This is old news, but I somehow missed that Bush was speaking in front of a foreign audience when he made this criticism of Obama. This seems uncouth (yes, I know, why am I surprised>). Clinton was raked over the coals for protesting the Vietnam War when on foreign soil, and those attacks resonated the way a Vietnam protest here in the states would not.
Bush going to Israel to attack Obama on the meeting with terrorists thing is a bad sign. This is way more than the standard fear-mongering and I hope we all realize it.
This is an attack on Obama's ability to fundraise in the Jewish community and win the Jewish vote.
Hopefully, Obama can call out Bush for this a bit.
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.)
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