Posted on 05/16/2008 6:05:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
Appeasement: In slamming President Bush and John McCain, Barack Obama seemed to follow political consultant Jim Carville's rule: "You've got to be willing to fight." But what Obama is defending is indefensible.
"It is a disgrace to the American people that the president of the United States would make a claim that is so baseless, so without foundation, so shameless, in an attempt to get votes under false pretenses," he charged.
Of course, Clinton proceeded to raise taxes on families making way below $36,000. But his attack worked. Carville, the man who ran that historically successful campaign, believed in the art of counterpunch. One of his "Ten Rules for Progressives to Live By" is: "Sometimes you've got to be willing to fight. Period."
Now, in a fashion nearly identical to Clinton, Sen. Obama has hit back hard at his accusers, President Bush and Sen. McCain. In this case, however, the counterpunch may end up being a wild haymaker that only makes its thrower look foolish.
In South Dakota on Friday, Obama complained that Bush, in a speech the day before to Israel's Knesset, "accused me and other Democrats of wanting to negotiate with terrorists and said we were appeasers no different from people who appeased Adolf Hitler." Then he said McCain "has repeated this notion that I'm prepared to negotiate with terrorists. I have never said that."
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A lot of people are upset about President Bush’s border policy but think he’s a good “war” president. It wouldn’t take a lot on his part to get the base rallying again. Obama attacking him won’t be viewed kindly by a lot of us.
I love it. He goes ballistic at the slightest whiff of criticism. Bush didn’t even mention him by name, and neither did McCain, but Obama knew they were talking about him (the truth hurts, doesn’t it?) and he instantly falls for it, hook line and sinker.
Can’t imagine how he would handle a guy like Hugo Chavez or Kim Jong Il.
If there is anything that really exposes his inexperience, not to mention general stupidity, this is it. He’s way out of his league.
I think it was a strategic mistake for Obama to do this. I doubt many people paid attention to the appeasement remarks. Now, everyone is doing so.
Have you noticed that the guilty ones always protest the loudest that the guilty ones always protest the loudest?
Have you noticed that the guilty ones always protest the loudest that the guilty ones always protest the loudest?
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I’ve noticed that I’ve noticed that.
oops. LOL
Last I looked Bush wasn’t running for anything—he’s not seeking votes. Richard Senate
Actually, I think Obama manufactured this. This gave him free air time to make another messianic “speech”.
However, this may rebound on him. It depends how many people are dumb enough to fall for it.
When you throw a rock at a pack of dogs, the one that starts yelping and whining is not the one you missed.
Remember when Barbara Bush went to the 1996 Republican convention, and introduced her husband to speak saying something about how her husband had brought dignity to the White house.
The Democrats attacked her for a personal attack on Clinton.
The Magic Mulatto is a whiney little turd. What a wuss! He shrieks in panic when someone says something that in all likelihood wasn’t even addressed to him (hell, I thought Bush was talking about the UN in that speech).
That’s what I thought, too. He could just as well have been jabbing the UN. I think I heard a spokesman for either Bush or McCain (can’t remember which now) who basically expressed amusement that Obama even thought that the comments were about him.
To paraphrase that Carly Simon song: “You’re so vain, you probably think this speech is about you...”
Love the way he’s bringing negative attention to himself with things that would probably have slipped under the radar otherwise!
I thought he was talking about our State Department!
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