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Obama sips water in Flint, tells residents it is safe
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Posted on 05/04/2016 1:44:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama sips water in Flint, tells residents it is safe By Timothy Gardner

FLINT, Mich. President Barack Obama sipped filtered water in Flint, Michigan, on Wednesday and assured parents that children over 6 years old could do the same during a visit to a city still reeling from a scandal over lead-poisoned drinking water.

Obama made the trip to the mostly African-American community to reassure residents that the water was safe even as he predicted it would take more than two years to replace the city's aging pipes, which leached lead into the drinking water.

"The water around this table was Flint water that was filtered," Obama said during a meeting with regulators as he drank some himself.

"It just confirms what we know scientifically, which is if you're using a filter ... then Flint water at this point is drinkable."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


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To: Sub-Driver

I’m surprised he didn’t try to turn it into wine.


21 posted on 05/04/2016 2:23:08 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sub-Driver

Was that actual water from Flint?


22 posted on 05/04/2016 2:32:24 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Sub-Driver


23 posted on 05/04/2016 2:39:05 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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How can anyone tell if Obama is affected ?


24 posted on 05/04/2016 2:59:37 PM PDT by Busta Rhymes
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To: Sub-Driver

let the moron drink it for two years...


25 posted on 05/04/2016 3:18:55 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: wideminded
Because the old standard for lead levels in children was 10 micrograms per deciliter. The new standard is 5 micrograms per deciliter, and the preferred standard is zero micrograms per gallon.

There is more sources of lead in the environment than just the drinking water. The number one source was lead gasoline use, which was only fully banned in the United States in 1995.

Hence the steep decline in children's lead levels.

26 posted on 05/04/2016 4:12:57 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
There is more sources of lead in the environment than just the drinking water. The number one source was lead gasoline use, which was only fully banned in the United States in 1995.

It seems very strange that if leaded gasoline was fully banned in 1995, that it could be blamed for raising lead levels in children who were not yet born.

In fact I looked at some other graphs online and it looks like blood levels of lead due to gasoline started declining long before the year 2000. So the graph you posted earlier would appear to show that there was something else going on in Flint.

27 posted on 05/04/2016 4:37:18 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded
Here's a chart for national levels, which generally follows the Mother Jones produced Flint chart:


28 posted on 05/04/2016 5:47:16 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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