Posted on 02/10/2011 3:16:44 PM PST by lbryce
Obama has been putting pressure on Mubarak since last week to stand down straight away. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA
The Obama administration was embarrassingly wrongfooted when the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak confounded expectations by refusing to leave office.
Mubarak's speech came just hours after Barack Obama and the director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, appeared to give credence to the rumours that the Egyptian president was heading for the exit.
Obama has been putting pressure on Mubarak since last week to stand down straight away, but Mubarak, in a televised address tonight, said he would not bow to international pressure, a direct snub to the US president.
Mubarak's response provides a graphic illustration of America's slow decline from its status as the world's sole superpower to a position where it is unable to decisively influence events in Egypt, in spite of that country being one of the biggest recipients of US military aid.
Since the uprising began, the Obama administration has shifted from solidly supporting Mubarak, to suggesting a few days later that he should go now, only to back him at the weekend to remain in office until the autumn a decision that the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, reversed hours later when she threw US support behind the Egyptian vice-president, Omar Suleiman. But even support for Suleiman may leave US policy trailing behind events in Egypt, with the vice-president seen as too close to Mubarak.
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Oh yeah how could I forget?
DO YOU HEAR US NOW? RESIGN PRESIDENT JARRETT OBAMA SORO'S MICHELLE!
Thank you very much.
Resign Barack Obama.
Did you find a quote of mine from last week where I said Sarah Palin was gorgeous? She did look gorgeous at that event. No, I would not vote for someone because they are attractive. Would never happen. You are silly for inferring that I would.
Yes but Ah-nold turned out to be a flopperoo too.
What we need is someone with major executive experience, like a successful patriotic two term governor of America's most populous state.
That’s MuBarak Obama./s
bttt
>> “Mubarak’s response provides a graphic illustration of America’s slow decline from its status as the world’s sole superpower to a position where it is unable to decisively influence events in Egypt, in spite of that country being one of the biggest recipients of US military aid.” <<
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The only proper response to this ‘crisis’ for the US would have been to strongly state our support for Mubarak, but since Obama has been working feverishly for two years to destabilize Egypt and Israel, that would have been highly unkikely,
Perhaps he could have at least sent some CDs of his speeches...
>> “Nice sentiment, but does the phrase ‘She’s GORGEOUS’ sound familiar?” <<
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Nice try puke-head, but Palin is going to be elected because of her vast qualifications, not because of her looks.
>> “like a successful patriotic two term governor of America’s most populous state” <<
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Sorry, the last one of them we had is dead.
0bama was skunked like nothing I’ve ever seen.
Tell you what, of the many “thought exercises” brought up over the years, eg “imagine what the press would be saying if GWB had made the same move” *THIS ONE* I can’t imagine. Oh, you can say our engagement in Iraq under GWB is/was a huge mistake or based on a lie or a neo-con fantasy or righteous or whatever you want;
It sure as hell wasn’t a “made-up-in-one-day” exercise in blind arrogance (’we get to tell you what to do’) and based upon being caught as flat-footed diplomatic and intelligence-wise as we were in this case.
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