In a speech aired on state TV Tuesday night, Mubarak said, "In all sincerity, regardless of the current circumstances, I never intended to be a candidate for another term."
He says he will work during "the final months of my current term" to carry out the "necceasary steps for the peaceful transfer of power."
President Obama asked Mubarak Tuesday not to seek re-election in September, effectively ending his 30-year reign, a source tells Fox News.
Now lets see how the Egyptian elections will pan out. Unlike in Gaza I'm pretty sure the Islamic Brotherhood will not win the Presidency (or Prime Minister-ship.) That is unless there is like 20 years of corrupt rule like the Fatah party had already engaged in.
I have a pretty good feeling that Egypt may be on their way to being like Turkey or Jordan since democracy usually moderates a country. I was watching Glenn Beck last night and he was all apoplectic about something like that happening. Egypt is going to become like an 80 million person Gaza in his mind. If that happens it will shock the world but the chances are so low it is laughable.
My money is on an Egypt that looks westward to the other budding democracies and northward to Europe. They will probably try to wash its hands of the whole Israel mess. I mean they won't be attacking Israel and other then stopping border traffic they will probably have not much to do with them.
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