Chris Matthews was at his best on Hardball tonight, taking talk-show host Kevin James apart on his inability to say what Neville Chamberlain did wrong in his appeasement of Adolf Hitler before World War II. The correct answer, of course, is that Chamberlain allowed Hitler to carve up Czechoslovakia - which emboldened rather than satisfied the Nazis, and led directly into World War II.
The wrong answer is that Chamberlain talked to Hitler. Talking wasn't the problem - giving away a piece of a sovereign country, in the hope that it could be bring peace, was the problem.
Matthews made all of that very clear.
It's especially helpful to keep that in mind, today, in the aftermath of Bush's comment in his address to the Israeli parliament, comparing Americans who want to talk to Iranian leaders to appeasers of the Nazis.
Barack Obama wasn't mentioned by name, but he was clearly the main target. Unsurprisingly, McCain issued a statement that agreed with Bush. (Click here for McCain's statement, and links to Obama's response.)
I've got to say that I never bought the idea that Bush's stumbling speech somehow was an unfortunate connection to a generous mind and soul. In contrast, Bush's words are carefully considered, and express a dangerous, almost paranoid mind. This was the mindset that got us into Iraq in search of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. It was the mindset that led Bush to even indirectly compare Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain before the Israeli parliament. And it's the mindset that McCain buys into.
But it's not the mindset of Barack Obama, who believes we can do better than saber-ratting, who wants to talk to our adversaries, as we keep America strong.
Hillary Clinton and other Democrats were quick to jump on Bush for his inapt analogy.
I'm heartened to see the media jumping on it, too.
The battle lines are being drawn.
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Paul: I saw the video clip of the imbecile and it was textbook demolition by Chris and his Hardballs. This village vidiot is just parroting what he blindly believes to be Bush Republican religious dogma. This boy is drunk from drinking too much Bushtown koolaid. And now we know his name, Kevin James ... no, not the comedian but obviously an intellectually malnourished nitwit.
Kevin James is just a newly cloned political hack who tried to B.S. someone on national TV on the finer points of Bush wrongly linking the "appeasement" tag to Obama -- something which clearly Kevin did not understand or comprehend. Chris Matthews would not have anything to do with it (btw, Chris is an equal opportunity ballbuster ... I've seen him skewer Democratic operatives who are unprepared to discuss the topic at hand). Oh the life of a political hack -- just read your morning talking points memo from CrazyLand.com and begin your day barking out nonsense. These clueless people are nothing more than trained seals. If people were called out on their eveyday ignorance ... we would live in a better world.
BTW, poor Barack now has to add the "appeaser" label to his growing byline authored by the tagteam of Clinton-McCain: the front-running elitist, friend of Weatherman Ayres from the '70s, shunner of flag pins while bowling a 38 and btw "Pssst ... white people are not going to vote for him" and did you hear that he's a secret Muslim and his pastor Rev.Wright hates America . . .
The November elections boil down to a simple proposition: if you want real change go Barack, if want status-quo (keep things the same), take your pick, Hillary or John. It's so simple even a caveman can connect the dots on this one.
/jimy_max
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