As hell breaks loose in Egypt and reports in the media show that the Muslim Brotherhood ruling party's president, Mohamed Morsi, has been put under House arrest and the military has taken over the state run media,, Barack Obama does everything to distance himself from his prior, unrestricted aid for Egypt and Morsi.
The Daily Beast calls Obama's recent comments about U.S. aid for Egypt a "a Revisionist History of His Administration’s Approach to Egypt"which is a very tactful, polite way to say Barack Obama is lying again.
Barack Obama seems to think he can say and do one thing and then claim he never said or did it, without the media calling him out on it, and it is good to see The Daily Beast refusing to let him get away with it this time.In nearly every confrontation with Congress since the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the White House has fought restrictions proposed by legislators on the nearly $1.6 billion in annual U.S. aid to Egypt.
Twice in two years, the White House and the State Department fought hard against the very sorts of conditions for aid that Obama claimed credit for this week. When President Mohamed Morsi used the power of his presidency to target his political opponents, senior administration officials declined to criticize him in public. Many close Egypt observers argue that the Obama administration’s treatment of Morsi has been in line with the longstanding U.S. policy of turning a blind eye to the human-rights abuses of his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
But don’t tell that to Obama. On Monday he said, “The way we make decisions about assistance to Egypt is based on are they in fact following rule of law and democratic procedures.” The president made these remarks in Tanzania, as millions of Egyptian street protesters demanded Morsi’s ouster.
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