Barack Obama has taken offense at President Bush's Speech where the President warned about the dangers of appeasement. It seems like the President hit a nerve that may prove to be based in reality. Like Neville Chamberlain before him, with Obama as President there may very well be appeasement in our time.
A speech by President George W Bush delivered in Israel has set off a firestorm of controversy among Democrats who are claiming it was an attack on Barack Obama's foriegn policy credentials. The White house has denied this and said it was targeted towards Jimmy Carter who has recently met with dictators and terrorists. Obama has already said that as President he vows to do the same thing and directly sit down with the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Basher Assad of Syria as well as leaders of Hamas.

Even if Bush's speech was aimed at Carter his words still ring true with Barack Obama which is why the accusation of appeasement has hit home with the Democrats.

Bush said "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We've heard this foolish delusion before."

Bush also mentioned an American senator in 1939 wishing he could have talked Hitler out of his invasion of Poland. "We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement."

Bush is absolutely correct. To carry on a duologue with rogue states and terrorists would be a huge mistake and can only result in appeasement. In return for talks our enemies may give false promises of peace in exchange for US concessions, but what we give up will never be enough until we give them what they ultimately want, the complete abandonment of Israel, which is completely unacceptable. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is case in point why negotiations do not work. Israel has offered concession after concession and the Palestinians demand more and more. Remember "Land for peace". Giving up land didn't buy them one iota of good will. Every time there seems to be a peace breakthrough it is always some Palestinian group that sabotages it because their goal is not a Palestinian state living peacefully along side Israel but the entire destruction of Israel. Any negotiations that Israel engages with the Palestinians is a suicide pact on their part because that is the sole aim of the Palestinian Authority.

In the movie Independence Day The President asked the alien what they wanted humans to do. The alien simply said "die". How do you negotiate with that? It's the same position that these dictators and terrorists have for us.

Dictators and terrorists perceive diplomacy, without the willingness to back it up with force, as a sign of weakness and they will use it to their advantage. The only way to secure peace is to back up our words with strength that will force them to offer concessions not us. With any negotiation the party that has the least to lose always has the upper hand. We need to make sure that our enemies know they have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Neither Carter, nor Barack Obama have the ability to negotiate in a position of strength since they have already signaled a willing to make deals with them. Obama as President will offer never ending concessions which will not achieve the peaceful resolution he seeks, but instead repeat the mistakes of appeasement which history has shown over and over again that it will only result in disaster.

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Mark May 14, 2008 on your calendars because it is a day that will live in infamy. It was the day that the Bush Administration and the Interior Department handed the Sierra Club and other extreme environmentalists the ultimate weapon. They are now in possession of a weapon that will rain fire on the US economy more devastating than any WMD ever devised by man.

Polar Bear Is Named 'Threatened' Species

U.S. Cites Shrinking Arctic Ice

By Juliet Eilperin

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 15, 2008; Page A01

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne listed polar bears as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act yesterday, saying the loss of Arctic sea ice in a warming climate could drive them to the brink of extinction in less than four decades.

Although the Bush administration handed environmentalists a victory they had sought for more than three years, Kempthorne said he would ensure that his decision did not "open the door" for activists to force the adoption of limits on greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.

The act "is not the right tool to set U.S. climate-change policy," he said in a news conference. "This has been a difficult decision. But in light of the scientific record and the restraints of the inflexible law that guides me, I believe it was the only decision I could make."

This statement by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has to be the most naive, misguided statement ever uttered by a government official. He says his decision would not "open the door for activists to force the adoption of limits on greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming"? He has to be absolutely brain dead if he thinks his action today isn't going to be used by activists to ram through everything their heart's desires. He has effectively given them, and activist judges, God like powers to regulate every single aspect of human behavior. What he has done is tied a "threatened" species to global warming, and has said that global warming is a direct threat to the Polar Bear. What this means is that anything that is even thought to contribute to global warming will be a violation of the Endangered Species Act.

This has the potential of stopping all economic activity in its bear tracks. Dirk Kempthorne also said

"Kempthorne made clear that the decision would not justify regulating emissions from power plants, vehicles or other human activities."

Oh sir, this is second most naive statement ever uttered by a government official. This decision not only can shut down every carbon emitting factory but it has killed any possibility of drilling in ANWAR and has the potential to stop oil drilling or even oil refining anywhere in the United States or its territories. Don't just stop at oil, he has declared global warming a threat to an endangered species which means All human activity that is thought to contribute to global warming is now a violation of the Endangered Species Act. The very act of starting your car could be ruled a violation.

