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President Obama, say the 'D-Word' (Egypt)
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01/02/2011 08:16:49
 
 
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01/02/2011 03:51:25
Metin Emre
Ozcom Bilgisayar Ltd.
Istanbul, Turkey
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>>>>Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt
>>>>http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/obama-will-go-down-in-history-as-the-president-who-lost-egypt-1.340057
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>>>Not Egypt, just Husnu Mubarek. Egypt people already not with USA...
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>>Then polls are wrong:
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>>http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/poll-egyptian-publics-views-toward-united-states-are-much-improved/
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>>Egyptian sentiment toward the United States has improved dramatically since the survey began. In 2007, just 11 percent of Egyptians said they viewed the United States as having a “mostly positive” influence, versus 59 percent who said it had a “mostly negative” influence. The numbers were even worse the next year: 16 percent positive, but 73 percent negative.
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>>The election of President Obama created a major change in opinion, however. In 2009, positive opinions about the United States rose to 40 percent against 48 percent negative. And last year — the first survey conducted after Mr. Obama’s well-received June 2009 speech in Cairo — positive opinions became the plurality, at 45 percent, against 29 percent negative views, figures comparable to those for survey participants in the United Kingdom and France. Although opinion about the United States has also improved in most other countries since Mr. Obama’s election, according to the survey, in perhaps no case has the change been quite so dramatic.

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>>Or has it changed again? Do you have any poll results? Maybe everyone in the polls listed were expatriates... :o) That certainly wouldn't surprise me and would erroneously boost the numbers. I'm curious what the real sentiment is....
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>Who knows? :)

I did see more personal interviews on the street last night (from during the day in Cairo). There were a wide range of views. They actually interviewed a couple of women and their views were opposite of each other. One wanted Obama's help with democracy and stated that their protests are only to remove a dictator and they want the peace with Israel to continue and they will not allow an Islamic regime and the other only wanted to say how much Israel is their enemy and their regime brokered a peace they didn't want so the regime needs to leave. The men interviewed gave replies all over the place as well. They did interview one gentlemen who wanted him to stay for security purposes. Who knows what those who are not protesting think...
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