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.