Joe Biden Calls President Bush’s Speech to Israel Bullshit

Today President Bush spoke to Israel at the Knesset, and said the following:

“some people” believe the United States “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,” Bush said. “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.”

Needless to say, this drew the ire of the left who just assumed he was referring to Barack Obama. They came out in full force against President Bush today. Joe Biden even called the president’s remarks bullshit.

“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset … and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”

Some others who lambasted the president were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, and Barack Obama. Here is what they had to say.

John Kerry:

Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) said that Bush “is still playing the disgusting and dangerous political game Karl Rove perfected, which is insulting to every American and disrespectful to our ally Israel. George Bush should be making Israel secure, not slandering Barack Obama from the Knesset.”

Harry Reid:

“Not surprisingly, the engineer of the worst foreign policy in our nation’s history has fired yet another reckless and reprehensible round,” said Reid. “For the President to make this statement before the government of our closest ally as it celebrates a remarkable milestone demeans this historic moment with partisan politics.”

Dick Durbin:

“There is no escaping what the president is doing,” said Durbin, who supports Obama. “It is an attack on Sen. Obama’s position that we should not be avoiding even those we disagree with when it comes to negotiations and diplomacy.” Durbin called Bush’s remarks “unfair and really unfortunate.”

Hillary Clinton:

President Bush’s comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy. This is the kind of statement that has no place in any presidential address and certainly to use an important moment like the 60th anniversary celebration of Israel to make a political point seems terribly misplaced. Unfortunately, this is what we’ve come to expect from President Bush.

The list goes on and on.

Wasn’t it Hillary Clinton that has been criticizing Obama for his willingness to talk to terrorists without any pre-conditions? I think so. I do find it ironic however, that Hillary Clinton mentions comparing Democrats to Nazi appeasers, and is appalled. You know what appalls me? When Dick Durbin, who also threw in his two cents, compared our military to Nazis and Pol Pot. HE COMPARED OUR SOLDIERS TO NAZIS, and that is forgotten.

“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.”

You know what else offends me? When John Kerry, who also chimed in today, claimed that our soldiers were terrorizing Iraqis.

“And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children

Oh the hypocrisy of the left, it makes for great fodder. But the immediate response by Obama and the rest of the high ranking left has to make you wonder. Do they feel guilty about something? Why did they all just assume that the president was talking about Barack Obama? Do they think that what the president said was true about Barack Obama? It sounds to me as though the Democrats have many private reservations about nominating Barack Obamaas he is perceived as very weak on national security. This over reaction just shows us how sensitive the Democrats are about their glaring weakness when it comes to national security.

As far as Joe Biden calling the President’s remarks bullshit, remember he left us with this glittering jewel when describing Barack Obama not all that long ago.

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,”

Nice huh? The first articulate, bright, and clean African-American. Could you imagine the uproar if President Bush had used those terms to describe Barack Obama?

With all that said, President Bush was throwing a dart at the Democrats in general, and it must have hit home if it drew the kind of reaction that it did. Maybe they need to look into the mirror.

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