Where were you when the fit hit the shan?

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In a speech to Israel’s Knesset, [President] 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.”

Obama responded with a statement, seizing on Bush’s remarks even as it was unclear to whom the [P]resident was referring: “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.”

There followed a stream of hyperbolic bombast from Obama supporters, including: 'outrageous!'; 'unprecedented!'; 'bullshit!'.

The sitting President is well within his powers to reiterate the support of the Nation he leads for an ally nation on a State visit to that nation. There is nothing outrageous about it and there is ample precedence for it. As for Senator Biden's characterization of the President's statements as 'bullshit', that is in itself outrageous, though sadly not unprecedented, behavior for a United States Senator, and an abuse of the Constitutional freedom of speech that protects his right to crudely disrespect the Presidency, as well as the Senate, of the United States.

But as many have already observed, the President named no one specifically in the course of his remarks, except for Hitler. Does political correctness now require that a Hitler be afforded the courtesy that is withheld from the President by his American revilers? And if Obama and his supporters react with feigned indignation, are we not to conclude that what the President described as 'the false comfort of appeasement' is indeed the comfort they seek?

Bottom line: If the foe shits, let the chips fall where they may.