President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to issue a veiled rebuke to Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential contender, who has argued that the United States should negotiate with countries like Iran and Syria.

Mr. Bush did not mention Mr. Obama by name, and the White House said his remarks were not aimed at the senator. But in a lengthy speech intended to promote the strong alliance between the United States and Israel, the president invoked the emotionally volatile imagery of World War II to make the case that talking to "terrorists and radicals" was no different than appeasing Hitler and the Nazis.

"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," Mr. Bush said. "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."

The Obama campaign issued an angry response. In an e-mail statement to reporters, the senator denounced Mr. Bush for using the 60th anniversary of Israel to "launch a false political attack," adding, "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."

I think he means to say that Obama has a record of voting for unconstitutional bills.  It's the bill that is unconstitutional, not the voting.

If Dems could just honestly say:

Penn must be referring to Obama's vote to fund the war in Iraq.

First of all, if Obama has a "phenomenally inhuman and unconstitutional" voting record, then I shudder to think of what most Senators (even Clinton!) have. For better or worse, Obama doesn't really have much of a record at all.

I disagree with Penn that Obama's voting record is "inhuman and unconstitutional"

re Obamamania
I wouldn't expect Obamamania to turn Penn into an embarrassing fanatic anyway - other celebrities incl. Halle Berry really lost it, however (please read articles cited later in this post for some eye openers).

Obamamania in Hollywood did make me lose respect for some of my favorites who are old enough to know better: George Clooney esp. who wants to follow Obama anywhere and good old Susan Sarandan doesn't have a clue but is so excited: "I can't wait to see what he stands for."

My alltime favorite Obama line was written by a Hollywood writer because I always thought exactly the same thing about Obama from Day one. Here is Joel Stein:

"There's talk about his charisma and good looks, but I know a nerd when I see one. The dude is Urkel with a better tailor."
("He's got Obamaphilia." Los Angeles Times, 2/2/08

Must reads about Obamamania in Hollywood and overall are the following articles written in february:

The political pied piper, Barbara Simpson

Consider the case of Illinois-based Exelon Corporation, the nation's leading nuclear-power-plant operator. The firm is Obama's fourth largest patron, having donated a total of $74,350 to his campaigns. During debate on the 2005 energy bill, Obama helped to vote down an amendment that would have killed vast loan guarantees for power-plant operators to develop new energy projects. The loan guarantees were called "one of the worst provisions in this massive piece of legislation" by Taxpayers for Common Sense and Citizens Against Government Waste; the public will not only pay millions of dollars in loan costs but will risk losing billions of dollars if the companies default.