In a speech to Israel's Knesset, Bush 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."

"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 the 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."

It really takes a pretty big ego to jump to the conclusion Bush was talking about him. How egocentric can one get? Just more evidence that this man is not fit to be our POTUS, IMHO.

Obama assumes he is the target in a well-worded and appropriate speech Bush made today before Israel's Knesset.

The president did not name Obama or any other Democrat, but White House aides privately acknowledged the remarks were aimed at the presidential candidate and others in his party.

Independent Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, a McCain supporter, heralded the president’s remarks.

“President Bush got it exactly right today when he warned about the threat of Iran and its terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah. It is imperative that we reject the flawed and naïve thinking that denies or dismisses the words of extremists and terrorists when they shout ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel,’ and that holds that– if only we were to sit down and negotiate with these killers — they would cease to threaten us. It is critical to our national security that our commander-in-chief is able to distinguish between America’s friends and America’s enemies, and not confuse the two,” he said.

Biden noted that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have both suggested that the United States ought to find a way to talk more with its enemies.

"If he thinks this is appeasement, is he going to come back and fire his own cabinet?” Biden asked. “Is he going to fire Condi Rice?”

How egocentric can one get? Just more evidence that this man is not fit to be our POTUS, IMHO.

Oh, and Biden calls the comments what they were.

McCain, strives to distance himself from the very unpopular president.

Doesn't look to me like he's distancing himself at all!

...Bush, who is concerned about his legacy

one of those strange moments that bobbcat and I agree on something. It is strange on several levels, not the least of which is that most recently she implied that I was a PTSD victim and therefore like crazy old grampa telling war stories.

I might have been more for one previously, but looks like that one is out of the race, or so all of you tell me.