Obama, stumping in California for Senator Barbara Boxer, toured Solyndra’s Fremont production facilities, which are undergoing a major expansion backed in large part by a $535m Department of Energy (DoE) loan guarantee. Indeed, the company is perhaps the best single example of how Obama’s clean energy focused economic stimulus is supposed to work – a fact emphasized in a lengthy White House blog post penned by Matt Rogers, the DoE’s stimulus moneyman.

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