Yesterday, President Bush returned to Miami to get out of the beltway and reconnect with the common folk. After landing last night, the president took a stroll down Collins before heading to Joe's Stone Crab - a routine stop for presidents. The public relations spokesman for Joe's told the Herald he was not sure what the president planned to eat, but unlike President Clinton's decision to eat fried chicken, Bush likely ate some stone crabs.

This morning, President Bush ate breakfast in Little Havana then made his way to the National Hurricane Center before a speech at the Coast Guard Command Center. All of this before his final stop in Coral Gables for a Republican National Committee luncheon. We are not sure how a fundraiser at Armando Codina is connecting with the common folk, but maybe they can discuss Codina's muti-million dollar payment for developing inside the Urban Development Boundary (see Letter's To Editor). Wishful thinking never hurt anyone right?

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