1. Obama's silence on Gaza seems a clear indication that his administration will approach this problem differently from the Bushies. "We have only one President at a time" only has relevance when the President-elect has a differing view. When the President-elect agrees with the incumbent, as in the proper response to the Mumbai terrorism, he isn't shy about saying so. How will Obama differ? My guess is that he would mount an aggressive diplomatic effort to achieve a cease-fire.
I wonder how true this is. Joe Klein is pretty tapped into things. Yet on the other hand, Obama himself says something like "as for why I'm not opining on this, I think it's dangerous to have two people speaking for foreign policy at the time." Yet on the third hand, "two people" indicates "two voices," if you're reading in between the lines; i.e., he disagrees with Bush. Which isn't surprising, but makes you think what he would actually do in the short-term that is markedly different from the status quo.
