Bad as our idiots are, it's depressing to think the Chinese leaders are, in most ways, even worse. The world is totally screwed. How different things seemed in the Clinton years.
 

"Seemed" being the key word, all the while global warming progressing and Islamic terrorists building a global network.
 

Agreed that all was not as it seemed (that's why I used the word), but there's lo question that "global network" is far stronger now, with far more supporters, because of the ineptness of the Bush Administration.
 

Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not "seems."
'Tis not along my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected haviour of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief,
That can denote me truly: these, indeed, seem,
For they are actions that a man might play:
But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
 

Who you callin' madam, snotrag?