Whoa, He's Serious

So today President Obama gave a little speech about Egypt. One thing I like about Obama is that he has the capacity to not mess this up. The sticky thing that he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have to deal with is that the US can't be seen as manipulating the politics of Egypt, and can't be seen as shoring up the present Egyptian regime.
And boy, in this speech Obama sure does not throw in his support for Mubarak.
Diplomatically this is a delicate balance. Because you can never be too sure who is going to come into power. But between Obama and Clinton, like I said, the capacity to not mess this up is there.

UPDATE: Ooh. It looks like HRC did have the capacity to mess things up. Luckily for a democratic Egypt, Barry was there to swat down some old-time thinking.