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Credit cards have partenered with colleges and send alumnus credit card applications for credit cards with the college logo. They all want the first shot these new possible borrowers.

Folks: While some of your topics are very interesting, I find the format sleep-inducing. I really doze off after about 15 minutes. Let one person handle one guest instead of both jumping in and cutting the guest or each other off abruptly. That's rude and annoying to the listener. The woman who RACES through the news of the day in her thick accent is unintelligible to my ears. Why do you need her? You could better use the time with your guests. Dolores Weisenreider

Given the polls, I think the media correctly see Obama as the likely next president of the United States and are treating him accordingly. They're not "in the tank" but, rather, "in the know."

McCain's taking another strategy from the Clinton campaign: blame the media.

So is McCain getting less coverage? Probably. Is it his own fault? Probably.

The media goes where the "good," entertaining, interesting, or educational story is - and that's not McCain's speeches, townhall meetings, or worn-out Republican talking points. The media can summarize a McCain speech by giving a bullet list of his talking points - the same talking points Republicans have used since Reagan ran. No explanation is needed so it gets minimal air time. Obama's speeches don't follow Democratic talking points, and they're full of nuance and new approaches, which takes the media more time to explain.

So, it's only taken a few weeks for the Takeaway to start taking cues from the RNC. The press in the tank for Obama? Please!

Wasn't it McCain himself who referred to the press as, "his base".

"The Press" has ignored any number of conflicting and contradictory statements coming from his campaign: Social Security is a disgrace; McCain denying he ever made the comment that he knew nothing about the economy; hiring people to run his campaign who, there is video evidence of this--tried to extort money from East European dictators for the Bush Library in exchange for face-to-face meetings with high level administration figures. And, of course the latest..CBS doctoring it's own interview with McCain to protect him from himself by making anti-historical statements. Need I go on? This in a time of, well, "bittergate",the Rev. Wright, Iraqi timelines? Do you not read the papers and the important blogs. Or do you just get your info from Drudge and the Washington Times? John, I'm disappointed!!!

There has been much reporting of JFK's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech being delivered at the Brandenburg Gate. It was in fact made at the Schoneberg City Hall which is as far from the Brandenburg Gate as the Empire State Building is from the Brooklyn Bridge. Kennedy visited the Berlin Wall at the gate but there was no speech as at that time there was not available space to assemble a crowd. There was space at the time of Reagan's address and we have the pictures of Ron and The Gate to remember it. We also have many pictures of Kennedy's Berliner speech with clearly no Brandenburg Gate. So why is this error repeated so often on Public Radio?

on the demise of print journalism:

"the internet ate my paper"

Re: a most Short Sighted comment:

In her discussion about why the Democrats could not pass an energy bill, Adora Udoji compared American consumers to children whose needs for cheaper oil are ignored in a battle between the parents. But to view the public as no more than a 'consumer’ whose immediate needs must be met is to be the worst kind of parent. A good parent doesn’t cave in when a child cries for too much fat; a good Congress should not cave in when consumers are unable to curb their indulgent dependence on oil. Simply to do anything to reduce the current price of oil (which is, by the way about 1/4th of what Europeans pay) is to be like a parent who will do anything in the moment to stop her child from whining in her ear, even if it means sacrificing the child’s future habitat and long term health.

Of course, working Americans depend on their cars for work, shopping, and family travel. But the task of a responsible congress is wean us from oil by providing us with sustainable alternatives: smaller cars, useful bicycles, better public transport, wind and sun energy. Just imagine the non-exportable jobs such a shift in focus could create.

Please tell Adora we are more than consumers; we are parents who must think about the earth we leave to our children and our childrens' children.