Posted on 02/09/2011 5:04:38 PM PST by Sub-Driver
White House, State Department move to end Egypt confusion
W.H., State move to end Egypt confusion By: Josh Gerstein February 9, 2011 07:28 PM EST
The White House is moving to stamp out reports that top officials — including Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — are sending conflicting signals about how best to resolve the crisis in Egypt.
On Wednesday, the White House and the State Department staged a 50-minute conference call for reporters Wednesday to insist that the administration’s messages on the standoff between embattled President Hosni Mubarak and demonstrators demanding his ouster have been consistent both in public — and private.
“We’ve been very closely aligned and coordinated as a national security team and will continue to do so in the future,” Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications, told reporters.
Talk of a rift in the administration over Egypt picked up in recent days after Clinton seemed to offer support for Vice President Omar Suleiman, Mubarak’s hand-picked lieutenant, as someone who could see Egypt through to elections in September. “It’s important to support the transition process announced by the Egyptian government actually headed by now-Vice President Omar Suleiman,” Clinton told a security conference in Germany Saturday.
On Tuesday, amidst reports that the administration was promoting the longtime Egyptian intelligence chief as a stabilizing figure, Biden spoke with Suleiman, but White House descriptions of the call didn’t include Suleiman’s specific role. “Vice President Biden urged that the transition produce immediate, irreversible progress that responds to the aspirations of the Egyptian people,” according to the so-called readout of the call.
Rhodes insisted to reporters Wednesday there was no disconnect, and that Clinton was not giving Suleiman the nod.
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Notice the WH doesn't that deny top officials are sending out mixed messages. They just want the press to stop reporting it.
s/b: Notice the WH doesn’t deny that top officials are sending out mixed messages. They just want the press to stop reporting it.
moving to stamp out reports
They seem to do a lot of stamping out.
True enough.
Kinda make you wonder if he isn’t doing these things with intent to undermine our allies.
staged a 50-minute conference call for reporters -——
Scary isn’t it..
Thanks Sub-Driver. The only real change is to admit there was confusion indirectly, by claiming there was not. :’)
Sounds like the ole Jimmie Durante routine “They wanted me to go before they wanted me to stay”
There are suspicions that this was a cacophoney orchestrated with the help of the Obama regime. Obama and his band of syncophants demonstrate little understanding of how democracy can go awry begining with the ancient Greek state of Attica. They tried “free” elections in Gaza and the result is ?
Perhaps Obama should have read Churchill’s observations on the subject (demoracy) instead of chucking his bust out of the Oval Office because the father Obama never had, blamed the man (Churchill) for Kenyan’s problems.
I fear we not only lost Egypt but the entire middle east.
Will the WH order all the overseas newspapers to delete all of ‘the WH was behind this in secret’ stories? Will they delete Obama’s Cairo speech in which his brotherhood of muslims were invited and addressed in the speech? Will they delete all of the calls of the WH and Clinton for Mubarak to step down?
It is obvious they are failures and were cought red handed.
Even the media (this very article) can see right through them and reported it.
The Circus is running out of time.
These people at the helm are IDIOTS!
Apparently, the Saudis are now calling the shots.
The ‘confusion’ won’t end until 2012.
“Note that they’re not moving to fix their incompetence...”
And they never will. It’s not incompetence. It’s willful destruction.
Obama was certainly giving his muslim brotherhood 'the nod' in his Cairo speech.
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Excellent!
The President resigns.
The VP resigns.
I'm OK with President Boehner
Other than that, confusion is one of our middle names, President Barak Hussein Confused Obama. Or is it Barak Confused Hussein Obama. I forget.
Cater ii
Our “WTF” team needed to demonstrate their position/message is FUBAR
You mean, Obungles and Hilary are both resigning?
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