Sometimes obvious omissions speak louder than words explicitly spoken. Today's Boston Globe features a political cartoon depicting Martha Stewart, heading to prison, thinking: "Next time I'll lie about weapons of mass destruction." Actually, we just had a president face charges remarkably similar to the accusations against Stewart that she lied and obstructed justice.

She's going to prison. He's on a book tour. She lied about stocks. He lied about sex.

Instead of making the obvious corollary to President Clinton's famous legal troubles, cartoonist Dan Wasserman opts for political solidarity and makes a clumsy reference to weapons of mass destruction that doesn't seem in any way analagous to the Stewart case. A cartoon more concerned with putting out a better product rather than scoring political points might have had Stewart thinking: "Next time I'll lie about sex."

Did Martha ever actually lie under oath? If not then how the heck has she ended up in jail for lying and obstruction? I really don't understand how it is illegal to lie to the feds. Clinton actually perjured himself, he actually broke a law with his lie.

Why does everybody hate this woman so much? She may have bent the rules a bit to get to where she was, but she is an American success story.

The daughter of immigrant parents and an alcoholic loser for a father, she excelled in everything she did; at home and school. College educated, model, one of the first women (and one of the youngest persons) to work on the NYSE. Dedicated wife and mother who built an empire pretty much on her own.

They say she’s the queen of mean but is that any reason to single her out as the poster child for what’s wrong and corrupt in big business today? Why the personal condemnation?

Think she’s getting more than here share of an unfair rap.