Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog)

Obama liked to a news conference lied to the cameras, telling his audience that bin Laden had released “another video.” WRONG. It was another audio tape recorded by someone at some time purporting to be a new OBL tape.

The man is dead and he has been dead since before the ‘04 U.S. Presidential elections.

Addressing the Israeli Knesset today, President George W. Bush said:

In a speech to Israel’s Knesset, Mr. Bush said: “Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

“We have heard this foolish delusion before. 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.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is - the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

No names.

Knowing that he is the most currently prominent American who believes we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, Barack Obama was ready to respond:

“It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack,” Obama said in the statement his aides distributed. “George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the president’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”

If you never said that you would engage with terrorists, why did you think the statement was about you, Barry?

Obama’s debate answer was memorable enough, but this meeting-with-terrorists policy had been near and dear to the man for a while. From a February, 2007 interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes:

STEVE KROFT: Would you talk to Iran or Syria?

OBAMA: Yes. I think that the notion that this administration has — that not talking to our enemies is effective punishment — is wrong

Obama would negotiate with the terrorists enemies of the United States and Israel, so though he did not name anyone, even Barry knows of whom the President was speaking.

Last October, Obama cursed the American flag lapel pin:

“Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that [American flag pin] became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.

He said that wearing the American flag pin on your lapel made you a fake patriot.

Now, Barry is wearing the pin, but not to fundraisers in San Francisco.

Hillary beat Barry by 41-points in West Virginia, which to her means that she’s the only candidate who can blah, blah, yack.

Democrat Travis Childers, the favorite going into the voting last night, defeated Republican Greg Davis by eight points in a special Congressional election in Mississippi. This was expected, but the New York Times is overly excited anyway:

Democrats scored a remarkable upset victory on Tuesday in a special Congressional election in this conservative Southern district, sending a clear signal of national problems ahead for Republicans in the fall.

No, Davis was not the best of candidates and the GOP didn’t want to spend the money required to win this race, only to have to spend it again in the Fall. Childers won because he was able to fight Republican attempts to link him to the party’s Presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Childers denied the existence of Obama, and won. This bodes very poorly for the Democratic national ticket this fall.

The Reverend John Hagee, pastor of the evangelical Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, has said some over-the-top rude things about the Catholic Church. Some on the left, the most prominent of whom is probably FNC’s Alan Colmes, though I think Mary Matalin’s cueball husband did some of that as well, have attacked Hagee as McCain’s equivalent of Jeremiah Wright. That’s clearly not the case, of course, though one has to wonder what McCain would do with Hagee’s endorsement when the man had insulted Catholics as he had.

Hagee has apologized.

I don’t know if this incident is “over,” but I doubt it. Look, Hagee was never McCain’s pastor as Jeremiah Wright was Obama’s spiritual mentor, the man who brought him to Christianity by teaching him that the black identity includes racial hatred. Hagee, some guy who had endorsed McCain, had marginalized himself somewhat as an anti-Catholic bigot, but once he meets with Catholics and takes bias courses, the press might let him back into whatever section of the lunacy graph they have reserved for Christians who do not hate.

Bob Barr has announced that he will be running for President this year on the Libertarian Party ticket. The only distinguishing thing he did in his brief House career was his stint as a House Manager at Hillary’s husband’s Senate trial after he was impeached.

He’s currently a member of the ACLU who digs the war on drugs. You figure him out.