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Subscribe to RSSOfficials said Thursday that President Obama doesn't intend to downgrade Egypt, which gets $1.5 billion a year in U.S. aid. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.
LAS VEGAS – President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that while he does not believe Egypt is an ally of the United States, he also doesn't consider the country an enemy.
“I think that we are going to have to see how they respond to this incident,” Obama said in an interview with Telemundo anchor José Diaz-Balart, host of Noticiero Telemundo. He was referring to Tuesday’s protests in Egypt, during which demonstrators, angered by a movie trailer parodying Prophet Muhammad, breached the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.
The president continued: "Certainly in this situation, what we're going to expect is that (the Egyptian government is) responsive to our insistence that our embassy is protected, our personnel is protected, and if they take actions that they’re not taking those responsibilities, as all countries do where we have embassies, I think that’s going to be a real big problem.”
The Rachel Maddow Show includes segments of an interview with President Barack Obama with Telemundo anchor José Díaz-Balart about the U.S. response to the attacks on American missions in Egypt and Libya Tuesday.
Obama’s strong words could mark a dramatic shift in the U.S.’s relationship with Egypt, which has been consistently pro-American since the late president Anwar Sadat. The country has maintained a peace accord with Israel since the 1979 Camp David Accords and since 1982 has received $1.3 billion in military and development aid from the U.S, according to the State Department.
How the recent election of President Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, will – or already has – affected the relationship between the two countries is still unclear. Morsi was Egypt’s first-ever democratically-elected president.
In the Telemundo interview Wednesday night, Obama also discussed the ambush on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, calling the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Libya "heartbreaking" and repeated his call to bring those responsible to justice.
But when asked by Diaz-Balart whether it was time to "reconsider foreign aid" to Egypt and Libya, Obama said the U.S. “doesn't have an option of withdrawing from the world ... we're the one indispensable nation."
"Libya ... is a government that is very friendly towards us,” Obama continued. “The vast majority of Libyans welcomed the United States' involvement. They understand that it's because of us that they got rid of a dictator who had crushed their spirits for 40 years."
Moammar Gadhafi, who had ruled the country since 1969, was overthrown in August 2011 during the Libyan Civil War triggered by the Arab Spring revolutions.
Earlier Wednesday, Libyan leader Mohammed Magarief took to the airwaves to condemn the killings and to apologize to the U.S.
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The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed after protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.
President Obama expressed confidence that the Libyan government would help the U.S. in finding those who were responsible for yesterday's violence: "Our hope is to be able to capture them ... but we're going to have to obviously cooperate with the Libyan government. And you know, I have confidence that we will stay on this relentlessly, because Chris Stevens, he's somebody who actually advised me and Secretary Clinton during the original Libyan uprising. He was somebody who Libyans recognized as being on the side of the people. And we're going get help. We're going to get cooperation on this."
Responding to GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s statements that Obama’s initial response was disgraceful, Obama said: “As president, my obligation is to focus on security for our people, making sure that we gather all the facts, making sure that we're advancing American interests. And not having ideological arguments on a day when we are mourning the loss of outstanding folks who have served our country very well.”
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Are you starting to get the picture now SAY, Obama is no Einstein in fact you are now watching his presidency implode in a Jimmy Carter moment.
Vabariiklased on nõudnud Riiklik Afro-American Museum. Kas kava on
takerdumine leida koht, mis ei ole USAF49s naabruses.
Sa võid olla USAF49 kui sa ägedalt vastu gay sex, veel gay sex
iga poiss, kes sa seista piisavalt kaua.
Kui soovite vihastada liberaalne, ütle talle valetada.
Kui soovite vihastada USAF49, ütle talle tõde.
You have to love you wild eyed liberals you are all the same. Your cannidate could be Hitler and you would still vote for him.
Repibliken yo te rele pou Mize Nasyonal Afriken-Ameriken. Plan an se pou yo
te leve pa jwenn yon kote ki pa nan katye USAF49s.
Ou ta ka USAF49 si w ap sezi yo te opoze ak fè sèks masisi, ankò gen masisi sèks
ak tout ti gason ki pral kanpe toujou lontan ase.
