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Bush takes swipe at Carter, Obama takes offense
The Senator doth protest too much, methinks.
In a speech to Israel’s Knesset, President Bush said:
“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,” Bush told the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 15, 2008.”
“We have heard this foolish delusion before,” he said. “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.”
Obama immediately took umbrage and began firing back, questioning the President’s patriotism.
“The president did something that presidents don’t do,” he told a crowd of some 2,100 in South Dakota. “And that is launch a political attack targeted toward the domestic market in front of a foreign delegation.”
Obama followed up his criticism of the Commander in Chief by saying,
“On a day when we were supposed to be celebrating the anniversary of Israel’s independence, he accused me and other Democrats of wanting to negotiate with terrorists, and said we were ‘appeasers’ - no different from people who appeased Adolf Hitler,” Obama said.
“That’s exactly the kind of appalling attack that has divided our country, and that alienates us from the world.”
Obama went on to criticize presumptive Republican nominee John McCain for embracing Bush’s comments shortly after giving a speech about elevating civility in politics.
“So much for civility,” Obama said, adding he was ready to debate McCain and Bush over how to best protect the country.
