Posted on 05/15/2008 10:31:05 AM PDT by Reagan Man
Sen. Joe Biden, piling on to Democratic complaints about President Bush’s speech in Israel today:
“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset . . . and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”
Speaking before the Knesset, Bush said that “some people” believe the United States “should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."
"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
Democrats have interpreted the comments as an attack on Sen. Barack Obama, and Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the president was out of line.
“He is the guy who has weakened us,” he said. “He has increased the number of terrorists in the world. It is his policies that have produced this vulnerability that the U.S. has. It’s his [own] intelligence community [that] has pointed this out, not me.”
Biden noted that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have both suggested that the United States ought to find a way to talk more with its enemies.
"If he thinks this is appeasement, is he going to come back and fire his own cabinet?” Biden asked. “Is he going to fire Condi Rice?”
In a separate statement, Sen. John Kerry said that Bush "is still playing the disgusting and dangerous political game Karl Rove perfected, which is insulting to every American and disrespectful to our ally Israel. George Bush should be making Israel secure, not slandering Barack Obama from the Knesset."
The White House insists that Bush wasn’t referring specifically to Obama, an argument that Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) called "baloney."
"There is no escaping what the president is doing," said Durbin, who supports Obama. "It is an attack on Sen. Obama’s position that we should not be avoiding even those we disagree with when it comes to negotiations and diplomacy."
Durbin called Bush's remarks "unfair and really unfortunate."
You can always tell when a comment hits the truth, the Leftists go into hysteria about it
...and if anybody knows about bulls**t, it’s Biden, the big mouth.
The ironic thing is that Biden will probably say them next week.
F’em all. Bush is exactly right which is why they are all screaming like scorched dogs.
Exactly.
Or as the President might say, “Truth hurts, don’t it?”
Methinks he doth protest too much.
Well. Someone’s comments were BS.
> “This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset . . . and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”
But naturally it is OK for Carter to go to a foreign country and sit with terrorists and make all kinds of ridiculous statements, ay.
Senator Biden is a bunny. No other word for it.
He’ll be plagerizing Bush’s remarks in his next campaign.
Deep thought-out response from Biden.
Bush stated historical fact.
Truth hurts bump
Waiting for a Republican to kick the Dems’ teeth in on this one, but am not counting on it.
HA HA HA!
...but enough about the contents of Joe's head.
Bush speaks the truth.
Touche Mister President.
“This is bullshit.”
That’s the most succint ole Joe has been in 35 years.
And for once, he’s spot on.
America First!, second, and third!
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