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Democrats insecure about security issue
Monday, May 19, 2008 | 2:03 a.m.
President Bush did not mention Barack Obama’s name during his recent “appeasement” speech to the Knesset in Israel.
But the Democrats are so self-conscious about their ineffectual position and performance on national security that, from the party’s potential presidential candidate on down, the entire party took personal offense at the president’s poignant statements.
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Poignant statements indeed.
Thin-skinned Barry O went apecrazy at the direct-hit on his politics. Musta hurt BAD!!
POTUS Bush is correct!
Bush's yawn-worthy straw man argument fails upon any kind of inspection.
Nixon had talks with communist China during Vietnam, Reagan and the USSR, Bush's own secretary of defense wants the US to have high-level talks with Iran. Only the boneheadedly dense and those hell-bent on war refuse to speak to their enemies. They gleefully stick their head in the ground.
Bush has failed, time and time again, to eradicate Al Qaida. His war on Iraq has been an utter disaster. Bush's lock-step automatons regurgitating his talking points are even weaker-willed than Bush himself (and hilariously neutered by Chris Matthews, of all people). He is the absolute LAST person who should be criticizing anyone's foreign policy, as the Bush doctrine has been such an abject failure.
Obama offers a small gleam of hope to the people of this nation who can think beyond the kindergarten-style of international relations employed by the current administration. A gleam of hope to people who know the difference between appeasement and dialogue. A gleam of hope to those who hear Bush's oft-used straw man arguments and laugh.
And as for Bush not mentioning Obama's name? His press handlers were telling the assembled corps that Bush was going to address Obama's foreign policy credentials. Then, when he gets his butt reamed by Biden et. al after the fact, he backtracks. Weak-willed, indeed.