Obama: ‘Egypt Will Never Be the Same’
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President Obama Speech to Muslim World in Cairo
I remember it well, SG2. The Egyptian people did too!
Opinion
Egypt: Revolution or bust
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201129125639673649.html
The international community has been energised by recent events, but where was it through the decades of oppression?
Marc Gopin Last Modified: 11 Feb 2011 12:52 GMT
I have spent the last week, like millions of other people, completely immersed in supporting the brave Egyptian citizens of Tahrir Square. I have spread every piece of truth about them that I could get my hands on to my social network. Indeed their revolution is perhaps the first that was self-consciously created by a young internet force that actively pleaded for the rest of us to Twitter and blog and Facebook. It has been heartbreaking and glorious, even for those of us who only participated with our fingertips.
What concerns me coming out of the experience is a gnawing question for us bystanders: Where have we been for all these decades of oppression? And why and how were we suddenly energised by demonstrations in Tahrir Square, but failed to be mobilised all those previous decades when people such as these Egyptian citizens needed us? I am old enough to remember, with some sadness, the way in which we all woke up for Tiananmen Square, emboldened, marching on the streets of the US, only to be lulled back to a studied passivity by the resolute brutality of the Chinese regime.
I have been working for 27 years not for revolution in the Middle East, but evolution. I have worked in Palestine, Israel and Syria, and to some extent Jordan. I have worked with amazing people from every one of these countries and more. Revolutions do not come from the dust; they come from a glacial pace of education and solidarity in building shared values of human rights, civil society, a culture of debate, economic rights and people-centred development. Then, one day, when a regime becomes especially venal and stupid, with bread prices rising to absurd levels, the human spirit occasionally bursts forth through the actions of large numbers of people in unison.
But we bystanders should not just awaken for these moments and then go back to sleep. We should not, even worse, dismiss others or whole geographic, culture or religious regions as somehow ‘incapable’ of change.
THERE YOU GO, SG2!
No matter what the historians, pundits, talking heads, rightwingers, teabaggers try DENY OR SAY President Barack Hussein Obama plays an integral and HISTORIC role in what has transpired within the Egyptian government and with its people.
Hear! Hear!
The entire First Family are a true symbol of American DEMOCRACY
That’s why the haters be hatin’. They scream democracy, constitutional rights, our republic, blah, blah, blah, but they don’t mean to include certain folks, folks of color. Now runtellat!
What’s so important & wonderful about the Egyptian Revolution is it was done without weapons, without violence!
To all the haters…now runteldat!
The haters want to scream about those second amendment rights and commit domestic terrorism on their bretheren.
**looks at militia men, Jared Loughner, Tim McViegh, and the WACO, TX nuts***
Maybe these gun toting, trigger happy, 2nd amendment rights ass clowns will learn something in how to get things done. The naysayers here were hoping the streets ran with blood to prove their point about Muslims? It didn’t happen! Egypt showed the world how to get her done! Go Egypt!
Yes, go ahead and tell it, SG2. There’s a lot of fear-mongering amongst Americans, especially those who listen to Fox and their fears and disdain for Islam and Muslims. They are using the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood to scare the ignorant.
What’s happening in Egypt is HUGE, because the people were INSTRUMENTAL in running the dictator out of office, and it didn’t not entail the U.S.A or another country running in with army tanks and declaring an all out WAR!
WAR=profit, and that is why some folks are not happy about peaceful protest/demostrations to take out Mubarak.
The MSM and the wingnuts need to take a look in the mirror at themselves when it comes to their fear and hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood.
THE REVOLUTION WAS TELEVISED!
And I’m watching “ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN” right now. If this Nick what’s his face from the NYT and the rest of these no account, so-called journalist did their jobs, they wouldn’t have to second guess, lie, distort, and fake their way through one of the most historic presidencies in American history.
Folks have an opportunity to be on the RIGHT SIDE of history, and they’d rather travel down that river in EGYPT called
DE-NIAL, no pun intended, than report the truth of what our president STANDS FOR.
FUCK THEM ALL.
At least my boo Don doesn’t talk crazy lol
Wait a minute, Dannie! Did you quit Cory? LOL
So now Don is your new boo?
LMAO
Yes, SG I love Don now. At least until I find out why he’s wearing a ring on his left hand. I haven’t heard of a wife…
I’ve never heard of him having a wife either, Dannie.
I’m watching LO right now. Nick Kristof of the nyt said that Obama missed the boat on Tunisia and Egypt. He also said Obamas speech in Cairo had nuttin to do with this revolution.
GO STRAIGHT TO HAIL!!!!!!
Some won’t admit it for sh*t. They’re being willfully ignorant!
LOL They’re mad, because POTUS does NOT give a shit what they report. POTUS relies on the INTELLIGENCE of the American people to prevail over the fear-mongering lies and ignorance of the MSM.
I can’t wait for PBO to visit Egypt again. We know he will, and the people will love it!
The joy, and happiness on the faces of the people are heart-warming.
The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com
Mubarak steps down: Obama’s a big reason why
After 18 days of protests, Hosni Mubarak has stepped down. As triumphant crowds swell the streets of Egypt, Western analysts discuss the factors the led to his ouster. But they’re missing one: President Obama – his life, his family, his message.
