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Over the Kohls on Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:27:36 PM
It’s about time. 7 years we have been waiting for you fight back. But today in Israel, you finally told it like it is.
In a speech to Israel's Knesset, Bush said:"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, whichhas been repeatedly discredited by history."
Of course, Obama took this as a slam against his statements that as President he would meet with Iran's leaders and those of other regimes the United States has deemed rogue. Guess what, Senator Obama, you have every right to take it as a slam because that is exactly what it was intended to be. Just last week, Obama in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic said this when asked about his reaction to the endorsement of Obama by Ahmad Yousef of Hamas:
Goldberg: Were you flummoxed by it?
Obama: I wasn’t flummoxed. I think what is going on there is the same reason why there are some suspicions of me in the Jewish community. Look, we don’t do nuance well in politics and especially don’t do it well on Middle East policy. We look at things as black and white, and not gray. It’s conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, “This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein, and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he’s not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,” and that’s something they’re hopeful about. I think that’s a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they’re not confused about my unyielding support for Israel’s security.
So Obama has no problem at calling Bush’s policies in the Middle East “cowboy diplomacy” but let President Bush defend himself and call the “hat in hand crowd” exactly what they are ….APPEASERS… and suddenly the Left is all up in arms about Bush’s untoward comments. BULL!!!
I say Bully for Bush and if the Left is offended, then tough. If anything, I was more disappointed by White House press secretary, Dana Perino’s, statement denying any link of the President’s remarks to Obama. I wish her reaction would have been “Senator Obama, if the shoe fits…… wear it”.
I think this entire issue is red meat for John McCain and he has appeared, initially at least, ready to take up the charge against Obama’s soft foreign policy stances. Conservatives are waiting for McCain to throw them a bone of any kind these days.