Nagin: "The Mother of All Storms"

Roughly 24 hours from now, Hurricane Gustav will make its first landfall with the Gulf Coast. As of now the storm has weakened slightly since passing over Cuba and is now spinning at max sustained winds of 115 mph. Make no mistake, this storm is as powerful as Katrina was 3 years ago. Gustav is expected to make landfall near New Orleans as a Cat. 4 storm, which as Mayor Ray Nagin says, who I am perplexed to still see in office, this is "the mother of all storms." Nagin has also been quoted as calling Gustav "the storm of the century." I think we all need to take a step back from the political world for a few days to pray for the people of the Gulf Coast and for the massive humanitarian effort underway that they will have success with evacuations and post-storm cleanups. As I mentioned in my last post, liberals like Michael Moore are so wrapped up in their extreme ideologies that at the expense of the GOP convention, the storm is "proof that there is a God." Such despicable comments like these are proof that there are no limits to the thought that liberal ideologies must reign in America. These comments, to me, are worse than war and abortion combined.

Meanwhile, on the GOP front, it looks like the convention may have to wait a bit longer. I think it is a good decision to delay the convention because our national attention should be set on this potential national catastrophe. Senator McCain and others have agreed that they must change the convention to a "call to national service" for the victims of Gustav and the cleanup effort. Between both Obama and McCain campaigns, our nation should be focused not on politics but on the lives of those on the Gulf Coast who will need our prayers and monetary support over the next few days. As we've seen already, the effort to prepare for Gustav is 110% better than that of Katrina. I think the leadership of President Bush, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has proved most effective in this extreme preparation to make sure that even a more powerful storm than Katrina can be prevented from causing the loss of life we witnessed 3 years ago. Our prayers are with you Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and Florida as you prepare for this terrible storm.