Sweetie still fighting his own shoe; uses grandfather as human shield
Behold! The glass slipper of appeasement
Yesterday morning, I noted the little rumble between George Bush and Barack Obama over the president’s remarks in Israel about the folly of appeasement. “He could be talking about Jimmy Carter, Cindy Sheehan, the White Flag Democrat leaders in the House and Senate, or hell, his own State Department,” I wrote, but concluded that “if the shoe fits,” Obama should wear it and stop whining.
Today, the White House says Bush was talking about That ’70s Appeaser, Jimmy Carter, not the Messiah.
Doesn’t matter who exactly Bush had in mind. The shoe still fits Obama’s delicate foot, but he refuses to slide into the glass slipper of appeasement and own it:
Barack Obama struck back hard at President Bush and John McCain Friday, accusing them of hypocrisy and of distorting his position on dialogue with nations hostile to the United States, telling a South Dakota crowd that “I’m running for president to change course, not to continue George Bush’s course.”
“I want to be perfectly clear with George Bush and John McCain, and with the people of South Dakota,” he said at a Watertown campaign stop. “If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I’m happy to have any time, any place and that is debate I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for.”
In his comments before the Israeli Knesset Thursday, Bush seemed to equate the Illinois senator’s foreign policy views with those of Nazi appeasers in the years before World War II, though he did not mention any names. Obama strongly criticized the president for the remarks Friday, calling them “the kind of appalling attack that’s divided our country and that alienates us from the world.”
On Friday, Obama also fired back at McCain for saying Thursday that the Democratic senator was not qualified to protect the nation. “[John McCain] talked about elevating the tone of debate in our country. He talked about reaching out in a bipartisan fashion to the other side. Then not an hour later he turned around and embraced George Bush’s attack on Democrats,” said Obama, who called the Arizona senator’s Iran policy “naïve and irresponsible.”
Obama calling someone else “naïve” and irresponsible?”
More:
“He jumped on a call with a bunch of bloggers and said that I wasn’t fit to protect this nation that I love because I wanted to sit down and negotiate with tough diplomacy with countries like Iran. Accused me of not being fit…[or] being able to protect this nation,” he added.
And?
***
Debbie Schlussel has a new report on the latest dangerous company Obama keeps.
Michael Goldfarb responds to Obama using his grandfather as a human shield:
[Obama:] McCain “accused me of not being fit to protect this nation – a nation my grandfather served in World War II– a nation that’s given me everything that I have,” Obama said, then pivoted to attack Bush and McCain on a series of issues: Iraq; the survival of Osama bin Laden’s and the Al Qaeda’s leadership; Iran’s strength; and Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s ascendancy.
My great uncle killed a lot of Germans, and I have the war trophies to prove it. I’m not sure that makes me uniquely qualified to protect this country. It’s odd that Obama continually defends himself using the politics of association, while at the same time condemning those who would attack him based on his associations with people like Rev. Wright. Obama’s father was communist, but he didn’t get to choose his father, or his grandfather. And their politics have little bearing on his own. But he did choose to associate with people like Robert Malley who would attempt to appease Hamas. And he hung around with Bill Ayers, who clearly does not love this nation. Those associations would seem far more relevant than his grandfather’s service in the Second World War.
Did you order your t-shirt yet?
Sister Toldjah has a good rundown of today’s whinefest.
Allah’s got the vid and takedown of Obama’s unctuous, expedient rejoinder.
Tom Maguire: What “legitimate claims?”
See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.
Trackbacks
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Categories: Barack Obama
Mudville Gazette
» The Red Pill (Part Two)
Patterico
» Alito Whacks BidenNewsBusters.org
» NYT: Make The Mormons Walk To Wal-MartStop The ACLU
» Where Should Obama Give His Great Middle East Speech?Gateway Pundit
» Sweet!... Danish Navy Sinks Somali Pirate Ship (Video)Riehl World View
» Breaking News On Obama SpeechJawa Report
» Danish Warship Sinks PirateNewsBusters.org
» Matthews: It's 'Really Hard' to 'Salute Sarah Palin'Stop The ACLU
» Lawsuit Over Obama’s Birth Certificate Goes To SCOTUS FridayRiehl World View
» Is Barack Hussein Obama Going All Native On Us Already?Marginal Revolution
» Why do so many more women study abroad?Right Wing Nut House
» ISRAEL GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF PLANNING IRAN ATTACK?
Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Or, more to the point, how do you foster diplomacy with a nation (or a religion) that expressly says it’s demands are: convert and submit or die?
I don’t see a whole lot of wiggle room in the negotiation process.
If the glass slipper
shoestill fits Obama’s delicate foot… Lol.Huh?
Obama is coming off to me as a thin-skinned narcissist. It is all about him, and he does all the things he accuses everybody else of doing.
He has been very harsh and negative when it comes to our president, yet when a statement seems to fit him, he moans and groans about being attacked.
I hate to say it, but he could become a worse president than Jimmy Carter.
They gave out Trophy’s?
was his Granfather some sicko finger collector or something?
meanwhile:
Obama posited — incorrectly — that Arabic translators deployed in Iraq are needed in Afghanistan — forgetting, momentarily, that Afghans don’t speak Arabic.
“We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then its harder for us to use them in Afghanistan,” Obama said.
Yeah, not sure what that meant. But the point is still well-taken.
Hey AJ, I was thinking the same thing-a trophy? They’re called medals and this clown went to Columbia and Harvard?
TerriG, you are confused. The quote in italics is Obama. The response in the paragraph following it is Michael Goldfarb’s.
Read this quote. Obama might be the only man in the world who can talk to this guy…and thats not a good thing.
He didn’t score many points drifting into his NRA vent either today. I was sitting here saying to myself “just keep talking!” the more he stutters and stammers through these non prepared remarks is laughable.
Michelle, mea culpa. I stand corrected.
my bad also.. I missspoke! lol, hey works for them.
Jimmy Carter is a firm believer that politics stop at the water’s edge. Nancy Pelosi is a firm believer that politics stop at the water’s edge. And I firmly believe that Rosie Ruiz came across the finish line first and therefore won the Boston Marathon.
He actually called Bush out to a debate. Wow.
Someone should roll John Kerry out to remind us of his 2004 campaign mantra, that combat veterans are more qualified for the office of the Presidency of the United States than non-combat veterans.
I’m not sure I believe this 100%, but it was the official Democrat Nominee’s position just four short years ago.
While he’s at the podium, perhaps Kerry can also finally tell us what he and John Edwards’ secret plan for winning the “War in Iraq” was.
Yes, I have been watching Senator Barrak Hussein Obama attack Senator McCain and President Bush this morning. Yawn. We did not have any problems with the muslim states and terrorist until President Bush. Rather clever this muslim/marxist presidential candidate.
Senator Barrack Hussein Obama is an anti-semite and I have a hard time understanding people who don’t know that. If he was NOT an anti-semite he would not have attended Wright’s Church for 20+ years or attended the Million Man March. Personally I do not see Senator Barrack Hussein Obama an appeaser but more like a collaborator.
Miss Hillary jumped into the fray. I was surprised anybody cared. Stretch Pelosi chimed in. She always does.
Welcome to the Obama Campaign Response System. Please choose from the following:
1. This discussion isn’t helping my children get healthcare.
2. I didn’t say that the White House was referring to me. One of my staffers became a little zealous.
3. Appeasing the Iranians is merely a “rite of passage” in democrat politics. Of course Ahmadinejad and I are friendly.
4. Ahmadinejad’s supposed anti-Israel statements are being looped out of context on the Internet and right-wing talk radio.
5. Ok, while he may have said some of those things, he never said them while I was paying attention. I only supported Iran because they want to give nuclear power to its poor people.
6. I was shocked when Ahmedinejad denied the holocaust and said Israel must be wiped out. This is not the Iran I’ve followed for 20 years. I can no longer support Iran.
