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Biden: Bush's comments were 'bulls**t'
The Politico.com ^ | May.15, 2008 | Daniel W. Reilly

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."


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1 posted on 05/15/2008 10:31:05 AM PDT by Reagan Man
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To: Reagan Man

You can always tell when a comment hits the truth, the Leftists go into hysteria about it


2 posted on 05/15/2008 10:31:49 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: Reagan Man

...and if anybody knows about bulls**t, it’s Biden, the big mouth.


3 posted on 05/15/2008 10:32:42 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Reagan Man

The ironic thing is that Biden will probably say them next week.


4 posted on 05/15/2008 10:32:55 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Reagan Man

F’em all. Bush is exactly right which is why they are all screaming like scorched dogs.


5 posted on 05/15/2008 10:33:17 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Exactly.

Or as the President might say, “Truth hurts, don’t it?”


6 posted on 05/15/2008 10:33:22 AM PDT by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but theyÂ’re really after folding money.)
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To: Reagan Man

Methinks he doth protest too much.


7 posted on 05/15/2008 10:33:58 AM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment: It's not about sporting goods.)
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To: Reagan Man

Well. Someone’s comments were BS.


8 posted on 05/15/2008 10:34:04 AM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Reagan Man

> “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.


9 posted on 05/15/2008 10:34:38 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Reagan Man

He’ll be plagerizing Bush’s remarks in his next campaign.


10 posted on 05/15/2008 10:34:47 AM PDT by purpleraine
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To: Reagan Man

Deep thought-out response from Biden.

Bush stated historical fact.


11 posted on 05/15/2008 10:35:00 AM PDT by enough_idiocy (Holding my nose in 2008. I disagree with McCain on lots of issue, but with the Democrats on more.)
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To: Reagan Man

Truth hurts bump


12 posted on 05/15/2008 10:35:12 AM PDT by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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To: Reagan Man
My, my, my.....seems they're all just a tad bit sensitive. heh.
13 posted on 05/15/2008 10:35:12 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: Reagan Man

Waiting for a Republican to kick the Dems’ teeth in on this one, but am not counting on it.


14 posted on 05/15/2008 10:35:18 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Reagan Man
Either these Left Wing Democrats are delusional or are among the world's greatest actors, being able to keep straight faces while delivering their lines which are fed to them.
15 posted on 05/15/2008 10:36:22 AM PDT by Rational Thought
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To: Reagan Man
BUSH touched a nerve, didn't he?

HA HA HA!

16 posted on 05/15/2008 10:36:28 AM PDT by frogjerk (Hope is a theological virtue, not a campaign promise)
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To: Reagan Man
“This is bullshit...”

...but enough about the contents of Joe's head.

17 posted on 05/15/2008 10:36:41 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (Democrats p**s me off!))
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To: jwalsh07

Bush speaks the truth.

Touche Mister President.


18 posted on 05/15/2008 10:36:41 AM PDT by Reagan Man (McCain Wants My Conservative Vote --- EARN IT or NO DEAL !!!)
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To: Reagan Man
as a side note, since when is it acceptable for a member of the United States Congress to issue a statement with profanities? The man is a United States Senator, has he no respect for his own office?
19 posted on 05/15/2008 10:37:15 AM PDT by txroadkill (Liberals believe that the only oppressed people in Cuba are the terrorist in GitMo)
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To: Reagan Man

“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!


20 posted on 05/15/2008 10:38:35 AM PDT by Natchez Hawk (What's so funny about the first, second, and fourth Amendments?)
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