Egypt disqualifies 3 leading presidential candidates

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Ismail won a partial victory last week when an administrative court ruled that it had no proof his mother held dual nationality. But the election commission had earlier stated that it had verified her U.S. citizenship, making him ineligible.

Egyptian birtherism.

Except it actually is illegal in Egypt for a presidential candidate to have had a parent with non-Egyptian citizenship.

What was wrong with Shater or Suleiman, aside from the obvious in the latter's case?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

No.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I think it's the sense that Moussa and Morsi are the ones with the best (or even the only real) shots, no?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'm not a hundred per cent convinced the military would do that, but I've overestimated the bona fides of the Egyptian military before.