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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (28923)	9/27/2012 11:49:08 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

Miners hate Obama. (this guy was from Pennsylvania)

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (28923)	9/27/2012 11:50:19 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 85487

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (28923)	9/27/2012 12:18:07 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

You just couldn't make this stuff up, Chapter 2. Bush really isn't helping By Steve Benen - Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:21 AM EDT 9 George W. Bush was the first former president since Nixon to skip his first post-office convention, and unlike Bill Clinton, we won't see Bush on the campaign trail, either. The Republican plan, apparently, is for the failed former president to keep as low a profile as possible between now and Election Day. In fact, the week before the election, Bush won't even be in the United States. Where's he headed? To the most politically inconvenient location on this planet. James Carter uncovered this gem, as reported overnight by Rosie Gray. Former President George W. Bush is set to deliver the keynote address at the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit on Grand Cayman just a few days before the election. The conference will feature Bush as the keynote speaker on the first night.... The timing of the conference could land awkwardly during an election season that's been marked by speculation about Mitt Romney's finances, particularly his offshore investments in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. Ya think? We just saw Mitt Romney's 2011 tax returns and learned that the Republican still stashes cash in the Cayman Islands. We also learned the campaign is playing fast and loose with the facts, hoping the public won't realize that Romney is using the Caymans as a tax-avoidance scheme. And it's against this backdrop that George W. Bush -- the Republican whose failed policies Romney is accused of wanting to emulate -- is headed to the Caymans, just days before the election, to speak at an "Alternative Investment Summit"? Seriously?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (28923)	9/28/2012 5:42:44 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Respond to of 85487

White House Move to Give Egypt $450 Million in Aid Meets Resistance By STEVEN LEE MYERS The Obama administration notified Congress on Friday that it intends to give Egypt’s new government an emergency cash infusion of $450 million, but the move immediately encountered resistance from lawmakers wary of foreign aid in general and of Egypt’s new course under the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood. The aid is part of $1 billion in assistance that the Obama administration has pledged to Egypt to bolster its economy and its transition to democracy following the overthrow last year of Hosni Mubarak, the country’s autocratic president. Its fate, however, was clouded because of concerns over some of the new government’s policies and its handling of anti-American protests two weeks ago that overwhelmed the American Embassy in Cairo. The United States Agency for International Development notified Congress of the cash infusion on Friday morning, prompting renewed protests over the foreign aid and the administration’s handling of crises spreading across the Islamic world. An influential Republican lawmaker, Representative Kay Granger of Texas, immediately announced that she would act to block the assistance because it came at a point when the American relationship with Egypt “has never been under more scrutiny.” “I am not convinced of the urgent need for this assistance and I cannot support it at this time,” Ms. Granger said in a statement. State Department and White House officials have shuttled to and from Cairo to negotiate the assistance. Although much of the $1 billion in aid previously announced was intended to relieve Egypt’s debts to the United States, the administration decided to provide cash instead — including $190 million immediately — because the country’s budget crisis has become acute. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at a meeting in New York on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly, said the world needed to do more to support the governments that have emerged from the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring. “The recent riots and protests throughout the region have brought the challenge of transition into sharp relief,” Mrs. Clinton said, without mentioning the assistance to Egypt specifically. “Extremists are clearly determined to hijack these wars and revolutions to further their agendas and ideology, so our partnership must empower those who would see their nations emerge as true democracies.”