Egyptian Egg on Obama’s Face

[Stephanie]

how embarrassing...
a lot of links in article at site

SNIP:

Michael Youssef | Jul 07, 2013
In 2011, President Obama quickly called on President Mubarak to acquiesce to demonstrators’ demands and leave office.

With Mubarak out of the way, Obama proceeded to support the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, who succeeded in stealing the revolution.

Obama’s support extended to an ex-con named Muhammad Morsi. By his own admission, Morsi was in prison during the January 25 demonstration. But he was in contact with members of Hamas, who broke into the prison and freed Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood prisoners.

When Morsi ran for the presidency, Obama continued to support him, even when it was clear that the close election was rigged by dubious tactics.

With six possible Muslim Brotherhood operatives working in the Obama administration, and Obama’s full-fledged support of Morsi, you would think that Egyptians would be in love with Obama. But the deeply troubled Egyptian public is in no way enamored with this White House. Quite the contrary.

More than 40 percent of Egyptian citizens currently must survive on about $2 US per day. Lines to purchase gasoline stretch on for hours. The lines for a tank of propane—needed for cooking and other necessities of life—extend for up to nine hours. Electricity is cut off from 2-3 hours per night.

When the Egyptian masses finally couldn’t take it anymore, 22 million people signed a petition to recall Morsi’s election—more than twice the number of people than originally voted for him.

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Egyptian Egg on Obama?s Face - Michael Youssef - Page 1

 

[Osomir]

So a couple of things:

1.) I notice that a lot of people on here, you included, keep talking about how Obama directly supported the Muslim Brotherhood before and during the elections. But none of you, this article included ever give examples of how he did so. Also, the original protests against Mubarak had nothing to do with the Muslim Brotherhood. They didn't organize them or even participate in them at first. They were late entries into the game. Obama calling on Mubarak to acquiesce occurred before the Muslim Brotherhood even played their hand.

2.) Your article talks of vote rigging, and there were some concerns about irregularities; but for the most part, they were lobbied against the Egyptian military and their supported candidate: Ahmed Shafik. It occurred around the military receiving huge numbers of voter ID cards to vote for him in violation of the election rules and with the subsequent military's attempt to declare Shafik the winner even while the findings of the independent electoral committee disagreed with what the military was saying. (and the military did turn out to be wrong). Trying to throw those irregularities at the feet of the Muslim Brotherhood is dishonest.

3.) the Tamarod rebel petition (the petition your article mentions) was released by a protest group and never verified despite being asked to display proof of their numbers. There was no independent audit of the signatures to confirm the claims.

 

[asaratis]

I wonder if Obama sees any parallel between what happened in Egypt and what could possibly happen here. I can understand his goal of establishing his own personal police force...as he said he wanted to be equal in power to the US military.