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Voted : agree
He's right and I'm glad he had the courage to say it publicly.
it was response to this tidbit :
President Bush launched a sharp but veiled attack Thursday on Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats, suggesting they favor "appeasement" of terrorists in the same way some Western leaders appeased Hitler in the run-up to World War II.
The president did not name Obama or any other Democrat, but White House aides privately acknowledged the remarks were aimed at the presidential candidate and others in his party. Former President Jimmy Carter has called for talks with Hamas.
"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said at Israel's 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem.
"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to Israel's parliament, the Knesset. "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."
The remarks seemed to be a not-so-subtle attempt to continue to raise doubts about Obama with Jewish Americans. Those doubts were earlier stoked by Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election, when he recently charged that Obama is the favored candidate of the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, which the U.S. government has listed as a terrorist group.
Obama last week called the Hamas allegation a "smear" and lashed out Thursday at Bush's speech in Israel.
"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 a statement released to CNN by his campaign. "It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel…."
by LCD on Thu May 15, 08 11:12am
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"Soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and Coastmen -- Coast Guardmen, thanks for coming, thanks for wearing the uniform." --George W. Bush, at the Pentagon, March 19, 2008
Voted : agree
Yeah, I saw that. Bush is an asshole and it was a not so thinly veiled attack on Obama. It was ridiculous. However, it is good to keep it in perspective. What Bush says has very little credibility with anyone and no one really cares what he says or does anymore. I'm glad Obama responds to these things instead of letting them go by like Kerry often seemed to do.
Voted : agree
It's good those who disagree with him are now standing up and speaking out, principles should come before politics...
Voted : agree
You have to pick your spots and subject when talking like that.
If you choose the wrong time and subject you will be voted out of office.
He can get away with it now because most people are against the war now and Bushe's approval rating is in the toilet.
You can't talk like that for long and survive in politics.
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