---snipped from US board--- Are right-wingers the scum of the earth? Yes, we are. As a group that embraces the stingy and evil United States of America and works to make it prosper, how could you not think right-wingers were scum? I mean, every single time a left-winger and a right-winger debate something, the left-winger is trounced by facts. Take the recent tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, for example. The call for economic assistance went out and the United States government ponied up $35 million dollars. The American Red Cross has raised another $28 million in donations. The US Fund for UNICEF has collected $12 million dollars. Those religious whackos and Jesus freaks that probably voted for Bush at Catholic Relief Services have raised $3 million. Other fundamentalist Christian and Jewish organizations have also raised $3 million. And don't get me started on those evil corporations. Coca-Cola has donated $10 million. Pepsi-Cola has donated $1 million. Then there's the greedy prescription drug companies. Pfizer has donated $10 million cash and $25 million in medicine. Merck has donated $3 million. Johnson & Johnson has chipped in $2 million. Abbott has donated another $2 million. Bristol-Myers has donated $1 million plus $4 million in medical supplies. That evil credit card company Citigroup, Inc. dropped $3 miilion dollars into the relief effort. American Express gave $1 million. Nike shoes gave $1 million. General Electric donated $1 million. The despicable oil company Exxon-Mobil donated $5 million. First Data gave $1 million. That rat bastard Bill Gates donated $3 million of his Microsoft fortunes. Not to mention those churches in St. Louis, Missouri that have alone raised $500,000... which is $300,000 more than the entire morally superior nation of France. What are those ignorant red state Jesus-landers trying to prove? You see, if you were an America-hating, anti-religious, anti-capitalist member of the collective disease known as leftism, and you were trying to argue that America is "stingy" or even that Bush's privatization and "faith-based" initiatives can never out-perform government seizure and redistribution of resources, a right-winger can whip out the above list of $116 miilion dollars raised in less than a week by private donations on top of the $35 million pledged by the government, and, without remorse, tell the leftist that he's nothing but a blithering idiot. And as long as the Democratic Party continues to ingratiate itself to blithering idiot leftists (sorry for the redundancy), by attacking the very people who make such donations as listed above, the Democratic Party will continue to lose elections. Not that we scum of the earth mind that so much. ------ American individuals and volunteer organizations, religious groups, and as well the private corporate sector have all come forward with direct aid. Many of the corporate donors have exceeded their tax-exempt giving, voluntarily. Leo, without remorse, I must inform you of something you're inherently incapable of realizing. You're a blithering idiot.

huh. That's funny. I didn't say a word about right wingers, corporations of any kind, scum, democrats, or anything except to suggest that, 1) Bush might have picked up a few points in the WOT by doing more, and, 2) that US government (not private organizations) giving might have been higher. I am such an *sshole. A blithering idiot, as you say. F*ck me!

Everything you said was erroneous. Some might think on purpose.

>>huh. That's funny. I didn't say a word about right wingers, corporations of any kind, scum, democrats, or anything except to suggest that, 1) Bush might have picked up a few points in the WOT by doing more, and, 2) that US government (not private organizations) giving might have been higher. I am such an *sshole. A blithering idiot, as you say. F*ck me<< No thanks, I'm taken. While I appreciate that you understand that you're a blithering idiot, I can sense that you're still far too clueless to understand why. The primary source of funding international relief efforts for the tsunami disaster is individual American people, operating and responding far faster than the government bureaucracy could. Now, any reasonable sort of fellow, at least of the intellectual caliber God gave a can of pork and beans, would read that Washington Post editorial you cut and pasted here and cringe at the thought of making public any hint that it was posted as a viewpoint subscribed to by the poster, out of fear of being identified as, yes, a blithering idiot. You see, the people being helped in this disaster are being helped, directly and rapidly, by the people Al Qaeda wants to kill indiscriminately. The opportunity you think is "missed" is the reality you don't even seem to have the slightest idea about. And now, with the utter annihilation of your Bush-bashing liberal media coprophagic session fully drawn out for what it is, you've been given a ticket to recovering from the leftist addiction to utter stupidity. Take it. Merry Christmas.

If someone had a serious question about response to the tsunami, then a fruitful question would be how the response of the first couple of days resembled to responses of previous Administrations to previous international disasters. As it turns out, the small initial response was typical. And, not just for the US. This is the way it works in most of the world. A small initial committment, pending detailed information and contact and coordination with the governments of the effected areas, at which time larger committments are made. This information is trivially easy to verify. And, so, when someone jumps up, in face of a genuine mass tragedy, and seems to want to make the disaster an excuse to push a political argument, some are offended and snap right back.

How many Muslim countries have donated any meaningful aid to their 'brothers'?

>>And, so, when someone jumps up, in face of a genuine mass tragedy, and seems to want to make the disaster an excuse to push a political argument, some are offended and snap right back<< I disagree with bsl (sound the alarm!). Given that "making disasters an excuse to push a political argument" has been a modus operandi of the left since well before Hitler and his fellow lefty national socialists burned down the Reichstag, I'd have to characterize my response as "not snapping back." The left simply needs to come up with better material.

Yeah. BSL is wrong. Given that the right has been indifferent to human suffering and incapable of quality foreign policy since well before Hitler and his fellow antiliberal fascists burned down the Reichstag, I'd have to characterize my post as more of a rhetorical question. The right simply needs to come to terms with it's role as Satan's army..

why does american kafir call hitler a lefty? don't get it.

lol Trying to link American conservatives with Hitler? I can't stop laughing long enough to be offended.....