Bush at the Knesset: His Treasonous Words

Maybe - just maybe - Bush has finally crossed a line that will actually infuriate Americans. Will Bunch from the Philadelphia Daily News:

A new low that I never imagined was even possible.

President Bush went on foreign soil today, and committed what I consider an act of political treason: Comparing the candidate of the U.S. opposition party to appeasers of Nazi Germany -- in the very nation that was carved out from the horrific calamity of the Holocaust. Bush's bizarre and beyond-appropriate detour into American presidential politics took place in the middle of what should have been an occasion for joy: A speech to Israeli's Knesset to honor that nation's 60th birthday.

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.

As a believer in free speech, I think Bush has a right to say what he wants, but as a President of the United States who swore to uphold the Constitution, his freedom also carries an awesome and solemn responsibility, and what this president said today is a serious breach of that high moral standard.

I hope my feelings are right: Bush has slandered a majority of Americans on overseas soil - in the Middle East no less - and paralleled us to Nazis. It's an unthinkable act and despicable words against American citizens by a head of state. OUR head of state.

It has to come to an end.

UPDATE: HuffPo is keeping track of the reaction. Lieberman has successfully retained his honor of being a moral trash heap. Everyone who matters, however, is speaking out LOUDLY. Let's keep an eye on this story. It's huge.

Comments

[Mad as Hell]

This was a group act. as unfortunately we have a president who is incapable of making an intelligent statement on his own. Ref: golf sacrafice! This un-American, un-patriotic statement was the thought of one of his speech writers. The subject of this speech certainly stinks of Karl Rove's little sick braintrust! Yes I am suggesting that our pathetic leader can't even be "stupid" without someone guiding the way! There needs to be a law that the republican party be disbanded for all eternity. It has reached the bottom of the sewer, with it's offer of John McCain as their pathetic excuse for a presidential candidate. He's even further into the bowels of dementia than Ronald Reagan was when he took office.

[donna]

It's not going to stop, and it's oging to get far worse. The Republicans are going to make this election ugly, ugly, ugly.

The best hope is they sicken enough people into never ever voting for them again (as I have been) and wipe themselves out in a landslide. The worst case is we get McCain and four more years of decline and degradation of America, after which all of our kids will never speak to us again while they clean up the mess we made from the hellish wars McCain will create.

[Aaaargh]

McCain compares Obama to Neville Chamberlain, then says Reagan didn't sit down with Iran to negotiate for release of the Iranian hostages.

Of course, Reagan and Bush Sr did sit down with Iran to make sure they held the hostages until Reagan was inaugurated. And then Reagan and Bush Sr did sit down with Iran to sell them weapons of mass destruction.

Who's the appeaser again?

[David Aquarius]

You have to give George Bush credit for knowing something about Nazi appeasement.

He learned everything he knows from his Grandfather.

[the unity pony]

Actually, since Barack Obama and other gutless Democrats refuse to support impeachment or any other real accountability for Bush and the criminals that surround him, "Nazi appeasers" seems like a pretty apt description.

[cage free brown]

this ain't the first time they've shovelled this "appeasement" crap.
it IS the first time everybody stood up and swelled out their chests at the same time.
that's a good look! I like it!

[BKLN]

Ooooh! The Unity Pony chimes in with the *SNAP*!!! Youch!

[J L - Albany, OR]

I said it yesterday, I say it again, we need to round up all these idiot Bush ass kissing Republicans and take them to the gas chambers like Hitler did, only this time, we'll get the right ones!!! Only a complete IDIOT would vote Republican ever again. And take Cheney and Bush right along with the rest of them.

[the unity pony]

"You have to give George Bush credit for knowing something about Nazi appeasement. He learned everything he knows from his Grandfather."

A savvy politician would return fire with exactly these points. Unfortunately, we're talking about Democrats here.

This is the party that went from a candidate in 2004 who promised to fight and then refused to, to a candidate in 2008 whose campaign is built on the premise that he refuses to fight from the very beginning. Nice work Democrats.

[CJ]

Unity (is your name intended to be ironic?)...

The GOP thugs are playing down in the mud politics today and the public is repulsed by it. We may have finally reached a point where it simply isn't working anymore.

And don't worry. Obama will stay above the fray. It'll be up to us and our own 527s to reveal the truth about McCain's military record. In due time, Pony. In due time.

[JimFL]

Thank you J L from Albany. I have been saying this for years. It good to have someone else thinking like this. Terminate the GOP forever.

What does George W. Bush call a Nazi War Criminal???????

GRAMPA!!!!!