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While in Jerusalem today to help Israel celebrate its 60th anniversary, President Bush said this:
"Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals. 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."
The White House initially said the President was not referring to Barack Obama, but come on: "an American senator" who engaged in the naive wishful thinking that had he only talked to Hitler, "all this might have been avoided?"
Sounds a lot like Obama to me.
It must have sounded a lot like Obama to Obama too, because he put out an incredibly defensive statement: "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. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists."
Pardon me: several months ago, during the Democratic YouTube debate, Anderson Cooper asked Obama point blank if he would talk---without preconditions---to the leaders of Iran and Syria. He replied, "I would." Iran and Syria are the biggest state sponsors of terror in the world.
Three questions for Obama: if you want to talk to our terrorist enemies, 1) what are you prepared to say?; 2) are you naive enough to believe what they may tell you?; and 3) if talks fail, are you prepared to use force, whether military, economic, political?
You can't just gas around with terrorists and tyrants and expect them to use "talks" as anything other than time to regroup, rearm, and re-strategize. Their interests and objectives aren't about to change just because a charming American has some milk n' cookies with them.
If Obama is this prickly about a remark like this, he is certainly not capable of withstanding the withering attacks that will come his way from home and abroad should he be elected president. At the sign of the first attack, he will melt like the Wicked Witch of the West. (And you thought that role belonged to Hillary.)
Obama had better man up or he's going to dissolve into a puddle of his own girly-manhood.
As the race between the Hereditary Monarch and the Hope Guy continues, the Crowned Head turns to her Beloved, Bill, for advice and counsel:
RING!
HIM: Hey, Sugar! I'm campaigning in Kentucky, making sure my little filly doesn't end up like Eight Belles.
HER: We're not supposed to raise race, but did you notice that the winning horse was called "Big Brown?" We can't get a break.
HIM: I tried to get them to name one of the horses for you, Sweetpea, but "(W)itch On Wheels" was already taken.
HER: I don't have time for your yucks, (bleep)hole. You'd better be calling with proof that you're "the best strategist" I have. I've yet to see it.
HIM: Listen, Sunshine. I've performed more miracles on this campaign than Jesus did in all of Galilee.
HER: Quit the martyr act. What have you got for me?
HIM: OK, here's the deal, baby. You're sinking like a stone. All of our so-called "friends" are running for the hills. The money's drying up faster than Dan Rather's job offers. I figure we've got one last Hail Mary pass to throw.
HER: What do you suggest?
HIM: That you come out as a lesbian.
HER: You (bleep)hole. You know I can't do that until I've ended my second two terms as president. Get real.
HIM: Don't like that one? OK. Try this one on for size: we put Reverend Wright on the payroll.
HER: Continue.
HIM: We've got that secret "dirty tricks" fund, right? Well, how about using some of that dough to pay Wright to make more crazy-ass speeches? We'll even toss in bonuses if he goes the full Louis Farrakhan.
HER: Not bad. And how about further incentivizing him by dangling a trip to Hawaii or somewhere if he goes on and on about how close he and Obama are. Maybe we can get him to embellish a bit, you know, get him talking about how Obama was stomping his feet and clapping in church to the anti-American stuff?
HIM: Well, he may be full-on nuts, but he's still a man of the cloth, Honey. Not sure he'll go for lying.
HER: Are you kidding? Everybody has a price. Do it. What else have you got?
HIM: I've got a coupla other Hail Marys in my bag of tricks.
HER: How can you find them amidst the "adult toys?"
HIM: Gotta pick up new batteries. OK, check this out, Sister. Obama is scheduling a "victory" rally for May 20, when he's expected to get the number of elected delegates he needs, right? So, on that day, WE throw our own competing rally: "Not so fast, Mr. Hope n' Change."
HER: Finally, a use for that brain other than plotting how to get into Scores unseen.
HIM: Then, on June 3rd, after the last primary, Obama will be the presumptive nominee. Everybody will be feting him and blowing us off. So here's what we do: you "suspend" the campaign. Not end it. Suspend it. That way, we can stop the financial hemorrhaging while we get out Tonya Hardings in place.
HER: You still think Blumenthal and Ickes are up to it?
HIM: They ain't rusty, baby.
HER: So, during the "suspension," what do we do?
HIM: We go to the delegates and try to get them to come back to us, by laying out all of the big states and swing states we've won and the popular vote victory we'll have by then, with Florida and Michigan. If that doesn't work, then we have Blumenthal and Ickes prepare for a floor fight at the convention. At the same time, we've got Wright out there, telling everybody that Obama doesn't believe in America.
HER: Go on.
HIM: Here's the coup de grace, Snookems. If we don't persuade enough delegates to flip, then we threaten to run you as an Independent.
HER: OMG! Genius!
HIM: I know. Now look: there is a money problem. But we only have to hold out the threat of an Independent run to force Obama to give us the Vice Presidency.
HER: The Democratic party is screwing us, so why not screw the party?
HIM: Exactly. By the way, I love all of this pundit B.S. that you're going to "exit gracefully for the sake of the party!!"
(Both fall on the floor laughing.)
HER: I know! If they all really believe that, they're on crack.
HIM: I hope you're not too attached to that (D) after your name.
HER: Screw the (D)! I'd even learn to love an (R) after my name if I thought it could win me the White House back.
HIM: I'll get you there. It's MY legacy too, you know. Like I've always told you, we're in this together, Sunshine. For better or for worse, as long as we both shall live.
Over the past few days we've seen:
A) a catastrophic cyclone hit Burma, with a staggering death toll expected to reach over 100,000.
B) a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit central China, with a current death toll of 12,000, which is also expected to climb.
C) a major volcanic eruption in Chile, displacing hundreds of people, and Mount Etna in Sicily seems poised to erupt again.
Are these natural disasters a sign of:
A) Global Warming
B) The End of the World
C) A Total Coincidence?
Right after the cyclone hit, Al Gore said he thought it was a result of global climate change. He's been silent, however, on what may have caused the earthquake and the newly active volcanoes. Could his deafening silence be because their activity is NOT caused by global warming? I don't know if the Almighty is planning the End of the World, but I do know that Gore isn't the Almighty. There IS a lot of shakin' and bakin' going on in the world, but let's not forget our common sense: sometimes they happen one at a time, and sometimes they happen in clusters. The rhythm of the world is under the direction of a higher force, a force much more powerful and profound than man. And we can see our vulnerability to that force in the photos coming from Burma and China.
I will be a guest on Imus in the Morning tomorrow morning (May 12) at
8:30am et. Listen online at wabcradio.com or watch on RFD-TV.
