Cairo cabbies for Obama

Obama certainly doesn’t have 100% approval in Egypt or anything; I do know a few people here who actually hated his June speech in Cairo. But the cab drivers I meet certainly still seem enamored of the new U.S. President. Tonight it was my cabbie from the airport and a police officer just leaving airport duty who hitched a ride with us as far as the microbus station. When I said I was from Chicago (no point saying you’re from Iowa, they wouldn’t know) they went into a full-blown Obama-fest, and it clearly wasn’t faked. Both guys were around 60 years old.