Comments on: Chris Matthews Rips Obama’s Handling of Egypt Crisis: ‘I Feel Ashamed As an American’

By: an egyptian

an egyptian — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:51:28 +0000

I think you used the wrong way to describe watching your "friend", how about putting it that way. what if you watched your friend starve his own family while growing his own fortune, and when one of his children cries cause he's hungry, he kills him. will you support him in killing the rest of his family? will you advice him to change his ways and say "sorry"? could his being "sorry" bring back the dead? could you risk more deaths on your conscience for a promise of change?, what if he's always promised of change, for 30 years he promised them, and never kept his promise once?. And you should be ashamed of yourself if you really think that the US government should support an elected president in a supposedly democratic country in singularly choosing his own successor, as if the 85 million people who live in this country doesn't count as a factor in choosing their own leader. And why would you think that a people like the Egyptians, who took to the streets in a PEACEFUL demonstrations which remained peaceful despite being shot at, beaten, killed, jailed and tortured for more than two weeks and never fired back or turned violent, why would u think that this kind of people would support war, terrorism and destruction of neighboring countries when their former leader is changed to someone better to his own people, which means he must be a good man in general, why would he even want war and support terrorism. and would these peaceful people even let him do that if he ever thought of it?. In the end you should've realized an important fact, Mubarak was representing the Egyptian people. So it was the Egyptians who supported peace for 30 years through him, it was the Egyptians who befriended your country through their leader, cause he was speaking and acting on behalf of the egyptian people. He was taking action on behalf of us and by god you should've supported us when we were wronged by him as we have supported you for all these years cause we have the right to claim our dignity, our humanity and our freedom just because we are human beings.

By: Justmythoughts

Justmythoughts — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:42:13 +0000

I think if Chris Matthews is ashamed as an American after what our president said or didn't say then he should move to a country that makes him feel better. I would be willing to buy his one way ticket!

By: dwilmsen

dwilmsen — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:51:16 +0000

I just watched a bit of the Matthews fellow. We often get the show a day or two behind its original broadcast, so I don't know whether what I was watching was current. It seemed it was after his Morning Joe meltdown, whenever that was. He kept referring to the protests in Egypt as riots and the protesters are rioters. He must not be watching the broadcasts from the streets, and he certainly must not be in touch with anybody in Cairo. The only rioters were the thugs from the Mubarak regime trying to quell peaceful protests. That ended on Friday, with the heroic protesters repelling the cowardly goons of the repressive regime (bought and paid for with US dollars). Look today: there will be a mass said in Tahrir Square at 1:00. Muslims standing guard over their Christian brothers praying just as the Christians stood guard over their Muslim brothers praying. The bold and noble Egyptian people are breaking all stereotypes and upending all conventional wisdom. The "wisdom" of blowhard fools like Chris Matthews.

By: Guest1

Guest1 — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:05:18 +0000

Where you ashamed about Sadam? He was a so called freind to. Hypocrite.

By: dwilmsen

dwilmsen — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:33:00 +0000

What makes me ashamed as an American is that for the last 30 years, we have been supporting the murderous regime of Hosni Mubarak because we think that it will buy some security for Israel. Even friends of Israel, which I am not, have said that alienating Israel's Arab neighbors by supporting repressive regimes is not in the long term interests of the Zionist state. Now those chickens are coming home to roost. Israel's fate is none of my concern. But my government's involvement in oppressing people is.