OBAMA'S UNDERSTANDING OF EGYPT.

This thing going on in Egypt has me concerned mainly because the United States media gets it so wrong. All I can do is shake my head in wonderment when I hear such politically diverse people as +Joe Scarborough and +Chris Hayes saying the same thing about Egypt; both of them are wrong.

The good people in Egypt fought hard to change from a caliphate to a democracy. For those who do not know caliphates are governments run by Islamic church, which means self appointed clerics set in a back room somewhere and decide what is right and what is wrong including starting wars to protect their turf. The people of Egypt elected Mohamed Morsi as the fifth President but the first democratically elected President of Egypt. Morsi campaigned on a platform of running Egypt as a democracy, which everyone in the world, including the America Press, understood means the “majority of the people” not “God” rules. However, Morsi was a known member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group controlled by radical religious clerics—at the time, the world community labeled them as a terrorist group. Still the innate goodness of man, I can think of no other reason, caused people to believe Morsi when he said that he would lead not as a caliphate but by secular laws; laws made by man and not “Allah” of “God”, which refers back to the group of clerics in some back room as mentioned earlier. He did not honor his campaign promise and turned Egypt back to a caliphate. As a result, the people took to the streets in protest. In response, the military removed Morsi from the presidency and were in the process of reestablishing a democracy.

Our President and Secretary of State, unlike the media, understand what is happening but so does the Muslim Brotherhood; our government wants democracy for Egypt and they want a religious dictatorship. This religion group, like the religious radicals they are, took to the streets demanding that the military reestablished Morsi as President. What they really want is to reclaim the government as a radical Muslim government. They claimed the military stole their votes thus is ruining democracy. The stupid American media sided with the Muslim Brotherhood, but they did so for different reasons.  Chris Hayes and all his liberal compatriots are upset because the military is killing people trying to restore democracy and rightwing Joe Scarborough is upset because he sees the Egyptian military as destroyers of democracy. The GOP hates Obama and will do and say anything to make him look bad, therefore, they claim Egypt is his fault, what ever that means in this context. The irony is that all three positions; which are the positions strongly reflected in the America media, which puts themselves on the side of the radical Muslim Brotherhood that wants to restore caliphate; above all else, they wants to destroy the bud of democracy as it exists in Egypt. Isn’t it about time the American people understand what the “Arab Spring” is all about—put in k-12 English, it is about getting rid of caliphates and replacing them with democracies (I will not apologize for lecturing the press).

The only way a democracy can become a dictatorship is by voting for a dictator. The only way the people will elect a dictator is if he or she does not tell the truth in campaigning.  Both things happened in Egypt. If you think that bait and switch politics can only be some exotic foreign place and cannot happen in the Untied States, you had better look at North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc. These states have been turned into permanent Republican majority where a backroom full of people rule—Republican dictatorships—only differences are that the people in those back rooms are CEO’s and their “God” is money. Our Congress, like the Egyptian Morsi, is a figurehead
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