Obama hatred and anti-Americanism explodes in post Morsi Egypt as protests rage over ouster

One of the claims Barack Obama made when he was running for president in 2008 was that the United States wasn’t respected around the world.  It was a false assertion made by the community organizer from Chicago and after 5 years into a scandal plagued presidency the world doesn’t really get excited about Obama either. 

Case in point is that anti-Americanism is sky high in Egypt with the ouster of Obamam’s BFF Mohamed Morsi.  

As rival camps of Egyptians protest for and against the toppling of President Mohamed Morsi, there is a rare point of agreement: America is to blame reports The Los Angeles Times.

Anti-Americanism, which has long been an undercurrent here, is erupting again as Egyptians battle over the future of their country. Each side accuses the United States of backing the other and alleges conspiracies in which the Obama administration is secretly fostering dissent in an attempt to weaken Egypt.

It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't quagmire in which the U.S. appears to have alienated both sides, underscoring waning American influence and credibility as it attempts to navigate the turmoil.

Islamists at a large pro-Morsi rally Friday afternoon questioned how the U.S. — which claims to stand for the rule of law and free elections — could so quickly abandon Egypt's first democratically elected president and fail to condemn, or even acknowledge, Wednesday's military coup.

"The morals of America are not being reflected in their politics toward Egypt," said Sharif Hegazy, 37, who manages the Cairo office of a U.S. company he preferred not to name. "Because of its past support for [deposed President Hosni] Mubarak, America has always been seen as a veiled enemy. Now they are just waiting to see which side will win. That's not ethical. The U.S. should support the election."

Though U.S. officials and analysts say American influence in Egypt is increasingly limited, many Morsi supporters are convinced that a U.S. hand is at work behind the scenes in the country's recent troubles. A common viewpoint expressed on the streets is that the Obama administration worked with the Egyptian army to cause power outages, fuel shortages and other problems that soured public support for Morsi.

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So both Egyptian factions are angry at Obama for their own particular reasons.  A lot of this can be put on the shoulders of both Hillary Clinton who was in over her head as secretary of state.  And of course the buck is supposed to stop in the office of president.  This is what happens when the country elects a man with the least amount of experience than any other president in U.S. history.   

Elect an amputee, you get horrific results!