1 He won't say anything.  He'll just bow real low like.

2 Any golf courses in Egypt?

3 Fox News reporting The White Stripes have broken up. Maybe Obama can work a miracle, and get them back together. Jack White did perform at The White House. I mean, Obama is not doing much of any good anywhere else, is he?

4

Did someone say puppet?

5 Obama wants to get the Brotherhodd into Egypt. That will make it easier for Obama to crush Israel.

6 What's with the bullseye around Obama's head? Looks so... Violent.

7 Umm, uhh, I hate to bring this up... camel rectum in the background?

8 7 Umm, uhh, I hate to bring this up... camel rectum in the background?

No...it's in the foreground.

Cordially...

9 If Mubarak is murdered, Obama is indirectly responsible. I've never been ashamed of the US, but I am now.

10 7 Umm, uhh, I hate to bring this up... camel rectum in the background?

Posted by: t-bird at February 02, 2011 06:10 PM (FcR7P)

Yeah,  it's sorta like an Egyptian goatse.

11

"But it's not as if we were all super-invested in seeing Mubarak deposed."

I'm thinking it's more a matter of Obama not wanting another Tienanmen massacre happening on his watch, live on CNN (via the Al-Jazeera feed).  It's not so much that he cares about the Egyptian people, but he knows how badly a bloodbath would play to the American public: it'd make Obama look pretty weak and helpless.

12 I am pulling hard for Mubarak to survive this coup by the Nobel boys, Obama and ElBaradei

13

Question becomes, how does this look to the rest of the world.

Muby was OUR guy, and we are now throwing him to the wolves, and essentialy ORDERING him to stand down.

1. Betraying a longtime ally in the War on Terror.

2. Telling a foreign FREINDLY government, what to do, and when to do it.

Today it is not GITMO which is recruiting Islamist terrorists... its Obama prooving that everything they say about us being dishonorable and controlling, is true.

14 What's with the bullseye around Obama's head? Looks so... Violent.

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 02, 2011 06:09 PM (tJjm/)

That's not a bull'seye, silly.  It's the mouth of a Sandworm, about to swallow him whole.  (His head is blocking out your view of the teeth.)

15 This is the problem with not having a mature, coherent foreign policy. The asshat-in-chief is just winging it. He doesn't really know much about Egypt (hey, I saw the King Tut exhibit when I was a kid!) other than what his advisers are telling him, and his political philosophy just doesn't cover this kind of event.

Freedom for the Egyptian people is a wonderful thing, if they even know what that is. But I would prefer a pro-American government more than freedom for Egypt.

16 He's in way over his head.  It's obvious to anyone who hasn't drank the Kool-Aid.

17

This is the sort of statement that makes sense if you are 100% certain the dictator is on his way out and want to get in good with the incoming, inevitable new regime.

But how can they be that certain?

They can't be certain, but depending on how persuasive we are with the military, it might not be Mubarak's decision.  The military knows that Mubarak is on his way out soon or very fucking soon.  With proper nudging from the US (including holding our military aid over their heads), they might just decide to have a little talk with Mubarak.  There have been reports of high level talks with Egyptian generals.

If Mubarak loses the support of the military, he's toast- and maybe literally.

18 8 7 "Umm, uhh, I hate to bring this up... camel rectum in the background?" No...it's in the foreground. Cordially... Posted by: Rick at February 02, 2011 06:13 PM (HbWhE) I thought that was just a big turd?

19 Mitt Romney stopped by the Imus in the Morning radio show today and to promote the paperback release of ‘No Apology‘. Some of the topics discussed with the I-Man included the current unrest in Egypt and RomneyÂ’s insurance program in Massachusetts. 

Romney was also a guest on the Laura Ingraham radio program.

Governor Romney will also be a featured on the Hugh Hewitt radio program today. The first two interviews are posted here, and the Hugh Hewitt interview will be posted there soon as well.

These are some very very telling interviews that teach us a lot!

20 Good Lord, that borders on the sacrilegious. I do beleive the religious version of the "halo" is called the gloriole.

21 Good Lord, that borders on the sacrilegious. I do beleive the religious Obama version of the "halo" is called the gloriole glory hole.

Posted by: Vic at February 02, 2011 06:18 PM (M9Ie6)

FIFY.

22 It is concerning that they are arresting journalists and beating the ones up that aren't arrested.  And the google guy is still missing.

It's hard to know who is who and what is what and you wonder if any order can come out of this absolute chaos. 

