Gibbs is quiet on call to Mubarak

Politico44 ^ | 02/03/11 | MATT NEGRIN

[ColdOne]

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Thursday that President Obama has asked Hosni Mubarak to resign as president of Egypt now, though he didn’t say it outright.

Here’s the exchange from the gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One:

Question: “Does the administration want Mubarak to step down now?”

Gibbs: “I’d refer you to my answer on that yesterday. I think the – I’m not going to get into the private conversations that the President has had with President Mubarak.

“The time for transition, as the president said, is now.

[Freddd]

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs suggested Thursday that President Obama has asked Hosni Mubarak to resign as president of Egypt now, though he didn’t say it outright——This is the second such article to come out today in the media, they are trying to reshape, what Obama actually said, and Gibbs too. Obama did ask him to step down NOW, and Gibbs said NOW means Yesterday!

Suddenly Politico and Christiane Armanpour is claiming Obama only made ‘veiled’ suggestions, and political saying he never even said it!

[Jolla]

I’m not going to get into the private conversations that the President has had with President Mubarak

Private conversations? - BO tells everyone

[mojito]

Oh, isn’t that cute. The Press Secretary is playing coy with reporters.

Of course, King 0 told Mubarak to resign.

Then, Mubarak told King 0 to stuff it.

Now, WH is trying to paper over the fact.

Good luck.

[Don Corleone]

Gibbs is quiet on call to Mubarak

Given the state of USA finances the call was probably 'collect'./s

[SpaceBar]

Imagine back when we were kids and what would have happened if we had told our parents when asked to clean our rooms, “I’d refer you to my answer on that yesterday”.

[tet68]

They must think Mubarak is getting the upper hand and
now it’s time to back track...

[paulycy]

[ColdOne]

Imagine back when we were kids and what would have happened if we had told our parents when asked to clean our rooms, “I’d refer you to my answer on that yesterday”. I would have been knocked into next week! LOL!