Hey, Simon Tisdall, what part of "we have one president at a time" don't you get?

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You and that reporter (from MSNBC, I think) who question Obama's "silence" on events in the Middle East.

We are talking foreign policy here where there can be only one official one. As opposed to domestic issues where Obama is talking to us, and to Congress about his plans and the urgency of it. We are talking 2.5 million people who lost their jobs, many who lost their homes and their savings. And we have always had Congress and the White House, and governors debating economic policy.

From the Guardian (Of course):

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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/04/obama-gaza-israel

Well, fuck you and fuck the Arab states. Obama earned his right to vacation in Hawaii. And Obama will deal with your problems when he is ready.

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1. Hilarious and dumb at the same time

I'm glad Obama isn't basing his foreign policy based on what Al-Jazeera says.