Riding out the final months of his disgraceful presidency, in which George W. Bush turned everything into shit with his magic wand, this thoroughly dishonest Commander in Chief is trying to drag everyone else through the shitpile with him. In Israel this week, Bush launched a thinly-veiled attack against Barack Obama, calling him a terrorist appeaser because Obama does not see the world in black and white and wants to engage in dialogue with other world leaders, including precisely the dictators and dangerous men that, my view, are not in any way distinguishable from Bush, a terrorist by any rational definition. Bush did not refer to Obama by name, but your head would have to be filled with concrete to think he was talking about anyone else.

If George W. Bush wants to see a real terrorist appeaser, he should look in the mirror. Looking back at him would be a man whose outrageous and lawless war killed over 4,000 American soldiers and wounded many thousands more. A man who completely squandered the international good-will that came our way following September 11. A man who went to war against a country that did not attack us, posed no threat to us, and was too weak to attack anyone else. A man whose disgusting war killed hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, many of them guilty of nothing. May the good Lord condemn this little man who is single-handedly destroying this country brick by brick, every day in every way. Traitors like Bush who've sold this country down the river have no right to question anyone else's patriotism.

Macho politics will get you killed. Macho politics will bring you home in a pine box. It will paralyze you and destroy your life and the lives of your loved ones. That's what happens when you go to war for shits and giggles. Hard to believe that a progressive has a chance to replace Bush, but Obama is going to have to work at it. We've become used to mediocrity and a generation of Americans don't know any better. It's been eight long years.

Barack Obama has been the subject of a smear campaign since March, as right wing ideologues have blamed him for the provocative views of his pastor. Of course, the robotics in the Republican party ate this garbage up like an alley cat in the Dumpster. Anything to tar and feather someone who does not boldly stand for "patriotic" values and support a war that has absolutely placed this country at great risk of another terror attack and totally distracted our response to September 11. Unlike John Kerry, who was swift-boated and turned into a war coward (despite his heroic medals), Obama is fighting back. Let him take Bush's words and cram them up his, well, you know where.

If we are to slowly drag ourselves from the hell-hole that Bush and the Republican warmongers have thrown us into, Obama is going to have to join Bush and John McCain at the hip. McCain supported all of Bush's disgraceful foreign policy initiatives, costing this country hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of dead American soldiers. Obama is going to have to fight back and take advantage of Bush's 30 percent disapproval rating. Turn McCain into Bush. Go get him Barack. And don't let up.

Here is what Obama said, according to the New York Times. Do it, Obama. Tell it like it is.

“George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for,” Mr. Obama said at a midday forum here, listing the Iraq war, the strengthening of Iran and groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, Osama bin Laden’s being still at large and stalled diplomacy in other parts of the Middle East among their chief failings.

“If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America,” Mr. Obama said, “that is a debate I am happy to have any time, any place.”

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Consistently throughout his comments about foreign policy, Mr. Obama yoked Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain as one entity, mentioning their names in the same sentence 10 times in barely 10 minutes. He portrayed them as being not only inflexible, but also “naïve and irresponsible,” the characteristics they ascribe to him.

The remarks were made a day after Mr. Bush, addressing the Israeli Parliament, spoke of what he called a tendency toward “appeasement” in some quarters of the West, similar to that shown to the Nazis before the invasion of Poland.

Mr. Bush also said he rejected negotiations with “terrorists and radicals,” implying that Democrats favored such a position. Mr. Obama said he found the remarks offensive.

“After almost eight years, I did not think I could be surprised by anything that George Bush says,” Mr. Obama said, criticizing Mr. Bush for raising an internal issue on foreign soil. “But I was wrong.”

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In the Bush-McCain world view, everyone who disagrees with their failed Iran policy is an appeaser,” Mr. Obama said.