remember king obama said that the jobs which went overseas would stay there because americans would not do those jobs. he is getting ready to make all of the illegals us citizens so they can draw your ss welfare and food stamps and vote dumocrat party with you </description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888282</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:29:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888282</guid><dc:creator>Pam Leech,Mobile, Al</dc:creator><description>Joe Biden never made the comment to President Bush, &amp;quot; Look behind you, there are no followers&amp;quot;. &amp;nbsp;He is such a blabber mouth. &amp;nbsp;Nobody would ever say that to any leader of the country. &amp;nbsp;LOL! &amp;nbsp;What a fool Biden is!</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888286</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:32:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888286</guid><dc:creator>Pam Leech,Mobile, Al</dc:creator><description>Joe Biden never made the comment to President Bush, &amp;quot; Look behind you, there are no followers&amp;quot;. &amp;nbsp;He is such a blabber mouth. &amp;nbsp;Nobody would ever say that to any leader of the country. &amp;nbsp;LOL! &amp;nbsp;What a fool Biden is!</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888288</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:35:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888288</guid><dc:creator>Change Takes Time</dc:creator><description>Change takes time... it took a decade to get into this mess; and eight years of TOTAL DENIAL -- change isn't going to happen over night. WAKE UP -- it'll take at least ten years to get back to a reasonably stable economy...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you've got a better solution -- I'm sure the world would love to hear it... BE PART OF A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER, don't stand on the side lines and complain.</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888293</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:40:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888293</guid><dc:creator>leon     houston</dc:creator><description>obama really could have been a great president. instead, he chose to follow the bush model and feel the pain of the poor rich like aig,boa, citi, and wall street instead of the dying middle class. we are on the brink of extinction and his response is to give aig 100 more billion. yes, it may get old, but every head of household taxpayer within a 20,000-150.000 dollar range could have gotten a 32,000 stimulus check for less than just wall street(500 billion) and it would have been a lot more effective. instead, the rich get richer and just sit on the money.there are still old money families like the bushes making money, while the middle class can't even afford our health insurance.</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888346</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:23:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888346</guid><dc:creator>SHERRY HULL, EUREKA, CA</dc:creator><description>COME ON PEOPLE WAKE UP........THIS COUNTRY IS IN A MESS THE LARGEST MESS IN GENERATIONS. IT TOOK 30 YRS TO GET THIS WAY BECAUSE THE GOOD OL BOY REPUBLICANS AND MONEY GRUBBING CLINTON DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE CITIZENS THEY ONLY CARED ABOUT THEIR ONE BANK ACCOUNTS. &lt;br&gt;IT TOOK MANY YEARS TO SCREW THINGS UP THE PRESIDENT CAN'T FIX IT OVER NIGHT NO MATTER WHO HE IS. OBAMA IS DOING WHAT IT TAKES TO FIX THE YEARS OF PRESIDENTS NOT SEEING, MORE LIKE NOT CARING, WHAT WAS WRONG W/ OUR COUNTRY. IT WILL TAKE YEARS TO FIX IT. BUT AT LEAST HE IS DOING SOMETHING. HE IS STARTING AND WE ALL SEE (IF U WOULD STOP BITCHING LONG ENOUGH &amp;amp; OPEN YOUR EYES)IT ALREADY. THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER SLOWLY. &lt;br&gt;I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU PEOPLE DIDN'T BITCH ABOUT HOW BUSH RAN THIS COUNTRY INTO THE GROUND AND THEN SOME BUT YOU ATTACK A PRESIDENT ON DAY ONE WHEN HE IS TRYING TO FIX THE PROBLEMS BUSH 1&amp;amp;2, CLINTON, CARTER, FORD, REAGAN MADE.....IT TOOK 30 YRS (&amp;amp; TWO BUSHES) TO SCREW UP THIS COUNTRY AND IT WILL TAKE A FEW YRS AT LEAST TO FIX IT. BUT AT LEAST PRESIDENT OBAMA IS TRYING AND BEGINING TO SUCCEED. &lt;br&gt;I WISH YOU OBAMA BASHERS HAD TO LIVE IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY BUT MINE AND THEN U WOULD SEE HOW GREAT U HAVE IT HERE,IN THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. &lt;br&gt;BILL O'REILLY, LIMBAUGH, SEAN HANNITY, GLEN BECK AND THOSE OF YOU OBAMA BASHERS HERE SHOULD LEAVE IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT HERE.......WE DON'T NEED ANY OF YOU. &lt;br&gt;OBAMA 2012...TO BAD WE CAN'T CHANGE THE LAW AND LET HIM STAY PRESIDENT INDEFINTELY. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888526</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:26:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888526</guid><dc:creator>No Real Republicans Since Nixon</dc:creator><description>Capital Zero raves: &amp;quot;Obama hasn't redistributed the wealth. He's destroyed it.&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Oh puhlease. On day 79 or whatever of the new administration, you claim that Obama has destroyed the wealth of the nation, after 20 out of 28 years of Republican executive branch control and mostly Republican control of the legislative branch between 1994 and 2006. Emotionally shrill, much?&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Obama, Biden focus on domestic issues</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/09/1888003.aspx#1888585</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:01:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:1888585</guid><dc:creator>Dawn, Pendleton OR</dc:creator><description>As the wife of a Vietnam vet, I applaud the administration's intent and hope for follow-through. &amp;nbsp;And enough with the knee-jerk comments that are so obviously from people more interested in tearing down the president without even trying to understand the issues. &amp;nbsp;What have any of you done to help a veteran this week? &amp;nbsp;Do you mean that you all LIKE the status quo? &amp;nbsp;Nuts.</description></item></channel></rss>