Congratulations Ray Nagin

Who better to put back in charge of the Titanic after it's already hit its first iceberg? As re-elected mayor of New Orleans, who once claimed the CIA might be out to get him, I'm sure you will maintain your steady hand on the rudder.

You were as cool as a mint julep as you declared there were 10,000 dead. When you set up your headquarters in the penthouse suite of a local hotel, you did a great job of leading by example. All of those people on rooftops should have been staying at your hotel. Had they only been sensible enought to follow your lead.

I have every confidence that you are the man to get all those poor people, who have a chance for a better life anywhere other than New Orleans, to return to the 9th ward. Then their children can someday look to an experienced hand like you to provide them with instructions on how to get to their rooftops from below sea level.