President Obama this week delivered the State of the Union and talked about investment in the future, another word for more spending, but failed to really address the $14 trillion debt this nation is facing  and today he sent Robert Gibbs his press secretary, for now, before the media, to dance around, the best he could, the uprising in Egypt.

It was a pathetic performance, but the best he could do under the circumstances.  He reflected a simple fact.  He didn’t have any better answers than his bosses had.  Where was the President on this issue. He didn’t step forward before he knew what the game was that he was playing.   Gibbs satement, 13 times: ‘things are unfolding at a rapid pace.’

No indication that Obama even made an effort to contact President Mubarak over the crisis. Perhaps it takes time to take advantage of a good crisis.  It obviously was a chess game.

Mubarak had to make the first move, as obviously was the case demonstrated by the White House. An it was only then Obama stepped before the cameras with a rather non-committal statement.

The Obama administration’s position was a request not to bring out the Army; it was ignored; to curb violence and listen to the people; it was ignored; to open up the Internet and social communications; it was ignored; turn on cell phones, it was ignored.

Egypt is an ally, receiving more than $50 Billion over 30 years to the Mubarak dictatorship, which the Obama administration fails to recognize as a dictatorship publicly.  Our investment in this nation is $1.5 billion a year – our nation could use this to pay down our debt.

Egypt fails in human rights to its people, the average Egyptian economically survives on $2 per day.

Oil and the Suez Canal is at stake.  The price of oil spiked today, during  a period when it was going down, gold soared, the Dow tanked.

The world is volatile.

But what is it that we the people of the United States are  to believe by the actions of our own President?

Compound these with the facts, President Mubarak is 82, realistically isn’t his time up after 30 years in power?  He want’s his son to succeed him.

We have supported Egypt since King Farouk, primarily because of its acceptance of Israel and its prominent position in oil and the Suez Canal.  We have been generous.

But have we, the United States been disingenuous to we the people?

Tonight The Telegraph, a UK publication reports that the US government has been a supporter of Mubarak’s regime.  But leaked documents by WikiLeaks show the extent to which America was offering support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt while publicly praising Mubarak as an important ally in the Middle East.

In a secret diplomatic dispatch, reported by the Telegraph, sent on December 30, 2008 , Margaret Scobey, the US Ambassador to Cairo, recorded that opposition groups had allegedly drawn up secret plans for ‘regime change’ to take place before elections, scheduled for September this year.

This according to the Telegraph, the American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police.

On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011.

This dissident has been arrested by Egyptian security in connection with the demonstrations and his identity is being protected by the Telegraph.

The documents released by WikiLeaks reveal US Embassy officials were in regular contact with the activist throughout 2008 and 2009, considering him one of their most reliable sources for information about human rights abuses, according to the Telegraph.

And so, this is the Internet speaking, this is free speech, this is social networking, but what are we to believe about the transparency of our own nation’s administration?

What was our involvement in 2008 and 2009 leading to an uprising in 2011?

What is it that we really know about what’s happening in our own country that impacts every US citizens lives and economy?