NEWS: McCain earns KKK Vote!

If you won't go back to Medved, let Medved come back to you --

whatilearnedthisweek wrote: "The intended, indirect target of [Bush's] remarks was Former President Jimmy Carter, who has, of late, attempted to gain ground with Hamas."

-- How exactly do you intentionally aim at an indirect target?

"President Bush committed the same act as Former US President Bill Clinton... Criticizing a Former President on Foreign Soil."

-- Negative! He criticized the policy position of talking to the leaders of terrorists and radicals, a position held by more people than just the former president, including some people in the Israeli government.

"Americans should not be so fickle in their respect of elected officials that we tacitly grant acceptance of insult to our leaders."

-- That's right; criticizing any political position Jimmy Carter holds now, 27 years after leaving office, is VERBOTEN. So, did you post messages at Daily Kos and Huff Po slamming Obama for saying Carter did the wrong thing?

If President Bush had slammed Carter for something he had said or done while in office, or if Carter was the only political leader in the world advocating this strategy today, or if the issue was one that didn't directly concern the Israeli government and its people -- THEN you might have a case to make. Since all three of those things are not true . . .

Deifying leaders is something that totalitarian regimes do, not us.