Chavez is a Dictator and Mubarak is a President

[Truth2Tell]

Everyone got that? Good. If y'all could keep it straight I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

[AlabamaLibrul]

1. lol, what?

[Catherina]

2. Rec'd. Still 0 but REC'D n/t

[Truth2Tell]

4. I shoulda maybe

included a thingy. :shrug:

[Sonoman]

5. It wouldn't matter.

Jerk-offs are still jerk-offs.

Sonoman

[Sonoman]

3. Someone un-recc'd this?

Oh, well...

Sonoman

[Cerridwen]

6. Dammit!

Which western media expert are we following at this time?

I'm so confused.

Who's the expert in all this?

[Truth2Tell]

9. Who's the expert in all this?

Hillary? :shrug:

[Cerridwen]

10. Yeah, so you say.

Whose agenda is she catapulting?

Is she in charge now?

Series!!!!1111

[Truth2Tell]

13. In all seriousness

she and Obama are working the same agenda, and it's serious scramble to cover the ass of the Empire time. WE created our Frankenstein Arab dictators to carry our water in the ME years ago, and now the game is beginning to unravel. I glory in how much this must make the American foreign policy establishment of both parties squirm. We CuuD LOOZE ar Grip on Da Middle EAst!!11!1

[Cerridwen]

16. In the same vein,

I agree.

Many here will start to realize.

The question; will those not so "politically addicted?"

The answer: who's on {insert 'favorite' pop culture program}?

Bread and circuses. *sigh*

[bjobotts]

76. Yea. We should be so lucky to be treated as well as Chavez treats his people

[molly77]

58. Maybe the middle east should belong to the middle east.

Maybe hillary and joe biden should retire as they are irrelevant.Nobody believes anything they say.

[eridani]

78. I don't think there is any way we could ever elect a president opposed to the imperial agenda

Changing our imperial war economy is a lot like trying to turn a battleship around with an outboard motor.

[tavalon]

23. Actually, DU is

If you get beyond the usual crap, there are some very intelligent middle Eastern experts here. And they aren't trying to protect their GE masters.

[Cerridwen]

26. See my subsequent posts. :) n/t

[Fumesucker]

7. Because words mean things..

[Turborama]

8. LOL @ the trigger happy unreccers who only bother to read thread titles

Thank god the unrec button isn't dangerous to people's physical health.

[Fumesucker]

12. Anybody that put up an OP would be pining for the fjords..

;)

[Exultant Democracy]

11. Thats what the Minitrue told us.

[saras]

14. And Obama is a progressive

[Athena66]

69. LOL!

Good one! And I'm the Queen of England. ;)

[Lint Head]

15. 30 years ruling and passing it down to his son. Got that straight?

[WillyT]

17. Maybe We Are Witnessing An 'Age Of Truth'

The old lies that sustained various power, including our own, are not so useful these days.

:shrug:

[Truth2Tell]

18. Most of the American media

is sticking to my admonition fairly closely. So I don't see much of an age of truth happening quite yet.

In fact, I see an age of deception. In America, mainstream coverage AND public discussion of events in Egypt is generally entirely bereft of the most crucial context: that America created and has ceaselessly maintained and supported Mubarak in every possible way. It's ironic to watch Americans cheering on the overthrow of a dictator who wouldn't exist at all but for Billions of American tax Dollars and decades of support from American politicians of both Parties. And to most Americans cheering there is a complete disconnect from that fact.

[WillyT]

25. Well... We Might Have To Be More Nimble Then They Are, No ???

Enough people have been hosed by the PTB, that they might just start trusting those that actually make sense.

:shrug:

[Cerridwen]

24. The "Apocalypse" is upon us...

An Apocalypse (Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis; "lifting of the veil" or "revelation") is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted.

wiki definition

[WillyT]

28. Thank You For That !!!

Had no idea.

:yourock:

:hi:

[Cerridwen]

30. :)

and :blush:

Most people don't know that definition.

It's why we need to know Biblical history. We were forewarned based on their political structures. What's old is here again.

[provis99]

74. well, Revelations is called Revelations.

I don't know how much clearer it could be than that.

[Lorien]

32. I hope so. nt

[girl gone mad]

19. Also, devaluing the currency = brilliant economic strategy when Geithner and Bernanke do it,

but evil, oppressive tyranny when Chavez does it.

The things you learn on DU.

[sabrina 1]

61. I noticed that too. It's all so confusing sometimes

:eyes:

[tavalon]

20. Up is down and down up

Got it

[rhett o rick]

53. If it were only that simple. nm

[spanone]

21. your title depends on how well you play with others

[Cleita]

22. Did you forget the sarcasm emoticon? n/t

[DeSwiss]

27. "Chavez is a Dictator and Mubarak is a President"

- Please make a note of it on your cards, for those of your scoring at home......

[Prometheus Bound]

29. Joe Biden says Egypt's Mubarak no dictator, he shouldn't step down...

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0127/Joe-Biden-says-Egypt-s-Mubarak-no-dictator-he-shouldn-t-step-down

[Lorien]

31. Maybe Biden isn't a huge fan of democracy, or just has an odd understanding

of what democracy is.

