Bush didn't say it in Israel, but Obama did!

I always know when my children do something wrong when I make a simple statement or ask a simple question and get a reflexively defensive response. Apparently, that is true in politics as well. From Bush's speech today to the Knesset in Israel from whitehouse.gov:

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. 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. (Applause.)

Some people suggest if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away. This is a tired argument that buys into the propaganda of the enemies of peace, and America utterly rejects it. Israel's population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because the United States of America stands with you. (Applause.)

America stands with you in breaking up terrorist networks and denying the extremists sanctuary. America stands with you in firmly opposing Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions. Permitting the world's leading sponsor of terror to possess the world's deadliest weapons would be an unforgivable betrayal for future generations. For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. (Applause.)

I have been travelling and missed this happening live earlier today, but this was the response Obama:

"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack," Obama said in a statement his aides distributed. "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.

What is really sad is that Obama doth protest too much. Had the President mentioned him by name or any Democrat by name, I would buy this specious argument. But given that a parade of Democrats went howling to the microphones today calling foul (Hey Nancy, maybe he was talking about your meeting with Syria or Carter's with Hamas!), it seems that they are awfully defensive on this topic. Good. If you want to side with terrorists, let them tell the American people why.

Since we can't get the media to make the Democrats in this state come clean on their corruption or their free spending of our money on a daily basis, at least we can report when their shrill whining goes over the top. If you really want the facts, read the entire speech here and judge for yourself.

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