Posted on 05/16/2008 7:59:37 AM PDT by tobyhill
The blowup over President Bush's remarks to Israel's parliament equating talks with rogue regimes to appeasement will be front and center another day.
Barack Obama, who saw himself as the target of Bush's criticism, is expected to directly rebut the president later today at a campaign event in South Dakota.
His top foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, said this morning on MSNBC that Obama will deliver a "very vigorous response to what was an outrageous, unprecedented, and divisive attack from President Bush yesterday which was patently dishonest."
She argued that Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan, have talked to renegade countries. And she said Obama has made "absolutely clear" he will not deal with terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
While the White House officially denied the remarks were aimed at Obama, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain used the opportunity to argue again that Obama's willingness to negotiate shows he is naive and inexperienced in the ways of foreign policy.
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We need that photo of Algore looking down the barrel of a gun. The more Obama protests, the more coverage it gets...dumb, dumb, dumb!!! It was a speech given out of the country and nobody would have paid much attention if he hadn’t made a big deal and taken it personally.
Rather than Obama the appeaser, it’s more like Obama the CAPITULATOR!
A hit, a very palpable hit.
Act V Hamlet
BHO’s reaction is that of a guilty man.
My question is why did he need a whole day to prepare a response to a simple claim that appeasement is wrong?
I’d like to think a person who wishes to be President wouldn’t need a day with his advisors to figure out an answer.
Because he’s a stumbling, fumbling failure when it comes to extemporaneous speech.
YUP! The hound that yelps the loudest and shrillest is the one that got hit.
Too good not to repeat.
Glenn Reynolds summed it up with this pithy statement:
MEMO TO THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN: When somebody condemns appeasement, it doesn’t help things to jump up and yell “Hey, he’s talking about me!”
Once again Bush plays Chess , and the left is playing checkers...
Obama: "I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems, ....I will not weaponize space... I will slow development of future combat systems... I will institute a 'Defense Priorities Board' to ensure the quadrennial defense review is not used ..."
Then, there will be peace in our time without the evil republicans causing war!
My change is good for Muslims, Islamofascists, Black Racists, and Chrislims. $crew the Christians and real Jews!
I agree with your statement!
Go, GW!!
Take away his teleprompter and he’s NOTHING.
“IF the American people elect a president who is personally insulted by general references to appeasement in WWII and with present day terrorists - then we deserve the Hell which awaits us, and believe me people will die because of such a president.”
Well said!!
I totally agree, obambi is destructive.
Bush: “Obama who?”
Obamie don’t like it when someone tells the truth about him....
Exactly. What makes Obama think Bush was referencing him? Maybe the statements of Bush hit too close to home? Bush was talking about Nazi Germany and he could have been speaking of Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain was the one who tried to “talk and reason” with Hitler. Since Bush was speaking of Hitler, that seems like an obvious connection. However, Obama is much too sensitive about this and obviously assumed HE was the subject of this statement.
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