Posted on 01/30/2011 4:25:11 AM PST by Scanian
WASHINGTON -- Hope and Change, it turns out, is all relative.
They are a sweet elixir when you are talking about electing as president a smooth-talking street organizer with a fistful of vague promises and no governing experience.
But Hope and Change become a noxious gas when you are talking about a popular uprising by freedom fighters shaking loose the iron grip of a 30-year dictatorship.
At least that is how President Obama sees it.
From the moment he took office, Obama has misread the situation in Egypt and sided with the convenience of tyranny over the untidiness of freedom.
Choosing tyranny is easier to do when it is not your skull being fractured by a police baton.
Obama says he has repeatedly urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to reform, but those words are no match for the cover the Obama administration has offered the Mubarak regime.
Just three months into the new administration, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Egypt and was asked whether Mubarak's well-documented and violent disregard for human rights made him unwelcome at the White House.
"It is not in any way connected," she replied. "I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family. So I hope to see him often here in Egypt and in the United States."
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Ouch! And from the Wash.Post
Sorry, NY Post. Makes more sense.
More coffee......
June 2009........Obama’s Cairo Speech: A New Beginning
January 2011...Obama advises Americans to flee Egypt
June 2009........Obama’s Cairo Speech: A New Beginning
January 2011...Obama advises Americans to flee Egypt
If Obama had followed up no Muslim Brotherhood.
Bush's policies were aimed directly at dividing the muslim world with democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bush knew that a united Muslim world would pit 1.2 billion Muslims against 300 million Americans.....bad odds.
June 2009........Obama’s Cairo Speech: A New Beginning
January 2011...Obama advises Americans to flee Egypt
Teats on a bull come to mind.
Obama says he has repeatedly urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to reform, but those words are no match for the cover the Obama administration has offered the Mubarak regime.Washington Post or not, Zero is a pro-jihadist Muzzie, and serves his master the King of Saudi Arabia; that nest of vipers has been vying with Iran in Egypt, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, the Balkans -- anyplace where jihadists are not in power, or are struggling with each other. The Saudis have lost in Lebanon; they've lost in Iraq; they have lost in Afghanistan at least twice; but if Egypt goes, they'll be facing the three population powerhouses in the Muzzie Middle East -- Egypt, Turkey, and Iran (combined pop. circa 220 million). Thanks Scanian.
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