OBAMA’S EGYPT STATEMENT FAILS TO IMPRESS. “The Obama team, after assuring us it didn’t much care about the outcome in Egypt, is now, in the vaguest possible terms, trying to say that it was instrumental all along. Except it wasn’t. And it still isn’t doing anything to force Mubarak off the stage. If Obama really wanted a speedy transition and really heard the Egyptian people, wouldn’t he have cut off aid?”

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