What I don't get is how Xenu and his nukes is treated as bunk, but the invisible man in the sky who can hear a billion people whisper to him at the same time is treated like a celebrity who dare not be questioned by anyone who wants to run for elected office in America.
Pardon my ignorance, but I couldn't help but notice the horizontal positioning of the panels. Is there a reason (such as angle of the sun) why there weren't at least some panels positioned at a sloping angle to allow dust to slide off? Or is the dust too sticky for it to make a difference?
Spot on. The messenger-shooting whiners who complained about Sarah Palin's treatment seem to forget that it was she that provided all the fodder for negative coverage. If she had half a brain and knew her ass from her elbow she'd at least have gotten some positive coverage, but as the man said, if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. The woman was the gift that kept on giving to the satire industry, never a serious contender, and one can hardly blame the media for reporting the fact that she was clueless.
We were taught in school to spot bias in reporting. They used the example of two different reports written about the same football/soccer game, one written by a paper from the home side's town and the other written by a paper from the visiting side's town. It really shouldn't be hard to spot bias, and you shouldn't need someone to announce ahead of the report which way he's going to lean. Spotting any bias is part of the fun of reading/watching/listening.
I love it. So the Republicans didn't spend 8 years fucking things up, and the Democrats are going to fuck things up in the future? You people live on a diet of denial and refusal to face reality as it is. You had 8 years to prove what you were made of. You blew it, and now you've been punished. Take your beating like a man and STFU.
Pardon me for gloating, but I've waited a long time for this moment and I intend to savour it.
Oh and the 2000 and 2004 elections were never about the likability of the candidate, were they? Hell no. It was ALL about qualifications. FFS, give me a break. Obama spent the whole freaking campaign outlining policies as best as they can be defined so many months before taking office, but I suppose there are none so deaf as those who do not want to hear. He has way more education and experience than that clown from Alaska who doesn't even know what the Bush Doctrine is. He ran a better campaign, he showed that he isn't going to run around like a headless chicken when a crisis hits, and he knows what he's talking about. He deserves the presidency.
What? I'm pretty darn sure the Democrats blamed Republicans, blamed Bush, blamed big domestic oil, etc... let's at least be objective here... sheesh.
I know. Terrible isn't it? Republicans in charge of the executive and legislative branch for 6 years and all people can do is hold them responsible for what they've done. Blaming the administration for the administration's failures indeed. Tsk tsk! Imagine thinking that the buck stopped on the President's desk.
FWIW, the reason Obama wasn't that directly critical of the Republicans was because their failures are so manifest after 8 years of a Bush presidency.
Good point. Sarah Palin was similar. There was no need to air attack ads about her. Sometimes it's better to just let people keep on talking and let them make fools of themselves. Not only was Palin a gift to satirists, she was the gift that kept on giving.
Indeed. The market fundamentalist neocon experiment has ended. It has crashed and burned. It has outlived any usefulness it had. It has gone the way of feudalism, communism, and all the other 'isms' that are now studied in history books.
The package doesn't maim the customer, the customer maims themself(sic). There is a proper way to open a package, sometimes it's not all that clear, but it is possible to open a package without causing bodily harm. It's not all that apparent, but quite a bit of thought goes into designing a package; sadly, the end-user isn't always the main concern.
That's the defence that Detroit used to fight the safety features that they were dragged kicking and screaming into introducing by Ralph Nader. Initially they blamed the victims instead of taking responsibility for producing dangerous products.
I'm sorry, but packaging should protect the product AND be possible to access safely. If there's no obvious way to use it and avoid injury, the designer is at fault.
There is no way that I have discovered to get into a clamshell without running the risk of serious injury either from the metal blade that I have to use to cut it, or the plastic blade that is formed when using scissors and always ends up pointing into the path of my oncoming hand.
Whoever invented plastic clamshells should be sentenced to an eternity of sitting in a dark room opening one of his creations after another.
Sorry if I took you up wrong, but when you said "It is not the government's job to plan things for us" I thought it sounded a bit like you meant that it wasn't government's job to plan anything.
It is not the government's job to plan things for us.
Which things? Roads? Railways? Airports? Infrastructure? Policing? Firefighting? National security? Defence? Do you really think that the private sector can do everything without any government involvement?
Where does this perverse notion come from that everything should be done by the private sector and the nothing by the public sector?