I noticed in his rant in SD that he has completely changed his position from the debate last summer. When will someone ask him why?
War Trophies = Lugars, Mausers, flags, enemy uniform items and anything not bolted down that was portable to ship or take back home as a souvenir - common behavior in pretty much every army since time began.
The US Army is at least trying to limit it’s soldiers to non-lethal war trophies these days.
Obama, thou dost protest too much! Sounds like President Bush touched a raw nerve.
Do you think the Obama’s would be proud of this?” Maybe at least stand at attention?
Hey AJ, I was thinking the same thing!
thats funny
The MSM is only interested in when he changes his pants, not his positions.
you must have espn.
Maybe it’s the suspicious part in my mind, but does anyone else find it interesting that suddenly there’s this huge MSM & political blow up over these truly generalized comments at the same time that a Dem politician is trying to sneak in an amnesty provision into the Iraq bill?
With all the lather created each time amnesty goes into writing, would it be that far-fetched to have the left create a smoke-screen to get it through?
No, but you knew that,,,,,,
I watched Obama on Fox News today and the thought that I might have to watch this clueless idiot for the next four years makes me physically ill. What’s almost as bad is, he may lose the election and I’ll have to watch the other clueless idiot for the next four years. We are screwed.
My oldest relatives have “trophies” from WW2 and also Korea.
To clarify, *usually*, trophies are items brought home that the opposing side had possession of…
For instance, from WW2, like a German field pack, an officer’s pistol, a helmet (i believe its called a kaiser helmet), and other such items. From Korea, items like a flag, a rifle (i’m not sure of the type, apologies), and other such items.
hope that clears it up a bit, if its the right application.
I believe that is what they are referring to in relation to trophies.
beat me to it…bloody workplace taking all my time LOL
I know of their strategy already, but this trying to attach Bush to McCain is getting ridiculous. How stupid does this guy think I am? Frankly, I would like to see the President call him out for a debate. No audience, no moderator, no holds barred. When the appointed time arrives the President should tell him on camera, “I want to be perfectly clear, I’m not running for the office.” and get up and walk out. I’d pay to see the look on BHO’s face.
Oh well, in a more perfect world…..
Anyone seen this yet? I don’t know if its true, because its on a lib blog run by a Clinton supporter, but it could be a huge problem for Obama…
No, but he would pretend to in order to garner some votes. The flag means nothing to him. It might, if it was colored red, green and black like all of the flags of the middle east.
I wonder what would happen if I pressed #? Several times!!!
I don’t know why we all are surprised Obama would speak with international terrorist…he has dinner with most of the domestic terrorist.
Uh huh! Like he hasn’t tried to keep a civil tongue in his head regarding Republicans or President Bush!
Hypocrite!!
Keep on being suspicious, jr.
If he’s compelled to whine about every critical comment that may or may not be about him and cry “DISTRACTION!,” how on earth am I supposed to believe he’s strong enough to be President?
Sheesh. If Obama were a LOLcat, his caption would read “CRY MOAR!”
“tough diplomacy”
When JFK and Reagan used tough diplomacy, they backed it up with nuclear weapons and a massive military. Is Obama willing to back up his “tough diplomacy” with the same? Doubtfull at best.
South Dakota…. Is that the 54th state? or the 55th? (Just can’t remember…)
But seriously y’all, this isn’t helping Michelle Obama’s kids!
BO loves to dish it out, but he sure can’t take it. iamsaved wrote exactly what I thought the first time I heard about this:
methinks!
In WWII they took trophys that would get you court marshalled today. The “greatest generation” killed more civilians than in veitnam and iraq combined. I am not attcking them, just pointing out the hypocracy. Personaly I think we should go back to WWII rules.
Everytime Obama is attacked, they will scream, distraction, racism or swiftboating. By election time, nobody will believe it any more. They are starting to overplay thier hand.
