It reminds me of the time that they tried to rush Halle Berry off stage when she became the first AA woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress.

Landreiu or whatever her name was too busy "thanking politicians everywhere" for their support and blah blah blah.  Luckily Anderson Cooper called her Democratic a55 out and asked her HOW could she be thanking fellow politicians when everything was a colossal clusterf*ck.

Last time I checked Obama represented ILLINOIS.

I lay ALL of the Katrina debacle at Bush's feet.  Sure it didn't help that Nagin and Blanco were out of their league but a PRESIDENT should take the lead when the 25th largest city in the USA is under a meteorlogical attack, THAT was on the radar.

Obama's acceptance speech highlights Katrina failures by Bruce Alpert, The Times-Picayune
Thursday August 28, 2008, 10:14 PM

"We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes," Obama said.

It would turn so many Republican stereotypes on their head, for beginners. It would emphasize how different he was from Bush.

And it would also emphasize how different he is from Obama, and his convention.

Obama's convention and speech presented only too many handy signs of being a coronation and of expressing a basic narcissism.

McCain's turning the convention into one serving others could not fit better into the most basic message that (as I recollect) he has declared he wants to communicate to the American people: that they should serve something larger than themselves  (as obviously he himself did in his captivity in N. Vietnam).

It would be a pretty remarkable statement if he does choose to take this route.

The Constitution doesn't say a single thing about running a Democrat vs a Republican in every race, or anything about parties at all, for that matter. Who knows, maybe a different conservative party would be more worthy of a chance to compete than the Republican party, which at this point, is little more than an organized crime mob.

THEN you will have the GOP crowing about how THEY champion rights of women.  And it goes on and on and on.

I call that nonsense.  They may crow about supporting a woman, but said woman and her party feel that A woman doesn't have the right to control her reproductive choices.

Since that was the first question of The Big Five, I figured were more wasting of my time.  Honestly, when will the grownups come back onto the blogs?

[quote]4. What's her family life like?

This is an especially sensitive one. But based on conversations with journalists, operatives and average voters, it is one that is on a lot of people's minds: How does a mother of five children who are still at home, one of whom is an infant born with Down syndrome, plan to manage the demands of a national candidacy or the White House?[/quote]

Tread lightly Obama...you better get some boots on and head on to the Gulf coast.