So do you think that Holocaust Denial should be taught in history class and the students allowed to critically think about which version of history is correct? Should flat earth theory be taught in geography? Both are about as credible as Creationism or Intelligent Design or whatever they're selling it as these days. The 'equal time to nutjobs' approach is not good education policy.
Let's be honest here. Unless Palin is actually teaching the class her outlook on evolution has zero to do with her relation to education. Infact, keeping her in as a governor is probably more likely to get creationism pushed on more students than her being a vice president. On the federal level all she's going to do is go on and on about budgets. That's it.
So in order to keep her from doing damage at state level, let's get her 'out of the way' by promoting her to the point where she might be President? I'm gonna disagree with you there.
I know tons of vastly intelligent people who have some ideas that are far from my own. Enough to make me question who's really right. And out of these same tons of people many probably think creationism has some glimmer of truth to it.
That a large number of people believe something to be true has no bearing on whether or not it is true.
Even if I were the difference between the evolutionist camp and the creationist camp means jack shit in the real world. How about we leave that stupid little debate behind and work on the idea that we're graduating kids that can't balance a checkbook. A fucking checkbook has a lot more to do with how this country progresses than whatever theory you have on the origins and progression of life. I bet you that if everyone in this country believed in creationism but could balance a checkbook we'd be a lot better off. We haven't even go an acceptable majority of the kids graduating to cover the basics of everyday life and we're busy bickering over evolution? Huh?
There's more to this than teaching people about evolutionary biology. This is about a fundamental way of thinking. We either teach people to properly examine evidence and use reason, or we teach them to make decisions based on 'faith' (aka circular reasoning) or incorrect pseudo-science. Everyday life skills are important, but a broader education about how to think and solve problems is important too.
It's just another reason to reject the two party system if you ask me. When we can finally shed ourselves of the "us or them" maybe we'll also let go of the hate that accompanies it.
I couldn't agree more. I'd be very interested in how America would look if it didn't have this winner-take-all voting system. I'd vote McCain for President and Obama for Prime Minister. Unfortunately it would require that the parties in power who are kept in power by the present system would have to relinquish the system that keeps them in their dominant position. Same as how the First-Past-The-Post system is embedded in the British system (the incumbents would have to pass legislation that might end up turfing them out of office) while most of Europe uses Single Transferable Voting, which results in more coalition governments. Plus, I don't think there'd be much support among Americans for a Parliamentary system.
"Scanning is the reverse of printing." -- WTF?! Because of artifacts?
And isn't this what View as HTML has ALWAYS been about?
Points awarded for techtard clarity, but the person at Google who thought writing a press release aimed at techtards should be firmly smacked.
Calm down please. The guy is trying to explain the concept to a broader audience, or 'techtards' as you so pompously refer to them along with your out-of-context quote, and he's doing a fine job of explaining how it is hard for a computer to interpret scanned text. The days are gone when the web was the preserve of nerds with zero social skills. Get over it.
Voter places X on a piece of paper in a box beside the candidate's name.
Voter places paper in a steel box.
Box is taken to a location where it's counted along with all the other votes in that area by hand, under the watchful eye of party representatives and other observers.
TV channels are told to wait until the morning and be patient because making sure the right man is elected is a bit more important than the ratings of their election TV show or the impatience of the audience. This campaign has been going for a year, I for one would be willing to wait a day longer.
It works all over the world and there's never a word about doubts about whether or not the vote was counted correctly.
Hell, the hand counting in Ireland goes on for several days thanks to the Single Transferable Voting system, and goodness knows how long to decide which parties are going to get together and form a government.
I agree that it's a shame we have to go 'luddite' and go back to something as primitive as pencil and paper, but at the end of the day it's the best way to ensure that democracy's integrity is upheld. As long as there a voter's intention is translated into something as delicate as a magnetic charge on a disk, there's potential for abuse.
How can ACORN steal an election? By getting low income people to fill voter registration forms? By handing them in (as required to do by law) and find that some people decided to write 'Mickey Mouse' on the form? And then have the form rejected or the voter turned away at the polls for failing to produce the mouse's ID? Not much of a thievery plan, is it?
Excellent question. I always wondered what would have happened if the Oklahoma city bombing had happened on GW Bush's watch. Would he have declared a 'war on terror' at home and sent the National Guard and FBI in to do Waco style high profile military engagements against those paranoid gun-totting militia backwoodsmen? Would he have strutted around the national stage as a 'war president,' blowing about what a tough guy he is? Probably, and we'd probably be a lot less safe now as a result.
