Not buying Obama's "one president at a time" excuse

Jeff Huber suggests that President-elect Obama's refusal to speak to the unfolding atrocities being played out upon the Palestinian refugees in Gaza points to Israel's ownership of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

It would be nice to believe that change is just around the corner, but the ear-splitting silence from Barack Obama, on a holiday surfing safari as the Gaza debacle unfolded, has me suspecting that the Israelis now own U.S. foreign policy trigger, stock and barrel regardless of who the American public puts in power. I don't buy Obama's "one president at a time" excuse. Bush, Cheney and the neocons have gotten away with atrocity after atrocity after atrocity for eight merciless years because people who could have stopped them didn’t want to speak out of turn.

I'd also like to believe that Barack Obama is more concerned with doing the right thing than with what the John Boltons and Sean Hannitys and Bill Kristols of this world have to say about him.

But just now, I'm more inclined to believe in Scientology.