Think George W. Bush struck a nerve this week?

The lamest duck of all was thousands of miles away from American soil, yet inserted himself into the presidential race in a big way.

A brief rundown:

• In Israel commemorating that great nation’s 60th anniversary, Bush says Democrats favor “appeasement” of terrorists, who he likens to Nazis.
• Barack Obama, though not mentioned by name, issues a statement rejecting Bush’s comments and saying they distort his views.
• John McCain blasts Obama’s comments in a speech to the NRA.
• Obama slams Bush again, saying the president “did something that presidents don’t do” and that “alienates us from the rest of the world.”
• Republicans say Democrats are overreacting; McCain criticizes Obama’s experience and questions his judgment.
• Obama blasts McCain for “embracing” Bush’s attacks.

Not bad for 48 hours!

After the war in Iraq and seven years of Bush foreign policy, his remarks in Israel on Thursday left the entire Democratic party fuming.

Their likely presidential candidate was quick to fire back in kind.

“After almost eight years, I did not think I could be surprised about anything that George Bush says, but I was wrong,” Obama said. “The president did something that presidents don’t do - launch a political attack targeted toward the domestic market in front of a foreign delegation.”

Continue reading this article …

After a brief layoff, fear-mongering is back in full effect!

President George W. Bush did not name Sen. Barack Obama by name, but it’s undeniable that his remarks today were aimed at the Democratic Party’s likely presidential candidate and others.

The thinly-veiled attack Thursday was made by Bush in Jerusalem, where he was marking the 60th anniversary of Israel’s sovereignty, but went so far as to suggest that Democrats actually favor the “appeasement” of terrorists.

NOTE #1: For some perspective, this is not only the least popular president in U.S. history talking, but a man who believes the best show of solidarity with troops sent to wage an unnecessary war is to quit golf.

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Bush said, speaking to Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.

“As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of 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.”

Doubts about Obama with Jewish Americans were stoked earlier this month by Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee-to-be in the 2008 race, who dubiously called Obama the “favored candidate” of Hamas.

Continue reading this article …