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White House scrambles to keep up with crisis
Politico ^ | 1/31/11 | MIKE ALLEN

Posted on 01/31/2011 10:34:46 AM PST by ColdOne

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To: ColdOne

What, did they run out of pizza and martinis?


21 posted on 01/31/2011 10:51:00 AM PST by Eye of Unk (What is YOUR snipe hunt?)
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To: ml/nj
Couldn't they just listen to Rush?

I have no doubts that this bunch of clowns in the white house will run out of stupid ideas and will revert to using Rush's opinions to save the county ( giving Rush no credit of course).

22 posted on 01/31/2011 10:52:46 AM PST by jetson
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To: ColdOne

The Egypt situation really isn’t that complicated:

Things there suck, jobs are scarce.

They have a dictator.

The youth have Twitter and such and like to protest.

The Muslim Brotherhood is taking advantage of this to try to replace the Mubarak govt, which they hate because it maintains peace with Israel.

El Baradei is an opportunist.

As unappealing as he may be, Mubarak must remain in power.

The WH should use the opportunity to demand a commitment to greater democratic government, and additional support in pressuring Iran.


23 posted on 01/31/2011 10:53:32 AM PST by Retired Greyhound
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To: Political Junkie Too

“We’re struggling to figure all this out,”

How about a Beer Summit????


24 posted on 01/31/2011 10:53:41 AM PST by Londo Molari
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To: ColdOne
The eruption in Egypt has left White House officials scrambling?

God help us.

25 posted on 01/31/2011 10:56:48 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: ColdOne

Yeah, it’s a struggle to fit the crisis into Obama’s social schedule. Nice party they threw for Axelrod Saturday night. I understand many MSM types were there, including Tapper. I wonder if Couric got up and danced?


26 posted on 01/31/2011 11:10:59 AM PST by popdonnelly (If Obama improves education, who'll vote for him?)
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To: penelopesire

I don’t think they wanted Elbaradi and the MB...

they had someone else in mind, the question if it wasn’t them...

who?


27 posted on 01/31/2011 11:10:59 AM PST by EBH ( Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's stomach, is an absolute.)
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To: ColdOne
President Barack Obama’s closest aides are buoyed by a political resurgence, an embryonic but apparently real economic recovery and a White House reorganization that most West Wingers applaud.

Huh?

28 posted on 01/31/2011 11:14:16 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: EBH

Notice how the immeadiate reaction is how this might be bad for him ?

Not America, just HIM.


29 posted on 01/31/2011 11:15:41 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: ColdOne

It is not amazing that POTUS Obama is a totally incompetent across the board. What is amazing that an individual like Mike Allen (Politico) and his entire staff is naught but political spinners on behalf of the “Obama” failed presidency!!! Who’d have thunk America, the greatest nation in the world, would sink so low across the board. Time is short America!!! Best get awoken or end up like the Roman empire, destroyed from within, which is exactly what Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrat Party are doing to America!!!


30 posted on 01/31/2011 11:18:31 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: EBH

I disagree. I think El Baradei was their selection from the planning stages of this ‘revolt’ last spring. Obama met with El Baradei and ElBaradei met with a bunch of leftist leaders back last September. El Baradei is the darling of the left. Found this quote by him last night:

“The left wing plays a crucial role in political change all over the world,” ElBaradei said, calling on all political stripes to unite for change irrespective of their political inclinations.

He also renewed his call for combining democracy with socialism in order to rescue Egypt from its longstanding political malaise.”

Obama and the Islamists have been meeting the past few years as well. It looks to me that this is exactly what ‘they’ wanted.

The real question is did they do it in naivete and incompetence or with malice of forethought and high treason?


31 posted on 01/31/2011 11:29:08 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: ColdOne
Egypt may be the most serious crisis in the Middle East in the last 30 years, and we have the most incompetent US administration ever to handle it.

Neither Hillary or Zero are qualified to manage a McDonald's and yet Hillary is in charge of State and Zero is in charge of the Executive Branch.

This can't possibly turn out well.

Why aren't we supporting the rule of law?

32 posted on 01/31/2011 11:32:17 AM PST by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: ColdOne
This isn't one of those crisis that they can use to justify spending more money. With this, they actually need to analyze what's happening and react in a very careful and deliberative way. No rules for radicals solution here...they're sunk and they know it.
33 posted on 01/31/2011 11:36:29 AM PST by FourPeas
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To: ColdOne

The Obama Regime wasted the relatively peaceful time they had doing stupid stuff, most notably losing the confidence of the world when it comes to the Obama Regime’s ability to lead.


34 posted on 01/31/2011 11:41:01 AM PST by FourPeas
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To: ColdOne

Obama Out of touch in the Middle East? This is soooo Unexpected!


35 posted on 01/31/2011 11:43:59 AM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: Chuzzlewit

obambi having trouble tieing his sneakers?


36 posted on 01/31/2011 11:50:01 AM PST by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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