Obama's The Appeaser

Last week's delightful statements regarding appeasement seem to have smoked out the real, appeasing Obama.

It began, of course, with President Bush delivering a perfectly statesmanlike, non-directive address in Israel. Fittingly, in a country beset by terrorists surrounding it, Bush opined on the folly of treating with terrorists, calling it by its rightful name, 'appeasement.'

The rookie Senator from Illinois, also now the leading Democratic Presidential candidate, obligingly squawked that Bush had improperly attacked him from beyond US soil.

Funny thing, though, is that Bush named nobody in his address. It was quite clearly a general statement of principles from a man that has followed them assiduously for his entire term.

As Newt Gingrich said that evening on Fox News, in reply to bullying from, I believe, Alan Colmes, to paraphrase,

'The best thing Obama could have done was to have simply seconded Bush's statement. Instead, he raised his head up and painted himself as an appeaser by complaining that he had been unfairly targeted, although there is absolutely no evidence of this.'

It really does mark the freshman Senator's campaign as not-yet-ready for prime time, doesn't it?

By committing this fairly serious gaffe, Obama set himself up for a deserved smack by John McCain, the Republican Presidential nominee for the November election.

McCain pointedly agreed with President Bush, and noted Obama's offer to meet with leaders of terrorist-supporting nations, specifically Iran, as naive and potentially damaging to efforts at reining in these rogue nations.

Obama, ever the obliging greenhorn, then shot back at McCain that he will debate the more-experienced, senior Senator from Arizona 'anywhere, anytime,' etc., on foreign policy.

Of course, sidelined in this spat was Hillary, who sort of looked like a useless onlooker in a duel.

It's difficult to believe that someone with Obama's ever-increasingly obvious naivete, inexperience and overall bad judgement can be a serious candidate for President of the US.