A small group of placard-waving pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered near U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s vacation retreat in Hawaii on Tuesday to protest against the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
Obama has made no public comment on the strikes, which Israel launched on Saturday. Aides have repeatedly said he is monitoring the situation and continues to receive intelligence briefings but that there is only one U.S. president at a time.
Obama did speak out after the attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai in November in which gunmen killed nearly 180 people, condemning them as acts of terrorism.
He has also spoken on the economic problems facing the United States.
“He is talking about how many jobs he is going to create but he is refusing to speak about this,” said one of the protesters, Carolyn Hadfield, 66.
She was one of eight protesters standing with placards reading “No U.S. support for Israel” and “Gazans need food and medicine, not war” near Obama’s rented vacation home in Kailua, an upmarket suburb on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where he is in the second week of a vacation with his family. Read More
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Ann Wright, a retired Army colonel and member of Veterans for Peace, wore a T-shirt that read, “We will not be silent” and carried a sign that read, “Change U.S. foreign policy. Yes we can.”Wright, 62, of Honolulu, said the protesters represented various groups, including her organization Veterans for Peace.
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Get use to these protesters Barack because there will be many more as time goes by! The only thing is there is not much media reporting on this. If it was a Republican that was being protested it would be on all the news channels! Come on news media start reporting all news not just the good news about Barack. Barack this voting present is about to end!
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lukemcgook // January 1, 2009 at 3:34 PM
Man, did you read MM’s hate mail? What a goof!
goodtimepolitics // January 1, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Yes I read it and have decided that there are some crazy people out there in this World. I think that Michelle lets that kind of nonsense roll off her shoulder! Soon Obama will find out how fast the people and media can turn against him also!
obie lola lola hussein // January 1, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Uh uh uh uh uh
Moon Jaguar // January 1, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Obama has said “only one president at a time”. I’m pretty sure that’s why he’s not injecting his opinion into an active foreign policy crisis. I’m also pretty sure he’s aware that he’s going to have one hell of a short honeymoon.
You’re worried that the MSM isn’t reporting on eight protesters? Good grief, don’t we have bigger fish to fry than that?
diogenes // January 1, 2009 at 8:38 PM
Nothing is too petty to escape GTP’s comment, as long as it’s anti-Obama.
goodtimepolitics // January 2, 2009 at 1:18 AM
Moon Jaguar: Obama has said “only one president at a time”. I’m pretty sure that’s why he’s not injecting his opinion into an active foreign policy crisis.
goodtimepolitics: I guess you may have forgotten the Russian and Georgia conflict where Obama injected his opinion 3 times getting it wrong 2 times!
goodtimepolitics // January 2, 2009 at 3:43 AM
Moon Jaguar: You’re worried that the MSM isn’t reporting on eight protesters? Good grief, don’t we have bigger fish to fry than that?
goodtimepolitics: Where was you Moon Jaguar when President Bush’s ranch was being protested? The media was on top of it as diogenes would be if it was a republican!
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goodtimepolitics // January 15, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Obama still hush mouth on this issue! Just a few more days and he will have to take a stand one way or another!
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