If the Shoe Fits, Complain About It
While speaking to the Israeli Knesset yesterday President Bush made this remark:
“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 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”
Remember, he was speaking to the Israelis who are the survivors and descendants of the survivors of the worst appeasement policy in history; that of Chamberlain with Hitler.
Instead of democrats agreeing this is actual history (and no democrat names were mentioned) Obama, Clinton, Biden, Pelosi and who knows who else felt compelled to condemn the speech as a political slap in the face at them. Unless their names are Chamberlain or Hitler they were not mentioned.
I actually think the president was thinking more in the lines of Jimmy Carter, who has had his hands in every crisis since he created the one with Iran.
The argument is that the president shouldn’t go overseas and talk bad about the Congress. It’s an unwritten rule. I guess it just took effect because if that’s the case it stands to reason no politician should go overseas and criticize the President of the United States.
Let’s see, Pelosi, former President Clinton and former President Carter come to mind immediately as breaking that unwritten rule and very recently and often.
Why do you suppose they all got so touchy about the comment the President made? Do you suppose the shoe fit them and it was too close for comfort?
Written by ~J~
~J~ Says:
May 16th, 2008 at 3:34 pmVisit ~J~
I should have mentioned that Obama said in at least one of the earlier debates Barack Obama specifically said he would meet with terrorist countries such as Iran with no pre-conditions. Now he denies it, but even I saw that debate and remember what he said.
Sue Says:
May 16th, 2008 at 5:39 pmVisit Sue
http://thepage.time.com/friday-press-gaggle-with-dana-perino/
Scroll down about half way in the press interview above to where Ed Gillespie enters this interview for an explanation of the President’s words.
Talk about thin skin..but you are right, “if the shoe fits.”