"You want further evidence of Democratic [Party leadership] collapse? How many of them went to New Orleans to protest the most glaring exhibition of racism in America since Bull Connor wielded his cattle prod? Shaquille O'Neill, who air-lifted tons of aid to the Crescent City, couldn't even assemble a full basketball team out of the paltry number of big-time Democrats who came to New Orleans in its hours of crisis." - - - ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR