you know what:

Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), piling on to Democratic complaints about President Bush's speech in Israel today:

"This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement."

Speaking before the Knesset, Bush said that "some people" believe the United States "should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."

"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Democrats have interpreted the comments as an attack on Sen. Barack Obama, and Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that the president was out of line.

"He is the guy who has weakened us," he said. "He has increased the number of terrorists in the world. It is his policies that have produced this vulnerability that the U.S. has. It's his [own] intelligence community [that] has pointed this out, not me."

joins in:

"We have a protocol, sort of a custom, informally around here that we don't criticize the president when he is on foreign soil. One would think that that would apply to the president that he would not criticize Americans when he is on foreign soil.

"I think what the president said in that regard is beneath the dignity of the office of the president and unworthy of our representation at that observance in Israel.

"I would hope that any serious person would disassociate himself from the president's remarks who aspires to leadership in our country."

has a few words as well:

"George Bush should be making Israel secure, not slandering Barack Obama from the Knesset. If George Bush believes engagement with Iran is appeasement, the first thing he should do when he comes home is demand the resignation of his own cabinet. Secretary Gates and Secretary Rice have both favored negotiations with Iran."

"The bottom line is that George Bush's policies have made America less safe. The Middle East is more unstable than it's been in decades. Al Qaeda is reconstituted, Israel is more threatened, Hamas controls Gaza, Hezbollah threatens to take over Lebanon, Iran is stronger and Iraq is in chaos.

"America needs -- and Israel deserves -- presidential leadership that actually makes us safer and stronger."

chimes in:

On the same day John McCain is talking about putting partisanship aside, the President launched a cheap political attack while on a state visit honoring the 60th anniversary of Israel, one of America's greatest allies. Bush's outrageous comments are an embarrassment to our country, not based in fact and bring us no closer to our goal of ending terrorist attacks against Israel and bringing peace to the region. If John McCain is really serious about being a different kind of Republican, he'll denounce these remarks in the strongest terms possible.

himself:

It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel.

Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power -- including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy -- to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.

After nearly a decade of dividing the country and the world.  Bush has succeeded in uniting the Democratic party behind Obama.

Obama doesn't have to (and shouldn't) do all the pushback. That's what surrogates are for... and Bush just did his Great Uniter bit to help unite everyone in the Democratic party behind Obama.

This is very reminiscent of when the NYT forced conservatives to rally around McCain after he wrapped up the nomination.  NYT stupidly made their article about sex when it should have been about McCain's addiction to lobbyists and lobbyist dollars.  Now, here's the conservative movement's icon of ignorance committing treason on foreign soil and forcing the full force of the Democratic party to solidify in favor of the presumptive nominee.

Bush should be censured.

You can see how this will play out already. Lieberman has already come out and defended Bush. McCain will be able to come out and defend the content of Bush's comments while at the same time criticizing the context in which they were made, getting the double bonus of once again leveling an unfair and inaccurate charge at Obama on Israel and separating himself from Bush at the same time.

This is so obviously wrong, I can't help but wonder whether this was a gaffe, or merely represents a calculated political rope-a-dope strategy. the only reason I'm not so sure this was planned is because Bush and his team really are not very competent.

To go into the Knesset and launching such an attack is really a low blow.  Obama taking advice from Bush on Middle East politics is like taking advice on parenting from Brittney Spears.

McCain's whole campaign is tied into bush and the Iraq war.  If McCain hasn't rejected bush by now, the odds are he never will.

sarcastic.

Any decent human being would denounce this sickening tirade.

If Congress denounced MoveOn over the "Betray Us" ad, this should warrant censure if not Impeachment.