Disgusting

Just when you thought Bush was gone, he pops up again. Bush returned to his old tactics today in Jerusalem, where he compared Obama to Nazi appeasers. From the CNN report:

"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," said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to the Israeli 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."

This disgusting tactic has failed in the past and will fail again. Rumsfeld compared Dems to Nazi appeasers before the 2006 election, and we all know how that turned out. I'm not too worried about it working this time, either.

I'm curious to know what the Republican standard-bearer, John McCain, will say about Shrub's remarks. As I pointed out, Cindy McCain claimed her "husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all." It seems that the Jerusalem comments count as "negative campaigning."

Update: I love Joe Biden:

“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset . . . and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”