23 There is a pretty good chance that the army winds up siding with Mubarak and crushing the resistance, and then Mubarak installs a puppet replacement as president. That may not be the most likely scenario but I can't see how it's not a plausible one.

Hmm... let's see. A player to be named in the future could be "elected "President, then Mubarak can crown himself  or his son Prime Minister. You know, just like our friend Vladamir in Russia? I can certainly see that happening.

24 Eat the Salad. Pay the Jizya.

25 Posted by: Vic at February 02, 2011 06:18 PM (M9Ie6)

Yup, that mug belongs in a gloryhole.

26 Don't joke about the rain of frogs. Here in the Northeast, there's a 30% chance of that in the forecast.

27 These are some very very telling interviews that teach us a lot!

Posted by: Dan at February 02, 2011 06:18 PM (9L1z6)

What do they teach us about his instinct to go all in on RomneyCare?  Is he still touting it as the right choice for Massachusetts?

28 It really is sacrilegious, it makes you feel ill.

29 White house is in full panic mode now that it is becoming apparent that Mubarak will not be deposed. It is kinda like a person who ratted out a mobster and the mafioso don beats teh rap in court.  The rat sees his ass in the sling and starts to sweat BIG TIME!Now when it is clear this was all about installing the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo the rest of our allies will be in total bullshit mode with the white House. TALK ABOUT STEPPING IN CAMEL SHIT!  Debkafile reports that Obama and Clinton are threatening the egyptian Army with complete aid cutoff if Mubarak is not deposed immediately. Democracy in ACTION Alinsky style!

30

"'Now' means 'yesterday,'" Gibbs explained. "When we said 'now,' we meant 'yesterday'... that's what the people of Egypt want to see," Gibbs said ...

Since when did the US government work on the idea of what "the people of Egypt want"?  They've been intentionally doing stuff that the People of America do not want, but now they're all concerned about the Egyptians.

And, now that "now" means "yesterday", what does "then" mean to these America-haters?

--This is the sort of statement that makes sense if you are 100% certain the dictator is on his way out and want to get in good with the incoming, inevitable new regime.

--But how can they be that certain?

They're not certain about anything.  This administration just says whatever the hell it wants.  This would only be the 183rd time that they made such a bold statement and had it blow up in their faces (our face, really, since they are crapping all over the US when they do this).

Again, Barky doesn't care how foolish or stupid he looks, because it just reflects badly on the Office of the Presidency, which is one of his major aims.

31 I, Obama, am a lazy god, visiting my disdain on the millions of those who befriend us, like an uncaring parent who tells the good child to give in to the mouthy whiner just to shut him up.

32 Thanks for reposting the picture of Chicago Jesus, ace. It healed my erection, which was coming up on four hours.

33 What's Obama going to say to Mubarak if that should come to pass? How low should I bow?

34 It seems like he's trying to contrive a foreign policy public relations "win" he can take to the American people in 2012. So he can say, "Hey, I was the guy who called for Mubarak to be deposed when it was clear he would probably be deposed, you're welcome," and we're supposed to be grateful. ------------------------------------------- Bingo. He is thinking about his reelection.

35 Stigmata

36

I am pulling hard for Mubarak to survive this coup by the Nobel boys, Obama and ElBaradei

Mubarak is on his way out anyways.  He's 82, has health problems, and has already said he's not running in Sept.  Even if he maintains power short-term, we're back to square one 6 months from now.  Might as well have a role in who replaces him now instead of facing the prospect of ElBaradei or the MB make that choice later.

37 I can't believe that Christians everywhere have not protested that picture.  It's disgusting.

38

I think it might be Lee "Strongest Horse" Smith who posted it just recently on The Weekly Standard's site, but there's speculation that the Egyptian army has allowed the pro-Mubarak groups to go full retard *precisely* in order to have the pretext to vigorously restore order and clamp down on the street. 

Not quite in a Tienanmen way -- a massacre would surely backfire on the army and put it at odds with the broad mass of people, which apparently the army doesn't want. 

Just... vigorously. 

With the Mubarak family sent packing and an interim junta put in charge that initiates reforms, an acceptable electoral process, and a careful handling of the Muslim Brotherhood.

I don't trust Obama to handle his side of things in an instinctively adept (and non-ideological) manner, but it's just possible that he's being guided towards and through the correct and necessary steps by the advisory group he brought in the other day (includes Robert Kagan and Elliot Abrams).

39 Ok, this is for the Godless morons. See if you recognize any of the players. Wink:
Psalms 83: A coalition of Islamic Nations surrounding Israel will attack her.

The attack is so viscious Israel has no choice but to destroy those responsible.

