May 16, 2008
Bull......Frog
Thursday, on the occasion of Israel's sixtieth George W. Bush compared Obama to Nazi appeasers. Well, he really didn't mention Obama by name, but the implication was clear. White House press secretary DaLovely, Distainful Dana Perino, always a favorite here at Dakota, reportedly denied that Bush's statements were a reference to Obama. "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," she said.
Of course no one believed her as usual, and there were outcries. Senator Joseph Biden said it best
Obama responded with great dignity, and used the incident as a teaching moment, as is his wont.
And then McCain called Obama's response a "hysterical diatribe".
It even made TV news when Chris Matthews publicaly humiliated the arrogant Kevin James for the holes in his education (and his head).
It seems worth noting that, according to The Guardian, the Bush family in fact benefited greatly from Nazi appeasement:
His [Senator Prescott Bush, W.'s grandfather] business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.....
....But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.
One could say that Bush's remarks were a case of the pot calling the kettle black, were it not tasteless under the circumstances.
Photo note: Bullfrog in the pond at Mt. Auburn Cemetery -- only bull in the archives
Posted by Dakota at May 16, 2008 07:33 PM