Biden: Bush's comments were 'bull****'
Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), piling on to Democratic complaints about
President
Bush's speech in Israel today:
"This is bull****, 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."
Speaking before the Knesset, Bush said that "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."
Democrats have interpreted the comments as an attack on Sen. Barack Obama,
and Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said
that
the president was out of line.
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"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I
would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working
for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group.
And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."
April 11 2007 B.Hussein Obama
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