"But in doing so they appeased extremist sentiments rather than countering them.
They appeased the majority of Americans, who were outraged at Mr. Lott's sympathetic words about segregation, by pressing him to resign as the Senate Republican leader.
In May 2008, Biden sharply criticized President George W. Bush for his speech to Israel's Knesset in which he suggested that some Democrats were acting in the same way some Western leaders did when they appeased Hitler in the runup to World War II.
For most of the world, America is the 800-pound gorilla that they must appease as they lie down with it uneasily every night.
They are betting they can appease their increasingly radicalized base voters without alienating moderates or mobilizing mass voter turnout for the Democrats.
When they are appeased, they ensure the health and happiness of children".
They seem to think they can appease their attackers by lying low or even offering up a few "scalps" (to quote one insider involved in the dismissal of NPR's Vivian Schiller).
"It would be catastrophic if they fail to cut rates — not because they should appease the markets every time but because of the degree of instability in the last couple of weeks," said Ian C. Shepherdson, the chief United States economist at High Frequency Economics, an independent research firm.
