From the Washington Post:

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Bush told the Israeli lawmakers. “We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of 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.”

One of the greatest lessons of history seems to be that people who want to kill you will continue to want to kill you no matter how nicely you talk to them.  The Democrats’ response?

Democrats angrily called the comment a veiled shot at Obama, who has advocated dialogue with Iran and Syria, but not the Palestinian group Hamas.

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Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, used an expletive to describe Bush’s comment. He went on to say: “For this president to leave the country and unleash a political attack on Senator Obama and the Democrats cannot go unanswered. We’re not going to tolerate this swiftboating,”

So we shouldn’t call out terrible ideas because it would be a “veiled shot” at the person who holds them?  Give me a break.

Also, I love that swiftboating has now become a verb to deride any attack that Democrats don’t like.  It doesn’t matter whether the charge is true or not, it only matters whether Democrats think it is fair or not.  And the ultimate arbiter of what is a fair attack and what isn’t is whether it hurts the Democratic candidate or not.

Note to Democratic leadership:  Please feel free to grow up.  Any day now would be great.