Name of Bush's Appeasement Senator?

may 17, 2008 | beebuster2000

[beebuster2000]

anyone know the name and source of the reference Pres. Bush made to the senator who wanted to talk to Hitler?

Have not seen it anywhere.

[johnny7]

Borah...

[bray]

Well, Joseph Kennedy was a big Hitler fan.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Borah.

[scooby321]

William Borah, A Republican senator from Idaho.

[bennowens]

Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah

[beebuster2000]

thanks

[MNJohnnie]

“Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided.” Senator William Borah

[Always Right]

Well, the way Obama reacted, you would think the appeaser was Obama.

[profit_guy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Edgar_Borah

excerpt:

Hitler quote

Borah may be best known today for having allegedly said, in September 1939, after Germany invaded Poland, “Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.”[9] The quote has been repeatedly cited as evidence of the alleged naivete of attempts to negotiate with one’s enemies.

[beebuster2000]

found a good link to borah. interesting story, there are more parallels to today than have been reported.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/19039569.html?location_refer=Nation

[beebuster2000]

an early rino?

A member of the Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1912, he was a delegate to the 1912 Republican National Convention. As a Senator he was dedicated to principles rather than party loyalty. He disliked entangling alliances in foreign policy and became a prominent isolationist. He encouraged the formation of a series of world economic conferences and favored a low tariff. From 1925 to 1933, Borah served as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Domestically, he sponsored bills that created the Department of Labor and the Children's Bureau. He was one of the Senators responsible for uncovering the scandals of the Harding Administration. Borah supported Roosevelt's New Deal, especially old age pensions and the reduced gold content of the dollar.

[beebuster2000]

and this:

From 1925 to 1933, Borah served as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As Chairman, he became known for his pro-Soviet views, favoring recognition of the Communist regime, and sometimes interceded with that government in an unofficial capacity during the period when Moscow had no official relations with the United States.

Purportedly, Kremlin officials held Borah in such high esteem that American citizens could gain permission to travel throughout the Soviet Union with nothing more than a letter from the Senator. Domestically, he sponsored bills that created the Department of Labor and the Children's Bureau. He was one of the Senators responsible for uncovering the scandals of the Harding Administration.

In 1932, unhappy with the conservative policies of President Herbert Hoover in light of the Great Depression, Borah refused to publicly endorse Hoover's reelection campaign.

After Hoover's defeat by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, Borah, now the Dean of the United States Senate, supported certain components of the New Deal, such as old-age pensions and the reduced gold content of the dollar, but opposed others, including the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

[Stepan12]

A member of the Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1912, he was a delegate to the 1912 Republican National Convention. As a Senator he was dedicated to principles rather than party loyalty. He disliked entangling alliances in foreign policy and became a prominent isolationist. He encouraged the formation of a series of world economic conferences and favored a low tariff. From 1925 to 1933, Borah served as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Domestically, he sponsored bills that created the Department of Labor and the Children's Bureau. He was one of the Senators responsible for uncovering the scandals of the Harding Administration. Borah supported Roosevelt's New Deal, especially old age pensions and the reduced gold content of the dollar.

He sounds like an early rino. His crusade against sound money is especially deplorable (alongside his stupid Hitler comment).

[cricket]

Borah. . .early Rino. . .

[Phlap]

So Bush making reference to appeasers and a dead Republican Senator equates to B. Hussain O.?

[Tax-chick]

Borah was also famous for his affair with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and wife of House Majority Leader Nick Longworth.

[Izzy Dunne]

If the shoe fits....

[Man50D]

I just finished reading the book "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich". I didn't see any mention of a Senator but the writer William Shirer does mention the German charge' d'affaires, Hans Thomsen sent a report to Hitler. The passage on page 984 states the following:

On June 12, for example, he(Thomsen) cabled Berlin in code "most urgent, "top secret" that a well known Republican Congressman who was working closely with the German Embassy, had offered, for $3,000, to invite fifty isolationist Republican Congressman to the Republican convention so that they may work on the delegates in favor of an isolationist foreign policy. The same individual, Thomsen reported wanted $30,000 to help pay for full page advertisements in the American newspapers, to be headed, "Keep American Out of the War!" I was able furthermore through a confidential agent to induce the isolationist Representative Thorkelson(Republican from Montana) to have the Fuehrer interview inserted in the Congressional record of June 22.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Here, have this anyway:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin