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To: gamesmistress who wrote (24060)	8/19/2012 3:16:27 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

"He ran as a moderate Dem and governed as a Raygun R." "I don't agree with you on that" Neither do I; I had forgotten Raygun raised taxes about 6 times more than Obama has. On GE, even. I correct mice elf... He ran as a moderate Dem and governed as a Raygun R who has signed the Norquist pledge.However, since Sept, he's sounded like a Dem. I like him much better as a campaigner than president. "As for your picture...Paul Ryan wasn't in it. He sure is now", I know. I was the one who took it. L-R, Paul Ryan, Alan West, Michele Bachmann, Eric Cantor

To: gamesmistress who wrote (24060)	8/19/2012 3:26:11 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

"Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing new scrutiny over revelations he founded the private equity firm Bain Capital with investments from Central American elites linked to death squads in El Salvador. After initially struggling to find investors, Romney traveled to Miami in 1983 to win pledges of $9 million, 40 percent of Bain’s start-up money. Some investors had extensive ties to the death squads responsible for the vast majority of the tens of thousands of deaths in El Salvador during the 1980s. We’re joined by Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim, who connects the dots in his latest story, "Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads." "There’s no possible way that anybody in 1984 could check out these families — which was the term that [Romney’s campaign] used — and come away convinced that this money was clean," Grim says." http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/10/romneys_death_squad_ties_bain_launched the above should give Eric Holder some hope. he might be the first holdover AG in history birds of a feather and all that http://www.counterpunch.org/2008/11/19/holder-chiquita-and-colombia/ So in Holder’s view, we should feel sympathy for these poor corporate executives, whose identities were kept confidential, and who were forced to make "very painful decisions" about opening up to their own criminality. Never mind that this company was complicit in the above-mentioned human tragedy waged by the AUC. The many victims of this paramilitary terror did not even cross the mind of the well-connected defense attorney now being considered for the Attorney General job.