This Is Not A Good Place

Here's a link to an article about the US sand bagging a UN resolution calling for a Cease Fire in the latest Israeli/Gaza violence.

Who's telling our UN ambassidor what to do? Officially it must still be Bush. Then come the inevitable questions: what did Obama know and when did he know it? Legally, constitutionally, the answers might be interesting, if we ever know them, but they really don't matter. Until Jan 20, 2009 Bush is the president and Obama is accurate in saying, "We only have one president at a time".

While this statement might be legally and Constitutionally sound it has problems of a ramifications to it.

Essentially we, the citizens of the US, having elected a new president and implicitedy rejected his opponent, believed to be one who would continue the policies of his party predissisor, are finding ourselves in a kind of place often described as no mans land, or a vacuum. Neither is a good place to be. Both are places in which we find ourselves.

As of this writing there are sixteen days before the end of the Bush presidency and the beginning of the Obama presidency. Israel took only six days to bomb Gaza, followed by todays