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Obama sees 'worst kind of partisanship' in DC

President Barack Obama says that there is nothing wrong with America -- but there is something wrong with American politics.

He says Washington has seen the worst kind of partisanship and the worst kind of gridlock in recent months, and that it's undermined public confidence and made things worse instead of better. The president said people are frustrated and he is, too.

The president spoke Thursday at an advanced battery manufacturing plant in Holland, Mich., on his first official trip outside of Washington in weeks since negotiations on the debt crisis kept him stuck in the capital.

He said the downgrade of U.S. debt could have been entirely avoided if politicians had been willing to compromise.

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President Barack Obama is making a pitch Thursday for the job-creating potential of clean energy before talking up his re-election at a pair of fundraising events with high-dollar campaign contributors.

Obama planned to tour a Holland, Mich., factory that makes advanced batteries for alternative-fuel vehicles such as hybrid or electric cars and trucks. It's the president's first official trip outside of Washington in over a month after the debt crisis kept him stuck in negotiations in the nation's capital.

In Michigan, where the unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in June, higher than the national rate, Obama was expected to talk about the benefits of spending money on producing such clean-energy technologies as advanced batteries: jobs and reduced consumption of foreign oil.

He calls them "jobs of the future" and says the U.S. should lead the way in developing energy sources that pollute less.

Johnson Controls Inc., the energy company that owns the plant that was welcoming Obama, has received a $3 million federal grant and expects to create 150 jobs at facilities in Michigan and Wisconsin, White House energy adviser Heather Zichal said.

The president also was to discuss how the clean-energy push can help automakers meet new fuel economy standards for cars and trucks.

Obama won Michigan in the 2008 presidential election and the economically battered state is crucial to his re-election hopes in 2012.

Republicans criticized Obama's trip as more focused on saving his own job than solving the country's economic woes.

"Everything that this president does is either a fundraiser or a political move in order to advance his march to a second term," said Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee.

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When I read that this morning, my blood began to boil.

First of all, I am extremely incensed that anyone has the arrogance to dictate fiscal policy (Or anything else) to The United States!  That hurts! That is an outrage as far as I am concerned!

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