Obama's cunning terminology

"After days of delicate public and private diplomacy, the United States openly broke with its most stalwart ally in the Arab world on Wednesday, as the Obama administration strongly condemned violence by allies of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt against protesters and called on him to speed up his exit from power."  Cut the crap: asking Obama to "speed up exit from power" is not the same as asking him to step down. Big difference.