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The shift toward world affairs precedes Romney's trip, beginning Tuesday, to Britain, Israel and Poland. It also comes as the campaigns' aggressive tone resumed after a three-day hiatus after the deadly shooting at a Colorado movie theater Friday. During a speech Monday night to about 1,000 people at a raucous fundraiser in Oakland, Calif., Obama said the presumptive GOP nominee was "knowingly twisting my words around to suggest I don't value small business." Romney had revived his attacks Monday on Obama's comment this month that government is due a share of the credit for business success. The president said Romney was distorting his words and going "a little over the edge" in his political attacks. While the weekend truce was fleeting, the Colorado tragedy did not keep either candidate from chasing campaign contributions. Romney headlined fundraisers over two days in California, netting $10 million. Obama was expected to raise more than $6 million during two days of West Coast fundraising. He headlined three events in the San Francisco Bay area Monday and was to attend four more Tuesday in Seattle and Portland, Ore. Among the donors at a $35,800-per-person dinner in Oakland, Calif., were two people connected to Solyndra, a failed California solar energy company that has been part of Romney's attacks on Obama. Solyndra was the first renewable energy company to receive a federal grant under Obama's 2009 stimulus law but went bankrupt last year, leaving taxpayers on the hook for more than $500 million. Steve Westly, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who warned the White House about Solyndra's shaky finances, and Matt Rogers, a former Energy Department official who was part of the Solyndra loan guarantee process, were among the 60 people in attendance at the private home.
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