My, My, President Bush in a speech half-way-around the world sure did stir-up the Dems today suggesting that ‘some’ — but never identifying who — ‘seem to believe that we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals.’

He said in a speech to Israel’s Knesset, “We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

“We have heard this foolish delusion before,” President Bush said. “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’

Barack Obama has said that as president he would be willing to personally meet with Iran’s leaders and those of other regimes the United States has deemed rogue.

This comment was called naive by his opponent for the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary Clinton. Obama says he would meet with heads of state in places like Cuba, Iran and North Korea. Hillary Clinton says those meetings could be used for propaganda and her first response will be outreach through other diplomatic channels.

So even within the same party there are differences on how foreign policy would be handled. The debate over whether the president should directly negotiate with rogue leaders has been one of the most prominent issue differences in the race for the Democratic nomination.

President Bush’s statement today before the Knesset was right on — that ‘the false comfort of appeasement has been repeatedly discredited by history.’ And the reaction by those who were not named, but took offense, demonstrates Democratic Party naivete.

Obama accused Bush of launching a “false political attack,” Sen. Joe Biden called Bush’s comments ‘Bullshit’ and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi said the comments were beneath the ‘dignity of the office.’

Speaking of dignity, Biden’s comment was really classy.

It is interesting how a simple statement that reflects history accurately can really show the striking difference between the Republicans and Democrats.