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Bush Gives Speech In Israel, Obama Thinks It Was About Him
President Bush delivered an excellent speech today in Israel to mark the 60th anniversary of Israel’s statehood. At one point in the speech the President talked about the dangers of appeasement in the face of terror.
“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.
“We have heard this foolish delusion before. 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.”
Out of nowhere the Obama campaign angrily responded to the speech calling it a “false political attack” on Barack Obama, and then released a statement:
“It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack,” Obama said in the statement his aides distributed. “George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”
Wow, I’m not sure what speech Obama’s people were listening to but I didn’t hear anything about Obama either directly or indirectly. It never even crossed my mind that he was making some kind of veiled reference to him. I think the Obama campaign has a guilty conscience about being appeasers so they imagine attacks where there are none.
Believe it or not, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel, and Joe Biden have all issued statements condemning Bush’s comments. This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, I think the Democrats are losing their minds.
Here’s what “Syrian” Nancy said:
Bush’s remarks were “beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation” at the celebration of Israel’s 60th anniversary.
Referring to Sen. John McCain, Pelosi said: “I would hope that any serious person that aspires to lead the country, would disassociate themselves from those comments.”
Rahm Emanuel said:
“The tradition has always been that when a U.S. president is overseas, partisan politics stops at the water’s edge. President Bush has now taken that principle and turned it on its head: for this White House, partisan politics now begins at the water’s edge, no matter the seriousness and gravity of the occasion. Does the president have no shame?”
Joe Biden had this to say:
“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.”
The White House says the President was not talking about any one person, but a wide range of people.
I happen to believe the White House on this one, but if President Bush was taking a swipe at anyone it was likely Jimmy Carter and not Barack Obama.
Carter is the king of appeasers and was recently in the region meeting with our sworn enemies. Barack Obama needs to relax and stop imagining political attacks.
He’s going to have plenty of real attacks aimed in his direction very soon, so he should just cool it until then.
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Well done.
Appeasement was an appropriate word in that context and Bush is certainly entitled to speak his mind. The angry responses from the peanut gallery sure suggest that the comments hit close to home.
How peculiar that Pelosi condemned such remarks as “beneath the office of president”, when she has supported underhanded (and under desk) Dem presidents in the past.