If he can't, President-Elect Obama has just lost an overseas absentee voter. The news that Dennis Ross will be the Obama administration's special envoy to the Middle East has brought on a case of buyer's remorse with this Palestinian-American commentator.
The prospect of Ross continuing in his long-accustomed role as Ambassador-at-Large to the Middle East does not fill Daoud Kuttab with hope, to put it mildly, and Ross certainly does not offer change.