Obama Says Bush Falsely Accuses Him of Appeasement

This is from a NewsMax.com newsletter.

WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama accused President Bush on Thursday of launching a “false political attack” with a comment about appeasing dictators.

The Democratic presidential candidate interpreted the remark as a slam against him but the White House denied that the comment was in any way directed at Obama.

In a speech to Israel’s Knesset, Bush said that “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 … We have an obligation to call this what it is the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

Responding with a statement, the Obama campaign seized on Bush’s remarks even as it was unclear to whom Bush was referring.

“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,” Obama said in the statement. “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.”

The White House said Bush’s comment wasn’t a reference to Obama.

“It is not,” press secretary Dana Perino told reporters in Israel. “I would think that all of you who cover these issues and have for a long time have known that there are many who have suggested these types of negotiations with people that the president, President Bush, thinks that we should not talk to. I understand when you’re running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you. That is not always true. And it is not true in this case.”

Obama, citing past U.S. diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China, has said that as president he would personally negotiate with Iran and offer economic incentives and a chance for peaceful relations if Iranian leaders would forgo their pursuit of nuclear weapons and their support of terrorists. At the same time, he has said he would strongly reject Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, its anti-Semitic rhetoric and terrorist support.

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I am of the opinion that Obama is just a pure idiot. President Bush addressed a concern of the audience he was addressing. He stated the truth. You cannot negotiate with or schmooze terrorists and the governments that sponsor them. He could very well plug Jimmy Carter or even Condelezza Rice into the comment. During WWII, Chamberlain tried to talk and negotiate peace with Hitler, and we all know how that turned out. And how about the Greeks and their Trojan horse… a peace offering to the God’s if you will. But Barack Obama insists on expressing his opinions, those of a man who is inexperienced with diplomacy, leadership and for that matter, reality itself. At a time in his campaign, when every statement should be thought out and measured, he is jumping in with both feet and “taking on an insult” which was not spoken with his name attached. And there are fools who want someone so impulsive put into the White House? If any of the Obama-zombies didn’t realize what Bush was saying before, they certainly know now, because Obama himself attached neon lights to the words. Only a fool jumps into a controversy and “wears it” like this. The Obamanation is going to have a hard time admiring the Emperor’s New Clothes by the time November comes if he keeps pointing out his own nakedness. One word comes to mind when I think of Obama’s tendency to shoot himself in the foot… Lunebatte!!!!

Van Helsing on Moonbattery wrote an amusing post on this topic with a much better picture than I came up with!

Hat tip to Van for making this story more amusing.