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Barack Obama is in Kansas City, but you won’t see him

July 8, 2010
Ben Palosaari,

President Barack Obama‘s motorcade drove through a steamy drizzle downtown this afternoon. But that was all the glimpse onlookers got of the commander-in-chief before he was secreted behind a canopy and out of view. 

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