Reply #14: Because Bush is always on vacation... [View All]

My problems with this:

1. We're not talking about a minor shopping mall closure or something. The death toll is around 100,000. Making a statement, as the leader of the free world, is appropriate, if not expected, in this case. It just would have been nice if he said something earlier, politics aside.

2. Novak? Since when did anyone care what he thought? I wish we'd get him off the air for now.

3. Let's not exploit a international tragedy for the sake of anti-Clinton rhetoric. I don't know why it even matters. This issue is about here and now; Clinton has not been president for four years. Why is he still part of this political discourse? Because the Repukes can't blame anyone in our government for their incompetence (the Repukes control the government...), so my guess is they want to blame this government's incompetence on old governments. Who knows.

4. 35 billion? We had to then go out and correct Bush's mistake. "We're only giving $35 million, not $35 billion." Funny that the press conference was supposed to dispell the myth that the United States was stingy.

I love it.