During a speech in Jerusalem, President Bush jumped head first into the 2008 presidential campaign by taking a shot at Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, by comparing his willingness to hold diplomatic talks with Iran to the appeasement of Nazis in the 1930’s.
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President Bush’s foreign policy has been nothing short of a disaster and even MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan can’t help but call this what it is - an unprecedented smear of an American presidential candidate from outside the country. Buchanan and Harold Ford Jr. both agree that Bush has really stepped in it with these comments and the big question now, as it relates the presidential campaign, is how Senator John McCain reacts. McCain has already used the Hamas smear repeatedly against Senator Obama, but will he embrace these farcical statements of President Bush? Senator Obama immediately responds to the attacks:
“It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally, Israel. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all the elements of American power, including tough, principled and direct diplomacy to pressure countries like Iran and Syria.”
According to Will Bunch, Bush just committed an act of political treason:
And you, Mr. Bush, are the leader of us all. To use a diplomatic setting on foreign soil to score a cheap political point at home is way beneath your office, way beneath your country, and way beneath the people you serve. You have been handed an office once uplifted to great heights by fellow countrymen from Washington to Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower, and have plunged it so deeply into the Karl-Rove-and-Rush-Limbaugh-fueled world of political destruction and survival of all costs that have lost all perspective — and all sense of decency. To travel to Israel and to associate a sitting American senator and your possible successor in the Oval Office with those who at one time gave comfort to an enemy of the United States is, in and of itself, an act of political treason. Read on…
UPDATE: (Nicole) You knew it had happen. Lieberman has come out with a statement (surprise, surprise!) backing President Bush:
President Bush got it exactly right today when he warned about the threat of Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. It is imperative that we reject the flawed and naïve thinking that denies or dismisses the words of extremists and terrorists when they shout “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” and that holds that — if only we were to sit down and negotiate with these killers — they would cease to threaten us. It is critical to our national security that our commander-in-chief is able to distinguish between America’s friends and America’s enemies, and not confuse the two.
I bet Holy Joe doesn’t want to be reminded that the Bush family knows all about Nazi appeasement.
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Campaigns/Elections, Election 08, GOP, George W. Bush, Iran, Middle East, Smears
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THat’s just like Bu$h to be talking out of his ass again!! Hey George… STFU!
Frist - or whomever.
Wow. Like I needed another reason to despise the Bush clan.
This should backfire in his stupid face big time.
Impeach the bastard, don’t bother listening to him.
Last link the post about the Bush family doesn’t work.
Comparing Iran to NAZI Germany for political purposes diminishes the atrocity of the Holocaust. I’m sure my fellow Jewish Americans find this as appaling as I do. Bush should be ashamed, but the man has no conscience.
Classic Bush stuff. This is a man who would have invaded Bolivia after Pearl Harbor if he had been president.
PEOPLE OF CONNECTICUT–Please recall Holy Joe.
Looks like Keith will be writing another Special Comment.
Anytime Bush attacks Obama it’s a gift for Obama…keep it up, Mr. 26% Approval!
Snowball @ 6:
Absolutely! And if we could “excommunicate” fellow MOT, LIEberman would be at the top of the list!!!
What will Lieberman have to do to be stripped of his committee chairmanships — call Obama a Nazi-loving child molester? Kill and eat a small child? Come on, he’s gone too far now with this shameless, traitorous pile-on. Sen. Reid, show some backbone.
Why is this so surprising? This two-bit dictator has been committing treason right and left for 8 years now.
“radical” is relative.
Bush is going to Saudi Arabia today to negotiate. Did he forget that 15 of the 9/11 suicide bombers were from Saudi Arabia.
For many in the middle east and elsewhere around the world the policies towards the Palestinians and some of Israel’s leaders are as radical as it gets.
Bush has had no problem getting most of the false pre war intelligence from some of the most right wing radicals in our country.
Cheney says “so”
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/
Hey Bush you big ‘tard, you shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds you…..remember grandpa Prescott? Yeah, well see he made a WHOLE lot of money helping to finance the Nazi war machine back in WWII and that money pretty much helped get your dumb ass into the white house. That would make you the grandson of nazi sympathizers. Spin that one dj.
