Back from Europe, Obama turns to the rubble and heartache of tornado-ravaged Missouri

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is pivoting from diplomacy on the world stage to the intimate and delicate domestic task of acting as healer-in-chief to a devastated community.

The president travels to tornado-wrecked Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, a day after returning from a six-day European tour of Ireland, England, France and Poland.

After days of focusing on the U.S. relationship with the rest of the world, he’ll turn to an even more critical connection: his own, with the American people.

The president will visit with survivors and family members of the worst tornado in decades, a monster storm that tore through Joplin a week ago leaving more than 130 dead and hundreds more injured. More than 40 remain unaccounted for, and the damage is massive.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-heads-to-missouri-to-view-aftermath-of-tornadoes-meet-with-victims-of-deadly-storms/2011/05/29/AGIzw0DH_story.html

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1. I loves me some Obama

“The cameras may leave, but we will be with you every step of the way until this community is back on its feet. We are not
going anywhere,” the president said. “That is not just my promise. It is America’s promise.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/us/30joplin.html?_r=1

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2. Europe has its share of heartache and ravage

Greece
Ireland
Spain

thanks mostly to bankers