So you'd rather he be stepping all over President Bush's toes on this and other things?
I'd rather he keep his mouth shut on the matter until he's sworn in, and let the people who are responsible for it right now deal with it.
Problem is, he hasn't kept his mouth shut yet. He never worried about stepping on Bush's toes vis-a-vis Iraq, etc., yet now that he might actually have to DEAL with this issue, he's "monitoring global events"? Really?Bingo! Nail on the head. H5.
Sorry, but from what I've seen so far this guy is a total deer in the headlights. He is WAY, WAY, WAY! out of his league, and he's beginning to realize it. But don't dare point that out, right boys and girls?
Everybody, don't worry about it. I'm sure the new president elect will carefully weigh all the options, look on both sides of the conflict, consult with his foreign policy advisers.............. and vote "present". :lmao:
On second thought, the new Obama fur'n policy is, "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt."
Everybody, don't worry about it. I'm sure the new president elect will carefully weigh all the options, look on both sides of the conflict, consult with his foreign policy advisers.............. and vote "present". :lmao:
I would add to that a pinch of Manchurian candidate and it would be a perfect summation.Nah....he's not manchurian material...
Problem is, he hasn't kept his mouth shut yet. He never worried about stepping on Bush's toes vis-a-vis Iraq, etc., yet now that he might actually have to DEAL with this issue, he's "monitoring global events"? Really?Conservatives imagine the best government is the government that does as little as it can.
Sorry, but from what I've seen so far this guy is a total deer in the headlights. He is WAY, WAY, WAY! out of his league, and he's beginning to realize it. But don't dare point that out, right boys and girls?
Conservatives imagine the best government is the government that does as little as it can.
In this Obama may inadvertently become the a conservative president.
Conservatives imagine the best government is the government that does as little as it can.
In this Obama may inadvertently become the a conservative president.
Obama is losing a battle he doesn't know he's in
The president-elect's silence on the Gaza crisis is undermining his reputation in the Middle East
Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, Sunday 4 January 2009 15.55 GMT Article history
Barack Obama's chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, appear to diminish with each new wave of Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets in Gaza. That seems hardly fair, given the president-elect does not take office until January 20. But foreign wars don't wait for Washington inaugurations.
Obama has remained wholly silent during the Gaza crisis. His aides say he is following established protocol that the US has only one president at a time. Hillary Clinton, his designated secretary of state, and Joe Biden, the vice-president-elect and foreign policy expert, have also been uncharacteristically taciturn on the subject.
But evidence is mounting that Obama is already losing ground among key Arab and Muslim audiences that cannot understand why, given his promise of change, he has not spoken out. Arab commentators and editorialists say there is growing disappointment at Obama's detachment - and that his failure to distance himself from George Bush's strongly pro-Israeli stance is encouraging the belief that he either shares Bush's bias or simply does not care.
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. Its report criticising "the deafening silence from the Obama team" suggested Obama is losing a battle of perceptions among Muslims that he may not realise has even begun.
"People recall his campaign slogan of change and hoped that it would apply to the Palestinian situation," Jordanian analyst Labib Kamhawi told Liz Sly of the Chicago Tribune. "So they look at his silence as a negative sign. They think he is condoning what happened in Gaza because he's not expressing any opinion."