Maybe BO will start his diplomatic talks with 3rd world wackjobs by calling them “sweetie”.
He’ll send Michelle X over there to whine them to death.
sambo,
Obama’s plan for Iran.
STOP or i shall say STOP again!!!
Repeat until the nuke hits New York City, then blame Bush.
On May 16th, 2008 at 3:02 pm, sambo said:
Read this quote. Obama might be the only man in the world who can talk to this guy…and thats not a good thing.
Methinks Petraeus should do the talking…
I’m sick of the media trying to make us believe Obama’s remarks are the end all be all of every debate.
For one thing, why is it nobody is allowed to question or challenge Obama? The idea that he cannot be challenged without the person challening him being called a racist or a horrible person is disgusting.
Why is every Obama comeback defined as a “hard strike back” or “attack” or some sort of winning blow in his favor?
To believe the media you have to assume Obama is incappable of being on the wrong side of an issue or debate.
Let me go on record as officially saying Obama is not infallibe and anyone saying he is must be a socialist liberal. I’d be willing to debate him over this fact at the risk of being labeled racist, a hater, etc.
I liked McCain’s rebuff to Obama - “Hysterical diaatribe”.
When Obama spoke about McCain claiming he “is not fit to protect this country”, Obama sounded like he was going to cry. Man, if I were still in the military and Obama was elected, I’d resign.
thatsamiam,
I have already had that charge against me. I am done with political correctness.
chard402003,
only officers can resign. But I know what you mean. He is going to get alot of people killed.
It looks like Barak Hussein Obama is starting to crumble under pressure (apparently a Harvard Law education is overrated):
“I want to be perfectly clear with George Bush and John McCain, and with the people of South Dakota,” he said at a Watertown campaign stop. “If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I’m happy to have any time, any place and that is debate I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for.”” [emphasis mine]
How about we start with answering for a 20-year apprenticeship to one J. Wright, BLT racist?
Then there’s a ~15 year association with one W. Ayres, domestic bomber, hater of America (yet happy to enjoy the money from academia, much of it government grants), and launcher of political careers.
What about the association with one T. Rezko, someone who among other things obtained about $43million to refurbish many housing projects (about half of which went bankrupt before being refurbed), yet couldn’t seem to fix the heat in many? Whatever happened to the money?
“On Friday, Obama also fired back at McCain for saying Thursday that the Democratic senator was not qualified to protect the nation. “[John McCain] talked about elevating the tone of debate in our country. He talked about reaching out in a bipartisan fashion to the other side. Then not an hour later he turned around and embraced George Bush’s attack on Democrats,” said Obama, who called the Arizona senator’s Iran policy “naïve and irresponsible.”” [emphasis mine]
John McCain has elevated the tone of debate, and he’s asking tough questions; questions that reveal a naïve, irresponsible and in fact inexperienced position on the other side of the debate.
“[Obama:] McCain “accused me of not being fit to protect this nation – a nation my grandfather served in World War II– a nation that’s given me everything that I have,” Obama said, . . .”
Sounds like someone is finally admitting the truth about America. Add this comment and one more voice to the Tennessee video response to one Michelle Obama’s comment about lack of pride in America. -A
“. . . then pivoted to attack Bush and McCain on a series of issues: Iraq; the survival of Osama bin Laden’s and the Al Qaeda’s leadership; Iran’s strength; and Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s ascendancy.”
This from someone who voted how? And who served his country how? (let’s ask W. Ayres, shall we?) And wrote what about his maternal grandparents?
Any question now about how Obama/Yomama is going to be a uniter, not a divider? Telling such blatant lies can only bring a smile to that paragon of religious reektatude, Jeremiah Wright, Yomama/Obama’s spiritual adviser.
agreed. When I was stating that Obama was the only man that could talk to him I was trying to imply that both of them were wack jobs.
You know what? GW, finally put his hand down his pants & found a pair… this sounds more like the President I voted for… I could go on but, …
He plans to “bring us all together” by shoving through his ideas reguardless of what we want.
