Democracy and Hypocrisy

In his feb 9 OP-ED Nicholas Kristof articulately describes the big concerns of Egyptians and US citizens with regards to the Obama administrations actions regarding the recent and ongoing uprisings in Egypt. Fears that the administration is not doing enough to promote democracy and fears that they are blindly supporting Omar Suleiman who appears to be just as much of a corrupt politician as Hosni Mubarakd. I believe though that before we or anyone else get all riled up over this we need to have a conversation about what democracy means. In many ways what is happening in Egypt now is much closer to true democracy than the results of some UN enforced election that will undoubtedly be rigged. We need to reexamine not only what democracy means in Egypt (Iraq Afghanistan etc.) but what democracy means here in the US. Maybe we need to learn a lesson from the Egyptians and the Tunisians; quit our locked blog warfare (how hypocritical of me) and take to the streets when we feel strongly.