Dr. Alterman sums it up

Following up on my previous post, but stated ever-so-elegantly, Eric Alterman notes in today's Altercation:

Is this president interested only in killing people, but can’t be bothered when given the chance to help save them? His morally callous parsimony in the face of this, the greatest natural disaster in modern history, seems determined to give the rest of that world exactly that impression. George W. Bush shames our nation with large talk and small deeds; with his want of character and smallness of spirit.

Nothing to add to that but a fervent Amen.