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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."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; callawaaambulance; dairyproducts; nobama2008; presbushknesset08; proterrorist; rmthread; sauceforganders
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To: Reagan Man

Too bad, plugs.


81 posted on 05/15/2008 11:09:45 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (Just say NObama!)
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To: Reagan Man

When you’re taking on flak, you’re over the target.


82 posted on 05/15/2008 11:10:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Go Stars!)
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To: MNJohnnie
You can always tell when a comment hits the truth, the Leftists go into hysteria about it.

That is precisely how you know when you've hit the nail on the head! Speak the truth and the leftists go nuts. It's like someone splashing holy water on them.

83 posted on 05/15/2008 11:10:32 AM PDT by Obadiah (I remember when the climate never changed, then Bush stole the election.)
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To: naturalized
Nope. I googled but came up with nothing. Perhaps you could do some in-depth research, since this seems to be something you are interested in, and then share it with the FR community. I, for one, am looking forward to your discovery.
84 posted on 05/15/2008 11:11:16 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: Dante3

You recall incorrectly.


85 posted on 05/15/2008 11:12:30 AM PDT by Jackson57
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To: Reagan Man

Ummmm.. in this case, Bush’s statements were 100% accurate. There are some people who believe that we should negotiate with Islamadingdongs like Iran and other terrorists. The fact that Obama has actually STATED that we should open a dialog with them should be an indicator of the truth...

And Biden is an idiot.


86 posted on 05/15/2008 11:16:28 AM PDT by TheBattman (LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
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To: Reagan Man
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

87 posted on 05/15/2008 11:16:51 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Natchez Hawk

Now the big question is,Did W really mean it?


88 posted on 05/15/2008 11:17:26 AM PDT by Cheapskate (Still backing Hunter"I refuse to be fitted with collar and chain, and given a pat on the back")
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To: Dick Bachert; Grampa Dave

Nice work...


89 posted on 05/15/2008 11:17:50 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Reagan Man

Friggin crybabies


90 posted on 05/15/2008 11:22:39 AM PDT by ropin71 (God Bless our Troops!)
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To: DaveyB; All

If you read the reader comments to this story they sound like Freepers a lot of them mixed in with the occasional “Bush is a war criminal” DU intellectuals.


91 posted on 05/15/2008 11:22:47 AM PDT by McGruff (Rush won't defeat Obama. Rev. Wright or Michelle Obama will.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Senator Biden is as big a fool and as stupid as Jimmy Carter.

Two of history’s biggest losers.


92 posted on 05/15/2008 11:28:47 AM PDT by Laserman
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To: Reagan Man
enrbama
93 posted on 05/15/2008 11:34:52 AM PDT by steel_resolve (We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
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To: naturalized
In 1936, Time Magazine declared him “the most famed Senator of this century” and “the great Moral force of the Senate, the one member who could arise and deal with Right and Wrong in an electric way.”1 Esteemed around the world as “the Lion of Idaho” and “the Great Opposer,” he played a pivotal role through five Presidential administrations in shaping the domestic and foreign agendas of early twentieth-century American public policy.”

Reassuring to know that TIME was as effed-up and wrong then as it is now....

94 posted on 05/15/2008 11:36:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: naturalized

And just what party did he belong to?


95 posted on 05/15/2008 11:36:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Reagan Man
We've talked (and even partially financed!) to them since 1948.

Just a bare handful of the many, deadly “incidents” in return:

Lebanon Marine Barracks

Kobar Towers

(maybe a hand in) Oklahoma City

Mogadishu

WTC I

WTC II

Way past time to stop talking, and begin exterminating...and not stop until the job is nicely done.

96 posted on 05/15/2008 11:41:26 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: Reagan Man

Biden is right.

Never thought I’d say that.


97 posted on 05/15/2008 11:42:25 AM PDT by Romulus ("Ira enim viri iustitiam Dei non operatur")
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To: Reagan Man

Good troll bait thread!


98 posted on 05/15/2008 11:43:30 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: DieHard the Hunter
Senator Biden is a bunny.

He, and several others are bunnies, and need panckaes on their heads.

Even better would be if they were pancaaed, a-la Rachel Corie, preferrably by a Pali "ambulance" full of rockets.

99 posted on 05/15/2008 11:44:22 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, attempting to sit in the Oval Office, where he ought not..)
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To: ApplegateRanch

In Biden’s defense, he plagerized the line from someone else.

Sounds like the President has hit a nerve. Yahooooo. I think we now how to hit Obama and the Dems this Fall. “Appeasers in a time of terrorism”.


100 posted on 05/15/2008 11:51:44 AM PDT by teddyballgame
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