A legitimate reason for Bush and Cheney not to show in St. Paul (although they won't do a damn thing for New Orleans once Gustav hits -- puhlease). McCain gets to look presidential while the Gulf Coast suffers. Obama's ads now can't be run. And to top it off, Obama-Biden have disappeared from the airwaves.

Looks like Dobson's prayers for rain were answered after all, albeit a week late and in another city.

now they've got it.

Misery for the American people at both ends of the Mississippi River.

And if Bush & McCain make a pit stop to Louisiana for another phoney photo op

They'll learn the true meaning of hate.

Bush and Cheney won't be at the Republican Convention in St. Paul. This kind of good fortune can happen only once in a century.

Just as McCain made his surprising VP announcement just in time to interrupt the media from discussing Obama's acceptance speech, and to divert the Friday water cooler talk and the weekend BBQ talk, the primary motive behind delaying the convention will be to control the news cycle so the propaganda dispensed from the event will not be overshadowed by reality. This is going to be one interesting election with the current regime trying to control what sticks in people's minds.

Well. I thing the governors of LA, MISS and TX (as well as the mayor of NO) are to be commended on their proactive efforts to safely evacuate the Gulf Coast residents in advance of this storm. I hope everyone gets out. I am hoping there will be many fewer lives lost.

But. This storm will likely drown NO and the coast all over again. I am sick at heart to think of all those homes, trailers and streets underwater, some of which are still being rebuilt from 2005. And I am angry, thinking of all the money spent after 2005, to no avail. NOLA needs a real solution, which will require genuine federal leadership. And that leader will probably need to be someone who recognizes 1. global climate change and 2. the validity of science.

No matter what happens -- hurricanes, smallpox, super-volcanoes, whatever -- this election remains just what it is: a test to see if the American public is smart enough to keep their nation... for a few more years.

The past eight years have not been an accident. In the next four years we will be getting exactly what we deserve, or, exactly what we allow.

As an unnamed Republican consultant observed to Politico's Jonathan Martin, what this means is "A whole series of Obama ads now in the dumper."

So you quote a reporter's account of and unnamed source and treat it as fact? I expect better.

When it was their job to protect the citizens of N.O., they screwed it up royally -- now, three years of taking crap for their bumbling, they're going to make it part of their political theater.

Having Bush and Cheney (and maybe even McCain??) down there only adds to the complexity of confronting the emergency because of the enormous security operation that has to accompany them. All the citizens of the area need is professional disaster relief and assistance, not bloviating politicians. This is pure political theater and does nothing to mitigate the Bush's administration's reputation for rank incompetence.

If the media had any integrity, they would spend the next week commenting nonstop on the comparison between Katrina in 2005 (a non-election year) and Gustav in 2008 (two months before the election). In 2005, Bush and Cheney couldn't be bothered even days and weeks after the disaster. Today, it's suddenly a red-light emergency BEFORE the hurricane has even hit, and the mighty duo is already making plans to be on the scene (sandbagging and clearing brush, no doubt).

Do I expect the media to even mention this? Well, only if they had any integrity...

... if they have the guts.

"McCain is already practicing for Bush's third term by carrying on with business as usual while a killer hurricane bears down on New Orleans."

"So Bush finally decided to do something about a hurricane? Great, it only took him three years to figure that out. How long will it take McCain?"

"McCain was going to fly down to Louisiana and check things out, but they were afraid he'd crash the plane on the way."

That kind of thing. Unfortunately, that would require a Democratic Party that's smart enough to realize that the time to play nice is long past.

I struggled through Katrina in 2008

And if Bush & McCain make a pit stop to Louisiana for another phoney photo op

They'll learn the true meaning of hate.

-- Klytus

But there's a new day in the Bayou State, thanks to Governor Bobby Jindal cleaning house and bringing competency to the Democrat backwaters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePWAWP7vZDU

I'm an independent.

I voted for Bobby last year

There's a significant difference between Bobby

And McCain and Bush

The twin princes of fear.

Gee, I hope Guv Piyush does an exorcism and keeps Louisiana safe.

Bobby J and I grew up in the same neighborhood in Baton Rouge. Our parents knew each other. And like most other Indian-Americans, if I were to see Piyush now, this is what I'd say to him:

Governor, I served with macaca: I knew macaca; macaca was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no macaca.

But I know that all over southeast Louisiana there are millions of people who'd like to flush Bush down the industrial canal in New Orleans, just to see if bullshit floats.

for the progressives. Their hopes of disaster, death and tragedy working to their advantage won't happen.

Why? Because McCain is a leader who understands what is important. We all know obama would never have cancelled his rock concert.

Instead of a convention McCain/Palin will show how to lead during a crisis. He may have to accept the nomination while he's helping at a shelter.

You are so off the mark you must have been born in the dark.

Any chance you'll be swinning in the Gulf

this time tomorrow?

If not, mores the sorrow.