[Para-Ord.45]

Hey White House/State Dept., how`s that radical arab muslim spring workin` out for `ya ?

[Oldexpat]

A Patronage job for an NGO turns sour. Rino son of Rino Minister of Transportation gets the gig and the wrap.

[marstegreg]

Anyone else think this is a set up for a prisoner swap from Gitmo? The last bunch he released didn’t do anything for his image. I think Obama wants to release a lot more Prisoners from Gitmo but needs a good reason to do so. This gives him one. Just thinking out loud....

[matginzac]

Pay back for daddy working for a lib dim, socialist, elitist, moooslim-loving anarchist????

How O’bummer’s Hillary-run State Dept doing on getting your son out, Ray???????

[Red Badger]

Zero lost Egypt, Libya, Iraq and soon Afghanistan.....

[Outlaw Woman]

Interesting. LaHood is a R serving the marxist. Just an observation

[OldNavyVet]

No good Christian deed will go unpunished in a Muslim nation.

[OldNavyVet]

No good Christian deed will go unpunished in a Muslim nation.

[NormsRevenge]

Ruh-roh. The’re dealing with a whole new beastie now..

Change.. Oh yeah!

They should have listened to GW,
Avoid, No, flee from foreign entanglements.

[eyeamok]

using funds from their non-profit organizations to foment unrest in their country.

Wow, if we in the US took that approach we could really get things cleaned up in America. The entire Left is comprised of groups doing just this everywhere in the US.

[sport]

I hope he gets 50 years just for general principles.

[PapaBear3625]

I'm thinking this is a ploy by the Egyptians to tell the US "Don't even THINK about trying to curtail your foreign aid payments to us". The Americans are essentially hostages.

We currently send Egypt a little under $2B/year. Egypt is essentially bankrupt, and the people who supported the Muslim Brotherhood's takeover will NOT be happy if Egypt is forced to undertake austerity measures.

[jocon307]

I have to think that the rest of these arrestees are also from rather elite families. I know the media covers for Obama, but I’m wondering if this might not prove to be his own Americans held hostage bad sit.

And the Egyptians have been bi-partisan, there are dems as well as pubbies sitting in the cells.

Fast and furious only killed a couple of hard working LEOs and some Mexicans, so that is easy to overlook.

Can the detention of the scions of prominent American families be so easily ignored? Not if I were one of their mommies.

[bigbob]

Interesting that they would title this story “Son Of Former Illinois Congressman” rather than “Son Of Obama Transportation Secretary”.

[Verginius Rufus]

LaHood is of Arab Christian ancestry (I think Lebanese Catholic).

[proudpapa]

Any chance this whole fiasco has been orchestrated to make Obama look tough as he launches a rescue effort just before the election???

[proudpapa]

Any chance this whole fiasco has been orchestrated to make Obama look tough as he launches a rescue effort just before the election???

[proudpapa]

Any chance this whole fiasco has been orchestrated to make Obama look tough as he launches a rescue effort just before the election???

[Regulator]

The Arab Spring Blossoms

[apillar]

It's my understanding that these people are currently staying in the US Embassy. If we had a president with a set (someone other than Obama). They would have already flown in a marine helicopter, picked up the 19 and told Egypt to just try and do anything about it.