Why can’t President Bush start his month long August vacation at his ranch now and continue on until some time around the middle of November? After he said he would not play Presidential pundit as far as the election goes, he goes to Israel and pops off about talking to terrorists and assailing ‘appeasement’ as the worse thing since Abu Ghraib. The remarks were considered to be mocking Barack Obamas incisive decree that talking to our enemies is as important as talking to our friends. Barack never mentioned talking to Hamas, Hezbollah or any other terrorist group. But would that be so bad? This is of course Republican fear mongering probably because they are very afraid after losing two very conservative districts in special elections in the south in last couple of months. They fear that the people aren’t as afraid as they used to be so to trumpet up the idea that the terrorist is out to kill us all is their only answer. Unfortunately for Republicans since Bush has been in office more than just the terrorists want to kill us now. The whole world is expressing a world of hate towards us and one of the reasons is that the Bush administration, espousing the whole “we will not talk with terrorists” idea, has not really ever talked with anybody in the last eight years, they’ve talked at people including our greatest allies. Does anybody remember Dick Cheney calling Europe the old guard? Europe, I’m sure does. The matter of not negotiating with terrorists seems insane. Who made this rule up? If this were a rule then what would have happened to the IRA and British situation? The IRA were considered a terrorist group and with the prodding of President Clinton negotiations were made and although there were rough spots and still are these negotiation were monumental leading to a peaceful conclusion. And who decides who terrorists are anyway, it seems according to the A.C.L.U. the American government adds around 20,000 names to its terrorist watch list every month. And why isn’t OPEC on the terrorist list? More than half of the members are sworn enemies of America and the leader of the cartel is Saudi Arabia, whose citizens in the majority were the terrorists who rained planes down on America on Sept. 11th, not to mention Osama Bin Laden once called it home. Aren’t we appeasing the Saudis by selling them arms and looking the other way as they put a strangle hold on the world with their oil hoarding. And speaking of “appeasement” what are we providing Pakistan as Osama hides out in that country and now the Pakistan government decides it will not try to deter the Taliban from striking Afghanistan. This is what happens when a lame duck President quacks, and he thinks he’s helping; he’s actually shining a bright light on all of his horrendous policies of the last eight years...