Bush Bashing

Howard Fine is on the Today Show right now; he's bashing Bush for not saying enough about the tsunami tragedy on the first day. Says we lost an opportunity to win the "hearts and minds", etc.

Maybe, maybe not. But I'm quite sure that no matter what Bush had said or done, the usual suspects would have lined up to criticize him with the "too little too late" mantra.

In any event, the United States, as always, will do more to help the survivors, and do it in a more efficient way, than any other country. I have confidence in both our President and my fellow Americans about that.

Howard Fine is right about a couple of things: he says donations are pouring in via the Internet. Amazon is now up to $4.2 million, with 70,000 contributors. That's more than doubled in the last 24 hours. My prediction stands: 100,000 contributors by the end of this week.

Fine also says this is a generous country, both individually and governmentally. He's right. Good to say it, in light of the "stingy" remark.