Here’s the piece of George Bush’s speech in Israel that has set off a firestorm with reaction from Pelosi, Biden and Obama:

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 have heard this foolish delusion before. 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.

I think it’s safe to say that historians and those who study foreign policy agree with the example of British PM Neville Chamberlain and the idea that you can’t negotiate with despots.  In the speech he may allude to Obama but never actually mentions him.  The reactionary ways of the Democrats is a bit puzzling here.  They’re so quick to condemn the President when the logical response would be to simply say very broadly that “we agree, you should never negotiate with terrorists and radicals.” Who can disagree with that statement?  Rather than simply putting the question to bed, Obama has raised another issue that will be an issue in the fall.

Here’s a sample debate question:

“Senator Obama, you’ve stated in the past that you’d be open to negotiating with Syria, Iran and Hamas.  You’ve also stated that you condemn with President Bush’s comments in regards to negotiating with terrorists.  Will you have a policy of negotiating with terrorists groups like Hamas?”

The easy answer is, “no”.  Unfortunately he can’t answer the questions quite so simply.

Who’s running this party?  Jimmy Carter?