re: #298 The Sanity Inspector

Getting way ahead of ourselves, but… I hope certain overseas observers don’t feel compelled to denigrate our relief efforts, like they did in the month after the ‘04 tsunami.

Wasn’t our initial offer after the ‘04 tsunami something like $35 million? And after people reacted with “That’s it?” we upped the donation to $350 million, saying the 35 million was just for starters?

Yes, that would explain why some people thought we weren’t doing as much as we could to start.

What really helped our image after the tsunami in 2004 was Bill Clinton and George HW Bush teaming up to elicit aid.