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From where I sit, well insured, waiting another fifteen years for the system to finally collapse would be OK. This bill will no doubt include massive subsidies to the insurance industry which make me sick to the stomach. But, maybe if I was one of the 50 million uninsured massive subsidies wouldn't bother me so much. Can they wait another fifteen years?

Marquette was decided in 1978; it was unanimous with liberal Brennan writing the opinion.

in Marquette Nat. Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp.

Wikipedia summarizes it nicely:

The case has been called one of the most important of the late 20th century, since it freed nationally-chartered banks to offer credit cards to anyone in the U.S. they deemed qualified. Over the next decade, the states accelerated a process that had already begun of repealing or loosening their anti-usury laws, allowing state-chartered banks to compete more equally with national ones. As a result, the use of credit cards has vastly increased, some say with detrimental results to the American economy and society.

Good times.

Pretty lame. They had a riff on what to call African Americans; can you still say negro?

That joke has been floating around for decades. You would think the writers could come up with some original material at least for the pilot.

I give it three episodes.

Krugman and the Obama Administration don't have them. On the stimulus, Krugman thought it was too small and too heavy on the tax cuts; He did support a stimulus bill. On the bailouts, Krugman wants a direct takeover rather than the convoluted half-methods Geithner has thrown out there.

My Nader-voting friend, along with many Senate Republicans, wants no "Wall Street bailouts". Which is why Obama can be seen as both a Randian and Leninite. (For some reason, my Naderite friends don't have the same contempt for Krugman.)

Yes it's a joke. But, what you can't seem to get through your thick heads is the idea that NOT EVERY JOKE IS FUNNY. Lander thinks the whitest movie ever made is 'Donnie Darko.' WTF? The joke is that morons think that's fucking witty.

The joke about Ikea, Target, and Apple falls flat because most people have never heard of Ikea. The closest one to me is over 400 miles away in Schaumburg, IL. You say Ikea to folks around here and they just look at you.

The number one whitest thing ever is 'coffee.' People have been mocking the $5.00 coffees for over a decade; it's an old joke that went stale years ago. The joke is so stale Club for Growth used it in an anti-Dean commercial in 2004. Lander steals his material from political commercials! BTW, Starbucks last week announced it's closing 600 stores; it's no longer hip. The number one whitest thing ever: old, and stolen, jokes.

Miniscule sense of humor! Yikes, all you serious posters! Get thee behind me! This is jokes. These jokes touch on issues, but the jokes are jokes. He or she who takes her- or himself seriously will die by seriously.

The joke is that morons will buy this crap. Yes, white people drink expensive coffee, listen to NPR, and use Apple computers -- what brilliant insight Lander has. But, congratulations to the dude for managing to slap a title on a marketing report and sell it to the general public. Back in the '80s we had "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" which was a little more clever and managed to add "quiche eater" to the pop lexicon.

I read through the article and even a couple of pages of "letters." And neither mentioned that none of this is born out in the polls. Sure polls and pollsters have their problems but at least they are making some attempt at asking a wide-range of people their opinions rather than the handful of cranks that hang around the Salon.com break room.

Presently, Obama leads McCain in Pollster.com's average 47.7% to 41.7%. Keep in mind the last Democrat to win more than 50% of the vote was Jimmy Carter in 1976 at 50.1%. And the truly undecided/swing vote is between 8% (Karl Rove) and 18% (Carville, Greenberg).

So, McCain at 41.7% is the one who isn't pulling in his voters. These are the right wingers who are unsatisfied with McCain and telling pollsters they are undecided when in the end they'll support McCain.

Today a USA Today poll tells us Dems are more enthusiastic about the election (63% to 31%) than Republicans. Perhaps those undecided Republicans will just stay home. Two or three percent staying home could drastically change the outcome.

It's interesting how often the Clinton campaign and her supporters have relied on gender stereotypes to attack Obama.

Here's James Carville a few weeks ago:

If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two.

Or consider frequent Salon letter writer ShawnWM who has more than once referred to Obama as an "SOB."

And in today's NY Times there is a photo of Clinton with a bourbon in hand. The caption reading "...Mrs. Clinton seems eager to show she can hold her own at the bar with the big guys."

ShawnWM writes: his became McCain's election to lose when the sob began his patent race-baiting to win South Carolina. Most of us HRC supporter will never forgive the trio of Obama, the radical left and the AA community. Not so much as Hillary supporters, but as Americans.

Interesting how a Clinton supporter attacks Obama by insulting his mother. Not to mention the dude is clearly a racist.

Funny, I get my letters deleted for nothing more than lamenting the decline of Salon and yet they leave this stuff on their site.

The world is divided between people who consider Bill and Hillary Clinton monsters, and people who don't. - Joan Walsh

That makes me glad I don't subscribe to Salon anymore.

And no doubt why Salon's traffic has fallen below its chief rivals on the internet.