From the speech last night:
In this place, there's a custom for the funerals of jazz musicians. The funeral procession parades slowly through the streets, followed by a band playing a mournful dirge as it moves to the cemetery. Once the casket has been laid in place, the band breaks into a joyful "second line" -- symbolizing the triumph of the spirit over death. Tonight the Gulf Coast is still coming through the dirge -- yet we will live to see the second line.
WTF?!? Thousands of Louisianans and Mississippians and Alabamans are mourning their dead; millions of Americans still have images of floating bodies and human misery haunting their minds--and he wants to invoke jazz funerals?
The rest of the speech was tolerable, but that made me want to retch.