what he said<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n JERUSALEM (CNN) –<\/strong> In a particularly sharp blast from halfway around the world, President Bush suggested Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of "appeasement" of terrorists in the same way U.S. leaders appeased Nazis in the run-up to World War II.<\/em><\/p>\n"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," said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.<\/em><\/p>\n"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to the Israeli 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."<\/em><\/p>\nAs a believer in free speech, I think Bush has a right to say what he wants, but as a President of the United States who swore to uphold the Constitution, his freedom also carries an awesome and solemn responsibility, and what this president said today is a serious breach of that high moral standard…<\/p>\n
But what Bush did in Israel this morning goes well beyond the accepted confines of American political debate, When the president speaks to a foreign parliament on behalf of our country, his message needs to be clear and unambiguous. Our democracy may look messy to outsiders, and we may have our disagreements with some sharp elbows thrown around, but at the end of the day we are not Republicans or Democrats or liberals or conservatives. <\/div>\n
We are Americans…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Tomorrow, the
Wall Street Journal<\/strong>, the Weekly Standard<\/strong>, Rush Limbaugh<\/strong>, Bill O’Reilly<\/strong> will explain to us that what Bush said today is fine, maybe even courageous. This weekend, the Talking Heads on the Sunday T.V. shows will rally behind his speech. Fox News<\/strong> will join in the support. Dick Cheney will amplify on Bush’s statement. Maybe some of those West Virginia voters I saw on television tonight will get interviewed again agreeing with the President.<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
But none of those things will make it right. Bush’s equating opening a dialogue with "appeasement" is, in fact, his Achilles heel. He really would rather start a War than sit down and talk, and that’s how we got where we are today. I was disappointed with John McCain. He mocked Obama’s reaction as naive and inexperienced. I thought he must have known what Bush was going to say and had a response ready when Obama reacted. But everything else aside, Bush’s speech surprised me. It was a level of hatred I didn’t expect. These are, indeed, dark days… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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I’ve seen a lot of sad things in American politics in my lifetime — the resignation of a president who became a national disgrace after he oversaw a campaign of break-ins and cover-ups, another who circumvented the Constitution to trade arms for hostages, and yet is now hailed as national hero. And those paled to what we have seen in the last seven years — flagrant disregard for the Constitution, the launching of a "pre-emptive" war on false pretenses, and discussions about torture and other shocking abuses inside the White House inner sanctum.<\/p>\n