Posted on 02/06/2011 12:34:33 PM PST by Qbert
The Obama administration is pushing the Egyptian government to present a "clear timeline" for the political change that will include President Hosni Mubarak's exit -- even while Obama officials try to assure that the process is orderly and doesn't present an opportunity for one repressive government to be replaced by another repressive government.
The push for a clear timeline was made on Saturday by Vice President Biden in a phone conversation with Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman.
Senior administration sources tell ABC News that the president is trying to thread the needle -- not pushing Mubarak out too soon, before the constitution has been changed to allow democratic reforms, while making it clear that it's untenable for him to try to stay until the September presidential elections.
The Obama administration is also conveying to opposition parties that they cannot sit on the sidelines demanding Mubarak's resignation before they agree to participate.
Vice President Omar Suleiman recently met with representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist party that the Egyptian government banned.
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Well, it appears that “baffle them with bullshit” is their foreign policy as well as domestically.
If the Muslim Brotherhood had been banned, why are they being allowed in the room, let alone at the frikkin table, let alone part of the discussions? WTF?????
This is NOT the Common Sense you are looking for Egypt.
"'Now' means 'yesterday,'" Gibbs explained. "When we said 'now,' we meant 'yesterday'... that's what the people of Egypt want to see," Gibbs said, adding that a process that begins one week, one month, or many months from now won't suffice.
Wish they'd just pick a narrative and stick with it.
“If the Muslim Brotherhood had been banned, why are they being allowed in the room, let alone at the frikkin table, let alone part of the discussions? WTF?????”
Because Emperor Zero said so.
Obama is so awful he is making the Muslim Brotherhood look good in comparison.. Maybe that is his plan.
Today’s narrative, brand spankin’ new and fresh off the presses...
This is called “Winning the Future!!! (aka WTF)”.
This WTF approach has replaced “Smart Diplomacy”
"I meant to do that!"
If the Muslim Brotherhood had been banned, why are they being allowed in the room, let alone at the frikkin table, let alone part of the discussions? WTF?????
I remember a statment from the Whitehouse wanting to include “nonsecular” interests. I think the Muslim Brotherhood probably fits this description.
And a baffiling they go.
The "Them" is the MSM & Zero supporters, both getting smaller and smaller. . . . . .
The rest of us have him pegged. . . .
Obozo and his clown advisors are pathetic. I guess watching Katie Couric get disrespected and Anderson Cooper get pushed scared the crap out of them.
Sarah Palin is more of a man than these pantywaists.
What?
I thought they used the term “Yesterday” as a descriptor of demands from Barry’s House.
Simple... that's who Obama wants there. The sooner Egypt goes radical Muslim, the sooner the evil Joos get exterminated and the sooner we bring a fair and good Islamic system here to replace our unfair, evil Democracy.
Bill Ayres must be proud of his little community organizer.
Remember the “plug the leak” demands that ultimately devolved to a demand that BP tell them ahead of time what they were going to do so that the White House could then order them to do what they were going to do anyway? One of the funniest series of bureaucratic memos I ever read.
Good ole’ “smart diplomacy” at its best.
What a pantload. It’s obvious Barry learned foreign policy from that other worthless Democrat - Jimmy Carter.
I should have said my question was rhetorical...I know full well what the answer is.
See my tagline...
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