This is a big day for environmentalist because they have been given the ultimate weapon. Starting today it doesn't matter if global warming is real or a hoax, that argument is completely irrelevant now because extreme environmentalists will move forward boldly in the courts and will only be limited by their own imaginations. The Sierra Club can now hold aloft a huge banner saying "Mission Accomplished" Because the Bush administration has granted them absolute power.



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It seems that President Bush has jumped on the global warming bandwagon. Today he announced proposals for reducing Co2 emissions which many (not all) scientists claim is the primary cause of global warming.

Bush revises strategy on curbing greenhouse gases

Apr 16 01:21 PM US/Eastern
By H. JOSEF HEBERT and DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush on Wednesday proposed a new target for stopping the growth of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

The president also called for putting the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants within 10 to 15 years.

"To reach our 2025 goal, we will need to more rapidly slow the growth of power sector greenhouse gas emissions so that they peak within 10 to 15 years, and decline thereafter," Bush said in excerpts of the speech released early by the White House.

"By doing so, we will reduce emission levels in the power sector well below where they were projected to be when we first announced our climate strategy in 2002. There are a number of ways to achieve these reductions, but all responsible approaches depend on accelerating the development and deployment of new technologies."

Bush was not to outline a specific proposal, but he'll lay out a strategy for "realistic" emission reduction targets and "principles" he thinks Congress should follow in crafting global warming legislation.

Democrats did not hesitate to pounce on this:

Barbara Boxer, the Democratic chairwoman of the Senate's environment committee, said the Bush plan would still let US gas emissions "reach dangerous levels" and was "the height of irresponsibility."

Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, said Bush had flunked the climate change challenge in his final year in office.

If Bush thinks this is going to help his approval rating, or gain support among environmentalists he is absolutely wrong. If he thinks that throwing a bone to them and offering some of the things they want will keep the Democrat Congress from enacting even worse draconian measures, he is wrong on that count as well. Extreme environmentalists are going to see this as an admission by the administration that global warming is real and they will demand even more from the President and Congress to enact measures to curb it. This is a huge mistake by the President because he will get no credit for this, and it will generate even more criticism for not going far enough. I'm sure this is part of some sort of strategy but it is one that is sure to backfire and give the Democrat controlled Congress a green light to enact huge tax increases, impose debilitating regulations on businesses, and take even more of our precious freedoms. The cost of fuel, food, and transportation is already going up because of misguided environmental policies. This is only going to add fuel to the fire which will be devastating to poor and middle income families. No fear though we can always rely on the government to provide subsidized food and housing once it becomes too expensive for all but the very affluent to afford.

Right now is not the time to capitulate. Time will prove man made global warming false and once that happens it will be very difficult to undo the damage it will cause. Our reaction to the fear of global warming may be worse than any of the dire predictions that some scientists and politicians have offered. Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty, or give me death". It would be better for the Earth to be engulfed by the sun than to lose the freedom our forefathers fought and that we continue to fight and die for today.

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Can we say poetic justice? It seems that likely Republican Presidential nominee Senator John McCain may run afoul from his own legislation. The McCain-Feingold travesty has come around to bite him in the posterior.

read story from the Washington Post:

By Matthew Mosk and Glenn Kessler

Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 22, 2008; Page A01

The nation's top federal election official told Sen. John McCain yesterday that he cannot immediately withdraw from the presidential public financing system as he had requested, a decision that threatens to dramatically restrict his spending until the general election campaign begins in the fall.

The prospect of being financially hamstrung by the very fundraising system he helped create is the latest in a series of bitter challenges for the presumed GOP nominee, who still faces a fractured conservative coalition as he assumes the mantle of party leadership.

The McCain-Feingold bill was passed because McCain threatened to hold up judge nominations and make President Bush's life a living Hell. Many Republicans in Congress including President Bush passed the bill thinking the Supreme Court would do the right thing and strike it down. Unfortunately, The Supreme Court had a massive brain fart and upheld the bill even though it was a direct attack on the very speech that the 1st Amendment to the Constitution was meant to protect, that of political speech. Read about the history of McCain-Feingold.

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Someone once said...

If you have to say it, you ain't it.

If John McCain was a "true conservative" no one would have to convince us, we would just know. We certainly don't need the President convincing us that Rush Limbaugh, or Shawn Hannity are conservative. We know by their words and actions. Likewise, we know that John McCain is not a conservative because of his words and actions.

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Conservatives are being told by the Republican establishment that we should "fall in line" so we can avoid a Hillary or Obama victory in November. I have a better idea, how about the Republican establishment get back in line with us and go back to conservative principles such as smaller government, less spending, strong enforcement of immigration laws, and lower taxes. Only then will the Republican party win elections again and have our full support.

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