Bush swipes at Obama from Israel

10 Comments

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   Akha Drug War on May 15, 2008 at 9:48 am

   What do we expect from a scumbag president?

   This is about color man.

   The vote is shifting. Minorities and blacks are voting in defense of their neighborhoods and the priveledged classes will do anything to keep from ending up on the boat one more year.

   McCain will eat anything Bush shoves at him.

   Its about color.

   A vote for Obama is to end the white monopoly on power.

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   Oui on May 15, 2008 at 10:10 am

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   THE PRESIDENT: Doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.

   The biggest issue we face is — it’s bigger than Iraq — it’s this ideological struggle against cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives. Iraq just happens to be a part of this global war. Iraq is the place where al Qaeda and other extremists have made their stand — and they will be defeated.

   Has Mr. GBW after heard of Pakistan, where his friend Musharraf is less favorite than Osama Bin Laden?

   "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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   idredit on May 15, 2008 at 10:52 am

   Chimpy Bush, empty-from-the-neck-up , should call his Sec. of Defense, Robert Gates. He does not know Gates has embraced Obama’s approach:

   from The CarpetBagger Report

   It’s cheap; it’s ugly; and it’s beneath of office of the President of the United States. I vaguely recall a time when American political figures felt honor-bound not to attack other U.S. leaders while on foreign soil. Regrettably, we’ve learned that the words “honor” and “Bush” don’t belong in the same sentence, unless separated by the phrase “doesn’t have any.”

   The irony, of course, is that just yesterday, Bush’s own Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, [talked openly about embracing an Obama-like approach to engaging Iran in some kind of diplomatic “discussion.”

   Bush, in other words, seemed to be inadvertently accusing his own administration of appeasement.

   (highlight added)

   Truly empty from the neck up. Worst prez ever.

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   ask on May 15, 2008 at 10:59 am

   Prepared Text of Bush’s Knesset Speech

   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. We have heard this foolish delusion before. 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.

   How sick is this? Negotiation with your adversaries = Nazi appeasement…

   Bush is one sick, deluded puppy (we all knew that) – there is an action diary just up at Kos:

   Action Diary: Call on your Senator to Censure Bush

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     CabinGirl on May 15, 2008 at 11:14 am

     Bush just sinks lower and lower, doesn’t he?

     Btw, I think your link is broken. Maybe this one  will work.

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       ask on May 15, 2008 at 11:25 am

       The pit he dug is bottomless, he will sink forever.

       Thanks for putting up correct link.

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   dada on May 15, 2008 at 12:03 pm

   fuck mccain denouncing it, what about lieberman?!

   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.

   thinkprogress

   and reid continues to leave him in his committee chairmanships…why?

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     idredit on May 15, 2008 at 12:45 pm

     ya know maybe grandson Bush (forgetting he’s the president of the U.S.A and the protocol that goes with the office) was attempting to make up, make nice for deeds of grandpa Prescott, the Nazi enabler:

     The Guardian, UK (HT:Emptywheel)

     How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power

     Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today’s president:

     George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

     The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

     His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

     [.]

     [the] new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis’ plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler’s rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

     Appeasers?  

     Who?

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   lyvwyr101 on May 16, 2008 at 11:21 am

   Pretty low, disgraceful conduct for the so-called “Leader of the Free World.” Bush is truly a no- class-act.

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     idredit on May 16, 2008 at 11:41 am

     ALERT:
     Our candidate will not allow himself to be swift-boated; not by Bush, McBush, LIEberman or any other GOP thugs.

     Obama will deliver a vigorous response to Bush later today.
     sometime around noon EDT

     Obama foreign policy adviser Susan Rice vowed on MSNBC this morning that Obama will respond forcefully today to President Bush’s claim yesterday that Democrats’ willingness to negotiate with hostile foreign powers constitutes “appeasement.”

     “What you’re going to hear is a very vigorous response to what was an outrageous, unprecedented, and divisive attack from President Bush yesterday,” Rice said.