MORSI: MUBARAK WITH A BEARD!

Obama's love-in with the Islamist Bros might soon be over. With fears mounting that the deeply divided country is on the verge of another political meltdown, tens of thousands of protesters marched on downtown Cairo to challenge the recent decree issued by Morsi which grants him near limitless powers. Sporadic clashes broke out yesterday morning between protesters and security forces near the American embassy. Fighting continued through the day, and a 54-year-old man later died after inhaling tear gas.

Anyone who's deluded enough to think that a 70% vote for the Dark Ages will be overturned by a big crowd of drum beaters will be very disappointed. "Mohamed Morsi has no vision," said Taiseer Fahmy, an Egyptian actress, as she sat inside her tent in the middle of Tahrir Square. "There is no plan from his government except Sharia Law." The 59-year-old, who heads the Equality and Development Party, said she was worried about the idea of theocratic rule. "Hosni Mubarak was corrupt, but Mohamed Morsi belongs to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and not to Egypt." The decree issued by Morsi last Thursday has whipped up a firestorm in Egyptian politics. His opponents accused the new president of a power grab. Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood are of course, the parent company of Hamas; and this time last week he was basking in near universal praise from the liberal media and the eternally bewildered of the planet, for calling off his Hamas pit bulls. "Mubarak with a beard" the crowd chanted. Are you watching Obama?