Isaiah 17: The destruction of Damascus and Islamic enclaves in Judea and Samaria
(West Bank)

Ezekiel 83/84 The last player flips into place(Turkey) as a coalition of Islamic nations
headed by Russia attack Israel. God turns them on each other and helps to
destroy 5/6 of all of them.

Daneil 9/27: Enter the anti Christ for the 7 year “peace agreement”

40 It is concerning that they are arresting journalists and beating the ones up that aren't arrested.  And the google guy is still missing.

It's hard to know who is who and what is what and you wonder if any order can come out of this absolute chaos. 

Posted by: curious at February 02, 2011 06:20 PM (p302b)

In the UK Telegraph, Richard Spencer reports from Cairo:

An avoidable and shameful disaster is taking place in Cairo tonight. Whether by accident or design – the latter seems more likely – President Hosni Mubarak has created a caged arena full of hate for a final confrontation.

As I write, the anti-regime protesters have been presented with an ultimatum to leave Tahrir Square but no opportunity to do so, given that they are surrounded by club-wielding hoodlums at all exits.

He asks:

Can even Hosni Mubarak have been so incompetent as to have created the scene before us by accident, vacillating when he should have been determined and showing obstinacy when compromise was called for? Thus he has encouraged the protesters and hardliners simultaneously, until only force will choose the victor.

Or has he lured the protesters into a trap for one last display of his authority?

Sounds more like a trap to me.  Mubarak gave his speech promising not to run for reelection;  when the protesters kept up their calls for his immediate resignation, he sprang the trap.

41 So, is Dan an agent provocateur for Huck?  Because nothing says vote against my candidate like spamming threads.

42 What if the administration doesn't think that a caliphate would be so bad.  What if the administration believes they could deal with a caliphate?

43 Umm, uhh, I hate to bring this up... camel rectum in the background?

Posted by: t-bird at February 02, 2011 06:10 PM (FcR7P)

Yeah,  it's sorta like an Egyptian goatse.

Hahaha! We are not worthy

44

I can't believe that Christians everywhere have not protested that picture.  It's disgusting.

yea.  Have some respect for your God. /sarc

45 Can we call what 0bama is doing "nation building" yet?
How is what he's doing to Egypt any different than what the left accused Bush of doing to Iraq?
Remember: We've spent more money on Egypt than Iraq.

46 Geez, the reason Obama wants to see Mubarek out is so he can see Iran II come to pass.  I always thought the people who said Obama was a secret Muslim were paranoid, but it's looking more and more like he really does want to see the caliphate spread over as much of the world as possible, and he wants to help.

47 Oh, Ace? You might want to reconsider giving Allahpander's "thoughts" much credence, as he was citing Nicholas Kristof and Time magazine as sources earlier today.

Add that to "Poppin' Fresh" going all MSM-squishy on the crisis in Egypt -- as one might expect from someone who seems poised to chuck it all and go to work for T-Paw -- and I'd say HA is swiftly losing what credibility it once had.

In fairness, Cahlers Josnhon must have a bang-up analysis posted by now....

48 Posted by: Jimmuy at February 02, 2011 06:27 PM

We'll get back to that question when Osama Obama switches from "destroy" to "build" mode....

_{Yeah, like that's gonna happen}

49 Barry Hussein Soetoro Obamadinijad, the Anti-Christ

50  Immanentize the Eschaton

51

I think it might be Lee "Strongest Horse" Smith who posted it just recently on The Weekly Standard's site, but there's speculation that the Egyptian army has allowed the pro-Mubarak groups to go full retard *precisely* in order to have the pretext to vigorously restore order and clamp down on the street. 

Not quite in a Tienanmen way -- a massacre would surely backfire on the army and put it at odds with the broad mass of people, which apparently the army doesn't want. 

I suspect it's because the Egyptian army doesn't want to lose too much credibility with the people or the US.  Instead of being seen cracking down hard themselves against the protesters, they instead just allow the pro-Mubarak "protesters" to do it for them.

Even if they're viewed as complicit, they can fall back on the excuse that they're just staying neutral.

52 Speaking of limp dicks, way to go, Robert Gibbs and Team Jesus! "When we said 'now' we meant 'yesterday'". I imagine Muby's internal monologue went something like this: Let me explain to you how dictatoring works, doughboy. This is my country. I'm in charge. You want to run your dicksucker? Okay, watch this: how about I send in some thugs on FUCKING CAMELS to beat the shit out of these protesters you're so fond of. That's how you hang 500 style points on the board while telling you to fuck off, you pasty, flop-sweating, slapdick pile of monkey shit." Can we lay these casualties at Obama's feet? I mean, isn't their language confrontational, and dare I say... Bordering on violent?!

