It's now being debated if President Bush's speech to the Israeli Parliament was aimed at former President Jimmy Carter, Democrat presidential candidates, or directly as the presumed Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama.

Some seem to believe we should negotiate with 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 only I could have talked to Hitler, all of 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.

We knew this would leave a mark….

Delaware Senator Joe Biden (D-DE), showing the civility and class of a statesman, added,

This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset… and make this kind of ridiculous statement.

During her weekly Capitol Hill press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi added that Bush's statement was "beneath the dignity of the office of the president". This is the same Speaker Pelosi that saw fit to hang in Syria with sworn enemies of Israel.

Jimmy Carter has recently talked to Hamas, Obama has previously stated that the United States need talk with nations that could be considered our enemies. This would appear to be a rather wide shot across the bow, however the response from Democrats has been swift and awfully oversensitive…

It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel. Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power — including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy - to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino put it best…

I understand that when you are running for office sometimes you think the world revolves around you. That is not always true and it is not true in this case.

It is curious that Barack Obama believes there's merit in diplomacy with the enemies of Israel, but has yet to engage any of the "enemy" on the Fox News Channel. That kind of redefines the meaning of the term "guts".