Clinton's administration* worked away behind the scenes to bring the perps to justice and ran them through the existing justice system without having to bypass it with torture or extraordinary renditions or concentration camps in Cuba or using it as a pretext to advance another agenda. He maintained the rule of law and respected the independence of the courts.
Contrast that with Bush's handling of 9/11. He did what was arguably the right thing by deposing the Taliban, notwithstanding the fact that the 9/11 hijackers were all from Saudi. It would have been nice if he had finished the job and gotten Bin Laden, it might have added some glow to his legacy. However, Iraq was a detour that arguably cost him Bin Laden, and ended up playing into the hands of extremists.
Experts now say that the threat from Jihadism is a lot stronger now than it was before the Iraq war. The threat from the Timothy McVeighs of this world is gone and forgotten.
* I'm not saying Clinton was perfect. His handling of the Rwanda genocide left a lot to be desired, for example. But on balance, he was a whole lot better and more competent than GWB.
I'd agree with most of what you say were it not for Sarah Palin. That woman puts the fear of God in me, and I'm an atheist! Can you imagine someone in the President's seat who doesn't even know what the Bush Doctrine is without having to phone a friend? We had a retard in the oval office for 8 years and it has been an unmitigated disaster. Lord help us if the American voters once again show disdain for educated people as 'elitists.'
Did you see Joe the Plumber on TV last night? He was campaigning for McCain, making statements about foreign policy and Israel. People were listening to him. I kid you not.
The police department is funded by taxpayers and provided as a free service at the point of use for the common good. Is the police department 'socialism?'
The fire department is funded by taxpayers and provided as a free service at the point of use for the common good. Is the fire department 'socialism?'
The freeways are funded by taxpayers and provided as a free service at the point of use for the common good. Is the interstate highway system 'socialism?'
What about social security? Is that 'socialism?'
Is the difference between 36% federal income tax and 39% federal income tax the difference between communism and capitalism?
As for Obama 'sucking,' I'd rather have someone in office that knows how to surround himself with qualified people. The parent post about ideology and this 'I know everything already' attitude was clearly a dig at the incumbent President.
Which brings me back to the point. Policy based on faith and instinct is a recipe for disaster. If you're going to be in charge of the biggest war machine the world has ever seen, you had better know what you are doing in international affairs and not be in the habit of starting unprovoked wars just because you had a 'hunch' about WMDs, a gullible disposition, an aversion to reading the information that's put in front of you, and a manipulative VP who sees nothing but dollar signs and oil fields.
Obama in office would mean that we have an intelligent President for a change. You only have to look at the right-wing media blowing about how he's "elitist" and too "professorial," a word that I had never heard of until this campaign and has been brought in as a means of denouncing intelligent people. Here is the news. It's better for a President to be intelligent than for him to be as thick as two short planks. We've tried 8 years of letting a retard run the country on the basis that he's "likable" and "would be good to have a beer with." It has been an unmitigated disaster of such immense proportions that the English language does not have sufficient adjectives to describe just how fucking BAD it has been!
I don't give a shit about how much fun someone is to have a beer with when he's running for office, I'm not going drinking with the motherfucker. When I get on the plane, I don't care how much fun the pilot is, I just want him to know what he's doing, fly the plane and get me home safely. I want him to be qualified. I want him to have the skills necessary to do the job.
Does McCain have the skills? Can he pick people who know what they're doing? Does he have respect for the concept of hiring intelligent people who know what their job is and how to do it? Two words. Sarah. Palin.
This Republican era is coming to an end, and Obama had better win this election by a landslide and consign this corrosive market fundamentalist neo-con ideology to the trashcan of history and let them suffer the same fate as the post-Thatcher Tories in England, i.e. leave them broken, discredited, and in the wilderness of opposition for a generation while they atone for what they have done.
To those who tagged this "so what?" I would like to pose a question in response. Have you seen what happens to products that get endorsed by Oprah?!?!
It's things like this that make me wonder how the tagging system works. I see some tags that would get an Overrated mod if they'd been submitted as a post.
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What I don't get is how Xenu and his nukes is treated as bunk, but the invisible man in the sky who can hear a billion people whisper to him at the same time is treated like a celebrity who dare not be questioned by anyone who wants to run for elected office in America.
