Here’s another mind-bender I’d love to hear Obama supporters defend:
Egyptians in the millions [are] out on the street, trying to bring down an Islamist government, increasingly dictatorial, increasingly intolerant, arresting journalists and judges, trying to Islamicize the military and the people are saying no, and what does the president of the United States do? He takes a position of studied neutrality, says he is not supporting either side. And yet, as you point out in the Mubarak revolution, he obviously strongly took the side of the people. He demanded that Mubarak had to go, he was not neutral.
This reminds me of the Green Revolution in Iran in 2009 when the same thing happened. Islamists, dictatorial government, the people out in the street, and they were shouting Obama, Obama, are you with us or against us. And he took a position that was essentially supportive of the regime, and the reason was he wanted to negotiate a nuclear deal which he thought he could do and he didn’t want instability.
That was a shameful episode. But there’s also idea of national interest. Mubarak was pro-American, he was an ally of ours, he helped us in all kinds of ways. Obama worked against him. Morsi represents a movement which is essentially deeply anti-American, and deeply anti-democratic, yet he is neutral on this.This is a shocking position for a president to take. (Charles Krauthammer, Special Report, July 1, 2013)
I would remind readers of something I wrote back in November of 2012:
Barack Obama recently welcomed the election of the first Islamist president in Egypt’s history.
This is a man who during his campaign, a campaign the Obama administration openly supported, said: “The Koran is our Constitution, the prophet is our leader, jihad is our path, and death in the name of allah is our goal.”
This same man, Mohamed Morsi, belongs to an organization called the Muslim Brotherhood, which among other things explicitly pledges in its charter to “infiltrate western society and destroy it from within.”
This same man, to whom Barack Obama sent $450 million taxpayer dollars, also supports forced female circumcision, genital mutilation, and the absolute rejection of women’s rights.
If, therefore, you believe, as I do, in women’s rights, gay rights, and the inalienable rights of all human beings regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, color, class, or creed, please note that if you backed Barack Obama, you backed a man who backs a man who sanctions this. Because when the Obama administration says, as it recently did: “We look forward to working with President-elect Mohamed Morsi, and the government he forms” — they were not, I assure you, kidding (though in reality it sounds like a very sick joke indeed).
The Brotherhood, although still holding a few seats in Egypts Parliament, had been banned from Egyptian soil since the assassination of Sadat.
That is until Obama made his worldwide apology speech to Islam from Cairo where the MB got to sit up front and center.
So, obviously, by taking the side of the people, theres a conflict of interest.
Elections are coming up and theres no way the left is going to gain seats if they evn so much as fart in the direction of Egypt, Syria, or Iran.
Besides, hes just recently informed us that terrorism in the middle east is almost been dealt with, so, we can all relax.
Yes, we can all breathe easy, brother.
Hope you had a good 4th of July.
Since they’ve outlawed all fireworks here, cept for those stupid little paper bottles with the string.
I invested in some dry ice,”recyclable” 2 liter bottles, and a little water.
Fuckin fire dept was busy chasing “only noise” all night (thats funny to a certain extent)
The Asian population here is notorious for extreme firecracker and fireworks sales and use.
The fourth and New Years are the two times of the year I looked forward to the most because the sky and the decibels are fucking insanely pleasurable.
Well, the fucking greenies would have no part of our skies getting a little smokey for a couple days so now everyone is buying underground black market rockets that land on and burn down about 20 houses every New Years and fourth.
Way to go assholes.