The Appeasement Mantra

This one's been all over the place since the preznit opened his mouth at the Knesset. Barbara O'Brien has some good commentary that is particularly revealing of the right's sliding scale of truthiness. It's a take-down of the piece by Caroline Glick:

The Right is still trying to paint Barack Obama as an “appeaser.” In a hopelessly muddled column that, I believe, originally appeared in the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick argues that talking to Iran would be appeasement. Glick writes,

OBAMA’S RESPONSE to Bush’s speech was an effective acknowledgement that appeasing Iran and other terror sponsors is a defining feature of his campaign and of his political persona. As far as he is concerned, an attack against appeasement is an attack against Obama.

This, of course, is a flat-out lie. Obama’s position is that talking is not the same thing as appeasing, which happens to be true. Look it up.

O'Brien goes on from there, and it's pretty effective.

Of course, if this is how the neocons see the issues, it's no wonder our foreign policy is such an ungodly mess.

Here's hilzoy on McCain's reaction. McCain also starts off his statement by lying.

Lord. Love. A. Duck. Can't any of these people get it right?