Si ou vle pipi sou yon liberal, di l 'yon manti.
Si ou vle pipi nan USAF49, di l 'verite
You been hanging out at the Army linguistics school at the Presidio in San Fran.
רפובליקאים קראו למוזיאון לאומי אפריקני אמריקאי.התכנית היא להיות
נערך על ידי מציאת נקודה שהיא לא בשכונת USAF49s.
אתה יכול להיות USAF49 אם אתה התנגדת בתוקף למין הומוסקסואלים, עדיין יש מין הומוסקסואלים
עם כל ילד שיעמוד עדיין מספיק זמן.
אם אתה רוצה לעצבן את ליברלי, תגיד לו שקר.
אם אתה רוצה לעצבן את USAF49, תגיד לו את האמת.
רRepublikeine het 'n beroep vir 'n Nasionale Afro-Amerikaanse Museum. Die plan is om
gehou deur die vind van 'n plek wat nie in USAF49s omgewing.
Jy kan USAF49 as jy heftig gekant teen gay seks, maar gay seks
met elke seun wat sal nog lank genoeg staanââ.
As jy wil om 'n liberale af te pis, hom vertel 'n leuen.
As jy wil af te pis USAF49, vertel hom die waarheid.
You moved to Hebrew now. Impressive.
Հանրապետականները կոչ են Ազգային African-American թանգարանում. Ծրագիրը իրականացվում
տեղի է ունեցել մինչեւ գտնելու վայր, որը չի USAF49s թաղամասում.
Ձեզ կարող է լինել, եթե դուք բռնությամբ USAF49 դեմ gay սեռի, դեռեւս gay sex
յուրաքանչյուր տղայի ով կանգնել դեռ բավական երկար.
Եթե Դուք ցանկանում եք դուրս piss ազատական, ասեք նրան սուտ է.
Եթե Դուք ցանկանում եք դուրս USAF49 piss, ասել ճշմարտությունը:
Never liked Dutch.
Das ist los beotch.
রিপাবলিকান একটি জাতীয় আফ্রিকান আমেরিকান মিউজিয়াম জন্য বলা হয়. পরিকল্পনা হচ্ছে
একটি অবস্থান যে USAF49s আশেপাশে নয় ফাইন্ডিং দ্বারা অনুষ্ঠিত আপ.
আপনি USAF49 যদি আপনি আবেগপূর্নভাবে গে সেক্স করছি বিরোধিতা এখনো, গে যৌন হতে পারে
সঙ্গে প্রত্যেক ছেলে যারা এখনও যথেষ্ট স্ট্যান্ড নেব.
আপনি যদি একটি উদার প্রস্রাব বন্ধ করতে চান, তাকে মিথ্যা বলা.
আপনি যদি USAF49 প্রস্রাব বন্ধ করতে চান, তাকে সত্য বলতে.
Urdu now you must have a translation program.
Ρεπουμπλικάνοι έχουν ζητήσει για μια Εθνική African-American Museum. Το σχέδιο είναι
που πραγματοποιήθηκε από την εύρεση μια θέση που δεν είναι σε USAF49s γειτονιά.
Ίσως να είναι USAF49 αν είστε βίαια αντίθεση με ομοφυλοφιλική σεξουαλική επαφή, δεν έχουν ακόμη γκέι σεξ
με κάθε αγόρι που θα σταθεί ακόμα αρκετά μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα.
Αν θέλετε να τσαντίσεις ένα φιλελεύθερο, να του πω ένα ψέμα.
Αν θέλετε να τσαντίσεις USAF49, πες του την αλήθεια.
Arabic you are a man of the world ha ha ha. Enshala
रिपब्लिकन राष्ट्रीय संग्रहालय अफ्रीकी अमेरिकी के लिए बुलाया है. योजना की जा रही है
एक स्थान है कि USAF49s पड़ोस में नहीं है खोजने के द्वारा आयोजित किया.
आप USAF49 हो सकता है अगर आप हिंसक समलैंगिक सेक्स के लिए विरोध कर रहे हैं, अभी तक समलैंगिक यौन संबंध हो सकता है
हर लड़का है जो अभी भी लंबे समय के लिए पर्याप्त खड़ा हूँ.
यदि आप एक उदार पेशाब करना चाहते हैं, उसे झूठ बोलना.
यदि आप पेशाब बंद USAF49 चाहते हैं, उसे सच बताओ.
When ever you are done with the entertainment let me know.
Gweriniaethwyr wedi galw am Genedlaethol Affricanaidd-Americanaidd Amgueddfa. Mae'r cynllun yn cael ei
ddal i fyny gan ddod o hyd i leoliad nad yw mewn cymdogaeth USAF49s.
Efallai eich bod yn USAF49 os ydych yn gwrthwynebu yn dreisgar i gael rhyw hoyw, ac eto gael rhyw hoyw
gyda phob bachgen fydd yn sefyll yn llonydd yn ddigon hir.
Os ydych am i piss oddi ar rhyddfrydol, ddweud wrtho celwydd.
Os ydych am piss off USAF49, ddweud wrtho y gwir.
CNN Election Board: Obama 53 Romney 46
Michigan Obama 47 Romney 37
Ohio Obama 50 Romney 43
Virginia Obama 49 Romney 44
Florida Obama 49 Romney 44
CNN Question: Who would have the economy in better shape one year from now?
Obama 67% Romney 33%
538blog:
Electoral Votes: Obama 308.3 Romney 229.7
Chance of Winning Obama 76.2 Romney 23.8
Popular Vote: Obama 51.2 Romney 47.7
For more details:
http: //fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
538blog does include Gallup and Rasmussen polls, plus others.
Cumhuriyetçiler Ulusal African-American Museum için çağrıda bulundular.Planı ediliyor
USAF49s mahallede değil bir yerde bularak kaldırdı.
Sen şiddetle gay seks karşı iseniz, henüz gay seks USAF49 olabilir
Yeterince uzun hala ayakta olacak her çocukla.
Bir liberal kızdırmak istiyorsanız, ona bir yalan söyle.
Eğer USAF49 kızdırmak istiyorsanız, ona gerçeği söyleyeceğim.
Your such an as s. Say.
రిపబ్లికన్లు ఒక జాతీయ ఆఫ్రికన్ అమెరికన్ మ్యూజియం పిలుపునిచ్చారు. ప్రణాళిక గా
USAF49s పరిసరాల్లో లేని ఒక నగర కనిపెట్టడం ద్వారా పైకెత్తాను.
మీరు హింసాత్మకంగా గే సెక్స్ వ్యతిరేకంగా చేస్తుంటే, ఇంకా గే సెక్స్ కలిగి USAF49 కావచ్చు
దీర్ఘకాలం ఇప్పటికీ చెక్కుచెదరకుండా చేస్తాము ప్రతి బాయ్ తో.
మీరు ఒక ఆధునిక ఆఫ్ piss చేయాలనుకుంటే, అతనికి ఒక అబద్ధం చెప్పడం.
మీరు USAF49 ఆఫ్ piss చేయాలనుకుంటే, అతనికి నిజం చెప్పు.
So when is Obama going man up and do his job Say.
I have "say what" on ignore, so I don't have to listen to more insane crap, however,
Barack Obama could be on camera strangling a box full of Christmas puppies, while eating a bald eagle sandwich, wearing baby seal slippers, in front of a pile of burning tires and then wipe his ass with the American flag and these imbeciles would still defend him.
What say, Say What?;-p
Pee....
You mentioned redundancy.....
Suppose you are a Republican, and suppose you are an idiot; but wait, I am
repeating myself.
I promise you this....I have copied each of your lying rants accusing me, and the one where I proved you a liar and EVERYTIME I see you on any blog I will post them for all to see..
You are a liar and a coward.
Notice please how P Walker always clicks the Up Arrow to make it look like people agree with him....more of his lies...
If you want to piss off a liberal, tell him a lie.
