There is some vicious satisfaction in this — vented frustration at dishonest or unreasonable commentators.
A conservative radio host defends Bush’s allusions to WWII and accusations of Obama’s “appeasement.” At about four minutes, Chris Matthews — whose point, in the end, is that appeasement means giving concessions to the enemy, not talking to him — essentially refuses to continue unless the man demonstrate that he knows the history in the allusion, and he can’t, and it goes on, and on, and on.
What is as interesting, to me, about Bush’s comments is that Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a Nazi sympathizer who built the Bush family fortune through investments with Nazi Germany and in violation of US law after Pearl Harbor (supposedly, Prescott supplied the famed Skull and Bones Nazi silverware). Furthermore, there is strong evidence that Prescott advocated, and helped plan, a military overthrow of FDR in 1933. Once FDR was deposed, the United States would then sign a peace treaty with Hitler. So, Bush’s own grandfather was the ultimate appeaser. Link here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml