Why The World Is So Mad At Us

On August 18, an unscrupulously anti-American Santa Monican named Sarah Tamor wanted to know "why is the world so mad at us?"

Consider this answer, Ms. Tamor: it's people like you! Consider a part of your "letter to the editor":
"Sweig forgets that domestically, Bush inherited a multibillion-dollar budget surplus and transformed it into a multibillion-dollar deficit."
All an inherent lie - but I don't blame you. You didn't know.

Or, you didn't read.

You see, the White House finally allowed its own deficit figure - some two hundred something billion - to be compared/contrasted to the real figure, which was double to triple that amount.

Yeah, they screwed up big-time. And that's to say nothing of the Public Debt.

But this implicates someone else as well.

Who, you might ask?

Former President Bill Clinton.

Ohmygod, how?

Well, the newly released/reconciled figures show that Clinton ran his own deficit.

Sorry, Bush-haters. Guess you'll have to retract that statement of yours!

I guess I might have to retract a statement of my own.

Perhaps Ms. Tamor was not ignorant.

Perhaps, instead, she'd deliberately lied.

- Sentientity