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December 30, 2004
NY Times blasts miserly Bush
The New York Times pounded the White House today:
"The person who made that statement was very misguided and ill informed," the president said.
We beg to differ. Mr. Egeland was right on target. We hope Secretary of State Colin Powell was privately embarrassed when, two days into a catastrophic disaster that hit 12 of the world's poorer countries and will cost billions of dollars to meliorate, he held a press conference to say that America, the world's richest nation, would contribute $15 million. That's less than half of what Republicans plan to spend on the Bush inaugural festivities.
Read the whole item here. And note that it's not a columnist who wrote this. It's the paper's editorial staff.
Posted By Bob Cesca | December 30, 2004 01:49 PM | DIGG ME!
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