White House on Appeasement Smear: Who, us?

The duplicity of this White House appears to know no bounds. Up pops that well known intellectual, Dana Perino, - she who has never heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis - to tell us that Obama is being big headed by assuming that Bush was talking about him when he made his outrageous remarks at Israel's Knesset:

Q:There’s some question about his comment here about “some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong” — you know the passage. And he talks about the “false comfort of appeasement.” This is being seen in some quarters as a slam on Senator Obama. Is this in any way directed at Senator Obama?

PERINO: It is not. And I would think that all of you who cover these issues and have for a long time have known that there are many who have suggested these types of negotiations with people that President Bush thinks we should not talk to. I understand when you’re running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you — that is not always true and it is not true in this case.

Q: But, so, not aimed at him — do they include him?

PERINO: He’ll have to speak for himself as to what his policy is and you guys can know it well.

There's a problem with that defence, of course, and the problem is that Bush's staff went out of their way at the time to ensure that the press knew this was about Obama and others.

The president did not name Obama or any other Democrat, but White House aides privately acknowledged the remarks were aimed at the presidential candidate and others in his party.

So, the remarks were aimed at Obama.

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Tags: Bush, Israel, appeasement, Barack Obama, Iran, Dana Perino