Political Maneuvers

Back to Egypt again we go. This time it is a little closer to home then we would have thought at first. After Egyptian president Mubarak made his speech which was not well received by the protesters, back in the states one can feel and hear political rumblings. The loudest rumbling, which was recorded by LA Times reporters Michael Memoli and Michael Muskal, was the announcement that President Obama was to meet with his national security team to discuss the "situation" when he returns to the White House. Robert Gibbs, a White House spokesman, told reporters that Obama might issue a statement on the situation, but he is only stalling for time for an official statement to be released as can be seen in a quotation, "I am watching much of what you're watching. We're watching, I think, a very fluid situation. What we're looking for and what the president spoke about many days ago remains our priority: an orderly transition to a free and fair election" (LA Times). One must think after reading this that if any action was to be taken by the administration it would be one of those cover their butts action and nothing resembling anything concrete that would defend the government's support of the protesters.


LA Times: Obama to meet his National Security Team

Question of the blog, is this article journalism? I would say yes. It not only states who, what, when, where, and even why, but it also gives us concrete information which we can check up on. Does Northern Michigan University exist? Did President Obama speak there? Is Robert Gibbs really a White House spokesman? Such questions can be answered and are easily verifiable. The event is also recent and relevant to the world at large. It is these aspects which make the article journalism.

This week's core biblical truth is Creation Part Two, "In God's sovereignty, He controls the rise and fall of rulers and nations". One can see that God has certainly decided that Mubarak's time is up as president of Egypt, but now the ball is in our government's court and what actions we take might decide a variety of things which cannot be supported by anything other then precedent. Whether we actively support the protesters or not it seems to me that some other form of government will replace President Mubarak. Now what kind of government it will be does depend on what we and other democratic nations decide to do about the crisis in Egypt.