Katrina was more a defining moment in my life than JFK's assassination.

[raccoon]

I was in junior high when JFK was assassinated. I remember it well. I remember school was out the following Monday. But it didn't hit me that hard emotionally.

I was in my mid-fifties when Katrina hit N-O and the levee broke. I don't get cable TV, but kept up thru DU. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing. I kept thinking I was glad my mother hadn't lived to see it. I still am.

[LisaM]

1. I think Katrina is going to ensure a Democratic victory

McCain cannot win. A few well-placed ads (and questions) regarding the fact that he and Bush were eating cake while the levees failed will down his candidacy. If Condi runs with him, they'll hit her with the shoe-shopping incident.

[lyonn]

2. Just this a.m. while watching the protest in SF it occured to me

that "once" New Orleans was another U.S. City where people could be real and let it all hang out. Now New Orleans is just a sad skeleton on what it once was. There are certain cities in the U.S. that are so unique, SF, NO, NYC, Chicago, Miami. Our govt. has let New Orleans die......