Posted on 02/15/2011 5:40:21 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder
In the end, President Obama made a hugely important but unintended contribution to the democracy revolution in Egypt. Because the Obama team never found the voice to fully endorse the Tahrir Square revolution until it was over, the people in that square now know one very powerful thing: They did this all by themselves. That is so important. One of the most powerful chants I heard in the square on Friday night was: The people made the regime step down.
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The US is who got toppled here, Tommy. You sure is one of them dumb guys, isn't you?
In other words Obama is so dumb he’s smart. What does that sort of analysis make Friedman?
“Brilliant Paralysis”
Gotta admit, it has a ring to it!
(Was it you said it,him,or me?
Aw-w-w, what-the -hell. We’ll split the proceeds!)
Friedman is an idiot.
OMG!
They might have caused the regime to step down..for another that is by far worse. Time will tell.
It took a few months after the Iran deal finally came to full realization. By then it was to late.
Nobody can use the phrase "in the end" with this situation.
And now they have a military dictatorship rather than a military dictatorship with a figurehead. Ok...
vs
"Mr. Obama was furious, and it did not help that his secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Wisners key backer, was publicly warning that any credible transition would take time even as Mr. Obama was demanding that change in Egypt begin right away... The trouble in sending a clear message was another example of how divided Mr. Obamas foreign policy team remains..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2674092/posts
The New York Times -- all the opinion masquerading as news that they feel fit to print, no matter obviously desperately they slant it in the process.
So Obama was being brilliant in all the times he has essentially voted “present” and done nothing. Hell, if doing nothing were a sign of brilliance, my lazy, fat, sister-in-law is smarter than Einstein.
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