President Bush has shamed our nation by pledging only $15 million for disaster aid. His upcoming coronation is expected to cost more than twice that. So, as want and disease and famine and grief spread over much of the earth, the Boy King will be whooping it up in grandly austentatious style. A statesman, a person with any class at all, would be scaling back the pomp and re-directing some of the inauguration money to Asia.
