Russel L. Honore for president, 2008!

[Walt Starr]

This guy has proven to tbe the best leader in the entire Katrina debacle and is currently in the process of changing Operation Clusterfuck into Operation Getitdone.

[PA Democrat]

1. I think this is the guy that Mayor Nagin praised

calling him a big John Wayne-like dude.

[bluestateguy]

2. He's got a ways to go before he can be called a hero

right now the only heroes I see are the men and women of the US Coast Guard.

[flygal]

3. Right - also the doctors and nurses who stayed behind

and are giving each other iv's to keep going. HEROS!! Everyone of them!!

ETA - NOT the doctors who stayed in the Ritz and did nothing to help people. I'm talking the staff of Charity hospital, Tulane, etc. God Bless them.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Those gathering supplies for the people at the convention center

are heroes. And yes, I'm talking about those who break into stores and bring food and water back to the people in need. Those people risked the full force of the government to feed their neighbors, and they are heroes.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

5. The times they are-a changin'...

I heard all about this "kick ass general" from many people yesterday, but didn't get to see him on tv until this morning. Not one person yesterday mentioned a word about the fact that he is black. In the past he would have been described as "the black general."

"Point those rifles DOWN!" Yeah. Finally, somebody gets it.

[itzamirakul]

8. Are you sure Honore is black? If THAT true, then I am even more

grateful that he is there.

I just have the feeling that if he IS black, then everyone left in the city will at least have a fair chance of getting out without favoritism.

I am just as concerned that the white survivors get out as I am about the black survivors.

[bklyncowgirl]

6. There are lots of heroes

The medical personel, coast guard, the police, fire and EMT people who stayed at their jobs despite exhaustion and worries about their own loved ones.

The ordinary people at the Convention Center who kept order amid squalor and hopelessness and defended the sick and elderly against thugs without any official support.

Also, the reporters who put aside their political alliances and gave us images that galvanized the attention and outrage of a nation and Mayor Nagin of New Orleans who with his outraged scream of anguish placed a shot across the bow of our do nothing national leaders.

That being said, General Honore seems the right man for the job and I just loved watching him cursing out soldiers.

"Put those goddam guns down"

[CantGetFooledAgain]

7. He'll be my hero, big time, if...

1) he pulls off this rescue operation before too much more time goes by and more lives are lost, and

2) he tells the truth, as far as he knows it, about what went wrong, allowing the guilty to be held to account and this kind of disaster never again to be so catastrophically bungled.

No more cover-ups. I'm sick of this shit.