Donna Brazile, Gore's 2000 campaign manager, gets it about rebuilding New Orleans.

I've never agreed with Donna Brazile about anything, until now.

But clearly, Ms. Brazile has grasped the fundamental requirement for the President's plans on rebuilding the Gulf Coast generally and New Orleans specifically.

Ms. Brazile has believed she's had every reason to be embittered by the events of 2000. Right or wrong on that issue, she has made a decision to put all that aside for the greater good.

My question, for the democrats so rabidly after the President's blood, is this: Can YOU put your feelings aside to achieve the goal? Can YOU rise above the partisanship that has, for the most part, inculcated every pronouncement by any democrat at any level?

Can you achieve the pinnicle... focus like a laser beam, if you will, on the task at hand to the exclusion of everything else?

Donna Brazile has. It is up to the President to avoid letting her down... to avoid letting the hundreds of thousands that he has pledged upwards of $200 Billion in federal aid towards the reconstruction down.

Here is an opportunity for democrats across the country to rally to the states of Louisiana and Mississsippi and the peoples injured by Katrina.

Can you do it? How much you want to bet?




I Will Rebuild With You, Mr. President

By Donna Brazile

Saturday, September 17, 2005; Page A21

New Orleans is my hometown. It is the place where I grew up, where my family still lives. For me, it is a place of comfort and memories. It is home.

Now my home needs your help, and the help of every American. Much of my city is still underwater. Its historical buildings have been wrecked, its famous streets turned to rivers and, worst of all, so many of its wonderful people -- including members of my own family and my neighbors -- have lost everything.

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On Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush -- in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But on Thursday night, after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast.

Bush called on every American to stand up and support the rebuilding of the region. He told us that New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would rise from the ruins stronger than before. He enunciated something that we all need to remember: This is America. We are not immune to tragedy here, but we are strong because of our industriousness, our ingenuity and, most important, because of our compassion for one another. We are a nation of rebuilders and a nation of givers. We do not give up in the face of tragedy, we stand up, and we reach out to help those who cannot stand up on their own.

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