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 sound as touchy as the libDems are today.
PresBush’s remarks that to negotiate with tyrants and mad men like Ahmajinadad, who threaten to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth, is a total effort in futility and only feeds the appeasement mentality. The fact he made these remarks in the home country of a people who were almost wiped out by the nazi holocaust of WWII, adds content and validity to the issue.
Again, you seem to forget, America is at war. There are no limits or bounderies to rhetoric that speaks to the truth.
The fact that the Dems took it so personal and as an attack on their savior, B.Hussein Obama, pleases me to no end. Besides, if the shoe fits ...
Not bullcrap, bullseye. That’s why the old plagiarist is squealing like a stuck pig.
And your point is what ... ????
What frickin idiots. The comments were aimed squarely at Jimmy Carter.
We have to put this in historical perspective. America’s lack of preparation for WWII was the result of socialist Democrats (they actually used that name for themselves) and isolationist Republicans in Congress. For example, a bill to fund fortifications of our Pacific bases (Midway, Corregidor, etc.) was defeated in Congress by opponents who said, “it might antagonize the Japanese and communicate hostility”.
And Edgar Borah, the quoted Senator, was one of those isolationist Republicans.
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