Sambo, I got that… no dis intended.
President screwed up on 9/12/01. He should have clearly stated that we were at war with islamic teror and the following countries that support it (insert list here) then tripled the size of the military and just went for it. It would have passed in a heartbeat and we wouldn’t have half the issues we do now.
…and by saving our souls
brooklyn red none taken
sambo, do I have a right brained or left brained soul, I forget, better ask not-so-reverand wright.
Sadly casual news customers are missing the real story. They are hearing something very different.
sonofdy, yes, at the risk of annoying some of my enlisted friends, being an officer would be a definite advantage in the event of an Obama Presidency.
depends on the color of you palms.
I survived 8 years and 2 deployments under clinton, I will swallow my opinions and do my duty under obama as well. Unless we get to the civil war level then I get to choose. Lets hope it never goes that far.
sambo, if I get oil on them and they turn black do I change???
sonofdy, “Unless we get to the civil war level then I get to choose”…
La resistencia es vana… su casa es mi casa.
Choose.
Bill Ayers is a terrorist. Jesus Obama is friends with Bill Ayers. Jesus Obama talks to Bill Ayers.
Do the math yourselves folks.
Obama is a clown. Seriously, he is such a moron that libs like him.
brooklynred,
If it comes to that. I have seen the results of civil war. How many mass graves have you seen?
sonofdy, none…
I just see em one kid & one family at a time…
I thank you for your service.
But if you do the body count, do more die in Beirut or Chicago on an average day?
Maybe Obama the moron isn’t aware that the U.N. talked and talked and talked and talked and sanctioned and sanctioned and inspected and talked and sanctioned and inspected and talked.
And Iran and Iraq did not comply but merely told the U.N. to fuqq off.
Obama would use WHAT LEVERAGE or EXPERTISE???
His wife? Jeremiah Wright? Bill Ayers? Jimmy Carter?? Nancy Pelosi??
Does anyone read whom Obama is close with. What boards he has been on. What Muslim COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR organizes vis a vis Hamas and Hezbollah?
Are we all asleep?
The cause, Marxist, Islamofascist and not to mention Bill Ayers and Jeremeiah Wright paint a frightening picture of this CLOWN and show his judgement to be not only flawed but immoral.
Meanwhile the MSM doesn’t notice, because most of them don’t find it odd.
Ditto!
The President did not name him, but with all the ruckus the Dems and Obama made, they effectively acknowledge the hit. Besides, it is foolish for Obama and his party to deny what he and they actually advocate. He said he’d sit down with terrorists without preconditions. Now he wants to project a stern negotiator image, redefining his stand once again.
Barack comes out as a whiny, pouty baby. Who would want him for a leader?
So he wants to debate Bush. Has someone told him that Bush isn’t running? It all shows the same thing…intense hatred for Bush. Everything is Bush. The man isn’t even named, and he comes out quickly to defend himself. It shows his lack of character. Obama is nothing more than a Chamberlain. He has no concept of history or even understand it. He is, as I have said before, nothing more than a rookie, with no experience, running on a stupid platform of nothing more than vague “hope and change”. Oh, there will be “change” with him as President…something this country may never recover from. The only “hope” there is, is that he will not destroy everything and start WW3 from a weaker side, when he is in the WH.
The weak and cowardly consider Swiftboating a bad thing. As for me, I feel strong and honorable men who served REAL combat tours in Viet Nam pointing out Senator Kerry’s lies is a good thing. But that is Leftist thinking..a lie is the truth if it is helpful and the truth is a lie if it is not helpful.
But as Senator Barrack Hussein Obama did not serve on a swiftboat we could Reverand Wright him or Bill Aryers him.
The correct term for that is “Liberal”.
On May 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm, graysonret said:
So he wants to debate Bush. Has someone told him that Bush isn’t running?
