Obama’s Bipolar Democracy Policy, Part II

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  February 13th at 11:13 AM  | 

As I mentioned here, one has to wonder where President Obama is when it comes to democracy. When the protests in Egypt really got going, the administration muddled its way through making one contradictory statement after another. Finally, after Mubarak was out, Obama gave a speech where he said the following: We stand ready to provide whatever assistance is necessary — and asked for — | Read More »

Obama’s Bipolar Democracy Policy

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  February 11th at 03:00 PM  | 

From this piece in Time magazine, an unhappy revelation: The Obama administration cut democracy and governance aid to Egyptian opposition groups in its first two years in office from $45 million in George W. Bush’s last budget to $25 million for the 2010 and 2011 fiscal years. The Obama administration also stopped providing aid to groups that had not registered with the Egyptian government, drawing | Read More »

Protests Do Not A Democracy Make

By: scipio62 (Diary)  |  February 6th at 09:21 AM  | 

Sorry for trying to wax poetic and failing, but I couldn’t come up with a better title. Once a democracy is established, peaceful protests are a fine example of turning public opinion and influencing policy. We’ve seen that in the last couple of years with the Tea Party protests that continue to this day. But the key to creating a democracy doesn’t lie with protests. | Read More »