Monday 5 January 2009

He isn't president so he doesn't make policy...

Every UK news broadcast this evening has followed their initial reports about Gaza with a piece about Obama's 'silence' over the situation.

Note to news editors: this is a non-story. Of course he isn't going to say much. He isn't president, he doesn't make policy and he keeping to a long term convention that presidents-elect don't intervene in/comment on foreign policy.

Some here have compared his response to current events to those in Mumbai late last year but comparisons between comments on a controversial war in the middle east and condolences on a universally condemned terrorist attack don't hold.

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