Man In Cairo Answers Mubarak: “It was never the government, by God, it is you that has to go"

[kpete]

Obama Misses the Point in Egypt

3:00am Mubarak’s decision to sack the government does not seem to be enough to appease protesters. “The problem is he is a corrupt president and had a corrupt government and if he brings a new government is will also be corrupt since the system is all corrupt”, a man in Cairo tells Reuters. “It was never the government, by God, it is you that has to go, it is enough what you have done to the people,” says another protester.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/01/28/liveblog-egypts-protests-erupt
http://firedoglake.com/2011/01/28/obama-misses-the-point-in-egypt/

[xchrom]

1. Excellent! Nt

[gateley]

2. Yeah, I thought that when I heard Mabarak say he'd have a whole new government

tomorrow. He KNOWS what they want, he can't seriously think that will make it okay?

And I'm not sure Obama missed the point at all. He's got to tread lightly and he was essentially calling out Mubarak, not the 'government' -- and Mubarak knows it.

[emulatorloo]

3. Hard for FDL to turn off their Default Setting, I guess

[Ken Burch]

4. I think Mr. Mubarak has the "Slithergadee Syndrome"

"Oh, the Slithergadee
Has come out of the sea.
He’ll catch all the others,
But he won’t catch me.

No, you won’t catch me,
You old Slithergadee.
You’ll catch all the others,
But you wo—"

-Shel Silverstein