Top Democratic Leaders Respond To Bush's Stupid Comment

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DNC chair Dean calls for McCain to denounce the president’s Jerusalem comments:

“If John McCain is really serious about being a different kind of Republican, he’ll denounce these remarks in the strongest terms possible.”

Sen. Biden: “This is bullsh*t, this is malarkey.”

Speaker Pelosi: President’s comments “beneath the dignity of the office.”

DCCC head Rep. Emanuel: “For this White House, partisan politics now begins at the water’s edge… Does the president have no shame?”

And McCain actually defends Bush's stupid Nazi comment, and in defending Godwin's law, has lost the nomination :-)

NYTimes Caucus Blog

Senator John McCain, who has been critical of President Bush on the environment and other policies this week, on Thursday morning wholeheartedly endorsed Mr. Bush’s veiled rebuke in the Israeli Knesset on Senator Barack Obama that talking to “terrorists and radicals'’ was no different than appeasing Hitler and the Nazis.

“Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain,'’ Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. “I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.'’

Asked if he thought that former President Jimmy Carter, who struggled with the hostage crisis, was an appeaser, Mr. McCain replied: “I don’t know if he was an appeaser or not, but he terribly mishandled the Iranian hostage crisis.'’

Asked if he thought Mr. Obama was an appeaser — the Democratic candidate has said he would be willing to meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran — Mr. McCain sidestepped and said, “I think that Barack Obama needs to explain why he wants to sit down and talk with a man who is the head of a government that is a state sponsor of terrorism, that is responsible for the killing of brave young Americans, that wants to wipe Israel off the map, who denies the Holocaust. That’s what I think Senator Obama ought to explain to the American people.'’

Mr. McCain’s aides, some of whom used to work for Mr. Bush, said they had not coordinated with the White House on Mr. Bush’s remarks and that they were not aware of what the president was going to say in the Knesset.

Way to link yourself to Bush, McCain. By the way, the Biden response rocks! Succinct and to the point!

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1. This is bullshit! This is malarkey!

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2. What did HRC say and when did she say it?

Just asking . . .

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3. Kerry also went on MSNBC and ripped Bush a new one. Yay Team! -eom

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4. McCain needs to read some history books

“I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.'’

In the closing days of Carter's Presidency, Algerian diplomat Abdulkarim Ghuraib opened fruitful, albeit biased, negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. This resulted in the "Algiers Accords" of January 19, 1981, which entailed Iran's commitment to free the hostages immediately.

The hostages were formally released into United States custody the following day, just minutes after the new American president Ronald Reagan was sworn in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

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5. yep

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6. Wasn't the freeing of all those Iranian assets part of the Accord?

Money talks!