Posted on 05/17/2008 6:52:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
The President Goes Negative
President Bush’s penchant for slash-and-burn politics, learned at the feet of Karl Rove and the late Lee Atwater, is unseemly when practiced at home. It is shameful for the president and damaging for the country when put on display abroad.
So it was especially distressing to hear Mr. Bush’s barely veiled attack against Senator Barack Obama in front of Israel’s Parliament. In a speech honoring Israel’s 60th anniversary, Mr. Bush likened those who call for talks with “terrorists and radicals” to those who appeased the Nazis.
“We have an obligation to call this what it is,” he declared, “the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.” There are few words more fraught than “appeasement” and no place where they carry more emotional weight than in Israel.
When Mr. Obama and other Democrats objected, the White House press secretary, Dana Perino, insisted the president’s remarks had nothing to do with Mr. Obama and slyly suggested that the Democratic senator was being narcissistic. Mr. Bush’s counselor, Ed Gillespie, then expressed surprise that no one had interpreted the president’s words as a rebuke to former President Jimmy Carter — which he said, sort of, that it wasn’t.
No one bought that — including, we suspect, Mr. Gillespie and Ms. Perino. Senator John McCain certainly had no trouble decoding the remark. He spent much of his week running away from Mr. Bush but endorsed this language enthusiastically. He also said that it was Mr. Obama’s responsibility to explain why he was willing to talk with Iran.
Senator Obama has called for talking with Iran and Syria, as have this editorial page and scores of foreign-policy experts from both political parties. None have suggested surrendering to these countries’ demands, which is, after all, what appeasement is.
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From a newspaper that covered up the Holocaust at every turn.
Yeah, what part of "The Rotting Corpse of Israel should be wiped off the map" do you yearn for, Pinch?
Talking is staving off the bad PR, while carrying on your nuclear development.
this rag is not a truth teller. Bush spoke the truth.
Ahhh! They're running the old "Republican Code Words" scam.
Not actual words like "Hard working white Americans." or "typical white person".
Voters asked to vote for McCain
McCain camp goes negative. Barely veiled attack against Senator Obama
This is appallingly divisive, says New York Times
Who were the “administration officials” who “confirmed to CNN that Bush was speaking of Obama”? That is what gave this whole stupid brouhaha legs. It is obvious Bush was mainly speaking of Jimmy Carter, who just met with Hamas and Hizbollah recently. Perino later confirmed Bush had Carter in mind. If any Bush officials told CNN otherwise they need to be fired and blacklisted.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It’s about time he attacked. He’s been nice to you bastards for 7 1/2 years, and personally I’m sick and tired of it. It was IMO his “compassionate conservatism” that has placed the party in the hands of McLame.
So screw all you libs! I hope he tells it like it is from here on out so you jerks finally have something to really cry about. Finally, GWB can come off as this EVIL person you’ve been portraying him since he took office.
This paper is nothing but a pack of lies. Outright lies.
My email to the NYSlimes: President Bush mentioned no names in his comment ‘the false comfort of appeasement’. But, it seems, Mr. Obama placed himself in those shoes and they seem to fit very comfortably.
Shoes provided by the NY Slimes.
I guess it is a negative attack on the NYT “American Idol” who wants to produce “change” in the form of sharia law being implemented in the US.
What a hissy fit. Perfect, coming from “Pinchy’s” bird cage liner.
If it pisses off liberals it has to be good.
“We also yearn for a more civilized and respectful political dialogue.”
If I were a NYT editorial writer, I would yearn for a few more readers to save my phony baloney job.
With a feces icing.
In reality, Bush used a quote from an appeasing, Montana Senator in his Knesset speech... WHO WAS A REPUBLICAN. It was Obama who placed the collar of appeasement on himself... and his party.
What 'holocaust'?
regards,
NY Times
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The frontpage of The New York Times of November 11, 1938
did not mention that the German Nazi government initiated the attacks,
and then the New York Times lied (as if there was ever another option?) and purported that Goebbels called to stop it.
LEAKING AMERICAN SECRETS IN THE PAST
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