If there is one thing badgenome is able to understand, its that he likes the feeling of his butt getting pounded.

Unless I truly am retarded, I'm fairly certain that 2006 was a Bush year. It's true that favorable opinions dropped in 2007 and 2008, and received a modest bump in Obama's first year, but the fact remains that Egyptians viewed America more favorably under Bush the reckless cowboy destroyer who was held in contempt by the whole wide world than they do now.

Yep, but if there's another thing I understand it's that you're never getting into my bed again. I couldn't feel a thing!

Obama lost 4 points from when he came into office until now, which is well within the statistical margin of error.  Thats not to mention that this is one of many polls taken from the article you referenced.

Incontinence is a huge problem for men practicing anal sex, if anything I'm doing people a favor.

What are you even arguing? I didn't say Obama's personal popularity was in the shitter; I said that America under the Obama administration was less popular in Egypt than ever, probably as a result of the huge disconnect between Obama's grand speechifying and what his administration actually does. Obama often has high personal popularity in polls where people abhor his policies, but that's neither nor there.

Is your idea of having a conversation to bludgeon people with insults, so either they stop communicating with you or end up firing barbs back?  Remind me here exactly WHAT is obtained by saying to someone "every view point you have is border line retarded"? 

I guess I kind of brought that on myself with my "stupid as fuck" comment. Maybe that was over the line (at least zexen says it was!) but I honestly don't know how else to characterize it when someone's idea of critiquing conservatism is to alternate between calling conservatives Nazis and terrorists.

It's like it always is: when freedom is advantageous, they'll believe in it. I would hope they're not quite so crass as to oppose freedom in the middle east currently simply because Obama could take credit for it, but they would at least oppose it if they feel it will cause nations to go further from the US orbit. Certainly we saw that quandary rear its ugly head in Kyrgyzstan a while back, where the pro-US president refused to leave office for a while even though he was legitimately defeated by one of the pro-Russian party. Russia of course loved freedom in that instance, but we were hesitant to support the results of that election

Political and economic liberalization usually means a shift towards the US bloc, but who the hell knows? The only definitive spot of hope in all of this is that this in no way resembles Iran, largely because Mubarak was/is less blatantly western by a good stretch than the Shah was, and the current unrest in Egypt hasn't been co-opted by the radical Islamists yet. Certainly the brotherhood party is there, but their role in this so far has been merely as an opposition party, and has not yet evolved into one of an Islamist party, and neither are the people taking to the streets for Islam as they were in Iran in 79

whats bolded is the answer.