Right on. You know what? Why don't you just keep on laughing at these foreigners with their funny names and funny foods and your stereotype clichés. By the time Uncle Sam gets back to the moon, most people will be cracking jokes about McDonalds on the moon and astronauts making footprints in their cowboy boots. Or maybe they're more mature and don't have the same racist instincts.
Pardon my ignorance, but I couldn't help but notice the horizontal positioning of the panels. Is there a reason (such as angle of the sun) why there weren't at least some panels positioned at a sloping angle to allow dust to slide off? Or is the dust too sticky for it to make a difference?
Spot on. The messenger-shooting whiners who complained about Sarah Palin's treatment seem to forget that it was she that provided all the fodder for negative coverage. If she had half a brain and knew her ass from her elbow she'd at least have gotten some positive coverage, but as the man said, if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. The woman was the gift that kept on giving to the satire industry, never a serious contender, and one can hardly blame the media for reporting the fact that she was clueless.
We were taught in school to spot bias in reporting. They used the example of two different reports written about the same football/soccer game, one written by a paper from the home side's town and the other written by a paper from the visiting side's town. It really shouldn't be hard to spot bias, and you shouldn't need someone to announce ahead of the report which way he's going to lean. Spotting any bias is part of the fun of reading/watching/listening.
Why was this marked Troll? I find it a very valid statement.
Because it was loaded down with hyperbole and violated Godwin's law?
It actually obeyed Godwin's Law.
I love it. So the Republicans didn't spend 8 years fucking things up, and the Democrats are going to fuck things up in the future? You people live on a diet of denial and refusal to face reality as it is. You had 8 years to prove what you were made of. You blew it, and now you've been punished. Take your beating like a man and STFU.
Pardon me for gloating, but I've waited a long time for this moment and I intend to savour it.
Oh and the 2000 and 2004 elections were never about the likability of the candidate, were they? Hell no. It was ALL about qualifications. FFS, give me a break. Obama spent the whole freaking campaign outlining policies as best as they can be defined so many months before taking office, but I suppose there are none so deaf as those who do not want to hear. He has way more education and experience than that clown from Alaska who doesn't even know what the Bush Doctrine is. He ran a better campaign, he showed that he isn't going to run around like a headless chicken when a crisis hits, and he knows what he's talking about. He deserves the presidency.
What? I'm pretty darn sure the Democrats blamed Republicans, blamed Bush, blamed big domestic oil, etc... let's at least be objective here... sheesh.
I know. Terrible isn't it? Republicans in charge of the executive and legislative branch for 6 years and all people can do is hold them responsible for what they've done. Blaming the administration for the administration's failures indeed. Tsk tsk! Imagine thinking that the buck stopped on the President's desk.
FWIW, the reason Obama wasn't that directly critical of the Republicans was because their failures are so manifest after 8 years of a Bush presidency.
Good point. Sarah Palin was similar. There was no need to air attack ads about her. Sometimes it's better to just let people keep on talking and let them make fools of themselves. Not only was Palin a gift to satirists, she was the gift that kept on giving.
Indeed. The market fundamentalist neocon experiment has ended. It has crashed and burned. It has outlived any usefulness it had. It has gone the way of feudalism, communism, and all the other 'isms' that are now studied in history books.
The package doesn't maim the customer, the customer maims themself(sic). There is a proper way to open a package, sometimes it's not all that clear, but it is possible to open a package without causing bodily harm. It's not all that apparent, but quite a bit of thought goes into designing a package; sadly, the end-user isn't always the main concern.
That's the defence that Detroit used to fight the safety features that they were dragged kicking and screaming into introducing by Ralph Nader. Initially they blamed the victims instead of taking responsibility for producing dangerous products.
I'm sorry, but packaging should protect the product AND be possible to access safely. If there's no obvious way to use it and avoid injury, the designer is at fault.
There is no way that I have discovered to get into a clamshell without running the risk of serious injury either from the metal blade that I have to use to cut it, or the plastic blade that is formed when using scissors and always ends up pointing into the path of my oncoming hand.
Whoever invented plastic clamshells should be sentenced to an eternity of sitting in a dark room opening one of his creations after another.
Sorry if I took you up wrong, but when you said "It is not the government's job to plan things for us" I thought it sounded a bit like you meant that it wasn't government's job to plan anything.
It is not the government's job to plan things for us.
Which things? Roads? Railways? Airports? Infrastructure? Policing? Firefighting? National security? Defence? Do you really think that the private sector can do everything without any government involvement?
