WHY DID GEORGE W. BUSH HATE JEWS?

Just as Mitt Romney is about to visit Israel, shameless, hypocritical right-wingers are trying to make an issue out of this:

WH's Carney Refuses To Name The Capital Of Israel

White House press secretary Jay Carney is asked by a reporter what is the capital of Israel.

Reporter: What city does this Administration consider to be the capital of Israel? Jerusalem or Tel Aviv?

Jay Carney, White House press secretary: Um... I haven't had that question in a while. Our position has not changed. Can we, uh...

Reporter: What is the capital [of Israel]?

Jay Carney: You know our position....

Carney refused to answer. Anti-Semite! Jew-hater! Ally-betrayer! Barack Hussein Obama's administration is uniquely depraved!

... Except that, um, I don't see any of the right-wing hypocrites bringing this up:

October 02, 2002

The Bush administration said today that it would ignore as unconstitutional new Congressional dictates that would require the United States to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of Israel....

As a candidate for president, Mr. Bush backed Israel's claim to Jerusalem as its capital, but in office he fell back on the longstanding American position that Arabs and Israelis must settle the question together....

On Monday, rather than veto the bill, Mr. Bush signed it. But he said the provisions on Jerusalem "if construed as mandatory rather than advisory, impermissibly interfere with the president's constitutional authority to formulate the position of the United States, speak for the nation in international affairs and determine the terms on which recognition is given to foreign states." He added, "U.S. policy regarding Jerusalem has not changed."

Here's the signing statement in which Bush rejected the provision.

It's quite possible that Mitt Romney will say in Israel that he regards Jerusalem as its capital. You know who else did that while running for president? Barack Obama, in June 2008. (OK -- strictly speaking, Obama said, "Jerusalem will be the capital of Israel.") But, once in office, president after president has found that a bridge too far. And yes, wingers, that includes Saint Ronald Reagan, who resisted calls to move America's embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.