Egypt's Revolution (Poll added)

[2dimes]

Now leading in the polls for Egypt's next President ... Gen. Ahmed Shafik, former Prime Minister to Mubarak who once said "Hosni is like a father to me."

LOL at the US-backed Egyptian "Revolution"

I will now accept people to line-up in front of Saxi and present me with tributes.

How many candidates are running? I'm pretty out of touch with things over there these days.

[AndyDufresne]

Now leading in the polls for Egypt's next President ... Gen. Ahmed Shafik, former Prime Minister to Mubarak who once said "Hosni is like a father to me."

LOL at the US-backed Egyptian "Revolution"

I will now accept people to line-up in front of Saxi and present me with tributes.

How many candidates are running? I'm pretty out of touch with things over there these days.

2 candidates were certified, out of a larger pool that were disqualified. One of them, as mentioned, was the former Prime Minister, the other is a candidate for the Muslim Brotherhood's coalition.


--Andy

[2dimes]

Disqualified? Ugh.

[AndyDufresne]

Disqualified? Ugh.

There are still some lesser known candidates in the race, but those are the big 2, since some other big ones were disqualified.

Here is an article from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mid ... story.html


--Andy

[Phatscotty]

Who does Obama want to win?

[AndyDufresne]

Who does Obama want to win?

I heard he's actually running for President of Egypt as well.

And Kenya too.


--Andy

[Phatscotty]

Who does Obama want to win?

I heard he's actually running for President of Egypt as well.

And Kenya too.


--Andy

It would seem like Obama would want the Muslim Brotherhood to win....no?

[saxitoxin]

Who does Obama want to win?

I heard he's actually running for President of Egypt as well.

And Kenya too.


--Andy

It would seem like Obama would want the Muslim Brotherhood to win....no?

Considering the depth of the relationship between Gen. Shafik and Obama's advisers such as Clinton and Panetta, one would assume Obama would want him to win, not the Brotherhood candidate.

Then again, the Brotherhood candidate (Morsi) used to live in California, his relatives are all U.S. citizens and, like Obama, the Brotherhood is anti-Qadaffi, anti-Assad, and (recently) pro-Israel. So it's probably a win-win for Obama and his buddies Netanyahu and King Fatso either way.

This is a good way to arrange elections - funnel millions of dollars to the right places to make sure all of the final candidates are your friends and have essentially identical views (e.g. Shafik vs. Morsi, Obama vs. Romney, Miliband vs. Cameron, etc.), the ones who can't be bought are disqualified, then throw your hands up in the air and loudly declare you don't really care who wins as long as democracy happens.

[BigBallinStalin]

Now leading in the polls for Egypt's next President ... Gen. Ahmed Shafik, former Prime Minister to Mubarak who once said "Hosni is like a father to me."

LOL at the US-backed Egyptian "Revolution"

I will now accept people to line-up in front of Saxi and present me with tributes.

You can kiss my rubber knees.


That still doesn't mean that the revolution was created by the US. There's the possibility that the revolution was hijacked (by the military junta), and then the rules for the election determined by a few, who received "advice" from the US.

[2dimes]

I gather Saxi is watching the Mubarak trial.

[saxitoxin]

I gather Saxi is watching the Mubarak trial.

I didn't but I'm taking bets one of two things will happen ...

(1) the new president pardons him for the sake of "national unity"
(2) he serves his sentence in a 5-star resort on the Mediterranean for "security reasons"