Posted on 02/03/2011 2:09:15 PM PST by fightinJAG
Hosni Mubarak needs to quit now, an increasingly frustrated Washington demanded as President Barack Obama struggled to contain a worsening Egyptian crisis that threatens to spread across the Arab world.
“Now means yesterday,” spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday
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Mike
Mubarak to Obama: “Bite Me!”
Who are we to tell the leader of a sovereign country, (an ally who’s been our friend for 30+ years), to step down?The arrogance of the undocumented commissar occupying the White House is astounding.
What will it take for America to understand that we have a muslim in the white house who is doing everything in his power to turn Egypt into another Iran..WAKE UP AMERICA.....A FOOL COULD RECOGNIZE WHAT IS HAPPENING BEFORE YOUR EYES....
Population of Israel: 7.5 million (20% of which are Arab)
Population of Iran: 72 million
Population of Syria: 21 million
Population of Lebanon: 4 million
Population of Saudi Arabia: 25.7 million
Population of Turkey: 77.8 million
Population of Jordan: 4.8 million
Population of Yemen: 28 million
That’s just a partial list too.
Clearly those evil Jews have a huge advantage over their neighbors, so it’s only natural that Obama try and help balance things out over there. He did blame us for meddling in other countries’ affairs, but clearly this is a situation where he must act.
MyFox Tampa Bay - 26 minutes ago
In a reporter's notebook on ABC's website, Amanpour wrote that while Mubarak ... "When I asked him how he responded to the United States' veiled calls for ...
And so it goes, hundreds of repeats of Amanpour's LIE that Obama made a "veiled call" for Mubarak to resign immediately.
The fullcourt press to absolve Obama of adding to the chaos in Egypt is underway.
"Now means yesterday" is not a "veiled call," Christine.
I hope Egypt responds exactly the way Honduras did: [insert obscenity in native language here] you, Barry.
Of course, Obama is still trying to install the rejected and exiled socialist would-be golpista (coup leader) Zelaya as leader of Honduras, so if Egypt manages to preserve the rule of law under Mubarak until the next elections, I hope the country is prepared for the new improved Obama USA to punish it.
Obama: You need to quit now, Hosni.
Mubarak: After you, pilgrim.
What do you propose that we the people should do about this situation?
Even if Mubarak’s political demise was imminent and inevitable, it seems to me the exactly wrong way to address this fact was to hold a presser and have a loser like Gibbs speak for a highly unpopular President and demand that Mubarak be gone “yesterday.”
It shouldn’t take Mubarak telling Barry that chaos will ensue if he leaves too quickly and without some kind of transition in place for a POTUS to have a clue on that.
The WH could have been saying all it wanted behind the scenes that it didn’t think Mubarak was going to survive this and it couldn’t do anything to ensure he did. But publically demanding his departure “yesterday” seems stupid and incompetent.
quit and be replaced by what?
This is an historic debacle on the part of this administration.
First, if they indeed sparked this uprising, Obama OWNS it.
Second, it’s clear there was NO EXIT STRATEGY, i.e., who do we support in the event that Mubarak is overthrown?
Third, if we didn’t encourage this revolt, our President has proven once again (Healthcare, BP, economy) that he has absolutely no friggin’ clue what he’s doing, and worse, his woeful inadequacy as a leader is costing lives.
This is an era of American history that will be marked in shame. We are no longer world leaders. We are no longer a super power. And what we are witnessing globally is what happens when there is no global leader: anarchy.
Imagine being ordered to quit by a Sorosian cardboard cutout.
You hit the nail on the head about the drawbacks of public diplomacy via intermediaries.
last week, Biden spoke a lot, as did Kerry. And Gibbs lecturing Mubarak.
And how impotent does Obie look - demands Mubarak leave, but Mubarak cracks down and tells Obie he don’t know camel poop.
It’s like he dared Obie, what’re you gonna do, invade Egypt?
Even if was clear that Mubarak had to go, or was going, the main thing was to get an exit strategy in place before the US started calling for the guy’s head “yesterday.”
Just because the WH has a press room doesn’t mean someone in there needs to be shooting his mouth off at all times.
Make a deal, if ohbamma quits now, then Mubarak will consider leaving in September?
Actually, if Mubarak steps down, it will encourage the Brotherhood and Al Qaedists in every country to step up the pressure and go for the gold.
Once the jihadists are in power on all sides of Isreal, Soros will turn his attention to them. So will the jihadists.
I'm not just being cute when I say, I believe war is coming.
More reactive diplomacy from Obama. What an amatuer.
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