President Bush tells the truth

And Democrats can't handle it.  What the President said:

"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," the President said to the country's legislative body, "We have heard this foolish delusion before. 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."

And the hit dog hollers, or as Confederate Yankee puts it "it's the bit dog that barks loudest.":

"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack. 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. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power -- including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy - to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. 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."

Never supported engagement with terrorists?  I guess it depends on the meaning of the word "engagement".

President Bush simply stated a fact.  Obama, instead of defending his own position, which is on the record, is outraged.  (Even though President Bush never mentioned Obama's name.  Curious Obama would get so worked up).  But the good news is that Obama is now agreeing with President Bush. 

Obama, sweetie, calm down.

More Dems who need to calm down:  Joe Biden, Harry Reid, John Kerry, and Richard J. Durbin.  (Keep in mind, President Bush said "some seem to believe").  Nancy Pelosi has also taken offense:

...said Thursday that 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.

Maybe the President should have just gone to Syria instead.  Pelosi's little message of peace has worked out so well, peace is just breaking out all over.  How dignified.  Will Bunch says the President has committed treason:

President Bush went on foreign soil today, and committed what I consider an act of political treason: Comparing the candidate of the U.S. opposition party to appeasers of Nazi Germany -- in the very nation that was carved out from the horrific calamity of the Holocaust. Bush's bizarre and beyond-appropriate detour into American presidential politics took place in the middle of what should have been an occasion for joy: A speech to Israeli's Knesset to honor that nation's 60th birthday.

Maybe I'll finish this post when I stop laughing. 

Comments

[Scott Allan]

Hey Sweetie,

I saw W's speech today and it was AWESOME!

Obama and the Dems use the same tactic as a few people I've known. If you point out something they've done wrong or argue with them, they immediately get twice as mad at you as you are at them. It catches you off guard and in the confusion they hope you will back down, or forget what you were mad about, or feel so bad that you'll actually apologize even though you weren't wrong in the first place. In a marriage it works on men all the time!

[Julie]

Sweetie??? How dare you! I prefer Honey, thank you very much! And I think you're talking about the "diversion tactic". Although I have never been married, I do believe it's in the handbook. (I don't know first hand what works but I damn sure know what doesn't. I guess I'm just lucky that way!)

You are right about the speech. It was AWESOME. I think that's why the Dems are in such an uproar. They know it and, as you say, they're trying to turn it back on the President and put him on the defensive. I think they would have been better off just to ignore it. They do indeed protest too much.