05.16.2008 9:54 am
Welcome to the general election
President George W. Bush made a veiled reference to Barack Obama while in Israel yesterday, setting off a political firestorm back in the states. Bush said that people seeking talks with Iran and radical Islamic groups are like those who sought to appease Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Obama said, “George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.” (From the Washington Post story.)
Read the NYTimes story here.
What do you think?
Jamie Riley is the P-D letters editor and gatekeeper of the letters blog. Before joining the editorial page in May 2005, she was a reporter and page designer. Jamie lives in University City with her husband, Charles, daughter, Elise, and the world's best Jack Russell terrier, Logan, better known as Stinky. 
Jamie - an interesting accusation you have made. Where exactly is your proof that President Bush was referring to Obama? I guess I should just expect the same PD partisanship from you as the rest of the PD staff that has endorsed Obama. Great!
Check this out and decide for youself what’s up with this guy:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295659438660017.
Please. The President didn’t even mention Obama-Lama-Ding-Dong’s name. And if he thinks that talking to the head of a country that referred to Israel as a “stinking corpse” is anything other than a complete waste of time than Obama-Lama-Ding-Dong isn’t worthy of being a county councilman, never mind president.
The only error George W made was in NOT saying he was speaking about Hussein Obama. And it would have been so much better if he would have named the other Democratic “pansies” like Daschle, Biden, Kennedy (pre-seizure), and Howard Dean. You foolish people want to talk with Hamas or Al-Quaida, fine, I think I’ll stand over here so when they blow themselves up, enroute to the virgins, they’ll be taking pieces of your appeased body and not mine. How naive and stupid can you be? Whenever I hear politicans say they are “outraged” about this, that or something else, my response is simply, who cares if you are outraged.
Like I am going to change the way the country is protected because some Democratic socialist is outraged.
The more outraged Democrats I can count means I am doing a whole lot of good.