Bush goes out of his way to criticize Obama to help McCain: with help like that . . .
President George W. Bush openly criticized Senator Barack Obama, which is a peak into what this campaign will look like. In 2000, George W. Bush undermined his “friend” John McCain by starting those nasty rumors in South Carolina. Today, he is undermining his “friend” John McCain once again by giving him no choice but to defend this inept President and his inept policies. A cynic might suggest Bush is deliberately sabotaging his “friend.”
JERUSALEM (CNN) – In a particularly sharp blast from halfway around the world, President Bush suggested Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of “appeasement” of terrorists in the same way U.S. leaders appeased Nazis in the run-up to World War II.
“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,” said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“We have heard this foolish delusion before,” Bush said in remarks to the Israeli Knesset. “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.”
George W. Bush must know his comments have negative connotations, so why would he “undermine” his “friend.”
Conspiracy. Sabotage. Not likely.
Lack of thought. Thoughtlessness. Yes, much more likely from a President who gives no thought to foreign policy. Thank God this national nightmare of George W. Bush will soon be over. Reading on Walden Bookstore.
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Well, McCain got his shot in recently saying that he would wield the veto pen rather than the signing statement pen.