When I tell people that I thought that President Bush's speech was overall better than Governor Blanco's but I was more impressed with the Governors, people seemed to be baffled.

But comparing the two side by side wasn't the same to me. I didn't view the speeches in the same manner. To me, it was comparing the work of a college grad to a seventh grader. I voted for George W. Bush, he represents me to my country, he represents my beliefs. When he was up there, he did not seem to represent my beliefs. I was cringing while listening to his speech. It seemed that he was apologizing without coming out and actually doing so. I thought that he gave the impression that government was supposed to take care of our every little need and I simply don't believe in that.

I believe that people are more than capable of meeting their needs, that people sell short the abilities of others by satisfying basic needs of others. When basic needs are met, one of the key foundations of the desire to succeed disappears. When we put people on welfare, we encourage them never to try achieving success.

So when Bush came out in support of these government programs, it was jaw dropping. Rereading the speech, as I said, came to a much different conclusion. It seemed to lead people one way, yet he actually said something completely different.

I judged President Bush's speech with a higher expectation and as somebody who supposedly shares my views. I already had faith in him and he let me down.

Kathleen Blanco, on the otherhand has been disappointing to me as a Governor. I didn't vote for her but considering that she is supposed to be a 'Conservative Democrat' has been a let down. With her inaction concerning Katrina, my opinion had so dramatically dropped that I was for almost anything to get her out of office. Her impeachment, a Recall, her resignation, any thing. As a Republican it would be terrible for her to leave office early. In my view, her leaving office would most likely put Mitch Landrieu in office and he'd stay there for 10 years. It didn't work to the Republican advantage to remove her.

I as a citizen, did not care about the politics. My first job as a voter is doing right by country, by God, and by myself, screw the party if it goes against that. Kathleen, in my view, was such a disaster when we needed her the most that I had come to the conclusion as a citizen that anybody was better than her, and we needed that better person before another hurricane comes our way. We don't need a Governor that is reminiscent of a seventh grader.

So when Kathleen Blanco approached the podium, I expected a few things. I expected her to blame Bush, she didn't and to my surprise took the blame for failures in state government. I was grateful that she did something as simple as that. I thought it showed she has finally acted like a mature person.

Number 2, I expected her to start crying, pass out, or something unusual. I expected this Governor to find a way to crash and burn. She did not.

Number 3, I expected her to look completely lost, even though she looked distrought, she finally acted like she was in command.

So as a citizen, I was very concerned about her speech and was pleasantly surprised, it was well enough to save her term as Governor.

As a Republican, I was thrilled that she her speech was well enought to deflate people's desire to impeach her. People are not going to forget who let them down after Katrina. As a Republican, I am very confident about our chances concerning Blanco in an election.

Truth of the matter is that I felt more disappointed in Bush, but it was a great relief to see that Kathleen finally had some sense about her. One is a college grad, capable of doing better, the other a seventh grade school girl that exceeded expectations.

What's going on?

"Ed, I'm a black woman and Jesse Jackson does not speak for me" ---a calller on the Ed Buggs radio show September 16th.

"They could get the buses out here on election day to get them to vote for them, but they can't use those buses to save our lives?" --common saying within the African American community.

"His support is waning and fast in the African American community" African American talkshow host Ed Buggs on Jesse Jackson

And it's growing... the funny thing is that liberals thought if they could get the quick jump on this, they'd be able to effectively end Bush's presidency. Instead, they had unintended consequences.

The other day while speaking to an evacuee, I asked him who he blamed the most. He said the President. That being said, there were some very key things the guy was telling me about being down in Nawlins during the flooding.

Evacuee: "Man, there was all kinds of things going on, things they don't want to tell you. You don't know this but they blew up the levee."

LC: "Who blew up the levee?"

Evacuee: "The state, they have dynamite down low, they have it for this very reason. In case they need to blow the levee."

LC: "Why would they blow the levee"

Evacuee: "To save New Orleans. If the levee breaks or New Orleans gets flooded, they blow the levee on the other end to drain it, so the water went into the smaller towns."

This sound familiar to anybody? I have heard talk of the levee being blown up, even a NOPD mentioned something about certain officials blowing up the levee. That's right Farakhan talked about the levee being blown... in order to drown black people.

The problem with Farakhans story and this gentleman's story is that even though they sound the same, the result is completely different.

According to Farakhan, the levee was blown to flood Nawlins- where the black people were. The other version was to blow the levee and spread the water outside Nawlins, where the white people were. It seems more reasonable that if government were to blow a levee, they'd have to do it in a reasonable area that wouldn't risk lives.

Which makes more sense, blowing the levee to save lives, or blowing the levee to cost lives based on the color of ones skin?

"No, none whatsoever, because I feel like our city and our state government should have been there before the federal government was called in.”- Connie London when asked by Dean Reynolds if she harbors "any anger toward the President because of the slow federal response?"

And in the same interview Dean asked London: “And really it wasn't Hurricane Katrina that really tore up the city. It was when they opened the floodgates. It was not the hurricane itself. It was the floodgates, when they opened the floodgates, that's where all the water came.”

Reynolds: “Do you blame anybody for this?”

London: “Yes. I mean, they've been allocated federal funds to fix the levee system, and it never got done. I fault the mayor of our city personally. I really do.”

And according to the Wall Street Journal:

What's interesting about the angry messages is the choice of targets. The majority aren't about President Bush and the slow pace of federal assistance, for instance. Writers seem to be furious chiefly about the performance of local and state officials, specifically Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Messages blasting them for ineptitude during the crisis outnumber those about federal authorities.

It's still going on, people contine to talk about the very people that tried to divide us down here. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton continued to drive a wedge between theirselves and the African American communities. Minorities continue to wake up to liberalism and see that liberals don't want them to succeed. Liberals need to do everything they can to keep racism alive and well, because without it, Democrats have nothing to offer their minority base.

As a matter of fact, what are you liberals going to tell these African Americans during the up coming election? Are you going to tell them that if the Republican gets elected, they'll cut spending on them? Well, after they LOST everything under Democrat leadership, there is nothing to fear in Republican cutting. A plethora of people lost everything and the entire time their personal property was being destroyed, Democrats seemed to use this as an excuse to impeach the President. You Democrats don't understand, while people were kicking in the final barriers of racism, you folks did everything you could to keep racism alive. You folks up there never stopped to consider, these are your voters you risk losing, maybe you actually ought to go help them, instead of sitting around complaining about the guy that actually was doing something to help. That guy was President Bush.