Tsunami donations: the Bushes vs. the Kerrys

Last week, word came out that President Bush personally donated $10,000 to the tsunami relief. Some people, like this tool, used that information as a basis on which to bash him once again:

WOW, a whole .00077 of his wealth.

Of course, now that it's been reported that Teresa Heinz Kerry and her trophy husband have donated $450,000, you can expect those critical of President Bush's donation to continue to be the hypocrites they are. Depending on who's doing the estimating, THK's wealth is somewhere between $500M and $1B, which would mean her donations falls between the range of .0009 and .00045 of her wealth. Not only that, but the $450K wasn't even out of her own pocket! It was through charities run by the Heinz corporation. Do you think the Bush-bashers will be equally critical of the Kerrys? Of course they won't! Whatever President Bush does, it's a lose-lose situation for him when it comes to the people who hate him. Whether $10,000 or all $13M of his assets, they'd criticize him. They've got two arguments: either he's not being generous enough or he's showing off by being overly-generous. Of course, they never say exactly what amount would fall between the two extremes because there is nothing between them. Not to these clowns. As I said, it's lose-lose for the president no matter what he does and I've come to the conclusion that his critics won't ever listen to reason on this issue. They'll just continue to mindlessly [ab]use the issue in order to have yet another thing about him to complain about. It doesn't pay to keep trying to get it through their thick skulls, so I just have my say about their erroneous criticism and their hypocrisy (e.g. when it comes to the Kerrys' donation) before I do what they cannot: MoveOn.