Reply #18: Many progressives in Europe and around the world "ratcheted up the rhetoric" when Bush was elected

[oberliner]

There was nothing wrong with those expressions of anger, shock, what have you at the fact that the US could elect someone like George W Bush.

I would expect an even stronger negative international reaction if we elected someone like Rick Santorum or Michelle Bachmann.

These folks in Egypt, the Salafists, are far far to the right of either of those people. And those are two insane right wingers.

I see nothing wrong with expressing extreme displeasure at the election of a government that promotes values that I completely oppose in every respect.