Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Friday, January 27, 2012 8:40:46 AM
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood concerned about son trapped in Egypt.
In his State of the Union Speech Tuesday Barack Obama optimistically said that America was back on track, and that the renewal of American leadership could be felt across the world. And nowhere is this more evident than in democratic, post-Mubarak, liberated Egypt. After all the butt kissing, kowtowing and appeasement of Egyptians and the "moderate" Moslem Brotherhood; after his fawning, fatuous, pro-Islamic Cairo Speech (and supporting the uprising against Mubarak (America's ally and friend)), it's payback time to Barack Obama for being such a naive fool.
On the first anniversary of its democratic revolution* what better way for Egypt's military rulers to celebrate the ousting of Mubarak than to ban the son of an Obama cabinet official (an Arab American**) from leaving the country. This deliberate slapping of Obama's clueless face is meat to the anti-US/Obama-hating Egyptian public***, and the Islamist mobs who stormed the US embassy last September while police and military looked on. This is just one of many signs that American respect and power in the world are wanning; that Obama's Moslem Outreach program has failed; and that the Arab Spring which Obama enabled is crashing down on his head-and will become a political liability by Election Day.
*LaHood's son was stopped from leaving Egypt on January 25th, the first anniversary of the Tihrir Square protests.
**Ray LaHood is of Lebanese descent.
***According leftist pollster James Zogby Obama is more unpopular in Egypt and the larger Arab world than was George Bush when he left office (see)
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