John McCain was still in a prison cell.

McCain was a POW? Really? Damm. You guys need to start talking about this. Really. Get the word out. Maybe you can even have a song about it...

And the Angry Left has still not repudiated its members who did that. Jane Fonda eventually apologized. John Kerry never did.

But please, let's get into the year 2008. And if you want to talk about F___ups related to Katrina, let us remember what John McCain was doing as Katrina tore into New Orleans (partying with Bush) and how long it took Bush to come out of his stupor as Americans were dying on the streets of NO...

All the more reason Blanco and Nagin should tried to pull off a smooth evacuation.

Is nobody else as excited as me that our president delivered a clever, coherent sentence?! Anybody? Screw the content, it sounded good at least.

ya it was nice but he should have used "punk ass" instead of "angry" and maybe there would not be all this confusion about his intent.

Thank you for proving my point about the GOP being desperate to talk about anything but the economy.

Bon Nuit!

Not taking anything away from Jindal, who seems like a bright guy to me, but comparing Katrina, one of the worst hurricanes on record to Gustav, which was rather quickly downgraded to a tropical storm is just the kind of stupidity we have come to expect from you. Trying to exploit hurricane victims for political purposes is pretty sad too.

Really dude, try not to speak...

hate and vitriol coming from the left.

I saw a woman who looked to be about 65 years old & 95 pounds being manhandled by 6 cops. Is she one of the "terrorists" you are referring to?

When it comes to hate and vitriol, it sounds like you are projecting.

But then I can understand why the GOP is desperate to talk about anything, and I mean anything, except the economy.

Frees up more time to do useful work.

Well, by all means get to it. I am sure there are a lot of folks backing up at the drive thru window.

This raises the question of what Bush means by "the angry left." If he means Noam Chomsky and three UC-Santa Cruz kids who threw a rock through a Starbucks window, then it's a non sequitur, as these people have no relevance in the political process and no impact on John McCain's life or his run for the presidency. one wonders why he'd bring it up at all.

If he means "people who are arguing against McCain's election as president," which is a more appropriate topic of conversation at a political convention, then yes, it is offensive, because what he's doing is equating the motives of McCain's political opponents with the motives of his torturers, that is to say, hoping to break McCain's resolve because they hope to undermine America.

That's why he uses phrases like "the angry left" - so that anyone who hears it can apply their own meaning. Much of his audience will intepret it as the latter - i.e., to say that Obama supporters are the equivalent of torturers, hoping to keep McCain from doing right for his country. If that interpretation is challenged, just jump to the former - "oh no! i'm just talking about one particular former assistant professor of sociology. why are you so quick to say that YOU'RE the angry left?"

clever trick, really.