Reference it: Prescott Bush, Brown Brothers Harriman, Nazis on google.
Ah, never mind…
Nazis, eh? Well armed, aggressive, impressive, all consuming War Machine. Rolled over numerous neighboring countries, including several past world powers. Henry Ford and Prescot Bush were apparently fans, however.
Iran. Hasn’t invaded another country in over 300 years. Was attacked by Iraq with support from the US. Not a world power, but if we keep it up they may band with Syria, Lebanon, Kurds, et al (possibly even Shiite factions of a disgrundled Iraq and China) and become one.
Yeah, I see the comparison — Not.
Bush should know about the threat: he Nazis tortured innocent people, spied on their own citizens, established secret prisons, suspended civil liberties, and invaded non-threatening countries.
To be “insulted” by this retarded President is an astounding compliment to Obama. Being fair though, Bush and his family does know a bit about the Nazis’. His grandfather Prescott, got rich working for them.
Yea, and just how well has your “I don’t talk to those who disagree with me” diplomatic stance work Mr. Bush? Not too damn well. We are hated all over the world, your unilateral foreign policies & tactics have alienated even countries that were once friendlies… No, I reject your scare tactics… Fact is you haven’t been right about anything important in the last 7 years… We need a new way of dealing with our global neighbors, yes, including those who disagree with our foreign & trade policies. We’d expect our school-kids to exercise discussion in their resolving disagreements with their classmates, we should expect no less from our leaders… Obama’s stated intention relative to the USA’s foreign policy is exactly what is needed… I just hope that the legacy of Bush’s failed foreign policy isn’t that “mushroom cloud” that Condi and Bush warned us about when they started this war in Iraq…
Both of these worthless, empty headed, evil bastards should be put in handcuffs and trotted off to the Hague for immediate legal proceedings. Instead they’re busily trying to increase their stock portfolios by starting another war.
It’s a really sick and sad feeling when a person realizes there is no justice in the world. The only good thing about either of them is they are mortal and finite. Unfortunately they will do as much damage as they possibly can in the time they have remaining.
The American conservative - Godwin’s bitch.
To all conservatives: The Nazis also inhaled oxygen on a regular basis. I suggest you stop immediately.
I thought the Republicans were going to use race as an issue, well looks like they are going full force on all fronts. This is a paragraph from a BBC article:
The BBC’s James Coomarasamy in Washington says the row indicates that Republicans have identified Senator Obama’s Middle East policy and his perceived weakness amongst Jewish voters as a key point of attack, should he, as many expect, be Republican John McCain’s opponent in the November election.
I thought Defense Secretary Gates was the one “appeasing” Iran. bush is an idiot and it’s a serious waste of time trying to make any sense of the stupid things the madman and his neo-con handlers say.
How do 5 million Jewish Folks living inside Israel and perhaps another 10 million living elsewhere in the world …. or when Jews consist of less than 2% of the American population hold such influence within North America and within the body politic?
How is that possible?
We would never allow 35 million people of Taiwan to constantly bad-mouth China and offend a billion or more Chinese. And yet we are actually encouraging the Jewish Folks to bad-mouth a billion or more Muslims and Arabs.
How is that possible?
Why do we allow 5 million people living inside Israel to hold the world hostage for 60 years or more and to threaten mankind with nuclear war?
For years and years Jewish Folks have entered court rooms across this universe and demanding the “Right Of Return” of money, jewlery, paintings and properties which were seized by Hitler and The Clowns. Never once have I heard the Jewish Folks claim that “The Facts Had Changed On The Ground” and thus the Jews might not be eligible for the return of that which once belonged to them.
But the Jews are telling the Palestinian People that “The Facts Have Changed On The Ground” and they are not entitled to the return of lands and properties which were seized in 1948 or as a result of the 6-day war.
Calm
Why do we let this idiot out of the country?
Iran nazis ?tell me again, exactly how many countries has Iran invaded/occupied in the last 200 years ? …. i’ll give you a clue, it starts with a 0 and ends with an 0.
If we surrender Bush to the Nazis will we get our deposit back? I’m just curious, that’s all.
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Hey, don’t forget the Bush family also helped prop up Saddam Hussein while he was committing genocide and basically helped strengthen his stranglehold on Iraq.
