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This ranks up there in scholarship...
... just a little higher than a letter to the editor in our local rag that basically said "let's just pump more oil at home -- that'll solve our foreign oil problem!"
Salon - I expect more from your writers. It's nice to have the background on Obama's past Illinois votes. But I'll pass on a tax cut that only made 60% back when it was cut at the pump 8 years ago (before bridges started falling down). What I really wish was that the legislators in my state had the balls to tie our state gas tax to cost-of-living increases instead of watching it wither a little more each year.
Obama may not be the next messiah. But when given a choice between Mr.-Straight-Talk-Turned-Flip-Flopper and Ms.-Pander-To-The-Winds, I'll take "none of the above".