The Guilty Conscience of Barack Obama
President George W. Bush speaking during a special
session of the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem
Photo Credit: Ariel Schalit
If George Bush had said, "There are some people in this country that seem to enjoy eating chocolate-covered cockroaches," would Obama have thrown a hissy fit over the statement? Would he have thought that he was the object of the attack? Obviously not, unless Obama actually enjoys eating chocolate-covered cockroaches. An innocent person would have laughed off the comment by saying it couldn't possibly be referring to him. In fact a truly innocent person wouldn't have responded at all.
So why is everyone protesting too much? All the Liberals and Leftists have suddenly suffered a collective apoplexy over the appeasement remark; here's Joe Biden [a tip of the turban 
to Americablog]: "This is bullsh**t. This is malarkey. This is outrageous."
But what's so outrageous? Here's the text:
The Wall Street Journal, Bush Charges ‘Appeasement’ in Knesset Speech
"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said.
"We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all 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 couldn't seriously believe this was an attack against him personally. After all, Obama is not in the least interested in negotiating with terrorists, is he? He's not at all a person who has lost the lesson of appeasement, is he? Or does he have a guilty conscience?
By the way, Bush could not have been referring to Democrats or Obama since the Senator who made the remark was the defeatist, isolationist, appeaser Republican, William Edgar Borah - So there:
washingtonpost.com, Charles Krauthammer - Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Pain
Negotiators with Iran have had carrots coming out of their ears in three years of fruitless negotiations. Allies? We let the British, French and Germans negotiate with Iran for those three years, only to have Iran brazenly begin accelerated uranium enrichment that continues to this day.
Lamont seems to think that we should just sit down with the Iranians and show them why going nuclear is not a good idea. This recalls Sen. William Borah's immortal reaction in September 1939 upon hearing that Hitler had invaded Poland to start World War II: "Lord, if I could only have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided."