Where does this perverse notion come from that everything should be done by the private sector and the nothing by the public sector?
So do you think that Holocaust Denial should be taught in history class and the students allowed to critically think about which version of history is correct? Should flat earth theory be taught in geography? Both are about as credible as Creationism or Intelligent Design or whatever they're selling it as these days. The 'equal time to nutjobs' approach is not good education policy.
Let's be honest here. Unless Palin is actually teaching the class her outlook on evolution has zero to do with her relation to education. Infact, keeping her in as a governor is probably more likely to get creationism pushed on more students than her being a vice president. On the federal level all she's going to do is go on and on about budgets. That's it.
So in order to keep her from doing damage at state level, let's get her 'out of the way' by promoting her to the point where she might be President? I'm gonna disagree with you there.
I know tons of vastly intelligent people who have some ideas that are far from my own. Enough to make me question who's really right. And out of these same tons of people many probably think creationism has some glimmer of truth to it.
That a large number of people believe something to be true has no bearing on whether or not it is true.
Even if I were the difference between the evolutionist camp and the creationist camp means jack shit in the real world. How about we leave that stupid little debate behind and work on the idea that we're graduating kids that can't balance a checkbook. A fucking checkbook has a lot more to do with how this country progresses than whatever theory you have on the origins and progression of life. I bet you that if everyone in this country believed in creationism but could balance a checkbook we'd be a lot better off. We haven't even go an acceptable majority of the kids graduating to cover the basics of everyday life and we're busy bickering over evolution? Huh?
There's more to this than teaching people about evolutionary biology. This is about a fundamental way of thinking. We either teach people to properly examine evidence and use reason, or we teach them to make decisions based on 'faith' (aka circular reasoning) or incorrect pseudo-science. Everyday life skills are important, but a broader education about how to think and solve problems is important too.
It's just another reason to reject the two party system if you ask me. When we can finally shed ourselves of the "us or them" maybe we'll also let go of the hate that accompanies it.
I couldn't agree more. I'd be very interested in how America would look if it didn't have this winner-take-all voting system. I'd vote McCain for President and Obama for Prime Minister. Unfortunately it would require that the parties in power who are kept in power by the present system would have to relinquish the system that keeps them in their dominant position. Same as how the First-Past-The-Post system is embedded in the British system (the incumbents would have to pass legislation that might end up turfing them out of office) while most of Europe uses Single Transferable Voting, which results in more coalition governments. Plus, I don't think there'd be much support among Americans for a Parliamentary system.
"Scanning is the reverse of printing." -- WTF?! Because of artifacts?
And isn't this what View as HTML has ALWAYS been about?
Points awarded for techtard clarity, but the person at Google who thought writing a press release aimed at techtards should be firmly smacked.
Calm down please. The guy is trying to explain the concept to a broader audience, or 'techtards' as you so pompously refer to them along with your out-of-context quote, and he's doing a fine job of explaining how it is hard for a computer to interpret scanned text. The days are gone when the web was the preserve of nerds with zero social skills. Get over it.
My solution:
Voter places X on a piece of paper in a box beside the candidate's name.
Voter places paper in a steel box.
Box is taken to a location where it's counted along with all the other votes in that area by hand, under the watchful eye of party representatives and other observers.
TV channels are told to wait until the morning and be patient because making sure the right man is elected is a bit more important than the ratings of their election TV show or the impatience of the audience. This campaign has been going for a year, I for one would be willing to wait a day longer.
It works all over the world and there's never a word about doubts about whether or not the vote was counted correctly.
Hell, the hand counting in Ireland goes on for several days thanks to the Single Transferable Voting system, and goodness knows how long to decide which parties are going to get together and form a government.
I agree that it's a shame we have to go 'luddite' and go back to something as primitive as pencil and paper, but at the end of the day it's the best way to ensure that democracy's integrity is upheld. As long as there a voter's intention is translated into something as delicate as a magnetic charge on a disk, there's potential for abuse.
How can ACORN steal an election? By getting low income people to fill voter registration forms? By handing them in (as required to do by law) and find that some people decided to write 'Mickey Mouse' on the form? And then have the form rejected or the voter turned away at the polls for failing to produce the mouse's ID? Not much of a thievery plan, is it?
Mountbatten: "If we leave India, there will be chaos!"
Ghandi: "Yes. But it will be OUR chaos."