If you want to piss off P Walker, tell him the truth.
ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕನ್ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಆಫ್ರಿಕನ್ ಅಮೆರಿಕನ್ ಮ್ಯೂಸಿಯಂ ಕರೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಯೋಜನೆ ಎಂದು ಇದೆ
ಪೀ ವಾಕರ್ಸ್ ನೆರೆಹೊರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ಒಂದು ಸ್ಥಳ ಹುಡುಕುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಹಿಡಿದಿದ್ದರು.
ನೀವು ಹಿಂಸಾತ್ಮಕವಾಗಿ ಸಲಿಂಗಕಾಮಿ ಲೈಂಗಿಕ ವಿರುದ್ಧವಾಗಿ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ನೀವು ಪೀ ವಾಕರ್ ಇರಬಹುದು, ಇನ್ನೂ ಸಲಿಂಗಕಾಮಿ ಸಂಭೋಗ
ದೀರ್ಘ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಇನ್ನೂ ನಿಂತು ನಾವು ಮಾಡಿದ ಪ್ರತಿ ಹುಡುಗನ ಜೊತೆ.
ನೀವು ಉದಾರ ಆಫ್ ಮೂತ್ರ ವಿಸರ್ಜಿಸು ಬಯಸಿದರೆ, ಅವರಿಗೆ ಸುಳ್ಳು ಹೇಳಿ.
ನೀವು ಪೀ ವಾಕರ್ ಆಫ್ ಮೂತ್ರ ವಿಸರ್ಜಿಸು ಬಯಸಿದರೆ, ಅವರನ್ನು ಸತ್ಯ ಹೇಳಿ.
Derp!
Henrich von Dorf: israel not an ally of US, but an enemy!
Coming from a German Herr Dorf I find that funny.
You are a liar and a coward.
You might be a Liberal if you think you can cut the Deficit by spending more money!
Републиканците призоваха за Национална афро-американски музей. Планът се
проведе от намирането на място, което не е в Pee Проходилки квартал.
Може да бъде Pee Walker, ако сте бурно против гей секс, но имат гей секс
с всяко момче, което ще стои на едно място достатъчно дълго.
Ако искате да вбеси либерал, кажи му лъжа.
Ако искате да вбеси Pee Уокър, кажете му истината.
Say Huh? ;-P
Lessons ignored.
It is remarkable that after 11 years since that tragic September day, that American intelligence community and American leadership would fail American citizens again because they chose to ignore the real threats of Islam. Islam is a cult of twisted logic teachings that breeds unstable cult members that think they are immune to global laws and go out and practice their kind of twisted justice.
If we had recognized what Islam is and could do, those Americans, including the Ambassador, would not have been in a Islamic country of the anniversary of 9/11.
Our leadership and intelligence community failed again.
Ban Islam and all these demons will go back to their Hell hole which they came from.
Europe is having all types of problems with these a ssholes Britain in particular wants them gone.
You are a liar and a coward.
He has done that hasnt he.
ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕನ್ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ಆಫ್ರಿಕನ್ ಅಮೆರಿಕನ್ ಮ್ಯೂಸಿಯಂ ಕರೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಯೋಜನೆ ಎಂದು ಇದೆ
ಪೀ ವಾಕರ್ಸ್ ನೆರೆಹೊರೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ಒಂದು ಸ್ಥಳ ಹುಡುಕುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಹಿಡಿದಿದ್ದರು.
ನೀವು ಹಿಂಸಾತ್ಮಕವಾಗಿ ಸಲಿಂಗಕಾಮಿ ಲೈಂಗಿಕ ವಿರುದ್ಧವಾಗಿ ಬಳಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ನೀವು ಪೀ ವಾಕರ್ ಇರಬಹುದು, ಇನ್ನೂ ಸಲಿಂಗಕಾಮಿ ಸಂಭೋಗ
ದೀರ್ಘ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಇನ್ನೂ ನಿಂತು ನಾವು ಮಾಡಿದ ಪ್ರತಿ ಹುಡುಗನ ಜೊತೆ.
