Updated 2/2/2011 11:35 AM
Speaking in the wake of the Hosni Mubarak speech, President Obama sounded a familiar refrain, praising the reasonableness of the long-standing Egyptian dictator, giving lip-service to an “orderly transition” toward reforms, and suggesting Egyptians have at least some rights.
Amongst those rights, which President Obama detailed, were the rights to assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom to access information. Notably absent was the right to elect their leaders, something many in the Obama Administration have angrily opposed.
Instead Obama said that Mubarak, like all rulers, truly gets it, insisting “I spoke directly to President Mubarak. He recognizes that the status quo is not sustainable and that a change must take place. Indeed, all of us who are privileged to serve in positions of political power do so at the will of our people.”
But President Obama did have some praise for the Egyptian military lauding them for the comparative success they’ve had in managing to not massacre civilians in the streets of Cairo. Despite repeated exhortations to crush the opposition, notably from US pundits worried that a free Egypt was a “threat,” Egypt’s military refused to open fire on the protesters.
At the same time President Obama’s grudging acceptance that Egyptians are going to eventually have some sort of election, and calls for a “transition” before this, will likely fuel more anger in Egypt, where it is believed that the US, with its massive funding of Mubarak, is simply stalling and hoping that the whole matter will simply be forgotten.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune ran an AP article on their web site that repeatedly stated that 250,000 protesters turned out in Cairo even as other news outlets including Al Jazeera said that at one point today as many as two million protesters were in the streets of Cairo. 250,000 were estimated to have joined the protest in Sinai. Obama has support from the established press that I believe will continue to drive a pro west, pro Mubarak line.
orderly transtion what a joke! It tells a lot about how the leaders of the west think. Democracy is good for them but not good for the third world people. We the people of the third world countries have no right to decide who rules us. They always talk about stability, it was stability from 1953 to 1979 in Iran from 1987 till a few weeks ago in Tunis and for the last 30 years in Egypt. No body cares what happed to the people of these countries during this stable period. They don,t do the body count. What a shame!!!
There shouldn’t be any doubts that even NY Times or for that LA Times would publishing news or article written by those who would support Mubarak.., questions is if "American Enterprise Institute" which is organization managed by Zionism in America have anything to do with it. In the other hand US and EU for that matter and their "friends" in the regions are these kind of regime and if they change into a functioning democracy then EU and US would have a fresh problem on their hand.., here, the changes should not surprise anyone if it comes to your door steps changing your life. The people movement in North African countries, in Africa and in Middle East already making its mark here at home and in Europe which means that US and EU governments having a bad headaches but they don’t want to talk about it, and they are not going to talk about the positive incomes when the changes are made until they are defeated by the people.
Here is a double language by democrats in the US senate according to JW news paper: Six Senate Democrats on Tuesday rejected a deficit-driven proposal by a new Republican senator to cut US aid to Israel. In a letter to the top House Republicans on the Appropriations and Budget committees, the Democrats said aid to Israel, the only democratic nation in the Middle East, is imperative. They backed the $3 billion in foreign military assistance that the US provides annually to Israel.
It is well known facts that many of US democrats support the dictatorial regime in Egypt and elsewhere and they pay the regime to continue its atrocity toward its people, hence, the people of Egypt wanting to have a independent and democratically elected government and to achieve their goal they need all kind of help and support from the US government.., so where is that help and support and above all where is that democracy that US is talking about.
People: what is happening in Egypt is yet another orchestrated police and secret service Mubarak thugs whom are attacking people.., if you want to do something about it call the White House and demand from President Obama to act and cut off the aid to Egypt until Mubarak is out.., this has been the demand by the people of Egypt and thus far is been a peaceful demand. For democracy to flourish democracy needs to help democrats’ whom demands are based on the principals in democracy, helping Mubarak is helping his thugs.., so where is that democracy that US is talking about. plz call Obama's hotline 202-456-1111.