Yes. The educated middle classes living in the city pushed for his removal, because they are closer to being secular and unaffiliated. The movement never really energised most of the country's population, and without international pressure Mubarak would never have left. And of course they never achieved their actual goal of having the military out of power. They've been in continuous total control of the country since before Mubarak was around.

I agree.

If they want to democratically elect religious extremists, that's their choice. And if they run the country into an unmitigated disaster (e.g. attack Israel rather than build the economy), they should pay for it, too.

Freedom comes at great responsibility. If they want freedom without responsibility, they will have a disaster.

Yeah, so let's allow this joke to continue and get another Mubarak who will push illiteracy rates above 50% and get even more people to vote based on nothing but religion and lose any slight chance or real democracy to ever happen..../sarcasm

Brotherhood will folliow the turkish model, Turkey isn't bad.

Meh, I don't know the ins and out of Egyptian politics. I know the election is between a rock and a hard place. My point was being that " Let people choose and suffer/enoy the consequences and learn their lesson. " isn't fair or just for the people who didn't vote for tyranny.

Basically, fuck democracy.

To hell with democracy if it's gonna invade minorities rights, I am completely with you here. I just think the brotherhood is the better option.

Actually, scratch that, this whole thing is being fabricated, so why bother? the millitary should just come out and tell us who is the next president instead of wasting time.

Hats off to Mohamed ElBaradei (and PullusPardus ), he saw this coming long ago and left the elections race.

It seems they're throwing out the parliment.... yet allowing voting for president.

Assuming "the fix is in" one can only expect Shafik to win.

I see reports saying they found laws that forced them to be thrown out.... but I can't find any explination as to why.

I've seen things that suggested it invalidated a third of the parliment, and they through the whole thing out.... yet no explination what invalidated that third.

There is a thing about politics is that the best course of dealing with it is not bothering about it, and this is coming from a guy who study law =P

Huh... they didn't bother to fix the Presidential Election.

Wonder if that means they'll try and co-op the brotherhood.

Morsi will become a pawn.....

or if they legiatmitly just had an issue.or what.

Well, they're going to limit the powers of the new president and they retain legislative authority from the recent dissolution of parliament, so yes, likely they'll try to subordinate Morsi so that he can be used to placate the masses, but i would doubt such a method could succeed.

I'd heard suggestions that the Brotherhood MIGHT go along with it, even if he would of lost the election.  Pushing for him to be named Prime Minister.

I'm... curious to see how this works out because... like you said... I wouldn't expect it to work.

I suppose they could try and "muslim" up the dictatorship and hope that it'd convince enough brotherhood support to leave the secular liberals alone but that seems... unlikely, what considering recent history.