And I don't expect that feeling to go away anytime soon.

This is one situation in which I would not hazard to guess. I wouldn't have a clue.

Honestly, he's not replaceable. He's just a brilliant, wonderful person. I'm certainly interested, but we have a long way to go before getting into those conversations. He's still here and we're proud to have him.

I'm getting tired of this. I'm looking to buy one of those cheaper cars.

The cost of running that operation in Massachusetts is horrendous in comparison to running a business here. We are in a rural area here (in Pennsylvania) and most people who work here live close.

still has an opportunity to reach out to blacks during the reconstruction, giving the displaced people a role in the project. But there is a problem. Already, he has made some mistakes. No-bid contracts are going to firms with close ties to Bush, and those don't tend to be minority-owned businesses.

It muddies the water a lot right now. It could go any number of ways.

Now, Katrina is a bellwether issue for a lot of people. And it means it's going to complicate his relationship with some of these ministers and their parishioners.

Black people are mad because they feel the reason for the slow response is because those people are black and they didn't support George Bush. And I don't expect that feeling to go away anytime soon.

The question in my mind is whether the civil rights community acted fast enough, ... Here we are at the deadline, and how many black people know what we know about his record? It doesnt put us in a mobilization mode. And this is a war.