Posted on 02/11/2011 2:39:57 PM PST by lbryce
Three weeks of historic protests in Egypt upended President Hosni Mubarak’s regime on Friday with the world looking. But here at the Conservative Political Action Conference, hardly anyone took any notice.
For the past 36 hours, television news broadcasts have been glued to the central square in Cairo as Mr. Mubarak appeared to be clinging to power before finally stepping down as president on Friday.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party’s leading presidential hopefuls for 2012 gave major speeches to the faithful that gave no hint — with one exception — of the turmoil playing out in the Middle East.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, criticized President Obama’s foreign policy, but did not mention Egypt as he charged that “an uncertain world has been made more dangerous by the lack of clear direction from a weak president.”
Newt Gingrich spoke Thursday as rumors circulated that Mr. Mubarak would resign. Donald Trump gave his talk Thursday evening at the same moment that the Egyptian president took to the airwaves to say he was transferring power to his vice president.
None of them said anything about the events abroad.
The first speaker to address the situation in Egypt directly was Representative Ron Paul of Texas, who told an enthusiastic crowd on Friday that America should never have sent billions of dollars to “prop up dictators” like Mr. Mubarak.
Mr. Paul said that fiscal conservatives should be troubled by the $70 billion in aid that the United States gave to the Egyptian regime over the last three decades.
“All of the Middle East is unstable because of this,” Mr. Paul said, speaking over applause from the crowd of activists.
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Dam*ed if you do, dam*ned if you don't.
Really, this is such an egregiously prejudicial propaganda piece worthy of Pravda in its heyday that with all that is being accomplished at CPAC all the New York Slimes can manage to conjure up is this incredibly lame BS. So they couldn't find a real story in which to malign the event, went with what is modus operandi for them, resorting to histrionic, hand-wringing righteous indignation they are so adept at. It's a testament to CPAC's success that the New York Slimes, trying so very hard to malign the event only manages to come up with drivel such as this.
Until we can get rid of Obama and get our own house in order there is no use worrying about what is happening in Egypt.
All of the Middle East is unstable because of this,” Mr. Paul said, speaking over applause from the crowd of activists.
The Middle East is unstable because of islam
Mr. Shear, did you happen to write the same thing about the Obama’s having a Super Bowl party while protesters in Egypt were starving?
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