Posted on 07/03/2013 9:00:18 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
Great article at PJM about how Mursi got elected on promises of forming an inclusive government with responsibility and power spread to all elements of Egypt's power blocs -- and broke every one of them.
First of all, in final run-off balloting for the presidency, the two candidates offered to the public were the Muslim Brotherhood's idiot Mursi and a general associated with the Mubarak regime. Not the options most of the public wanted.
To convince non-Islamists to vote for Mursi, he made some promises.
The second-line Muslim Brotherhood leaders started connecting with revolutionary figures, opposition leaders, and youth movements to convince them to support Morsi in the run-off election. These MB leaders asked for political support for the MB candidate, but the leaders of the January 25th revolution had some demands of their own. They wanted to “reconstruct the constitution drafting assembly to represent all Egyptians; appoint 3 vice presidents: a woman, a revolutionary youth leader, and a Christian; and to appoint a national unity government.” Eventually, Morsi and his allies approved the deal and signed a document to guarantee the achievement of these promises.
The Egyptian people decided to trust the Muslim Brotherhood at the time because they couldn’t accept military rule represented by General Shafiq.
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But after a while, everything became clear to us. He broke all his presidential promises. He excluded the opposition from the government, which consisted mainly of old Mubarak ministers and Muslim Brotherhood members. In addition, he appointed a Muslim Brotherhood ally as his vice president.
All the aforementioned broken promises are nothing compared to the constitution drafting assembly. More Muslim Brotherhood members were appointed than was promised. Christians, opposition leaders, and revolutionaries were banned from the assembly. The Islamists then wrote the worst constitution in the whole history of Egypt and the Middle East.
If you like your pluralistic government you can keep your pluralistic government. Psyche!
There's more too, but I can only steal so much.
On page 2, he explains his theory as to why Obama has been such a Muslim Brotherhood Booster. He thinks it's all because of Syria, if you can imagine that, and the Muslim Brotherhood making promises about getting Assad out and keeping the flow of heavy weapons in check and making sure Syria follows a non-jihadist course and etc.
And obviously Obama should believe this, because Mursi kept all his promises before, right?
Mursi's disastrous, inept, oath-breaking reign might wind up doing more to advance republicanism than, if you can believe this, a single gaseous speech by Obama.
One can only hope that America learns from Obama as Egypt learned from Obama's pet Mursi.
QED.
Bammy is not a supporter of the Constitution. Bammy needs to be purged.
OK, so Morsi made wild promises just to get elected.
No wonder Obama is such a strong supporter.
If I were the Zero in the White House I’d be paying close attention to what can happen when people have had enough of a liar and a tyrant.
It’s time to go to the torches and pitchforks.
I wonder how our journalists would write if their little god “got the boot”. Would they see it as the people taking back their power from an inept leader that lost their trust?
I’d really like to watch them swim in that batch of hypocrite stew.
And appoint some political commissars, perhaps.
I believe in Obama’s third term: two terms as POSTUS and the third doing 10 to 20 years’ hard time at Leavenworth doing hard labor.
Trouble is nobody here wants to take odumbo on and remove him like they did Morsi. There are hundreds of illegal happenings and reasons for removal of odumbo since he took office. The “evidence” is there, use it!
Yes, then Americans could give Obama the same lesson the Egyptians gave Mursi. Egypt has shown the way. Flood Washington, DC with millions of peaceful protesters for days, weeks, or however long it takes to force the resignation of the corruptocrats, starting with Obama/Biden.
On this day of our Independence, I am cautiously optimistic for the future of Egypt. Envious, too. Not so much for my own country.
If the military in this country removed the president every time he was elected and then didn’t keep his promises..... we’d change presidents about every 5 months..... from now on.
The whole concept whereby the White House decides not to enforce the laws it doesn’t like should be an impeachable offense. Really, it is an impeachable offense. It is a violation of the oath of office. No matter who the president is, they should be removed from office when they intentionally decide to not enforce laws that are duly passed and signed into effect.
...the leaders of the January 25th revolution had some demands of their own. They wanted to "reconstruct the constitution drafting assembly to represent all Egyptians; appoint 3 vice presidents: a woman, a revolutionary youth leader, and a Christian; and to appoint a national unity government." Eventually, Morsi and his allies approved the deal... He broke all his presidential promises. He excluded the opposition from the government, which consisted mainly of old Mubarak ministers and Muslim Brotherhood members. In addition, he appointed a Muslim Brotherhood ally as his vice president... More Muslim Brotherhood members were appointed than was promised. Christians, opposition leaders, and revolutionaries were banned from the assembly... Mursi's disastrous, inept, oath-breaking reign might wind up doing more to advance republicanism than, if you can believe this, a single gaseous speech by Obama.And that bloviating about how Morsi's opposition to Assad brought about his downfall? That's just Russian/Iranian/Assad agitprop, so forget it.
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