ನೀವು ಉದಾರ ಆಫ್ ಮೂತ್ರ ವಿಸರ್ಜಿಸು ಬಯಸಿದರೆ, ಅವರಿಗೆ ಸುಳ್ಳು ಹೇಳಿ.
ನೀವು ಪೀ ವಾಕರ್ ಆಫ್ ಮೂತ್ರ ವಿಸರ್ಜಿಸು ಬಯಸಿದರೆ, ಅವರನ್ನು ಸತ್ಯ ಹೇಳಿ.
Pee....
You mentioned redundancy.....
Suppose you are a Republican, and suppose you are an idiot; but wait, I am
repeating myself.
I promise you this....I have copied each of your lying rants accusing me, and the one where I proved you a liar and EVERYTIME I see you on any blog I will post them for all to see..
You are a liar and a coward.
Notice please how P Walker always clicks the Up Arrow to make it look like people agree with him....more of his lies...
If you want to piss off a liberal, tell him a lie.
If you want to piss off P Walker, tell him the truth.
It took Hurricane Katrina 24 HOURS to devastate New Orleans. 7 years later, they
are still rebuilding.
It took George W 8 YEARS to devastate America. 3 1/2 years later, the Republicans
are complaining Obama has not completely rebuilt it! Idiots!
Once again Obama shows that he is weak on dealing with a crisis and that he has no idea as to how to deal with urgent issues other than to dance around then and never get off the fence.
Egypt is not an ally but not an enemy....Really? Then what are they?
Libya kills our ambassador and then Obama issues a strong statement? Like it or not, the murder of an ambassador is, by direction of international law, an act of war. Based on this set of events had Obama been in charge on Dec 7, 1941, Obama would have issued a statement condemning the attack on Pearl Harbor and then told the American people to "Get over it".
Egypt, Pakistan, and several other Middle East countries get foreign aid from the U.S., the U.S. is already broke, and then these animalistic nations attack our Embassies?
Every dime of aid should have been cut off three days ago, and their next cash drop should be issued about 30 minutes after hell freezes over.
Obama is not a leader, he is, like in mathematics, the ZERO, just a place holder sitting in the Oval Office waiting for a real number to come along. Hopefully the American people will wake up before it is too late and realize that Obama does not care one whit about them and is intent only on his own aggrandizement and the furtherance of his own political ambitions, nothing more.
Romney/Ryan 2012
If Obama was a true Patriot and loved the United States, he would do the right thing and concede the election now, thus handing the reins over to someone who CAN do something to fix this mess. He needs to admit that he failed and quit beating a dead horse! Everything is worse. Man up, NOBama!
Al Qaida on the ropes - The extremist offensive is directly tied to the very effective U.S. seek and destroy drone policy that has seriously damaged Al Qaida.The violence we have been witnessing is a coordinated effort of extremist who have leveraged outrage from this so called "film" produced in the U.S. to incite the uniformed masses. The hated and killings are a direct lashing out of Al Qaida who resembles a wounded animal in it's last throes. This is when the dying animal is most dangerous.
Only through resolve, solidarity, and humility is this challenge best faced - understanding, not hated, harmony not divisiveness. This is the time for Americans, Europeans, Asians, people of the world and of all faiths to band together against murder, brutality, and violence.
Point fingers and criticizing our fellow Countryman only plays into the murder's hand.
Iran gets nukes, Obama sits on hands.
America credit Downgraded again, On Obama's watch.
Obama has let the enemy's of America Run over friend's of America in middle east for 2 Years.
Oh Yea, All the people that think there are more benefits coming in an Obama administration are crazy,that was just to get another term in office, Now you're fubar, because Obama has just focused on giving away money and creating a larger deficit, Instead of focusing on passing bipartisan bills to create new jobs, So when the benefits run out next year there will be no jobs to go to--Lot's of people in the streets! In a Obama world.
Better vote for Romney/Ryan--You heard it here.
Obama has a hard-on for Egyptians....he bends over and gives them what they want....and in return this country gets rammed further into the dirt.