Is Mubarak a dictator?

[unkachuck]

Poll question: Is Mubarak a dictator?

Vice President Biden says he wouldn't call Mubarak a dictator. Would you?

[gateley]

1. Yes, and Obama knows it. nt

[Skittles]

2. of course he is

[Octafish]

3. Just like Marcos and the Shah and Somoza and Pinochet and ...

...all the other puppets of the BFEE.

[tekisui]

4. Anyone who says no is lying.

[bluedigger]

5. Since when did Biden become tactful?

[Jamastiene]

6. Of course. n/t

[Ozymanithrax]

7. Yes, but he is our dictator. n/t

[demosincebirth]

10. +1

[Laelth]

8. Any person who stays in power for 30 years is a dictator. n/t

-Laelth

[Ozymanithrax]

11. Is Queen Elizabeth II a Dictator then? n/t

[Laelth]

12. She has no real power.

And, I would add, there are both benevolent and not-so-benevolent dictators.

-Laelth

[Ozymanithrax]

13. A dictator rules by denying freedoms to his or her subjects.

and you are correct about the queen, but not becaue of her power, but because she exists in a Constitutional Monarchy where no single person, no matter how long the term of power, has the sole power to dictate the law.

[theoldman]

9. He may be an SOB but he is our SOB.