Excellent question. I always wondered what would have happened if the Oklahoma city bombing had happened on GW Bush's watch. Would he have declared a 'war on terror' at home and sent the National Guard and FBI in to do Waco style high profile military engagements against those paranoid gun-totting militia backwoodsmen? Would he have strutted around the national stage as a 'war president,' blowing about what a tough guy he is? Probably, and we'd probably be a lot less safe now as a result.
Clinton's administration* worked away behind the scenes to bring the perps to justice and ran them through the existing justice system without having to bypass it with torture or extraordinary renditions or concentration camps in Cuba or using it as a pretext to advance another agenda. He maintained the rule of law and respected the independence of the courts.
Contrast that with Bush's handling of 9/11. He did what was arguably the right thing by deposing the Taliban, notwithstanding the fact that the 9/11 hijackers were all from Saudi. It would have been nice if he had finished the job and gotten Bin Laden, it might have added some glow to his legacy. However, Iraq was a detour that arguably cost him Bin Laden, and ended up playing into the hands of extremists.
Experts now say that the threat from Jihadism is a lot stronger now than it was before the Iraq war. The threat from the Timothy McVeighs of this world is gone and forgotten.
* I'm not saying Clinton was perfect. His handling of the Rwanda genocide left a lot to be desired, for example. But on balance, he was a whole lot better and more competent than GWB.
I'd agree with most of what you say were it not for Sarah Palin. That woman puts the fear of God in me, and I'm an atheist! Can you imagine someone in the President's seat who doesn't even know what the Bush Doctrine is without having to phone a friend? We had a retard in the oval office for 8 years and it has been an unmitigated disaster. Lord help us if the American voters once again show disdain for educated people as 'elitists.'
Did you see Joe the Plumber on TV last night? He was campaigning for McCain, making statements about foreign policy and Israel. People were listening to him. I kid you not.
The police department is funded by taxpayers and provided as a free service at the point of use for the common good. Is the police department 'socialism?'
The fire department is funded by taxpayers and provided as a free service at the point of use for the common good. Is the fire department 'socialism?'
The freeways are funded by taxpayers and provided as a free service at the point of use for the common good. Is the interstate highway system 'socialism?'
What about social security? Is that 'socialism?'
Is the difference between 36% federal income tax and 39% federal income tax the difference between communism and capitalism?
As for Obama 'sucking,' I'd rather have someone in office that knows how to surround himself with qualified people. The parent post about ideology and this 'I know everything already' attitude was clearly a dig at the incumbent President.
Which brings me back to the point. Policy based on faith and instinct is a recipe for disaster. If you're going to be in charge of the biggest war machine the world has ever seen, you had better know what you are doing in international affairs and not be in the habit of starting unprovoked wars just because you had a 'hunch' about WMDs, a gullible disposition, an aversion to reading the information that's put in front of you, and a manipulative VP who sees nothing but dollar signs and oil fields.
Obama in office would mean that we have an intelligent President for a change. You only have to look at the right-wing media blowing about how he's "elitist" and too "professorial," a word that I had never heard of until this campaign and has been brought in as a means of denouncing intelligent people. Here is the news. It's better for a President to be intelligent than for him to be as thick as two short planks. We've tried 8 years of letting a retard run the country on the basis that he's "likable" and "would be good to have a beer with." It has been an unmitigated disaster of such immense proportions that the English language does not have sufficient adjectives to describe just how fucking BAD it has been!
I don't give a shit about how much fun someone is to have a beer with when he's running for office, I'm not going drinking with the motherfucker. When I get on the plane, I don't care how much fun the pilot is, I just want him to know what he's doing, fly the plane and get me home safely. I want him to be qualified. I want him to have the skills necessary to do the job.
Does McCain have the skills? Can he pick people who know what they're doing? Does he have respect for the concept of hiring intelligent people who know what their job is and how to do it? Two words. Sarah. Palin.
This Republican era is coming to an end, and Obama had better win this election by a landslide and consign this corrosive market fundamentalist neo-con ideology to the trashcan of history and let them suffer the same fate as the post-Thatcher Tories in England, i.e. leave them broken, discredited, and in the wilderness of opposition for a generation while they atone for what they have done.
To those who tagged this "so what?" I would like to pose a question in response. Have you seen what happens to products that get endorsed by Oprah?!?!
It's things like this that make me wonder how the tagging system works. I see some tags that would get an Overrated mod if they'd been submitted as a post.