"Round up the usual suspects" -- Captain Renault ("Casablanca", 1942)"Foreign agents are unsettling things" -- Joseph McCarthy, 1950's
"Peaceful transition of power" -- like the Bush re-election of 2000, where Florida hung in the balance and the Supreme Court decided our election (no blood was shed, however)
"Must uphold the Constitution" -- oh! Like the fact that the Census is required by the U.S. Constitution, and no other mailing can mimic that - but this is just what the Republicans tried to do with a mailing
ok - all this - Mubarak's playbook
Why did anyone expect anything less? Every single human on the news was filled with optimism. And those in Tahrir Square in Cairo too. Sigh, people have lied before, and they will lie again. Someone who has been in power for 30 years or more, do you really expect him to face reality?
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