That says a lot.
It was horrendous to have Obama out there a week ago saying Mubarak needed to be GONE "now" --- and emphasizing that "now means yesterday."
That is not how to handle someone who has been a good friend of our country and a force for peace in the Middle East for decades.
I am not suggesting that we had to be delusional and think Mubarak could stay if that was, based on facts on the ground, not true. However, those facts can be worked in private, not by some dumb POTUS standing up, wagging his finger (as Obama did) and pontificating about how Mubarak had to be gone "now and that means yesterday."
Obama to Mubarak: Now Means Yeterday.
I agree with Chris on this one.
“It was horrendous to have Obama out there a week ago saying Mubarak needed to be GONE “now” -— and emphasizing that “now means yesterday.”
I think this was a direct attack on Bush and the evil American policy in the middle east in general - evil in the sense it does not include the oppressed Muslim brotherhood groups, and props up dictators. He can’t wait to change it and build new dialogue with Muslims - which in his naive view will lead to world peace and the laying down of arms by the extremists.
He sees himself as the great messiah by loving the enemy. Of course he is doing the exact opposite of what he think he will achieve.