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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Obama strategy be on all sides of every issue.... and when things go south...
1. Blame Bush
2. Blame Republicans
3. Blame the people
4. Say it wasn’t you..........
Who’s on first?
Abbott n Costello, circa 2011
Without the class, of course.
Bring on the clowns.
Oh wait, they are already here and the chief clown is in the white hut.
It sounds like the old “Who’s On First?” routine.
Fail after fail after fail, 800 billion in arms to Saudi’s who kill African’s, dissing Israel and going on Al Jazeera, dissing Nancy Reagan only second after winning the presidency, calling racism and having a beer summit, screwing the pooch on helping ally South Korea, screw pooch on the oath of office, lies through his teeth, blames everyone but himself after he said he takes responsibility from here on out, makes a mockery of congress with health care bill they’re not allowed to read, strong arming congress, letting Black Panthers slide when it was a slam dunk, don’t wanna dis their bruthah’s, parties every third day in WH, Egypt of course, forcing Israel to make sanctions and surrender land when Saudi’s( see above get freebies, dissing American people, never has anything to say about the terrorist murders by Major( “allahu Ackbarf”) Hasan, bailing out scum, too many czars with no over site, redistribution of wealth, ACORN scam...and much much more!!
USA - by remote control
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/02/saudi-king-gives-oba-hussein-marching.html
The only reason he backed away from the Leftist takeover in Honduras is he was exposed for what he is.
The only reason, and he continued back room punishment of our brave friends in Honduras.
FUBO!
Viva Micheletti, Viva Honduras
The leftist targets must be illuminated, exposed, taken out. They are the enemy of all free men.....
It also didn’t help that Gibbs spoke of a transition, but refused to say who Egypt should transition to. They are so awful in so many ways...
Yeah...like this:
Heads.....Ragu beef
Tails.....Lobster ..(no pun intended)
White House, State Department move to end Egypt confusion
One word describes these buffoons: Dysfunctional.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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The act itself evidence of a confused administration
Didn't they already do that?
Their plan is to stamp the whole country flat, and then rename it New Islam.
Looks more like Biden's foreign policy test moment came six month's into ZerO's administration and just hasn't stopped.
It’s good to no longer have Pelosi as THIRD IN LINE.
The “reports” are 100% correct. They have been sending out conflicting signals.
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