Shhhhh! don’t wake them up… besides, W could actually win that one
Chard402003 & Sonofdy, I am married to an Army Officer who will drop his paper work and resign on January 20, 2009, if BHO is the CIC. I know four other officers (2-Navy, 1 Air Force, 1 Marine) who will do the same. All of them speculate as to how many others will follow. All 5 did at least 3 deployments under Clinton and one even served at the White House. Although technically they’re not to discuss it, he said the rumours of military officers being pressed into service at a cocktail party are “not to be taken with a grain of salt” and no, he’s not my husband.
I know the Army Times was yapping either this week or a previous week about all the military money BHO is getting. Perhaps he is, but I have to wonder-the Military Times papers are so liberal, who knows if it’s even true.
Yes, narcissism as being overly sensitive to criticism, as “me, me, me”, and as projecting your faults onto others. All Obamessiah (PBUH) traits. A fourth feature of narcissism is a “preoccupation with perceived challenged”. As in feeling challenged by another person when you’re really not. As in believing Bush is putting you down as an appeaser when he didn’t even mention your name.
Sorry I meant to type “preoccupation with perceived challenge”. And then all the Obamessiah (PBUH) supporters (The Obama camp, Biden, even Hillary herself) will protect their golden child just as he narcissistically protects himself. Call that narcissism by proxy.
I love how this fiend hides behind the bravery and accomplishments of his grandfather. What a coward. The man never served in the military himself, thought it beneath him, yet he can speak about war or how he’ll be the next Commander in Chief?
What did Pres. Bush say that wasn’t wrong? Is Obummer’s skin so thin he has to feign injured dignity?
I have a few questions for this poser:
1. Why should I, and other military spouses/family members vote for you?
2. How do you think you’re engendering yourself to military members when you constantly malign the current war? How is that helpful?
3. Why do you think you’re qualified to be president when you’re never served in the military or even have a remote understanding of how the military operates? I don’t think that advisors will ever give this guy any full understanding (just like Clinton).
It really reveals the character of a person when they need to hide behind the accomplishments of others. It’s pathetic, sad, but yet another huge indicator that this guy will continue to torpedo the troops even more because of his arrogant belief of “love thy favorite tyranical dictator.”
Well sure, but just like going to church, Obama didn’t hear any of that all those years…
#53 Red==sorry, but I think W and queen pelosi dined on them in the white house shortly after she was coronated queen of the house. sad,too.
Obummer ain’t fit to be the Commander-In-Cheif. McCain hit it right out of the ball park with that remark. obummer’s mad because his inability to lead the strongest military in the world will be shown. I hope McCain does debate him on the national defense and asks him how do you protect a nation with your military’s tail tucked between it’s legs, while it scrambles out of Iraq.
Any word on what he’s thinking here?
When b hussein talks, often he does say what is really in his mind (i.e. SF v PA).
This thinking would fit with his 20 years of ’spiritual guidance’ from wright and farakkan and ayers and …well you get the idea.
BHO, WHAT is legitimate about EITHER Hizbullah or Hamas?
Quick, without looking thru wikipedia.
His uncle J. Wright probably has a few trophies, too.
They sure do Barack, such as no terrorist attack on American soil in seven, count’em, seven years.
The way, I guess, they propose to negotiate with those who want to destroy America:
“How about you only destroy half of America??”
So know BO is a war hero by family connection and has the blood of Germans on his hands, wieners on his breath, and that ever so funny german sense of humor. Which uncle was it - he calls a lot of losers uncle. Was it a white uncle? His uncle must have been very bitter to hold onto guns and reject the culture of the Nazis. Was his uncle a typical white guy? If so, did his uncle actually serve in a segregated US army - isn’t his uncle a racist? We need some clarity BO.
Cindy Sheehan’s son died for this nation and she’s still an idiot. What does it matter if Barry O’s grandpa fought in WWII?
After seeing the 80,000 Obama supporters gathered in Oregon I half expected them to start chanting “Death to America!” The America haters are growing in strength.
#88…and come November, you can vote for your geriatric candidate, and then you can hide in your basement for the next 4-8 years…