Rotten apples don't fall far from the tree.

Your words made this 60 year-old very earnest and rarely self-deprecating boomer cry. (Something I've done a lot of these past two days.) For the first time in my life, like you, I made calls, sent money and knocked on doors from one end of my little northeast Ohio town to the other and back for this man. And when they announced on Tuesday night that Ohio had gone for Barack Obama I let out two war whoops and then started crying like a baby. And when 11 o'clock rolled around and all of the major networks announced that Barack Obama would be our next president I cried some more and when he and his beautiful family walked out onto that stage in Grant Park I started wondering if this was how Niagara Falls felt.

God willing, Barack Obama will have the opportunity to fulfill all of the hope that so many of us have in him. In the meantime, enjoy the moment and relish the feeling that comes with finding a man, a leader, who seems poised to govern rather than rule, someone who's already inspired millions and may very well attract some of your generation's best and brightest to help him and serve this country just as John Kennedy did so many years ago.

(And,yes, I read "I'm Okay, You're Okay", not once, but twice, and if that's not hokey enough, I thought the sun rose and set on Rod McKuen :-)

I suggest you read some of the 168 comments posted in response to Alex Koppelman's Kucinich blog, the one where he states:

Some liberals in the blogosphere are complaining about the dearth of coverage of Kucinich's resolution. I have to disagree -- as I've pointed out before, when discussing complaints of liberal bias from the right, the media is in the business of covering news. This barely qualifies; if it deserves mention in the mainstream media at all, it certainly doesn't deserve to be accorded the status of something big and breaking. I'm sorry, but the action of a lone congressman who's widely considered something of a laughingstock, especially when it's clear that action will never come to anything, just isn't especially newsworthy. (I cover it here mostly just because I know Salon readers care, and partially because I wanted to make that point.)

It seems to me that the War Room (and perhaps salon.com itself) is sinking every bit as fast as the Titanic did.

I don't think it's something you could have un-clicked -- all of the preferences are yes or no things that you could say "yes" to for a while and then say "no" to later (e.g., "I would like to receive the daily Salon newsletter.") At the top of my account page I have a message that says "Your account will expire in 493 days". (Serves me right for doing a 2-year renewal ... on a brighter note, I said NO to automatic renewal months ago). Do you have a similar message about when your account will expire? Of course, it occurs to me that I'm getting the "expire" message because I'm NOT automatically renewing. In any event, I think it's very sad that the $29/year people are getting short shrift. (Of course, before your post I didn't know that there were $29/year people !! :-)

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Thanks for the tip!

Can someone specify where the "Auto Renew" button can be found? I checked my account page and don't see it...

Way at the bottom of the "Edit Your Account" page are four yes or no "Account Preferences".

Say NO to the 2nd one. ( "Automatically renew my membership. (Keeping this set to 'yes' helps Salon remain independent. )"

Steve Benen would have never gone down this route. I joined Salon when it was a blog befitting a liberal slant. With its' occasional Elephanman and Moderationinall closet neocons sprinkled in for amusement. Where were you hired away from, Fox Noise?

Time to get a new site. Benen's Carpetbaggersreport.com is free and speaks truth to power. Convince me to ante up my $45 once again...

And Tim Grieve sure as hell wouldn't be writing the kind of self-important drivel that's becoming a hallmark here at Salon (Glenn Greenwald excepted, of course). I've already made it clear to the editors that I'll not be renewing my premium subscription when it finally expires and I join you in recommending thecarpetbaggerreport.com (singular, not plural). thehill.com and smirkingchimp.com are also worth a look (and they're free too).

"I'm sorry, but the action of a lone congressman who's widely considered something of a laughingstock, especially when it's clear that action will never come to anything, just isn't especially newsworthy."

Widely considered a laughingstock? Rep. Kucinich was re-elected in November despite a Republican opponent who was backed by millions of big-business Cleveland bucks. I guess the people he represents don't think he's a laughingstock nor do the people who actually take the time and trouble to read some of his very articulate and eloquent speeches or check his voting record.

I guess in the "new" War Room newsworthy is now just a rehash of news you can get elsewhere or another of Koppelman's lame videos.