53 That looks like a stinky, shit-colored halo to me.

54 Hey girls, how about some ice cream!

55 Just in case, how do you say "Bay of Pigs" in Arabic?

56 54 Hey girls, how about some ice cream!

Posted by: King Barry the Intrepid at February 02, 2011 06:37 PM (vdfwz)

sure, but in India!

57 SELF MUSE

58 That picture looks more like a death mask.

59

Hey... its nice in Hawaii right now... and I REALLY need to go have a little talk with Neil Abercromby...

So... pack up girls, Vacay Time!

60 Yeah, Obama doesn't know what he's doing, and if the Egyptians actually get real democracy out of this (which is doubtful) they'll just vote for fascists anyhow.

But still, screw Mubarek.  He's a murderer and a thug.  He's an anti-semitic nutcase.  He is not an ally just because he's an iota less toxic than the next villain.  Let him fall.

Middle Eastern leadership are among the most vile worms that walk this earth.  Let all those dictators fear for their miserable lives.  You reap what you sow.

61 If I was dictator, my next crackdown would be waves of cybernetically engineered hobos mounted on battle emus.

62

Slu -

May we please get a Biden P-Shop with a "Heal 'em ALL : Let Barack Sort Them Out"  Tattoo on his arm?

Many Thanks -

Garrett

63 It's times like these that I ask myself, "What would Rachel Corrie do?" I don't remember what the answer was, because I started giggling.

64 @60 For an anti-semite he seems to have done a good job at keeping arms from flowing through Egypt into Gaza

65 Gosharooties, Fucks News used a similar image on their webby-page:

http://fxn.ws/icDCrA

_{What a coinkydink....}

Gotta get that Obamahu Ackbar groove goin'....

66 It's times like these that I ask myself, "What would Rachel Corrie do?"

The ironing?

67 Gee, it seems like he goes with the side that gives the radical muzzies more control.

Could just be me though.

68 I'm having trouble understanding why this guy supported Ahmedinejad throughout the Iranian uprising (oh, after the regime murdered some young girls, they did bother themselves to urge "restraint") but now is so forward-leaning on Egypt.

It's not that complicated; he wants the Muslim Brotherhood to take over.

69 Every time i access a Reuters story the Norton screams about the malware uploading.  Thanks, Norton.  Reuters gives lies and viruses in one click.

70 This whole Egypt thing would be better if Obama would just go sit in the bleachers on the Muz Buddahood side and remove all doubt. He isn't fooling anyone with these press conferences.

71 Libtard timeline: 1988: Saddam Hussein is a brutal dictator who commits atrocities against his people and the Iranians with weapons the U.S. Sold him! 2002: Saddam Hussein is an elected president who presides over the enlightened and happy people of Iraq - how dare we try to remove him! 2003: Hamid Karzai is Boosh's puppet! He wasn't elected! Okay, he was elected, but Halliburton! 2010: Why are these reichwingers trying to undermine Karzai? He is the elected president!

72 @ 66  It's times like these that I ask myself, "What would Rachel Corrie do?"

The ironing?


Thread winner.

Plus, now I have to clean coffee off my computer screen.

73

Every US President should say the opposite of what they want to happen.

If the rioters want Mubarak gone, and we want Mubarak to stay, we should side with the rioters.

If the rioters want Mubarak gone, and we want Mubarak gone, we should stand publicly with Mubarak.

The people are not going to like us either way - use that to our advantage.

"I, the US President, personally support the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt."

74 "Hey, anybody can win 1 Nobel Peace Prize. See you suckers in Oslo- and this time I'm keeping the money"!

75 You thought kbdabear's joke was funny? I thought it kind of fell flat.

76

The ManGod doesn't really look all that good in that photo, despite the halo effect.

Well, I think we can all rest easier knowing that Katie Couric and Anderson Cooper and Brian Williams are in Egypt now to capture the moment when the Egyptian people throw off the mantle of their oppressors (the tea party and Sarah Palin) and gush about how Obama saved them.

77 Isn't that old timey religous stuff kinda bad?

78 2002: Saddam Hussein is an elected president who presides over the enlightened and happy people of Iraq - how dare we try to remove him!

The thing that's stuck with me was how quickly the cinematic code settled: "enlightened" was "speaking BBC English in a private helicopter," and "happy" was "so broke and hopeless they fly fuckin' kites."

