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  • May 2008

    • JFK Negotiated (and Got His Butt Kicked)

      New York Times  |  May 22, 08 12:55 PM CDT

      JFK Negotiated (and Got His Butt Kicked)

      (Newser) - On the campaign trail, Barack Obama often invokes a JFK maxim—"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate"—to back up his commitment to talk to America's enemies. But in a Times op-ed, two writers observe that Kennedy learned a tough lesson when negotiating with Nikita Khrushchev: Meeting with the enemy gives him the opportunity to kick you. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John F. Kennedy  • Cold War  • appeasement  • negotiation  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    • Lieberman, Hagel Cross Aisles to Pound Candidates

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 21, 08 1:25 PM CDT

      Lieberman, Hagel Cross Aisles to Pound Candidates

      (Newser) - Joe Lieberman and Chuck Hagel are fighting a duel of aisle-crossing foreign policy critiques, as the former Dem candidate takes aim at Obama and the GOP heavyweight scolds McCain. “How did the Democratic Party get here?” Joe asks in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, accusing Barack of kow-towing to extremists who have taken the party “further to the left” than at any point in two decades. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • foreign policy  • Joe Lieberman  • Chuck Hagel  • appeasement  • FDR

    • Goldwater Vs. JFK Echoes in '08

      Salon  |  May 21, 08 12:19 PM CDT

      Goldwater Vs. JFK Echoes in '08

      (Newser) - The coming Obama/McCain matchup is an echo of another presidential bout, David Talbot writes for Salon —one that never happened between JFK and Barry Goldwater in 1964. Then as now, a young idealist takes on a seasoned ex-soldier over negotiation with hostile governments, to debate a fundamental question of whether it is more important to project understanding or strength to the world. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Obama 2008  • McCain 2008  • presidential election  • assassination  • John F. Kennedy  • appeasement  • Barry Goldwater

    • Politicians, Give Hitler a Rest

      Slate  |  May 20, 08 1:16 PM CDT

      Politicians, Give Hitler a Rest

      (Newser) - Politicians just can’t stop invoking Hitler to make their points, complains Anne Applebaum on Slate. President Bush did it last week, saying negotiating with “terrorists and radicals” was tantamount to 1930s Nazi appeasement. It was a ridiculous statement, “giving tactical choices a phony moral grounding.” But that’s par for the course for such analogies, which never fail to cheapen debate. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Nazi  • Adolf Hitler  • appeasement

    • White House Blasts NBC Over Interview Edit

      The Hill  |  May 20, 08 11:36 AM CDT

      White House Blasts NBC Over Interview Edit

      (Newser) - The White House went after NBC yesterday, accusing the network of doctoring a recent interview with President Bush, the Hill reports. Asked if comments about Iran were directed at Democratic candidate Barack Obama, Bush declined to answer directly, but White House counselor Ed Gillespie says the interview was purposely edited to make it appear as though Bush was affirming that speculation. More »

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      Barack Obama  • George W. Bush  • Iran  • White House  • NBC  • American media  • NBC News  • appeasement  • Ed Gillespie

    • Surprise! Foreign Policy, Round 1, Goes to Obama

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 19, 08 8:19 PM CDT

      Surprise! Foreign Policy, Round 1, Goes to Obama

      (Newser) - Barack Obama 1, Republicans 0—and on foreign policy, no less. Michael Tomasky marvels in the Guardian at Obama's recent clash with President Bush, who blasted Obama for proposing talks with Iran "without preconditions." Aren't Democrats supposed to be easy targets on foreign policy? Apparently not when they fire back boldly, bring up Bush's Iraq lies, and tell voters, "They're trying to scare you." More »

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      Barack Obama  • George W. Bush  • Iran  • foreign policy  • appeasement

    • Hitler Donnybrook Rocks Hardball

      Huffington Post  |  May 16, 08 6:54 AM CDT

      Hitler Donnybrook Rocks Hardball

      (Newser) - There's been an outcry from the Dems over President Bush's "appeasement" comments but the shouting was loudest on last night's Hardball , the Huffington Post reports. Radio host Kevin James sang the praises of Bush's remarks comparing Barack Obama's planned outreach to Iran to Nazi appeasement. But after being asked repeatedly by host Chris Matthews, James couldn't come up with exactly what that moment in Hitler history involved. More »

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      Adolf Hitler  • talk show  • Chris Matthews  • appeasement  • Hardball

    • Dems Furious Over Bush 'Appeasement' Zinger

      Reuters  |  May 16, 08 6:20 AM CDT

      Dems Furious Over Bush 'Appeasement' Zinger

      (Newser) - Democrats stood shoulder-to-shoulder in fury yesterday to lash President Bush for indicating that Barack Obama is like a Nazi appeaser because he supports outreach to countries like Iran. Even Hillary Clinton leaped to her rival's defense, Reuters reports. "President Bush's comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous," Clinton said. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • George W. Bush  • Iran  • Nancy Pelosi  • Democratic Party  • John Kerry  • appeasement

    • Bush vs. Obama: It's Just the Start

      Time  |  May 15, 08 7:45 PM CDT

      Bush vs. Obama: It's Just the Start

      (Newser) - When the president set off a political firestorm today by essentially likening Barack Obama to those who appeased the Nazis, he likely presaged a common theme in the general election, writes Massimo Calabresi in Time . Bush is trying to stay relevant—no better way than to inject himself in the campaign. And the speed with which Obama responded signaled that he's quite happy to take on the president. More »

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      Barack Obama  • George W. Bush  • Israel  • Knesset  • appeasement  • Nazis

    • Bush: Obama Would 'Appease' Terrorists

      CNN  |  May 15, 08 10:57 AM CDT

      Bush: Obama Would 'Appease' Terrorists

      (Newser) - He didn't name names, but he didn't need to. President Bush used an appearance before Israel’s Knesset today to accuse Barack Obama of the “foolish delusion” that “we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals.” In comments aimed at Obama’s support among American Jews, CNN notes, the president compared the Democrat to Hitler appeasers, saying, "We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history." More »

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      Barack Obama  • George W. Bush  • Iran  • Israel  • terrorist  • the Jewish vote  • Knesset  • appeasement  • Nazis

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