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By Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
posted February 11, 2011 at 2:30 pm EST
Washington —
The fall of President Hosni Mubarak is a result of many things: Egyptians’ frustration with 30 years of oppression, the example of the successful Tunisian uprising, rising global food prices, the organizing power of Facebook and Twitter. But among all these factors, one important one has been overlooked: the role President Obama himself played in the pro-democracy movement.
We shouldn’t forget the power of what he said in Cairo in June 2009, a speech that history may now remember as the most important of his presidency. He urged young Egyptians and others to take charge of their lives saying, “you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world” and denouncing dictators who steal from their own people. Now, it seems, those words were taken to heart.
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I recall talking to an Egyptian professor just one month before Mr. Obama’s Cairo speech, who told me her country was excited about the president’s visit. “Is it because of his Muslim roots?” I asked. She laughingly explained that his father’s Muslim background brought Obama no credibility and, in fact, some measure of scorn, because in Muslim tradition, the sons of Islam can never renounce the faith of their fathers, as Obama has done with his embrace of Christianity.
Why Obama captivated Egyptians
On the contrary, she said that Egyptians were enthralled for two primary reasons. The first was that the Egyptian people had been spellbound by the 2008 US presidential campaign. When Obama won, it was a moment to reflect on the deficits of their own moribund political system and on the fact that his story could never happen in Egypt. But there was another factor.
“We are excited about Obama’s visit, but we are ecstatic about his wife and two daughters,” the professor told me. In her eyes and that of her friends, it was Michelle Obama who gave the president credibility. The optics of a strong, outspoken first lady and of a president who clearly respected her and his daughters was revolutionary in a society where women are devalued in the public and private sphere.
I think about the meaning of the professor’s words as the world watches throngs of Egyptians cheering Mr. Mubarak’s departure, while continuing their calls for a democratically-elected government. And it seems to me that the West has missed a crucial point: Obama and his family are the personification of the democracy and equality to which Egyptians aspire and, at the same time, a reminder of the limitations of the Egyptian government.
A new page for democracy
For people starving for democratic freedoms, Obama’s words – reinforced by his highly visible state visit to Cairo – were likely interpreted as a radical statement of the possibilities that could be real if Egyptians took matters into their own hands.
To be sure, Obama is the leader of a nation that has historically touted democracy in the Middle East while supporting regimes that undercut this ideal. Despite his administration’s initially muddled response to the crisis, the president’s repeated expressions of support for the Egyptian people – especially the youth – signal that the US may be breaking from its outdated reliance on convenient dictators. This hopeful moment in history should mark the beginning of a new era in US foreign policy, in which support for democracy is not at odds with our geopolitical interests in regional peace and stability.
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When I watch the demonstrators on television, I wonder whether the professor I met is among them. Then I shake my head, because I am certain that she is. I imagine her having led protests in Tahrir Square, fearlessly standing up for the same ideals of freedom and equality that inspired the French and American revolutions, the women’s and civil rights movements in the US, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China, and other similar efforts in countries around the world. And now I imagine her among the exultant masses swelling the streets of Cairo with cries of victory and joy.
Ultimately, she and her compatriots look forward to a day when a young man or woman among them with an “unlikely story” like Obama’s can rise to lead Egypt toward free and fair elections.
http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/content/view/print/362905
Western analysts discuss the factors the led to his ouster. But they’re missing one: President Obama – his life, his family, his message.
Better ask somebody…
And if they didn’t hear it RIGHT after they asked somebody, they’d betta ask them to repeat it! LOL
LOL yes, the tall, beautiful, toned, well built, brilliant Black woman and her well-behaved, well-educated lil Wees.
Now runtellat!
Hmmm. So the Egyptian people were enamored of Michelle and the wee michelles. A BLACK woman y’all!!!!
Who’s worth five dollars now?
LOL! Tell it Dannie.
Breaking News Alert: Obama says Egypt ‘will never be the same’
February 11, 2011 3:24:12 PM
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In an address from the White House, President Obama said the “people of Egypt have spoken, their voices have been heard and Egypt will never be the same.” He likened the relatively peaceful ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to the fall of the Berlin Wall and to the advances of the American civil rights movement. Invoking the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, he said: “There’s something in the soul that cries out for freedom. Those were the cries that came from Tahrir Square, and the entire world has taken it up.”
http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/SFBD1U/9Z48V0/FIQ6PF/J6BRKA/6JJ9R/VU/h
Invoking the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, he said: “There’s something in the soul that cries out for freedom. Those were the cries that came from Tahrir Square, and the entire world has taken it up.”
THIS
AND THIS:” I think about the meaning of the professor’s words as the world watches throngs of Egyptians cheering Mr. Mubarak’s departure, while continuing their calls for a democratically-elected government.
And it seems to me that the West has missed a crucial point: Obama and his family are the personification of the democracy and equality to which Egyptians aspire and, at the same time, a reminder of the limitations of the Egyptian government.”
I’m thrilled for the Egyptian people. Don’t buy into the Muslim Brotherhood hype that the talking heads on Fox are espousing.
I’m so happy to see democracy & freedom come for the Egyptian people. Seeing how they are rejoicing brings tears to my eyes. It was a long time coming but change has finally come to Egypt! Go Egypt!
So am I SG2, so am I. And folks who don’t see this as a cornerstone to democracy for Egypt, don’t want DEMOCRACY for Egypt. PBO did it RIGHT.
Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!