Pictured l. to r.; Bush, Ahmadinejad
-Headline of the day-
"Bush Seeks ‘False Comfort Of Appeasement,’ Makes ‘Most Significant’ Contact With Iran Since 1979."
President Bush appeased Hitler today with a decision to "send a senior American official to participate in international talks with Iran this weekend." The senior official is widely expected to allow Iran to annex the Sudetenland.
Bush had previously opposed any talks at all with Iran, calling Obama's proposal that we do so "the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
OK, so this makes Ahmadinejad Hitler and Bush Neville Chamberlain -- who's Stalin? In any case, Poland better watch its back... (Think Progress)
-Bonus HotD-
"Sen. Dole attempts to rename HIV/AIDS relief bill after Jesse Helms."
Elizabeth Dole, wife of former Sen. Bob Dole, decided that naming an HIV/AIDS bill after Jesse Helms was a good idea. The problem here is that Helms' insane bigotry toward gays extended to HIV/AIDS. We're told that in 1987 he described “AIDS prevention literature as ‘so obscene, so revolting, I may throw up‘” and in 1995 Helms argued that “that the government should spend less on people with AIDS because they got sick due to their ‘deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct.’”
Brilliant. Maybe they can name the next one after Fred Phelps. (Also Think Progress)
-Not extremely helpful-
McCain backer and Still-the-President George W. Bush at a press conference yesterday, "What was the question, Olivier? I’m 62, I’m having trouble remembering a lot of things."
Um, George? McCain's 71. You really didn't help him out much there. (TIME)
