politicalnewbie - Appeasement

Appeasement

Thanks to Chris Matthews and YouTube, I have some of an idea on this one.

Appeasement is NOT talking to people you don't like
Appeasement IS when you (Neville Chamberlain) give part of a country (Czechoslovakia) to an evil leader (Hilter)
Bush apparently implied that Obama would be an appeaser.
Bush's spokesperson is a dumbass.

Alright - so what really happened? Wikipedia!

Neville Chamberlain was a British Prime Minister before WWII. Winston Churchill succeeded him.
He signed the Munich Agreement, allowing Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia.

Thank you cable news for educating me!

Other information I didn't know...

The Knesset is the legislative branch of Israeli government.
There is misunderstanding over whether Bush was referring to Obama or Jimmy Carter. Private White House sources say that he was referring to many Democrats in general.

The statements in question:

"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,"
"As witnesses to evil in the past, we carry a solemn responsibility to take these words seriously. Jews and Americans have seen the consequences of disregarding the words of leaders who espouse hatred. And that is a mistake the world must not repeat in the 21st century"