People like Simon Tisdall of the Guardian, who probably speaks for all those Leftists out there who contributed time and money in the hope that America’s Israel policy would change. I want to point out a specific sentence:
The Al-Jazeera satellite television station recently broadcast footage of Obama on holiday in Hawaii, wearing shorts and playing golf, juxtaposed with scenes of bloodshed and mayhem in Gaza.
…mostly to note that in my personal experience Hawaiian vacations can be very distracting; I certainly found it so, last year. So I recommend that everybody angry about the fact that the President-elect isn’t choosing to interfere with Israel’s self-defense right now should themselves visit Hawaii, just so that they’ll understand the situation…
Oh. Right. Most of the people who are angry about this refusal-to-interfere probably spent their vacation money – and the rest of their discretionary (and not-so-discretionary) income – on the Obama Presidential campaign, instead.
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Let's hope Obama continues to keep silence
icbm (Diary) Sunday, January 4th at 11:28PM EST (link)He’s never been good at taking stands one way or the other, so if he tries to make a statement on Israel’s operation in Gaza, he’ll surely confuse everyone (including himself). Silence is his best option for this issue. It makes Obama implicitly pro-Israel, which is in accord with American popular feeling, but without definitely committing him. The perfect Obama solution.
Then he'll move to . . . That's not the Israel I knew. n/t
Steve W (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 12:21AM EST (link)….
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
- Ronald Reagan
C'mon now, you know His Royal ACORN'd Majesty can't throw anyone or anything under a bus over there in the Middle-East.......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 12:32AM EST (link)…… the bus would be blown up.
The ObamaBus is full at the moment,
char (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 1:01AM EST (link)come back in one month once it has digested some people from the campaign.
The perfect Obama solution
izoneguy (Diary) Sunday, January 4th at 11:45PM EST (link)Let’s hope he stays silent on many, many issues. No sense giving the leftists that hope & change they paid for now.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Too bad they didn't recognize it as (false) Hope and (chump) Change
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 12:19AM EST (link)*
Just wait until 1/20 when the Obama PR machine kicks in...
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Sunday, January 4th at 11:49PM EST (link)Israel & Hamas will be forced to kiss and make up
in the face of an overwhelming show of PResent votes!!!
Yeah
Warner Todd Huston (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 12:49AM EST (link)The media will cover for him.
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All those campaign contributions from Gaza
zuiko (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 12:06AM EST (link)I’m sure they want their money back now.
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This is what it looks like when the executive votes present
char (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 12:32AM EST (link)After all, we know he will comment on other topics. Once again we have Obama letting other people carry the water for him so he can stay “above the fray”. It should be entertaining to see The Citizen of the World denounced by all the people in the world who bought into his HopeChange.
Has no problem playing
Erick Brockway (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 1:06AM EST (link)President at other times, like stimulus packages and union bennies. Only when people are dying does he become stifled. Good quality in a leader, that.
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I think you mean some of the 52.
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 4:07AM EST (link)48 are already “very worried” with the idea of “President Obama” especially with regards to foreign policy issues and armed conflicts.
It's easier as a candidate when you can claim both sides of every issue
bk (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 5:14AM EST (link)If you look up any news articles from the campaign (example), you’ll see that Obama has always tried to play the Middle East both ways – just like everything else.
Exactly...Obama doesn't "flip-flop"...
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 6:14AM EST (link)as “flip-flopping” implies that you take only one position at a time.
No, the phrase to describe what Obama does is “talking out of both sides of your mouth”. And he’s very good at not laughing at his audience while he’s doing it.
I have to admit, I'm responsible for Obama's "PRESENT" votes
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 6:31AM EST (link)I snuck into the Illinois Senate one night and added the letters I and D to Barack’s “PRESENT” button.
Thereafter, when called upon to vote, Obama interpreted his choices
as “Yea”, “Nea”, and (vote for me for) “PRESidENT”
Knowing Obama, which one would you expect him to hit???