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Mubarak to Obama: 'You don't understand'
Politico ^ | 2/3/11 | Ben Smith

Posted on 02/03/2011 12:44:28 PM PST by pissant

From Christiane Amanpour's interview with the Egyptian president:

While he described President Obama as a very good man, he wavered when I asked him if hour felt the U.S. had betrayed him. When I asked him how he responded to the United States' veiled calls for him to step aside sooner rather than later, he said he told President Obama "you don't understand the Egyptian culture and what would happen if I step down now."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: egypt; larrysinclairslover; mubarak; obama
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A gross understatement, Mr. Mubarak.
1 posted on 02/03/2011 12:44:31 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

A News blackout appears to have been put in by the Cable networks. I think Mubarak has had enough of them. And Obama.


2 posted on 02/03/2011 12:46:39 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: pissant

“you don’t understand the Egyptian culture and what would happen if I step down now.”

Absolutely right.

Or maybe, he does.


3 posted on 02/03/2011 12:46:55 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
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To: pissant
All together now...

You-don't-understand-Barry-Obama.

4 posted on 02/03/2011 12:48:47 PM PST by skeeter
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To: pissant

“While he described President Obama as a very good man....”

.
Mubarak has no or little credibility in his judgment of human beings.


5 posted on 02/03/2011 12:48:59 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: pissant

Mubarak is no saint by any stretch of the imagination, but what will follow him if the protesters are successful will be much, much worse.

Many of those clamoring for his downfall will themselves become victims of a radical muslim state should it come to pass.

If they think things are bad now, just wait....


6 posted on 02/03/2011 12:49:11 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Snowpalooza 2011)
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To: pissant

And Suleiman said something similar


7 posted on 02/03/2011 12:49:15 PM PST by therightliveswithus
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To: screaminsunshine

Don’t worry about a news black out.

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/


8 posted on 02/03/2011 12:50:43 PM PST by carenot (We'd rather hold on to the myth than fight for the reality)
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To: pissant
Zero doesn't even understand the American culture!
9 posted on 02/03/2011 12:52:06 PM PST by Niteranger68 (Jared Lee Loughner - Disciple of Michael Moore)
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To: pissant

What does Obama understand other than:

1. I am here to save the world.
2. I can cure global warming if only the rednecks in America, or the whites, support me.
3. If you love the government, we can give you a check and you will continue to support me.
4. I love J-Lo and her devotion to football.


10 posted on 02/03/2011 12:52:10 PM PST by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: screaminsunshine

don’t blame him, the way our biased media have acted and reported over this has been appalling.

They have not informed their viewers about eh MB,m they have not told their viewers about what happens if these protesters win and the MB take over.
All they have done is defend their messiah obama and defend these protesters.

Hell they have not even stated how our foreign policy has changed and now we help radical islam to spread while pissing on our allies, and an ally which was the first to stand with Israel and keep peace.

If any media troll is lurking then let it be known you have embarrassed yourselves with your bias and your drooling for obama.
We want the truth and facts not your views so either get doing your jobs or lose more viewers and money

Hell I’ll stand and protest outside their HQ’s if there is a protest as I’ve had enough of their B/S and bias.
The way they treated Sarah, Michelle Bachmann, their cocktail parties with their messiah, they way they ignored many of the facts in the last two years


11 posted on 02/03/2011 12:52:58 PM PST by manc (Shame on all who voted for the repeal of DADT, who supported it or never tried to stop it. Traitors)
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To: pissant

Bump


12 posted on 02/03/2011 12:53:55 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: screaminsunshine

Oh, oh. Obama doesn’t like it said that he doesn’t understand. So, where is the smartest woman in the world, Hillary? If only SHE could have commandeered the situation.
/s


13 posted on 02/03/2011 12:54:08 PM PST by RitaOK
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To: screaminsunshine

I just turned off Shep Smith because I don’t want to vomit on my keyboard.

Sorry Shep, you can show me a week of rioting only to turn around and declare them to be peaceful protesters and all violence is coming from Mubarak even though you can’t prove it. Its Katrina all over again.

Shep even made a comparison to America in 1776.


14 posted on 02/03/2011 12:55:04 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: pissant

Wow - Obama isreally getting bitch slapped over this.


15 posted on 02/03/2011 12:56:33 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: screaminsunshine

“A News blackout appears to have been put in by the Cable networks”

They’re busy trying to manage perception of this event.

Like telling people that the masses fighting back who DON’T want an islamist government are “mubarak loyalists”


16 posted on 02/03/2011 12:56:58 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
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To: pissant

That’s funny since Obama’s had the identical attitude about the American people when it comes to Obamacare. This was a classic example of the “experts” telling Americans what they needed even as they were vociferously protesting they didn’t want it.


17 posted on 02/03/2011 12:57:14 PM PST by DrC
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To: cripplecreek

I turned off Fox News about a year ago.

Its as unwatchable as the rest.

Ever see Fox n Friends? Its almost embarassing how bad that is.


18 posted on 02/03/2011 12:58:28 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: pissant

Obama understands perfectly and wishes for the MB to take over the country.


19 posted on 02/03/2011 1:00:07 PM PST by Carley (ARAB STREET NO DIFFERENT THAN AMERICA'S LEFT)
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To: pissant
I just listen to Hillary Clinton on TV...she called on the army to take control of the situation in Egypt and claimed that the protestors have human rights which include the right to assemble and proteast. One thing that she doesn't any of us to believe is that under Mubarak that is exactly what they had...the right to assemble and protest.

Before the media and 0bama administration showed up, the protestors were protesting in Tahir Square and no one was bothering them. It wasn't until 0bama told Mubarak that he must leave "now" that things went to hell in a handbasket. Our president caused this mess!!!

20 posted on 02/03/2011 1:00:54 PM PST by NRG1973
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