Posted on 05/16/2008 6:48:22 AM PDT by jackv
Bush's comments about appeasement reverberated across the U.S. campaign trail, offering a new platform for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to sharpen their lines of attack.
In the speech, Bush warned that the United States must not negotiate with Iran or radical groups such as Hamas.
"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush told the Israeli lawmakers. "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of 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 angrily called the comment a veiled shot at Obama, who has advocated dialogue with Iran and Syria, but not the Palestinian group Hamas.
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Barack said he would “talk with our enemies”.
...especially when the President was referring to Jimmy Carter, not Obama.
Simple statement of fact.
“Bush’s Comments In Israel Fuel Anger”
The ascendency and totally undeserved proximity to the Commander in Chief position of an unaccomplished, affirmative action, Marxist like ORacist fuels my anger...
Yeah, so what if it was? Presidential campaigns aren't for the thin-skinned -- the 'Rats are acting like they've never been there before. Never have I seen a candidate handled with such kid gloves before.
The GOP needs to be pounding on the Democrat’s reaction because it’s become so obvious they want to do exactly what President Bush said shouldn’t be done.
This story is evidence of Obama’s narcissism.
(paraphrasing) "If you throw a shoe over the fence, the dog that yelps is the dog you hit."
I can't get this out of my mind! Way too funny!
No, you criticize America when you are on foreign soil. ....at every opportunity.
“Never have I seen a candidate handled with such kid gloves before.”
Well, he is a.... shhhh.... black man, you know....
Descendents of slaves, continually get a MAJOR, across-the-board pass from the self-hating white liberals who dominate the media.
Come on, Mac. Show a little spine and call a spade a spade.
He’s not a descendant of slaves.
Maybe a descendant of vicious fools..
Maybe a descendant of vicious fools..
PMSNBC’s bias towards the dems/Obama and against the Repubs/McCain has reached a new low. This morning Mika and David Shuster were comforting each other by claiming that Bush’s attack on Obama is a winner for the dem and a sure fire loser for Mac. Shuster called Bush’s comments “patently dishonest,” he also tried to compare Obama’s position on his willingness and desire to speak with radical terror supporting regimes to Nixon’s visit to China. I know PMSNBC is in the tank for the dems, but now they don’t even try to hide it.
McCain doesn’t have the balls to call a spade a spade or a shovel. He should have been all over Barak the Appeaser and stay on him. The man said it in a debate and he brags about it. Make him a Poster Boy for appeasement, most Americans will no buy that BS. I can’t believe that these two assholes are the best that America has to offer for President.
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