Wow! Do they have Obama locked up and gagged in a closet somewhere in the WH?
They are so in over their heads. They realize their words have no pull. So, at this point - the US is left with confirming what is already decided by Egyptian officials and trying to say they have some type of part in the decision. Weak
Possibilities
1. Administration is duplicitous and doing the usual ‘Arab’ thing by saying one thing to one group and something else to another
2. Open defection in the administration.
3. Spokesman is incompetent
4. Administration is incompetent
5. Both 3 & 4 are true
6. Obama is uninvolved
Please note that none of these possibilities are mutually exclusive.
WTF?
I have already emailed this note to my friends-—
The Brits and the Germans have just handed Obama a vote of no-confidence in his leadership.
From the Wall Street Journal—
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, also in attendance, supported Egyptians’ demand for reform but stopped short of calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down immediately.
“I don’t think we in the West should be the ones to point fingers and say it’s this leader or that leader who has to go now or start now,” Mr. Cameron said. “We should say that we back countries that are putting in place the building blocks of civil society, and that’s exactly what we’re doing in Egypt.”
Ms. Merkel urged a “peaceful and orderly” transition in Egypt, even at the cost of delaying elections while civil institutions capable of supporting a new government are put in place.
“I think it would be wrong to hold a very quick election as the beginning of a democratization process,” Ms. Merkel said. “We have to give the people the chance to build the corresponding structures.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704843304576125920304697978.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Their left hand doesn’t know what their other left hand is doing...
Darling you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I’ll be here ’til the end of time
So you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
There’s lots of discussion as to whether 0bama and his minions are deliberately destructive to the US or are merely incompetent. This episode leans towards incompetence.
I honestly do not understand how 0bama can pretend or maybe I should say delude himself that he has the ability to tell Mubarak what to do, that he can tell the Egyptians what to do. I just don’t get it. Why does he think he’ll be able to affect the outcome?
And so, for him to wave a magic wand as if he’s some kind of sorcerer and either pronounce the outcome or predict the outcome or cajole one party or another to do his bidding, either public or private, is sheer folly. So the act of waving the magic wand is massively destructive of his credibility in all cases *except* where the outcome happens to match his pronouncement.
So a wise man would not dictate to Egypt nor Mubarek what to do. But that’s not what 0bama is.
Obotulism undermined PING!!
When you get Biden putting a gag on Obama for being a gaffmatic, then you will know things are really FUBAR.
As the Egyptian situation evolves by the minute, the American Pharaoh is looking more and more like a total asp.
By the time the Sunday interview begins, O'Reilly will barely be able to say, "Mr. President, as you know I'm fair and balanced...." and then he'll fall over in a dead faint.
Leni
Ha ha.
Presidents are supposed to be proactive. This one, on this subject, has been reactive and even late at that. Everyone saying different things daily, what a shower !
And now let the purge begin on Obama’s conspirators in the Egyptian army begin. Now neither our allies nor revolutionaries there of will trust Obama -Obama is now officially ineffectual universally. Who would have predicted? /sarc.
I would not have guessed that it was possible for the Kenyan Clown to appear more feckless or incompetent than during his bumbling of the Zelaya affair in Honduras, but lo and behold, it appears that was just a warm-up for an even more embarrassing pratfall in Egypt.
Frank Wisner has forgotten more about Egypt than Obama could learn in a lifetime.