President Obama has won

[Fla Dem]

177. My point exactly.

The media did in fact show pictures of the ballots while covering the elections and they clearly showed many, many candidates for the position of President of Egypt. I saw some brief reporting on several of the candidates. I'm no champion for the corporate media, I'm just saying I was not under any illusion that the Egyptian election process was anything like in the US.

My point was, the more liberal candidates/parties did not join together to get a plurality of the vote. While the Muslim Brotherhood may only have received 25%, that was enough to win because the opposition was so fractured. I can't excuse the Egyptians for voting for a party/candidate because they called themselves the Freedom and Justice party. That would be like excusing an American citizen for voting for a Tea Party candidate because they thought the name represented freedom and equal representation for all American citizen, which we know they do not.

Not sure where the slam against white people came from. I certainly did not imply nor suggest "we white people" or "a bunch of white males in business suits" need to appoint anyone, nor have I seen anyone suggest the people of Egypt or Syria are savages. If you are suggesting it's US government officials, the last time I checked, Barack Obama was black and Susan Rice is a black female.

The US has been a reluctant participator in the Syrian civil War. It has been the government opposition in Syria that has been calling for US involvement.

Personally, I would like to see some of the leaders in the Middle East step up to the plate and take a leadership role in their own region. The Arab League has done little to pressure the radical leaders to be more progressive in their governance.