re "New $1 Coin Goes Into Circulation" (Washington Post, 2/15/07)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/15/AR2007021500103.html

At the risk of sounding like a knuckle-dragging reactionary, I admit that I am much more likely to use the new $1 coin than the last two feeble attempts with Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony.

Why? Because I thought those coins represented little more than a politically correct agenda which had no place interfering in the currency of our nation. Sure, Susan B Anthony was fairly important, but more important than so many other Americans who could have been selected? How about James Madison, the principal author of our Constitution? As for putting a barely-known native American woman on a coin, that just seemed to me like a bad joke.

So, between the fact that they’re putting on the coins people who deserve to be there, and the fact that I don’t feel like someone is trying to force a political message on us with the coins, I am much more likely to use them and I expect many others will be as well.