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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (670607)	9/1/2012 5:57:22 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583384

You said he used the same transactions as the mafia. Which transactions are you referring to?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (670607)	9/1/2012 9:39:35 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583384

Awkward: Obama Speech at Fort Bliss Met With Silence or Tepid Applause. September, 1, 2012 — nicedeb Via Neil Munro, of The Daily Caller: President Barack Obama was greeted with fleeting applause and extended periods of silence as he offered profuse praise to soldiers and their families during an Aug. 31 speech in Fort Bliss, Texas. His praise for the soldiers — and for his own national-security policies — won cheers from only a small proportion of the soldiers and families in the cavernous aircraft-hanger. The audience remains quiet even when the commander-in-chief thanked the soldiers’ families, and cited the 198 deaths of their comrades in Iraq and Afghanistan. The audience’s reaction was so flat that the president tried twice to elicit a reaction from the crowd. “Hey, I hear you,” he said amid silence. The selected soldiers who were arrayed behind the president sat quietly throughout the speech. CNN and MSNBC ended their coverage of the speech before it was half-over. He did get some loud reactions when he did the obligatory name-checking of the soldiers’ brigades at the beginning of the speech, but that is expected between rival military units. There were many painfully obvious applause lines in this speech that were met with stone cold silence. Perhaps because, in many respects, it was a campaign speech.