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Posted at 6:38pm on May 17, 2008 Look Who Owns The Noise-Machine Now

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

We should be appalled by now that the contretemps involving President Bush and Senators Obama and McCain has lasted as long as it has. By now, cooler heads should have prevailed and forcefully responded to Senator Obama that a plain reading of the language of President Bush's speech before the Knesset makes clear that Senator Obama was in no way implicated in the President's comments concerning the appeasement of dictators and terrorists. Indeed, White House officials have said on background that if anything, the comments were directed at Jimmy Carter in the aftermath of his recent meeting with Hamas and the only politician who was directly criticized in the oft-repeated quote from the President's speech was Republican Senator William Borah, who was apparently never disabused from the notion that if only he could have met with Hitler, Borah's powers of eloquence alone would have been sufficient to stop World War II from ever having broken out.

But of course, we are still in the midst of the contretemps and still dealing with the blasts of outrage and fury from Team Obama and its allies in the aftermath of the President's speech. It is one thing to campaign with a chip on one's shoulder, but after a while, this gets rather tiresome, does it not?

It should. But shockingly enough, the controversy appears to have kicked into second gear now, with Team Obama and its allies now claiming that if President Bush wants to slam appeasers, he should start with his own Defense Secretary and Senator McCain, who allegedly have adopted Senator Obama's negotiating strategy in toto.

Read on . . .

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