May 15, 2008
Biden: Bush's comments were 'BULLSHIT'
“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.”
Speaking before the Knesset, Bush said that “some people” believe the United States “should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."
"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "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."
Democrats have interpreted the comments as an attack on Sen. Barack Obama, and Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the president was out of line.
“He is the guy who has weakened us,” he said. “He has increased the number of terrorists in the world. It is his policies that have produced this vulnerability that the U.S. has. It’s his [own] intelligence community [that] has pointed this out, not me.”
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?”
In a separate statement, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) said that Bush "is still playing the disgusting and dangerous political game Karl Rove perfected, which is insulting to every American and disrespectful to our ally Israel. George Bush should be making Israel secure, not slandering Barack Obama from the Knesset."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) also weighed in.
“Not surprisingly, the engineer of the worst foreign policy in our nation’s history has fired yet another reckless and reprehensible round," said Reid. "For the President to make this statement before the government of our closest ally as it celebrates a remarkable milestone demeans this historic moment with partisan politics."
The White House insists that Bush wasn’t referring specifically to Obama, an argument that Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) called "baloney."
"There is no escaping what the president is doing," said Durbin, who supports Obama. "It is an attack on Sen. Obama’s position that we should not be avoiding even those we disagree with when it comes to negotiations and diplomacy."
Durbin called Bush's remarks "unfair and really unfortunate."
UPDATE: In a conference call with reporters later in the afternoon, Biden said his initial word choice was "not very eloquent" and said he should have just stuck with the word "malarkey." Biden said he "reacted viscerally" when asked about Bush's speech after stepping off an elevator.
However, Biden again did not mince words when discussing Bush's remarks, accusing the president of engaging in "long-distance swiftboating" with his speech in Israel. Biden also cited numerous examples of the Bush Administration reaching out to unfriendly regimes in Libya, North Korea and Iran, arguing that Bush's insinuation that the Democrats were soft on terrorism was "truly delusional ... and truly disgraceful."
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“VICTORY is Mine” Joined: Sep 8, 2007 Comments: 2401 |
Could you only imagine if a Republican said this in response to a one of the many stupid Democratic responses.
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No one is that stupid, McBush maybe !
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Joined: Apr 10, 2008 Comments: 42 |
Joe, please bring more of that fire. That cowboy don't know subtle.
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1 In fact Mr Biden and can I call you FORMER US Senator because you were some of the first CHANGE being Voted Out of Office! Look up the HISTORY, everything Bush said Was True! And too bad Barrack Hussein Obama said he wanted to talk to all of these dispicable people, kind of like that Little Junket that Nanct Pelosi made to SYRIA in the last couple years, I see Syria Buckled under in a Big Hurry...NOT!! Why don't you hate Mongers go to the Facts first instead of the Rhetorical name calling you do, because the real Racist and Hate is from the Libs and the worst are the Congressional or Senatorial Ones! |
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Why is Biden using that kind of language? He's probably pissed off that he's not in the running for the nomination!
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1 You are such idiots! HA HA HA Just what we need in our next president, a trigger happy self centered racist. You got to pay attention Biden. It makes you look like a fool. Well, a bigger fool. |
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Come on now...Cheney told Leahy to go f*ck himself on the floor of the senate and that was just fine. Repug false piety is so transparent at this point. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles... |
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1 He helped the Saudis..cover up the Trade Towers!! He wrongely attacked an innocent country!! ..He has earned a "Criminal Reputation", and legacy that goes with it!!! SOON ..we will have to try Bush for his crimes..so the world does not incriminate the United States!! |
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2 The first imbecile, bushishito is not just the anti-Christ. he is not just Hitler reincarnate. he is this countries biggest traitor. |
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1 What is really interesting is that after we first went into Iraq with a UN resolution under George H Bush, and that resolution stated that we should only remove iraq from Kuwait and nothing more. That Al Gore in his speaches Chastised G H Bush for not taking Saddam out and that we should have done more because Saddam was going to or had WMD's, Clinton stated the same as did Hillary, in fact if you look up the rhetoric of the Democrats before George W Bush came into play, you will see all these Lies that everyone claims Bush made, were already Talking Points of the Democrats! So instead of saying things like Bush Lies, give us specifics and REAL Proof! Like the Big Lie that has been spread, Bush is an Idiot, ok if he is such an Idiot, How then did he Magnage To Beat the Intellegent Democrats! Or maybe they were not smart enough to beat this so called Idiot! And these words are not words of truth, they are in fact words of Hate, and all the time the Dems are trying to portray republicans and Conservatives as hate mongers while stating this Hogwash which is Nothing But Hate! Get real and get a life after you get over it!
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“VICTORY is Mine” Joined: Sep 8, 2007 Comments: 2401 |
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1 I love how you put down know facts and some idiot judges you by puting the cluless and nuts emblenm on your post. What he just stated is facts people. wake up. You all claim that anyone that falls in line with Bush is brainwashed. It is much the other way around and hear is your proof. Most recent example: Democrats-(2 weeks ago)Iran is not a threat, they have no WMDs Bush-(3 days ago) "Some folks want to sit and talk to terror states." This would be foolish I feel. Democrats (2 days ago) "Iran is a serious threat and for Bush to make these comments about Obama in a forign country is wrong. We need to hold talks with Iran and reduce the serious threat they opese on the west." |
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First Bush did not mention Obama, if you do a search you will find he was actually refering to words said by a Republican at the time, and words that have been used and reported before in the media. Nothing new, but the truth.
What Obama wants to do is just talk with NO, Nada Requirements, Bush would talk to them, but there are Conditions and those are and need to be held to ensure the reductions that Iran has been told to do even by the Precious UN! And if what Bush said was wrong, where was all the media and democrats anger when Nancy Pelosi made her comments from SYRIA not so long ago! Remember, She Had To Go There To Do What The Bush Administration Wasn't Doing! But then I see Syria has fallen in line and stopped helping Terrorists! So Then the Appeasers direction didn't work there as well!
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Joined: Oct 28, 2007 Comments: 3773 |
You are a liar. Like Herr bushishito. |
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Well you must be the stupidist person on earth to believe that and do not have the ability to look up FACTS, but just call names. Prove I am Lieing then... You Can't!
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