Denver gets the 2008 Democratic Convention. Hooray for mountain oysters! MORE »

Bravely choosing to announce today despite Gerald Ford greedily consuming all the teevee news time from Beyond the Grave, John Edwards went down to New Orleans to show he’s the kind of person who will be photographed pretending to shovel mud with poor black people.

Let’s all laugh at more photos of the big event, after the jump.

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The DNC is delaying the Big Announcement because a) Micheal Bloomberg now hates Democrats and b) Denver is a joke and doesn’t even have enough hotel rooms.

We know this is like asking Hillary Clinton to be cuddly, but we have a single Christmas Request for the Democrats: Could you people have some balls for once in your miserable lives and do something meaningful?

Hey, Howard Dean: What you need to do is have the convention in New Orleans. We’ll tell you why, after the jump.

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We would like to like John Edwards because he is folksy and drawls and and his father was a goatherd or something, but this, John, is uncalled for: MORE »

Shepard Smith lets loose on Evil Empire Dude Bill Kristol in this video: MORE »

• Parades, prayer, music mark Katrina anniversary. Bush admits “government at all levels that fell short of its responsibilities.” [WP, NYT]

• Rumsfeld gives speech calling Iraq war “a series of catastrophes that results in victory,” demands Americans’ unwavering support for more catastrophes. [WP, NYT]
• Kenneth Tomlinson, still corrupt after all these years, currently being ousted from the Broadcasting Board of Governors after getting the boot at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting last year. [NYT]
• Richard Armitage finally admits to being “leaker” in Plamegate. [NYT]
• Census Bureau reports income numbers, showing “glimmer of improvement.” Also shows record number of Americans have no health insurance. [NYT]
• Burbs of DC, however, are paid out the frame. [WP]

In all the excitement over Kyra Phillips’ pee-break broadcast from “the situation room,” we forgot to note the charming screw-up made by the guy on TV during CNN’s landmark audio event.

Returning to the drowned city he would only fly above a year ago, the president once again fed New Orleans conspiracy theorists with a mysteriously flubbed line.

“The Army Corps of Engineers have been working non-stop — and I mean non-stop — to damage … to repair the damage,” Bush stammered. (It’s after Kyra’s mic is finally turned off, at 1:42 in the clip.)

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At 3:16 p.m. Atlanta time, CNN PR shot out this e-mail that will surely make everyone forget that other CNN coverage from New Orleans. MORE »

Any excuse to use this graphic again. MORE »

And my mission was very simple. I wanted to thank President Bush for the millions of FEMA trailers that were brought down there. They gave roofs over people’s head. People had the chance to have baths, air condition. We have TV, we have toiletry, we have things that are necessities that we can live upon.

But now, I wanted to remind the President that the job’s not done, and he knows that. And I just don’t want the government and President Bush to forget about us. And I just wish the President could have another term in Washington.

-Hurricaine Katrina survivor Rockey Vaccarella, after he drove his FEMA trailer from New Orleans to Washington to demand a meeting with President Bush, which he was, surprisingly, granted. MORE »

“We’re not leaving while I’m the president.” MORE »