Tonight President Obama briefly addressed the situation unfolding in Egypt. Hosni Mubarak has said that he won’t seek another term in office, but hundreds of thousands of demonstrators continue to occupy the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities. Obama said that he spoke with Mubarak after the autocratic ruler gave a speech on Egyptian state television. Obama’s words were directed in particular at the Egyptian people and the country’s military, whom he praised for abstaining from violence and whom he said deserved freedom of assembly, freedom of communication (in a nod to re-open the Internet in Egypt) and freedom for fair elections.
