Hey, Dixie Chicks! Bush Just Gave You a Free Pass!

Somebody rush to tell Natalie Maines that her long national nightmare is OVAH!

When she uttered her criticism of the Shrub on that London stage five years ago, the argument "thinking" Republicans -- and the fine folks at Clear Channel -- put forward as they called for boycotts and CD burnings was the fact that she spoke against the president on foreign soil.

Today, George "Mission Accomplished" Bush attacked presumptive presidential candidate and likely future president Obama, referring to his logical, right-minded "strategy" of attempting to engage our enemies with diplomacy first as "appeasement" -- and lumping in a Nazi reference for good measure.

Natalie, not only was your professed shame over our Chimp in Charge well justified, your remarks pale in comparison to his.

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Natalie Maines, speaking about Bush, at a concert in London:

"Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

President Bush, speaking about presential candidate Barack Obama, at Israel's Knesset:

Some seem to believe we should negotiate with 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 only I could have talked to Hitler, all of 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.

Some people suggest that if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away. This is a tired argument that buys into the propaganda of our enemies, and America rejects it utterly. Israel's population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because America stands with you.

OK, Clear Channel. I'm waiting for the manufactured outrage. Your public pronouncement of shock. Your decision to stop carrying audio of Bush blatantly politicizing our nation's foreign policy on behalf of the Republican party.

Waiting.

Waiting.

Waiting.

Not that you ever needed it, Natalie, but George Bush just gave you a free pass. And yet another reason for us all to hang our head in shame that this moron still represents our great nation.

Keep singing, Natalie!