Egypt Journalists Roundup Continues As Violence Escalates
Thursday, February 3, 2011
The momentum for a popp-ulist democracy is there now.
As George Will said of Obama's candidacy for the presidency when Democratic critlcs were saying he was too young, it wasn't his turn, etc., "When the girl is up on her toes, klss her."
The Egyptian people are up on their toes; they're not going to wait until September. And why should they have to? They want Mubarak gone now. They don't want him hanglng around for another 8 months, to tam-per with eIections, for him (or the US) to put a pup-pet candidate in.
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This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the eIites in power never stop trying to manipuIate the system to retain their power and controI over us to the bitter end, when it seems that they should realize they should give up and accept the inevitable
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