I guess Egyptians not wanting to live under the boot of Islamists didn’t get Obama’s message that he would prefer his friends in the Muslim Brotherhood retain power.
Nor did the Egyptian military ignore the will of the Egyptian people under threat by Obama to cut off military aid should they help in the overthrow of the organization whose stated mission is the destruction of the West, from both inside and out — though Obama and his Secretary of State assure us the Muslim Brotherhood’s control over Egypt is in the national security interests of the US (a claim that has always been laughable on its face).
Which officially opens the way for Egypt’s entry into the no-longer terribly exclusive club of Countries That Are Openly Willing To Treat Obama Like The International Joke He Is, even as our own GOP refuses to do the same right here on the domestic front, so terrified are they of his supposed mystical powers over the brainwashed electorate.
Well played, chaps. Well played.
The collapse of the Soviet Union must have looked like this from Moscow.
– I can almost see the collapse of Obama from my back porch.
The Army has been the power behind the throne in Egypt for many years. The MB thought they could push them out, but I guess they thought wrong. The MB tried to replace all the Army functionaries who ran the food distribution channels which is probably the biggest reason there has been so much unrest. We’ll see if they can right the ship of state before the whole thing collapses.
– The Magical Technocolor Great Coat of Utopia is turning out to be just a plain dayglo green vinyl rainguard from WalMart.
Nothing on Obama’s official schedule today – any idea where he is and why he hasn’t commented on this yet? This is the guy who feels compelled to make statements on stuff like the Cambridge police acting stupidly, after all.
One has to wonder if the Chinese “Call Me Bwana” government has made an offer.
– Is Russia and America switching horses? Curiouser and curiouserDorothy.
Libby, I think today the golf course at Andrews AFB is seeing an abnormally high occurrence of foot wedge use, bunker shots, and ball-eating deep rough. It’s hard to be Da King, you know.
– And now kids for the correct link, although the Jarrett memo shows the inner workings of the make believe paper mache’ WH.
egyptians are a very rapey people
do not like
VDH on how the president’s saber-rattling in the Middle East makes America look weak and puts the world in danger:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/150931
One big political fail for Obama…
I did not agree with everthing he did, but in comparison to what we have now, George Bush is looking smarter and smarter all the time…
Didn’t the MoBros start in Egypt, way back in the day?
Must be why they’re wise to them.
– B-b-but, then he wouldn’t have the adoration of his Muslim brotha’s.
– How’s that brotha-hood thing working out for you Waffle ears?
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Jonathan Alter Links Egyptian Military Coup To Obama’s Cairo Speech
Fifth Grader in Podunk Links Egyptian Military Coup To Barack Obama’s Golf Handicap
I’m not sure which one is more impressive, but I’ll go with the golf handicap
What is interesting in the statements was the use of the word “technocrat” as a good thing. It seems that most of the outgoing government had spent most of their time, prior to joining the Morsi government, praying and reading the Quran all day, and had no executive experience.
“No executive experience” .. hmm .. I’ve seen this somewhere else before today .. but where ?
A puzzle, is what that is.
Although one could argue that the Muslim Brotherhood actually started in Greeley, Colorado.
I really hate to say this but I’m starting to think that they need a Kemal Ataturk like bastard to try and re-modernize the place by force and put some real fear in the heads of the MB. But I probably shouldn’t say things like that because I won’t have to live under him. And I’m not a Turk so I probably don’t really even understand what I just said. Consider this water-cooler drivel please.
Or a Marshal Tito, perhaps…
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– So then, Egypt is now being run by the Arab equivalent of Sesame street.
– And we are financing it, just like PBS, but with more flags and fireworks.
” by the Arab equivalent of Sesame street.”
i see it as the military tossing out the “community organizers” and trying to install egyptian civil society
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Are we going to continue to bankroll the new government?
When do the beheadings begin? Morsi and his cabinet, I mean? Isn’t that the usual order of business?
You can’t install cvil society. It’s either already there, or it isn’t.
I thought we all agreed that was the lesson of our Iraqi & Afghanistan misadventures.
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I’ve been snark-blocked!
