This is clearly an important ... and watershed event for the entire industry, but it's no real surprise. Everyone figured Ameritech would be the first one out of the blocks on this.

This is clearly an important ... and watershed event for the entire industry, but it's no real surprise, ... Everyone figured Ameritech would be the first one out of the blocks on this.

The elephant ear was great. I figured I'd bring (my girlfriend) down as a surprise and get an elephant ear.

There's no surprise they're dumping MBNA,

It's wiping out an entire industry in Seattle.

It was just ripe, there had been so many discussions. Mr. Donaldson is clearly shareholder focused and it doesn't surprise me that somebody decided to step in at least and take a whack at it.