By Matthew Mosk WATERTOWN, SD - Sen. Barack Obama suggested to several hundred residents of this farming town of 20,000 that he welcomed the idea of turning the presidential contest into a debate on who is better fit to guide the nation's foreign policy.
Pausing before a town hall meeting in a livestock arena, Obama said he wanted to address what he called his "dust-up over foreign policy" with President Bush and Sen. John McCain.
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Barack Obama fired back at President Bush and John McCain today over comments Bush made on Thursday that implied his foreign policy agenda would appease terrorists.
After almost eight years, I didnt think that I could be surprised by anything that George Bush says. But I was wrong, he told a crowd gathered in a barn at the Codington County Extension Complex here. Yesterday, he used his address to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to launch an outrageous political attack.
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(CNN) – Barack Obama struck back hard at President Bush and John McCain Friday, accusing them of hypocrisy and of distorting his position on dialogue with

WATERTOWN, South Dakota (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama said on Friday President George W. Bush's "failed policies" had strengthened U.S. enemies like Iran and Hamas.
Responding to Bush's comment on Thursday that those who want to talk to Iran were like Nazi appeasers before the Second World War, Obama accused Bush of "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided the country and that alienates us from the world."
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The storm over President Bush's "appeasement" remarks in Israel misses the point. No, we should not appease, engage, or give shoulder rubs to Islamist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. But wishing they would go away, while arming their enemies has gotten us nowhere.
Plus, haven't we, to some degree, appeased disgruntled Sunnis in what was known as the Sunni triangle? Hasn't our Neville Chamberlain-like approach worked there, with varying degrees of success? When Robert Gates talks about sitting down with his Iranian counterparts, isn't that appeasement -- assuming at least that negotiation is meant to make the other side less mad at you?
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By Tom Curry WASHINGTON - President Bush’s apparent criticism of Sen. Barack Obama while addressing the Israeli Knesset has sparked an election year furor.
The clamor was probably unavoidable.
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ABC News' Ed O'Keefe Reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., fired back at President George W. Bush and presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., after a dust-up over comments Bush made while speaking to the Israeli parliament Thursday.
"After almost eight years, I did not think I could be surprised by almost anything George Bush says," Obama told a crowd at a campaign event in Watertown, South Dakota, Friday, "He accused me and other Democrats of wanting to negotiate with terrorists and said we were appeasers no different than people who appeased the Nazis before World War II."
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President Bush launched "a political attack" on him and other Democrats yesterday, Sen. Barack Obama just told voters in Watertown, S.D.
And Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, he said, "embraced" that attack.

Being the presumptive Democratic nominee for President has its downside—like being slammed by your own leader in front of an entire foreign government. Barack Obama interjected himself into the “Israel at 60” birthday bash in Jerusalem, by calling out President Bush for what he called a “false political attack” on himself.
In a speech Wednesday to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, President Bush said, “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.” Given that Obama has said, if elected, he would meet with the leaders of nations hostile towards the United

By Kate Phillips During the White House press gaggle today in Saudi Arabia, Dana Perino and Ed Gillespie expressed shock (!) over the widespread Democratic

Welcome to the first general-election policy debate! (That sounded more exciting in our head.) President Bush was only making a speech at the Israeli Knesset, but he may as well have been firing a starting gun. After Bush compared "some people" who wanted to negotiate with "terrorists and radicals" to Nazi appeasers, Barack Obama and John McCain were off and running. Obama called the comment a "false political attack"; McCain sided with Bush, questioning why Obama "wants to sit down and talk with" Iran. Later, in a conference call with bloggers, McCain went further, saying Obama was incapable of preserving the nation's security. Obama is expected to respond in a speech later

by FOXNews.com Barack Obama plans to strike at President Bush for the second day in a row Friday, after the president triggered a deep political firestorm

By Charles Levinson and Richard Wolf JERUSALEM - President Bush pointedly criticized those who advocate talks with "terrorists and radicals" Thursday in a speech to the Israeli Knesset, sparking charges from Democrats that he was targeting presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Two paragraphs in a speech praising Israel upon its 60th anniversary and extolling U.S.-Israeli ties ignited a firestorm back home. Democrats said Bush had violated the tradition of leaving politics at the water's edge.
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US President George W. Bush launched what many say was a “political attack" against Democratic front-runner Barack Obama on Thursday when he addressed the

The headline from the Los Angeles Times: "In Israel, President Bush derides terrorism 'appeasement'; Barack Obama bristles."
Per the Boston Globe, âThe intercontinental exchange between a junior Illinois senator and the sitting president confirmed Obama's new status as his party's standard-bearer - and Bush's willingness to defend his foreign policy in the midst of the campaign to replace him. âI can't imagine there's a precedent for a sitting president to go before the legislative body of a foreign government and launch a political attack on a major-party nominee running to succeed him,â said Brian P. Murphy, a fellow in American history at the University of Pennsylvania.â
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By Sheryl Gay Stolbergand Jim Rutenberg President Bush used a speech to the Israeli parliament on Thursday to liken those who would negotiate with

WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday used a high-profile speech in Israel to attack the idea of pursuing diplomatic talks with renegade countries such as Iran, a key element of Barack Obama's agenda, likening it to the failed appeasement of Germany prior to World War II.
"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 said in a speech to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem.
senator and the sitting president confirmed Obama's new status as his party's standard-bearer - and Bush's willingness to defend his foreign policy in the midst of the campaign to replace him.

The president, speaking to Israeli lawmakers, takes apparent aim at Obama in saying that negotiating with some dictatorships amounts to 'appeasement.' Obama calls it a 'false political attack.'
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By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JIM RUTENBERG JERUSALEM - President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to liken those who would negotiate with “terrorists and radicals” to appeasers of the Nazis — a remark widely interpreted as a rebuke to Senator Barack Obama, who has advocated greater engagement with countries like Iran and Syria.
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tement to reporters that he had no intention of dealing with terrorists and accusing Mr. Bush of using his visit, timed for the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence, to “launch a false political attack.”

By Dion Nissenbaum and David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers JERUSALEM - President Bush took the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary on Thursday to compare his American political opponents to Nazi appeasers and brand them as too willing to negotiate with terrorists, remarks that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama reacted to instantly as an attack upon him.
"We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history," Bush said in his 23-minute speech to Israel's parliament.
are many who have suggested these types of negotiations with people that the president ... thinks we should

By Matt Spetalnick JERUSALEM, May 15 (Reuters) - US President George W. Bush on Thursday decried his critics' calls for negotiations with Iranian President

By Ed Henry JERUSALEM (CNN) -- President Bush launched a sharp but veiled attack Thursday on Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats, suggesting they favor