You can say I didn't make any points, but I did. I made two points. First, that what happened after Katrina was and remains a pathetic attempt to blame the victims for a great tragedy. Second, that it is a lie that the people affected by Katrina did nothing to protect themselves in advance. 1.5 million people got out of the way of Katrina. It was the largest voluntary evacuation in American history. And yes, we did have insurance. Many, many of us did.

Katrina destroyed my home and wrecked my life. I don't see where you get off telling me to chill. Maybe I'll go blow up your house and tell you to chill. As anyone who has ever really paid attention knows, New Orleans flooded because the federally built levee system was sloppily designed. I could bore you with details, but details don't seem to matter to most people on this issue.

It's the dark skinned people. Yeah, they did it. They built substandard levees and then certified them as adequate. Then, after the storm, it was the black people who lied and said the levees were overtopped. They weren't overtopped, they BROKE because they were worthless pieces of shit.

Oh no, it can't be racism. There's just no way. It is impossible that anyone in the history of America ever hated anyone because of his skin color.

Look, goddamnit, I am a white Southerner who has spent a good part of his life delivering health services to poor blacks. For 8 years prior to Katrina, I was helping people in the very 9th ward this movie is about. Chances are I knew some of the people in the movie. So I spend a good part of my life helping people, and watch as ignoramuses on the internet dismiss them as bottomfeeding social parasites that are destroying our lilly white first world nation.

You don't know them. I do. I don't have to put up with that from you or anyone else. All the victims of Katrina really wanted was compassion. They didn't want all the money in the federal coffers, but they wanted a fair shot to rebuild, and they wanted people to stop telling lies about them. But the lies don't stop, do they?

The question I have about the 7 or 8 houses issue is: Why did it come up now? This matter has been hiding in plain sight since the 2000 presidential election. I saw one interview with a pundit on TV last night in which the pundit admitted that he "had been in 2 or 3 of those houses."

OK, so the press knew McCain had a real estate empire for -- oh, I don't know, the last 5 years or so -- and they let the GOP drag Obama through the mud on the elitist issue without a peep.

I know the press is not supposed to get involved in political squabbles, but when you have a piece of information in your back pocket that would destroy a campaign tactic, shouldn't you say something about it?

I agree with the one other poster who mentioned steroids. There have been so many disgraces in this area in recent years that I can't look at Bolt's accomplishments without wondering.

I remember the last time a sprinter's performance in the 100 blew me away -- that was Ben Johnson's 9.79 in the 1988 Olympics. It was a ridiculous time, and Johnson crushed the competition. Then came the proof that he was on steroids.

Since then, I have looked at every 100 meter sprint with suspicion. Especially Bolt's. Bolt trains in a country with far fewer controls than ours; if he wanted to do steroids it would be easy. Marian Anderson stayed ahead of the drug tests her entire career. After Anderson, I can't and don't trust anyone.

I know what I would have done if I were Obama. To get Clinton out of the race, I would have promised her 1) a cabinet post (preferably Attorney General) and then 2) a Supreme Court nomination as soon as one comes up.

For Obama this would be a no-brainer. Hillary's supporters would be thrilled to see her on the Court, and Hillary would be politically out of presidential politics for the long term.

And why not do it? Hillary is smart, and a quality litigation lawyer to boot. She'd make a great jurist. There would be no losers here.

Of course you can't technically give away seats on the Court to settle political problems, so both Obama and Hillary would have to be sworn to secrecy. We won't know if this really happened until Obama takes the White House, but I think it did.

I'm glad Kerry finally "got" it, but I disagree with him that his speeches had the fire he claims they did in the last 6 weeks of his campaign. Kerry was a decorated war veteran who allowed the GOP smear machine to taint his war record. And he allowed them to paint him as a Frenchified flip-flopper.

Both of those charges were ridiculous. Kerry was afraid if he appeared too aggressive it would sully his public image. He should have taken the viewpoint that if he had to go down, he was going down with blood on his shirt.

Obama has to learn that lesson also. There are worse things that losing. One of them is being disgraced by a bunch of jackbooted GOP thugs who think the truth is whatever they made up in the shower this morning.

If you have to go down spewing bile, I say do it. The only thing that approach does is make Republicans hate you, but they will do that no matter what you do.