Obama’s plans of hope and change have utterly failed his most ardent constituency. Today, the wreckage is overwhelming.

When we last left our protagonist, he was blowing a gasket on national television. As is his wont, he naturally placed the blame on his interviewer. Never one to shy away from controversy, he now looks to do the impossible by outdoing himself with blood-soaked erotica.

If Mr West was serious – he and Brad Pitt would be focusing upon “Hurricane Loretta” – the “next” hurricane that will hit New Orleans some day in the future. While many people are focusing upon rebuilding the infrastructure and getting “green” building materials into the houses – there is precious little discussed about preparing the PEOPLE for the next flooding event. If history is any measure – Mother Nature is going to ultimately succeed in flooding the area, destroying all man-made barriers that attempt to restrain the most powerful river in North America. Ironically – it is the silt that flows in the floodwaters that deposited the rich soil that the land sits upon.

The sinking foundation of parts of New Orleans is a “peat moss” type soil which is like a sponge. As the water recedes from the “sponge” the land sinks. The Lower 9th Ward and other places was once swampland and deemed uninhabitable. The growth of the city demanded these lands be claimed for human habitation. The pattern of a catastrophic flood every 30 years since this time has not caused certain people to question the viability of these high risk areas of the city.

To anyone who watched the VMAs last night, this week’s “Baggy” winner will come as no surprise. After winning “Best Female Video” for “You Belong To Me,” Taylor Swift was ambushed by a drunk Kanye West.

Kanye West seemed like an American willing to take a stand against injustice when he spoke out against President Bush during Hurricane Katrina. Now after another public speaking snafu, it just seems like he merely spoke out of line – again.

UPDATE — Sept. 15: The full audio of Obama’s exchange about Kanye West has been posted by TMZ. Here’s the transcript:

Asserts the moderate columnist for the New York Daily News: “It is sometimes startling that certain people neither understand nor get the functional meaning of responsibility. In an era so given to mirror-licking narcissism, we do not understand the idea of general good; individual freedom is mistaken for merely breaking the rules by rebelling against some version of authority or saying simple-minded and stupid things just because a mike is pushed in front of one’s mouth.

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