Billmon:
There is, of course, more than enough hypocrisy to go around here. Mubarak comes to Sharm and talks about building democratic societies, while his Mukhabarat thugs back in Cairo stomp on peaceful protestors and arrest election judges for daring to demand that they be allowed to judge elections. The Cheney administration gently chides the Teflon Pharoah for rigging the vote, then rolls out the red carpet for Pharoah’s son — the eventual beneficiary of all that rigging. Congress critters get to pose as defenders of human rights, then go home and brag to the voters about how they tried to throw the darkies off the dole.