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Obama sharply criticizes Egyptian govt's move
Yahoo ^ | 2/10/11 | Ben Feller - ap

Posted on 02/10/2011 6:50:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama on Thursday openly and sharply questioned whether Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's pledge to shift power to his vice president is an "immediate, meaningful or sufficient" sign of reform for a country in upheaval.

Without naming Mubarak, Obama issued a written statement that criticized the leader for not offering clarity to his people or a concrete path to democracy. He called on Egyptian government leaders to do so, declaring: "They have not yet seized that opportunity."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: criticizes; egyptian; hypocrite; mubarak; muslimbrotherhood; obama
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To: mrsmith
Just one exception:

"Like the first letter of his name, Obama is about as sharp as a bowling ball."

Cheers!

21 posted on 02/10/2011 7:02:38 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: NormsRevenge
I thought this Alien Asshole was going to let Egyptians solve their own problems.

not

22 posted on 02/10/2011 7:05:23 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: NormsRevenge

“Where are the skinny people ?”
Looks like the fatties ate them......


23 posted on 02/10/2011 7:05:37 PM PST by 9422WMR (Illegal is not a race.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Psst...college kids...you don’t have a future; thanks to this pencil-necked dweeb. WTF, right?


24 posted on 02/10/2011 7:08:14 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Wow, now his thin-skinedness is out there on the world stage for all to see. What a mess he is making.


25 posted on 02/10/2011 7:09:13 PM PST by rabidralph (...Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.--Penny Chenery, Owner, Secretariat)
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To: NormsRevenge

RESIGN Barack Obama.


26 posted on 02/10/2011 7:09:54 PM PST by PGalt
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To: ClearCase_guy

LOL!


27 posted on 02/10/2011 7:10:37 PM PST by rabidralph (...Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.--Penny Chenery, Owner, Secretariat)
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To: NormsRevenge

Zer0 doubles down.


28 posted on 02/10/2011 7:11:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: NormsRevenge

Response from Egypt: Blow me


29 posted on 02/10/2011 7:11:43 PM PST by Mr. K ("Diversity is an obstacle to be overcome, not a goal to be achieved" -Ann Coulter)
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To: NormsRevenge
Bristling with impatience

Well, how can you have a Caliphate if the Caliph is not obeyed?

Doesn't Mubarak understand the meaning of Islam? It means SUBMIT TO YOUR MASTER.

30 posted on 02/10/2011 7:12:26 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: mrsmith

No variation of “sharp” belongs in a sentence with “Obama” in it

I always say “sharp as a marble”


31 posted on 02/10/2011 7:12:43 PM PST by ropin71 (God Bless our Troops!)
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To: NormsRevenge

“Bristling” cracks me up. We are, we aren’t, go, stay. wait.

Now he’s “bristling”.

Where were these hog-sized nuts when you could have knocked Ahmedinejad off his feet, American “leader”?


32 posted on 02/10/2011 7:12:51 PM PST by One Name
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To: grey_whiskers

According to CONSERVATIVE American commentators on FOX NEWS, the protesters - at this point - are NOT Islamic fanatics, and the Muslim Brotherhood does NOT have the support needed to take this revolution over. AT THIS POINT it is a spontaneous secularist movement of people tired of a tyrant who has sucked their country dry of money and brutalized them to the extent that most of them have to live on $3.00 a day, and subject to control by NAZI like storm troopers.

The BEST scenario here is for the Egyptian Military to take over, kick Mubarak out, and set up a transitional Junta style Government until Mubarak’s term ends in September, allowing secularist opposition groups to coalesce and present a strong slate of candidates.

IF the Egyptian Military FIRES on their own people and backs Mubarak, THAT will provide the spark to allow the Islamic Radicals to take over and engineer Mubarak’s over throw. The Islamists WANT the Military to do this and they WANT Mubarak to remain in power as a visible target of public hate.

Obama’s statements and those of his administration on this subject have been as inconsistent and ridiculous as Mubarak’s rambling nonsensical speech.

U.S. Officials who were responsible for not providing information on this situation earlier or refused to take behind the scenes action to lever that bastard Mubarak out of office, should be called to account by the American public.


33 posted on 02/10/2011 7:14:47 PM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Mubarak just rendered Obama, and the United States, irrelevant. At this point, it's like the leader of Belgium demanding that Mubarak step down from power. The Chinese run the world now, and I'm sure China and Russia want Mubarak in power in order to preserve the status quo in the Middle East.

The major difference is that China and Russia don't have leaders who need to stroke their own egos in public by making multiple statements, all with a different message, on the same Egyptian scenario.

The “what if” game is often played on FR, but had W. Bush bungled this situation this poorly, and had his Intel department testified that the Muslim Brotherhood was a “secular” organization, there would be a movement from the Democrats to pressure Bush to resign.

This Egyptian leadership crisis is an absolute disaster for Obama, but more so for the United States. We've become a secondary ‘power’.

34 posted on 02/10/2011 7:22:01 PM PST by Carling (Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


35 posted on 02/10/2011 7:22:18 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: NormsRevenge

The Narcissist in Chief is Spreading his rage at being rebuked.

If anyone doubts that the Islamist will destroy all the treasures of Egypt don’t. If the Army joins the rage infected expect destruction of all the treasures.

Anything that produces an insight into the evolution of cultures BEFORE Mo, has to be obliterated. Christians, Jews,
the birth place of Christ. The disease of the Islamist is all incompassing.


36 posted on 02/10/2011 7:23:20 PM PST by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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To: Caipirabob

Is that George McFly in Back to the Furture?


37 posted on 02/10/2011 7:23:48 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: NormsRevenge
"Too many Egyptians remain unconvinced that the government is serious about a genuine transition to democracy," Obama said, "and it is the responsibility of the government to speak clearly to the Egyptian people and the world."

Look who's talking!

38 posted on 02/10/2011 7:24:09 PM PST by 4woodenboats
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To: Milhous

Especially after our cowardly “community organizer” so quietly tip-toed around the Iranian patriots’ fight for freedom.


39 posted on 02/10/2011 7:24:50 PM PST by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: ZULU
What does that have to do with bowling balls? (see post #21 to which this was a reply)

Cheers!

40 posted on 02/10/2011 7:25:07 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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