That's the vision.

79 Middle Eastern leadership are among the most vile worms that walk this earth.

I hate me every iota of a cracker.

80 77 Isn't that old timey religous stuff kinda bad?

Posted by: Ezra "The Toddler" Klein at February 02, 2011 07:13 PM (vXwmy

Nah..... /starts to sing...

Let us sing to Lord Cthuhlu
Don't let Lovecraft try to fool you
Or the Elder Gods WILL rule you
And that's good enough for me!

Of the Old Ones, none is vaster
Even Cthulhu's not his master
I refer to the unspeakable Hast*r
and that's good enough for me!

We will worship Great Cthulhu,
We will worship Great Cthulhu,
And we'll feed him Mr. Sulu
'Cause that's good enough for me!

We will sacrifice to Yuggoth
We will sacrifice to Yuggoth
Burn a candle for Yog-Soggoth
And the Goat With a Thousand Young

Well it's good enough for Hast*r
He's a mighty kinky master
When you pray he goes much faster
And that's good enough for me!

And for those who follow Cthulhu
We have really got a lulu:
Drop a bomb on Honolulu!
'Cause that's good enough for me!

We will worship Great Cthulhu
You and me and Mr. Sulu
Howling like a drunken Zulu
And that's good enough for me!

81

The key is what color is Obama's hair today.  It's like tea leaves.

 

In trying to understand what is happening in Egypt, we all seem to be presented with a lot of "false choices", in terms of  "What Do We Do?"

1. Obama is inherently sympathetic to the Third World /non-aligned point of view. He has implied that on numerous occasions. And this is usually not good for those muddled Third Worlders who have to live with the results, and not good for the US.  Usually good for the opportunistic authoritarians.  Like the MB.

2. He reflexively rejects to notions of "Real Politik" as to what is in our national interest in what happens in Egypt. If it actually makes the US look bad in retrospect, he will probably do it.

3. He does want the consequences to reflect favorably on HIM, because, he is just so vain.  He probably thinks this revolution is about him, he's so vain...

4. Lastly, whoever thinks they can manage the situation is riding the whirlwind, literally.  Can anyone really divine the wishes of  the majority ~84 million Egyptians, who have NEVER known what a popularly elected government looks like?  After the Red October of Russia in 1917, it took the Reds 5 years of bloody civil war to consolidate their "revolution" (read-dictatorship) over the Whites and anyone else.  And more years after that purging any dangerous "counter-revolutionaries".

It only looks bloody on the surface.  A real revolution would be really bloody, and Anderson Cooper's silly mug won't be there with a camera to cover it.

82

Hey if a fellow will sell out his own grandmother, why not sell out a Middle Eastern strong man or two?  Anything to promote the legend of the New Messiah.

But as Colonel Ralph Peters said today, why should he trust diplomacy to a guy who can't even handle a beer summit correctly?

83 I don't understand.  If President Obama made a speech on it, shouldn't all the problems in Egypt be solved? 

84 Did someone say "are there any golf courses in Egypt"?

85 ---"I'm having trouble understanding why this guy supported Ahmedinejad throughout the Iranian uprising (oh, after the regime murdered some young girls, they did bother themselves to urge "restraint") but now is so forward-leaning on Egypt."--- Cause he's the fucking enemy of America, that's why.

86 I know it's been said before in the past but Robert Gibbs sure seems to do a lot of clarifying statements for Teh Most Brilliant Present Evah!

87 Gibbs is hilarious.  I'm gonna miss him.  I've always enjoyed watching him clumsily squirm his way through a lie with that stupid expression on his face.

88 You know that whole Biblical thing about false prophets?

Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

89 Oops

False messiah, it should have read.

90 Maybe Barky should try his hand at being Chief of Staff for a while.

Just under 2 years will do.

91 87 Gibbs is hilarious.  I'm gonna miss him.  I've always enjoyed watching him clumsily squirm his way through a lie with that stupid expression on his face.

Wasn't that every day? 

92 I am so awaiting the time when the Almighty goes all Old Testament Wrath of God on us for the pervasive graven image worship slathered upon Preznint Splutnik by his soulless idolaters and worshipers of death.

93 Barack Obama is so evil that portraying him as Jesus Christ , even in jest, strikes me as being blasphemous and sacreligious, not as being cutesy or irreverent.

94 asshole

95 #96 applies to the chickenshit website monitor tonight who wouldn't allow what he called "broken text".

96 the beatification of alfred e. neuman

97 altın çilek - fx15 - leke kremi - yudali - maurers - ozon yağı