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>>I wonder if he's losing his mind over what he did, or rather, didn't do.<<

I don't pretend to know the man's mind, but I will admit...I always had a gut feeling that when he went into his "homey from the hood" voice and started pointing fingers at everyone but himself...

my honest belief was that the man sounded like he felt guilty. Just an impression I got, I don't know for sure.

If he has a conscience, and I sense that he does, he will have a really hard time with this.

I pity him. I honestly do feel sorry for him, whether I should or not. I wouldn't want to be in his position.

I don't pretend to know the man's mind, but I will admit...I always had a gut feeling that when he went into his "homey from the hood" voice and started pointing fingers at everyone but himself...

my honest belief was that the man sounded like he felt guilty. Just an impression I got, I don't know for sure.

SerpentDove, this is a "I stayed at Holiday Inn last night" post but I'm going to go with it: when he goes into his "homey from the hood" voice, I think he is disassociating himself as the failure of a mayor that he is, from himself as a person in shock at seeing the loss of life and destruction of the city that he is at least in some part responsible for. His 'self' knows his guilt but his 'self' also cannot accept that and so he goes into that voice.

I feel incredibly saddened by what has happened but have found in the days that have passed that I can't deal with the situation if I stay in anger/blame mode; my blood pressure cannot tolerate it. So, all my 'self' can do at this point is to keep a eye on the events to educate myself and to keep packing up care packages and writing checks for what little I can to support Salvation Army, etc. I'm also reviewing my own family's 'readiness' abilities that was last reviewed after 9/11. I've gotten too complacent and NO has shown that one cannot afford to become complacent whether disaster is man-made or an act of nature, or in the case of NO, both. All IMHO!