The Klan analogy. The Fact that anyone who opposes Obama, even has the nerve to dislike him (a lot), is a prima facie racist. This is getting old, real old, ancient. Ask Florida Republicans about Obama just happening to mention that he's black. Sorry, but this stinks. Badly. The good news is that more and more people are calling Obama and his apparatus on the racism tactics. What a relief.

I daresay you're becoming a bit unglued. If it makes you happy to believe that I'm a closet Republican and a diehard Shrub fan, knock yerself out. Just wondering how many times one can go through the looking glass and hang on to that shredded stub of a return ticket. Curiouser and curiouser, mondo bizarro fer sure.

I, too, lost a way of life to Katrina. Though our house was among the tiny fraction in New Orleans that didn't flood (it was very close to the river, on the "high" ground, and fully insured), my husband and I lost three-quarters of our income to the aftermath of the storm. We could no longer afford to stay in our own house, and are now residents of Central Texas. The heartbreak and magnitude of loss due to Katrina can never be plumbed via cold numbers. I have seen post-storm St. Bernard Parish (a number of my husband's relatives lived there), and the devastation is beyond mind numbing. The same goes for huge parts of Orleans Parish and long stretches of the MS Gulf Coast.

Like most Katrina veterans, I avidly followed coverage of the floodwall failures. The COE's culpability is no longer in question. What is in question is the ability and willingness of this country to rectify the COE's failures. We are a throwaway culture, apparently capable of throwing away entire cities. Those who sit in harsh judgment of the fallen of Katrina seem entirely unaware that no one in this country is disaster proof. As I told numbers of Wisconsinites during our entirely unexpected five and a half month long absence from New Orleans, "This can happen to anyone. This can happen to you." They didn't believe me then. Maybe now they do.

If the Democrats take the White House "by any means necessary", they will no longer be Democrats in any sense of the term. The party will finally be reduced to ruthless, power grabbing, pandering politics without a conscience. This is something some of us absolutely refuse to vote for.

Let me guess: you were among those excoriating Hillary Clinton for her supposed penchant for "doing anything to win". But now that the shoe is on Obama's foot, it's looking very princely. Gag me with a Machiavelli already.

I certainly know what it's like to desperately miss New Orleans (for one thing, the food here in TX could use some improvement). Problem is, much of the New Orleans so many of us miss no longer exists - and never will again. Can't be replicated, not there or anywhere.

And yes, I would kill for a decent shrimp po'boy. A real muffaletta. Shrimp Monica, an afternoon's worth of food at the Jazz Fest? Here, take the keys to the kingdom. Sigh.

You're kind of the insufferable type. I mean, really. True suffering is generally a catalyst for compassion. Hard to believe someone with your, uh, world view has ever experienced anything more inconvenient than a bunion or two. All heart, you are, yup.

Just like he trashed Hillary Clinton. Obama's motive for doing both was one and the same: force himself to the top of the political power heap by any means necessary, principles, ideals, or promises be damned.

BTW, thanks to all who have aided and abetted the ascendancy of this Worst Possible Candidate Ever. Many of you are now shocked, shocked, you tell us, to discover that the emperor is standing there stark naked, exposed for the consummate liar he's been all along (and if Jesse Sr. had his way, possibly missing vital equipment).

If you would, please tell us this: instead of forking over hard earned money to line Obama's pockets by buying yet more copies of his twin (dissembling, self serving) Paeans To Myself, instead of blithely relying on blind vituperation (against Clinton) and blind adulation (for Obama) issuing from the blogger boyz (and girlz), why in hell did you not research the man for yourselves??? The background has been out there all along, accessible to all of us (and this includes the flipping MSM). But woe to anyone who did bother to look into just who the real Obama might be. Doubts constituted racism, pure and simple. I know, because I was consigned to the Klan many times over on this site and others.

I'm so damned disgusted at this point, so sick at heart at what the Democratic party has degenerated into. And yah, I do have somewhere else to go. Damned straight, like so many others, I'm now pure PUMA.

Oh, for the love of god, just stuff it. Obama has sold out those who (somehow) believed in him. He has sold out the soul of the Democratic party. He has sold out the flipping Constitution. If that's what it takes for him to 'win', what in the hell are you voting for? If the 'D' now stands for devil, at least it's a not an 'R'? Is that all it takes to float your vote?

there isn't a dime's worth of distance between Obama and Clinton.

I'd say the Constitution is worth one hell of a lot more than a dime, what?

Not that you'd know it from Obama, Mr. Constitutional Law professor. Er, instructor. Or something.