Posted on 05/18/2008 10:32:44 AM PDT by T.L.Sink
Let me get this straight. It's perfectly fair for Barack Obama and his cohorts to repeatedly disparage Bush's foreign policy as "cowboy diplomacy" but horrific for Bush to analogize the Democrats' approach to foreign policy to appeasing Hitler? When Obama compared Hillary's threats against Iran to Bush's threatening "bluster," no one batted an eye. But when Bush, in addressing Israel's Knesset, compared those who want to negotiate with today's tyrants and terrorists to an American senator in 1939 who lamented that Hitler's march into Poland might have been avoided "if only I could have talked to Hitler," Obama and Democrats and the MSM went ballistic. Never mind that Democrats have been politicizing foreign policy for the past seven years but also undermining our official policies in the process. Jimmy Carter's intermeddling with Hamas, Nancy Pelosi's junket to Syria, and trips to Iraq by other Democratic members of Congress [remember 'Baghdad Jim' McDermott who grovelled before Saddam before the war?] to sabotage U.S. policy are but a few of several egregious examples.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
Say, how did that ever turn out for neighboring Lebanon?
I thought the speech was pretty good.
But the visceral knee-jerk reaction was amazing. Bush really hit a nerve!!
How in the world you can be Jewish in this country and still vote for the dems is beyond me.
Funny, the left said the same thing about Reagan during the Cold War.
Yippie-ki-yay motherf****r!
Bush Criticism of Appeasement Angers Dems
May 17, 2008
President Bush’s speech to the Israeli parliament sparked a series of denunciations from high ranking Democrats across the country. The President’s characterization of negotiation with terrorist regimes—like the one in Iran that has called for the destruction of Israel—as “a foolish delusion” and akin to Neville Chamberlain’s negotiations with Hitler appears to have touched a nerve in Democratic circles.
Although Bush did not specifically name anyone in his speech, Democratic presidential front runner, Senator Barack Obama (Ill.) called Bush’s comments an “appalling attack on my ‘peace through concessions’ strategy for making America safe. Look, we can’t afford to get involved in a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.” Obama pointed to the ten-year grace period for Jews to leave Palestine that former president Jimmy Carter negotiated with Hamas as an example of the type of agreement he would seek with “so-called terrorist regimes.”
Obama’s rival for the Democratic nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) asserted that “while I do not agree with Senator Obama’s appeasement approach, I think it is improper for a ‘lame-duck’ president to commit the nation to policies that could bind a subsequent administration.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) fumed that “Bush is undermining my hard work. I went to these people on ‘bended knee.’ I wore the Hijab to symbolize willingness to submit. We were gaining traction toward peace for our time. This partisan attack on Democratic policies is beneath the dignity of the office of the president.”
McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds called Obama’s reaction “hysterical.” “The guy has really ‘stepped in it’ this time,” Bounds chortled. “Here we have the President making a perfectly reasonable remark to the Jewish people who were nearly exterminated by a war brought on by a policy of appeasement and Obama goes ballistic. Such passion in defense of appeasement is a stunning revelation of what an Obama Administration portends for this country.”
Outrage at the President’s speech wasn’t confined to his domestic political opponents. Muhammad Barakei, a Muslim member of the Israeli parliament called the remarks “tantamount to a declaration of war. Hitler was one of the great visionaries of the 20th century. Bush’s insult of him can only fan the flames of hostility toward America for its efforts on behalf of the Zionist conspiracy to conquer the world.”
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
I did not know that Guyana was a muslim state. FR continues to educate.
Excerpts from “Our Nation’s Past and Future:” Acceptance speech delivered by the Democratic Party nominee, Gov. Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1976......
“[This] will not be a year of politics as usual. It can be a year of inspiration and hope, and it will be a year of concern, of quiet and sober reassessment of our nation’s character and purpose.
It has already been a year when voters have confounded the experts.
“There is a new mood in America. We have been shaken by a tragic war abroad and by scandals and broken promises a home. Our people are searching for new voices and new ideas and new leaders.
“We have been without leadership too long. We have had divided and deadlocked government too long.
“It is time for America to move and to speak not with boasting and belligerence but with a quiet strength, to depend in world affairs not merely on the size of an arsenal but on the nobility of ideas.
“It is time for us to take a new look at our own government, to strip away the secrecy, to expose the unwarranted pressure of lobbyists.
“It is time for a nationwide comprehensive health program for all our people.
“We can have an American government that does not oppress or spy on its own people but respects our dignity and our privacy and our right to be let alone.”
UNCANNY ISN”T IT?......AND THE REST IS HISTORY
They suffer from the same source that invoked WWII
Entering Parliament at age 49, Chamberlain rose rapidly. He was minister of health (1923-1924, 1924-1929, 1931), chancellor of the exchequer (1923-1924, 1931-1937), and prime minister (1937-1940), succeeding Baldwin.
Prime Minister
Chamberlain confronted the threat to peace posed by Germany and Italy. Seeking to appease Adolf HITLER and Benito MUSSOLINI, he first negotiated a treaty with Italy accepting the conquest of Ethiopia on condition that Italy withdraw from the Spanish Civil War. Turning to the Czech question, Chamberlain conferred with Hitler and Mussolini. In the Munich pact (1938), signed also by France, Chamberlain accepted Hitler's territorial claims to predominantly German areas of Czechoslovakia. Though Chamberlain assured Britain that his concession had brought "peace in our time, Hitler soon broke his agreement and occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.
After Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, Chamberlain honored a pledge to stand by Poland and led Britain into war two days later. Although his policies were discredited, he held on as prime minister until May 1940, when he resigned and was succeeded by Winston CHURCHILL. He died in Heckfield on Nov. 9, 1940.
Isn’t all the stuff from that site made up???
Thanks for all the good information. It’s important to remember that Bush, in his address to the Knesset, didn’t mention a single name of any person or candidate or the Democratic party. But given the fierce and innediate reaction of the Democrats and their public shills, it certainly shows they are reacting to their sense of vulnerability and insecurity on this issue. “If the shoe fits, wear it.” That explains the reaction of Obama and his minions.
Good comments! That photo reminds me of Chamberlain landing in Britain and shouting “Peace in our time!”
What really burns my hide is that this nitwit from San Francisco could take a trip to the terrorist state of Syria and conduct negotiations totally in contempt of the president and Congress. What is this? Free lance negotiation by anybody who can get a plane to a terrorist nation?
Absolutely! I know the MSM has no sense of shame but even they should pretend to be a little more “discrete” about their being totally in the tank for Obama. We all know the MSM is very biased but at least before they could hide some of their prejudices and biases. Not now! They’re acting like they’ve just sighted Elvis! (Obama!)
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