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Munich  by Ira Chernus  George W. Bush made headlines when he
celebrated Israel's 60th anniversary by warning the Knesset,
Israel's parliament, against the "false comfort of appeasement."
The two words that sounded most loudly were the ones that Bush
did not actually say: "Obama" and "Munich."  The Washington
Post's Dan Balz summed up the general consensus: "More than
anything said so far by John McCain, Bush's comments ...
signaled what the principle Republican attack line will be in
the campaign against Obama." The White House officially denied
the charge even as it privately confirmed the strategy. And when
reporters asked McCain to respond, he replied "Yes, there have
been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right."
The Obama campaign must have been delighted. The last thing
McCain needs now is to have the least popular president in
living memory become his campaign spokesman. But the charge of
"appeaser" won't go away. So let's