Katrina Coverage

In "Politics and reconstruction":
...Worse, the pettiness of the president's loyal opposition -- Sen. Harry Reid and other leading Democrats -- holding press conferences before the speech in order to criticize what they had not yet even heard further discredits their standing as serious statesmen.
In lonely and noble exception to such attitudes stands the article by Donna Brazile...
...On the conservative side, a certain ideological rigidity is on display. A conservative television host, among others, deplored the president's statement that historic racism had a role in poverty...
...In light of such commitments, the president's one-sentence reference to "historic" racism should have been seen as a bow to the sensibilities of many of our citizens...