[jonnyblitz]

51. Obama didn't get the revised spin memo to him in time . nt

[Catherina]

33. War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is, Revolution is

OrBVIOUS66 RT @hedris:

--War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
#egypt #jan25 half a minute ago via web


http://twitter.com/OrBVIOUS66/statuses/31563746694402048

[leftstreet]

34. [phone]

Oh SNAP!

:applause:

Thanks for finding / posting that

[Catherina]

36. Some of these egyptian tweets just nail things! n/t

:hi:

[Forkboy]

35. Stealing that.

:)

[Catherina]

37. Delighted to see you again.

:hi:

PS. I did watch that terrible Serbian movie, with attempted clinical detachment. We'll talk about that when things in Egypt calms down. You were right, I shouldn't have watched it.

[Forkboy]

45. LOL...I warned you.

;)

[Turborama]

40. Need to steal that and do something with it in Photoshop

I'm just starting to learn Adobe CS5 and it'll be a fun 1st project. :hi:

PS I can't believe I hadn't added you to my buddies list until now. Time for some browsing around in your journal.:thumbsup:

[Catherina]

41. That's so funny

Please don't ask my why I'm laughing but I just am. I've had you blogrolled and added to "track this journal" for almost a year now. It just seems funny.

Watching this video now. It's from French news but I think it's interesting to watch for the visuals alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfI0xduhIk&feature=youtu.be

Are you going to be up for a while?

[Turborama]

48. What's even funnier is...

I didn't even know there was a "track this journal" thingy until you mentioned it.



What's "blogrolled"? lol

I feel honored that you had taken such an interest in what I've been posting.

I'm going to be online on and off for the next 12 hours or so... You?

Thanks for the vid! :hi:

[Turborama]

49. Oops

That button is just to edit things, I know what the tracker is because it's right there and I look at it in My DU quite often, lol.

Still not sure what the blogroll is, though...

[Hissyspit]

50. Blogroll is in your journal. Go to your journal control panel and you can add DU and other blogs

by clicking Edit Module. If you don't have a journal, you should.

If you go to the Journals area and look at the list of top blogrolled, you will notice that its mostly people who were real popular at the time the journals function was created. Everyone added people then in great amounts, but most people, I imagine don't do it much now, so the top blogrolled hasn't changed much in the past few years.

[Turborama]

82. Thank-you for the advice. Sorry about the delayed response.

I'll have a fiddle and try and work it out...

I do have a Journal: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Turborama

I've just added yours to my Journal Tracker, can't believe I hadn't done that way before now, either. :blush: :yourock:

:hi:

[MrMickeysMom]

38. One was elected and one was a puppet...

Hmmmmmm...... ???????

[hulka38]

39. Nice job. n/t

[grahamhgreen]

42. The people love him! That's why he Presdint for thirty years!!! Think of all the love that took!

[Iggo]

60. He kep um safe!

Err, durr. :crazy:

[malaise]

43. Too good

Rec

[druidity33]

44. Excellent. K&R. nt.

[harun]

46. LOL, good post. Chavez = awesome, Mubarak = time to go.

[roody]

47. Is that you, Joe?

[4dsc]

52. Good one.

[somone]

54. Okey dokey

We all know democracy is anathema to U.S. corporate interests in the Third World

[fishwax]

55. kick

:kick:

[upi402]

56. Ouch

I almost forgot. I looked at the CNN shiny graphics and lost the plot I guess. Stupid DOES hurt!

[jbeing]

57. BINGO!

[SOS]

59. President v. Dictator depends on whether country is on US payroll

Worst human rights abusers on earth (Saudi Arabia, Equatorial Guinea) are close "friends" of the US.
Venezuela is a dictatorship, despite free elections.

Just follow the oil deals to sort this out.

[lunasun]

62. chavez has lots of oil ... 'some' would like to get their hands on it

via military invasion has been used b4
so lets get public opinion prepped

[upi402]

63. oil AND a populist revolution

they HATE him - even here for some reason... lol

[defendandprotect]

73. Lots of oil and a key position in South America -- and Chavez has a big mouth -- !!

[Fearless]

64. They both have qualities of dictators and presidents. n/t

[liberation]

68. Well...

If we take the implications of that false equivalence, the same can be said about the US president. So...

[Fearless]

81. The same can be said for ANY US president.

We could ask many South American countries or the Philippians, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, Japan, Mexico, Palestine, Native Hawaiians, most if not all Native Americans and American Indian Tribes, and several current and/or former African nations whether or not the US has or has had a dictator president. The response would be... enlightening.

[TheKentuckian]

65. Mubarak plays ball for the power brokers, Chavez doesn't.

[go west young man]

66. Who doesn't like a little reverse psychology from time to time?

:shrug:

[Enthusiast]

67. K&R, lol nt

[jillan]

70. Thank Goodness sanity has returned!

[Ken Burch]

71. UH...to where?

n/t.

[Dangerman]

72. US hypocrisy at its' worst...

:mad:

[Zephie]

75. THANK YOU

I'm so glad someone else was bothered by this as well.

[Fire1]

77. albeit corrupt. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

79. I had no idea Presidents made $1.3 Billon a year.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x310368

Seems to me that being a mere Dictator would be a step DOWN, financially!

[newtothegame]

80. It depends on what President Obama says. He's the ultimate authority. nt