“You can’t install cvil society”
you can reestablish the local variety that existed under mubarack. so bad choice of words by moi
also
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With little going on in the world, Secretary of State John Kerry enjoys quiet time on his yacht
Indeed the main difference between Obama and Morsi may be that Obama hasn’t run out of money yet.
– The working word for today kids is “yet”. Can you say yet and use it in a sentence?
– Maybe sKerry ass can use his yacht to sail around the world and find that form DDS-180.
It’s over there next to The Hat™.
I’ve been snark-blocked!
Heh. I’ve been practicing.
– Oh right. Cambodia, the Magic Hat™, and dreams of not quite President Nixon for christmas. What a swiftboat kick in the ass.
– Bumblefuck does his usual “empty threat” press release, no doubt annoyed he had to interupt his front nine for the effort.
– But what the hell. I guess we shouldn’t complain when his empty gestures don’t cost us 100 million like the phoney African photo-op tour.
Asked whether the Egyptian army had the legitimacy to remove Mursi from power, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, “We’re not taking sides in this.”
– Translation: “We’re totally impotent in this situation, as usual, so we’ll pretend we have any say in anything just for the media until it blows over.”
Honestly, who cares if Morsi was democratically elected? So was Hitler.
“community organizers” are having a bad week
Immigration from the US to Russia may be the future. You know, since liberty seems to have a better chance there than here in the future. Not to mention a more virtuous citizenry (judging by BBH’s link).
Can individuals own property (real estate) there, now that the USSR is gone and mother Russia is reborn? If so, the only question is, file papers, or find a coyote.
‘Cuz it seems America is gone, and here, the USSR has been reborn.
– At the very least LBascom, it’s an interesting canundrum. Maybe Snowden was the first.
– For me it would be going home to my ancestry, little of which trace probably remains, even in a country as slow to change as the Rodina.
– Civil war Reenactments and broadcasts from Gettysburg continues here.
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You know things are bad when you can’t even successfully implement your own bad ideas.
Honestly, who cares if Morsi was democratically elected? So was Hitler.
Exactly
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– On Sunday the Breitbart link will include a reenactment of Picketts charge, including 10 to 12 thousand actors and as many canons as was actually there on both sides, with “embeded” camera’s during the entire enactment. The schedule has things getting under way at around 12 noon Pa time, with the actual battle timed to coincide with the actual time 150 years ago on July 3rd, 1863.
When the president of the United States only attracts a handful of admirers to hear him speak in Berlin, and gets booed in Soweto, you know that things are not going well.
oh sorry for the html fail
Spengler on Egypt. And Austin Bay too.
From the Austin Bay link.
Unfortunately we here got the hat trick, twice.
i’m sure val gal and axeldude will make the media world right for the baracky
Obama to Egyptian Protestors: Drop Dead
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Mubarak lasted 30 years and was our nominal ally, Morsi couldn’t make it 30 months. Dear Leader sure knows how to pick a winner.
Honestly, who cares if Morsi was democratically elected? So was Hitler. –
Yea, well we’ve got a great example right here. LIV … media bias.
democracy only works with an informed citizenry and independent media.
We have neither.
We were more “democratic” before all the “get out the vote” movements which simply encourage disconnected, completely uninformed people to vote D.
You guys all know this. I’m just depressed this morning.
Mursi was an Obama sock puppet. Now that the puppet is afire, will Obama’s hand get singed? Evidence that both Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood government and Mursi himself were involved in the attacks on the U.S. Special Mission Compound (SMC) and C.I.A. Annex is becoming rather incontrovertible.
html fail…that should’ve been in blockquotes.
We’re waiting for the tap, tap, tap.
Logo love.
LOL love.
Today Carin, is as good a day as another to re-read A. Lincoln’s 1838 Lyceum Address, which confronts at a farseeing distance the evil forgetfulness we meet in the present.
We can marvel at Lincoln’s deep political grasp. But better yet, we can apply our own thoughts to the solution he proposes, to see whether that solution can be somehow re-invigorated in our time. As always, to my mind, the solution stands in the human manner and propriety of education, eternally the long path of life.
Hey, nothing says American Power like threatening to cut off 1+ billion dollars in military aid if you stage a coup… oh, wait, you did it already ? Nevermind
Good lord what a pathetic retard running this country.
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