[LisaFab]

The president's speech made me late to work this morning...hate when that happens :-)

As usual, some people around here are taking the president's comments about increasing foreign aid out of context. If I read him right, he's saying we expect some democratic bang for our buck in the future or get your snout out of the feeding trough.

[Miss Marple]

Yes, that is how I read it as well. Those who are griping can stay on their thread. They are arguing about whether foreign aid is constitutional or not. Probably not, but we are stuck with it and at least let's make it accountable.

The "all or nothing" crowd wear me out.

By the way, it took a great deal of confidence to bring up both World Wars, the rise of Hitler, and Ronald Reagan's phrase to Gorbachev in a speech to the Germans. He subtly reminded them how many of our people died in those wars and I think this was pretty good.