interesting observation

Khaled Fahmy, Chair of our Department of History, is on CNN right now, and made a very true point that I’ve never heard anyone state so explicitly before:

“In terms of personalities, we are dealing with two mediocrities here.”

So true. Morsi is a boring shadow of some the Muslim Brotherhood’s charismatic leaders across the decades, and Shafiq is perhaps the fifth-stringer of the Mubarak regime.

My own choice is for the mediocrity who actually won the election, and we can work out the rest later. But if the losing mediocrity is declared the winner, I fear what might happen.