{"id":187894,"date":"2011-02-01T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/01\/mubarak-announces-retirement-at-end-of-term\/"},"modified":"2011-02-01T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:33:00","slug":"mubarak-announces-retirement-at-end-of-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/01\/mubarak-announces-retirement-at-end-of-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Mubarak Announces Retirement at End of Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The protestors want him to leave both his office, and the country, immediately:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Egyptians wholeheartedly rejected President Hosni Mubarak\u2019s announcement Tuesday evening that he will not run for reelection in September, continuing to demand that he step down immediately.<\/p>\n<p>A roar of anger went up from the thousands of people in central Cairo\u2019s Tahrir Square even before the president had finished his address, offering an immediate answer to an unprecedented offer from an autocrat who has ruled for almost 30 years with few concession to the people. They shook their shoes at a large screen where the president&#8217;s image was broadcast, screaming \u201cGet out! Get out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was angry, but now I am enraged,\u201d said Abdullah Rawaq, shouting to be heard amid a crowd chanting: \u201cHe must go! We will not go!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow, I do not think that it is likely that Mubarak will get either his 8 months or his wish to stay in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of doggerel about this follows the break, apologies to Theodore Geisel and Art Buchwald.<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: cyan;\"><p>&#8220;Hosni Sayyid Mubarak will you please go now!<br \/>The time has come.<br \/>The time has come.<br \/>The time is now.<br \/>Just go.<br \/>Go.<br \/>Go!<br \/>I don&#8217;t care how.<br \/>You can go by foot.<br \/>You can go by cow.<br \/>Hosni Sayyid Mubarak will you please go now!<br \/>You can go on skates.<br \/>You can go on skis.<br \/>You can go in a hat.<br \/>But<br \/>Please go.<br \/>Please!<br \/>I don&#8217;t care.<br \/>You can go<br \/>By bike.<br \/>You can go<br \/>On a Zike-Bike<br \/>If you like.<br \/>If you like<br \/>You can go<br \/>In an old blue shoe.<br \/>Just go, go, GO!<br \/>Please do, do, do, DO!<br \/>Hosni Sayyid Mubarak<br \/>I don&#8217;t care how.<br \/>Hosni Sayyid Mubarak<br \/>Will you please<br \/>GO NOW!<br \/>You can go on stilts.<br \/>You can go by fish.<br \/>You can go in a Crunk-Car<br \/>If you wish.<br \/>If you wish<br \/>You may go<br \/>By lion&#8217;s tale.<br \/>Or stamp yourself<br \/>And go by mail.<br \/>Hosni Sayyid Mubarak<br \/>Don&#8217;t you know<br \/>The time has come<br \/>To go, go, GO!<br \/>Get on your way!<br \/>Please Hosni M.!<br \/>You might like going in a Zumble-Zay.<br \/>You can go by balloon . . .<br \/>Or broomstick.<br \/>Or<br \/>You can go by camel<br \/>In a bureau drawer.<br \/>You can go by bumble-boat<br \/>. . . or jet.<br \/>I don&#8217;t care how you go.<br \/>Just get!<br \/>Hosni Sayyid Mubarak!<br \/>I don&#8217;t care how.<br \/>Hosni Sayyid Mubarak<br \/>Will you please<br \/>GO NOW!<br \/>I said<br \/>GO<br \/>And<br \/>GO<br \/>I meant . . .<br \/>The time had come<br \/>So . . .<br \/>HOSNI WENT.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protestors want him to leave both his office, and the country, immediately: Egyptians wholeheartedly rejected President Hosni Mubarak\u2019s announcement Tuesday evening that he will not run for reelection in September, continuing to demand that he step down immediately. A roar of anger went up from the thousands of people in central Cairo\u2019s Tahrir Square &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,986,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}