Despite growing pressure on Barack Obama to speak out on the crisis in Gaza, the US president-elect has remained silent on the issue. Obama, holidaying in Hawaii, has made no public remarks on Israel’s unrelenting military assault on the Palestinian territory, which has left more than 380 people there dead. The former Illinois senator spoke out after last month’s attacks in Mumbai and has made detailed statements on the US economic crisis. But some fear that the US president-elect’s reluctance to speak out on the Gaza raids could be sending its own message. “Silence sounds like complicity,” Mark Perry, the Washington Director of the Conflicts Forum group, told Al Jazeera. “Obama has said that Israel has the right to defend itself from rocket attacks but my question to him is ‘does he believe that Palestinians also have the right of self-defence?'”
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Senator Obama had no problem at all speaking out about all kinds of things happening around the world during his 140 days as a Senator and his 2yrs as a Presidential candidate, but once elected…he’s silent. European press is whining about it. Arab press is “condemning it,” and US press is starting to take notice. Not even Joe Biden or anyone picked for the Obama Admin has made a comment about this. Why? Simple, no political courage.
Too busy to even say anything (though a shortage of opinion was never in shortage until he was elected)
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GIANT secondary explosions from…a mosque?! Yet Obama, his staff, and his admin people are still silent after 5 days? Man, I wish he coulda been this silent as a Presidential candidate rather than President-elect. Oh wait, he’s a senator. No need to be silent-especially when the world is waiting to hear the word of The One.
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He’s got his card punched. Why care about anything?
ah yes… and to think DW/DW5000/DimWit/DeadWeight/MikesDumbmerica jumped all over my butt when I started this “where’s the just words from Obama now”? questions a couple days ago…
Yet here it is… over 48 hours later. Obama’s *still* not posing in front of the cameras, and more and more of the world is echoing my original thoughts about his conspicuous silence of convenience.
I’d say I was wondering what Dead Weight/Dim Wit was thinking now… now that the rest of the world is also chiming in. But I’d be lying. Truth is, I don’t give a flying whit what he thinks, and banished is a great status for Dim Wit.
he never thought he would actually have to do the job.