LM:
I bet Holy Joe doesn’t want to be reminded that the Bush family knows all about Nazi appeasement.
Now, now, Logan! Don’t bother Lieberman with the facts! They are known to have a liberal bias!
A president whose family fortune is soaked in the blood of Hollocaust victims goes to Israel and compares a black man to a Nazi sympathizer. Way to keep striving for new lows, right wing America!
honuman @ 15:
What ever happened to the gravitas of the oval office? Bush has soiled it forever. I have never seen such inapprpriate remarks in my life. I thought “W” said he would stay out of the election as a sitting president. Another lie. Shameless and sickening.
The Bush dynasty was built on with the help from the nazis.
http://www.geocities.com/bushfamilynazis/
We’re not celebrating Israel’s anniversary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....lestinians
5 Myths on Who”s Really “Pro-Israel”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....inionsbox1
And then there’s of course the imperial PNAC agenda which I doubt wouldn’t make many nazis proud.
If we don’t start a war with Iran, then how will we bring about the Armageddon that McCain’s political allies so desperately want? No war, no Rapture.
Bush equated today’s situation re:Iran with the eve of WWII!
With some luck, the Knesset could introduce legislation for the Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem while Bush is still there.
They can’t do anything to Lieberman. He’s an independent who caucuses with the Dems, leaving them in charge (barely) 51-49. If they take away his committee chair, he will caucus with the GOP and the chamber will go 50-50. Seems like JL knows this and is really working hard to push the buttons of the leadership. I am not quite sure how or why Reid and Durbin haven’t just lost it with this guy.
The entire shrub co. clan stinks from the root to the tip. If all the people they’ve murdered in their mad race to wealth and power stood up there’d be a population explosion.
Just keep talking George. Few people listen to you anymore except for comedy purposes and those who do take you seriously are those 29% who still approve of you, the “backwash” as Stephen Colbert so aptly named them. “Dumb as a stump” John McCain. Yeah, I know, you Repugnicants are going to try to win the Jewish vote with your misleading mudslinging. Politics as usual.
What do you expect from the rotton son of a bitch?
Intelligence?
vrk @ 7:
Spot on.
also, note that one of the main reasons for saber rattling is the notion that ahmadinejad said he wants to “wipe israel off the map.” anytime discussion come up regarding iran pundits/polticians, on cue, like well-trained parrots (sorry my feathered friends for the comparison), repeat this assertion, that iran, if possible, would destroy everyone and everything is israel in some sort of nuclear holocaust.
this has been discredited. and the propoganda and lies are on par with the pre-Operation Iraqi Liberation lies.
in fact, with the correct translation, what ahmadinejad said is no different from what our political leaders say about many, many countries.
the actual quote was not from ahmadinejad, but from khomeini. and the correct transl, as per juan cole, is “the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time.” this is wholly different than from what our wargasmic class/war profiteers would like us to believe.
are we goldfish? is our memory so short that we will be manipulated into war again? how many times does this have to happen before people stop trusting the assertions of our corporate controlled pentagon and civilian govt without checking and cross checking their claims?
(note: this is not meant to defend ahmadinejad and the iranian regime, but just to provide better info than our propaganda-suppliers)
How long before Hillary jumps on this? Remember, in the debates she scolded Obama for discussing diplomatic solutions for Iran.
$4.00 + for a gallon of gas.
“Mission Accomplished” republicans!!!
rotten* lol.
Bush is a sociopath and is a very sick man.
Please protect Obama and all the honest candidates.
Investigate who Bush personally appointed to “protect” Obama.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05.....ref=slogin
I have even heard that some Blackwater recruits are
abandoning because of the crimes that Bush and Cheney are doing to our country.
Keep investigating and distributing the truth to all honest
news media outlets and those in Congress left.
It is becoming apparent that Bush, Cheney and aligned criminals have now evolved into an Espionage Crime mob operating from the peoples White House.
Keep investigating all the crooks and mobs who are more
loyal to criminals than they are to America.
It is worse than Watergate.
All I can say is I thought Keith Olbermann was angry last night, I wonder what the hell he is going to do with this.
Even hardcore Zionists will see this as a bad move politically.
But not Joe . . what an ass.
Yeah, Bush knows all about Nazis. He IS one.