Is Obama's Skin a Bit Thin?

Here is what the president said: ''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,'' Bush added.

And here is what Senator Obama said: ''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.

Senator Obama seems to think that President Bush was addressing him directly in this speech. He either has a guilty conscious or he think that he's a a presidential nominee. Oh, wait...he's at least campaigning to be a presidential nominee. Maybe he thinks because he's running for office he's the center of the political world. I'll agree that he will probably be the Democratic nominee, but not every remark made by Bush or anyone else is directed to him.

It's interesting that he thinks Bush's remarks are directed at him. Has he made statements that would draw comments of this nature? To be honest, I don't know. I'm not familiar enough with his speeches to know. When I first heard about Bush's comments, I thought of former president Jimmy Carter. You know, the one who disregarded the request of the State Department and met with terrorists. I think Jimmy's angling for another Noble Peace Prize. And he'll probably get it. They love appeasers.

Obama is running for the highest political office in the US. Even if Bush did mean Obama in his statements, does Obama think he's immune from any of the slings and arrows of political rhetoric? It seems to be the mindset of the liberal (and Obama has been said to be one of the most liberal members of Congress) that they can say anything they want and not have to answer for it. I guess when you're the darling of the media, you might get that idea.

Is there anything that President Bush said that was wrong? History shows that appeasement doesn't work. It didn't work in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, or the Mideast. It didn't work with Hitler, it didn't work with Saddam, it won't work with radical Muslims who are out to kill all infidels. It isn't working with Kim Il-Jung, the North Korean dictator who's trying to shake us down for more money and food that never makes it to the people who need it. It won't work with Iran. And it won't work anywhere else.

Isn't there an old saying...something about "those who don't learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it"? What makes anyone, Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, young, old, black, white, Christian, non-Christian or a person of any other description, think that appeasement will work this time?