Heck even not being Bush wasn't good enough in 2004. Let's face it, being outstanding leaders doesn't matter to the US people. More often than not, they will cave to the Republican lie machine.

Republicans = Good at winning elections
Democrats = Good at running the country

You are fucking stupid. End of fucking story. The parties as we know them are not the same as they were 100+ years ago.

The Democrats were the major force behind the civil rights movement, only liars like yourself dispute this.

The South will rise again and rewrite history. They will lie and lie and tell you it wasn't a moral issue or it wasn't about slavery. They will bully and lie until they get their way. Deal with it.

Holy crap! This got modded as insightful? This post is a fucking intelligence test. If you modded up, you fail.

Seriously, how dumb do you have to be to think that 'installing a puppet' would be the M.O. here? Stop watching your fucking TV and try a grow a second neuron.

This is sarcasm, right? You're being facetious? I know I shouldn't have to ask, but the prevalence of people who are really this stupid is just getting scarier by the minute.

A source of prosperity other than poppy production could change Afghanistan from being a perpetual failed state into a real developing nation. What this really means is that leaving is more appealing. Optimally, we could leave a military base there to monitor Pakistan and do the anti-terrorist stuff without bankrupting the US or having huge casualties.

And again I'm blown over by the modding. You got modded as +4 insightful? People reading your comment will actually get dumber if they are foolish enough to believe you. Please take some time and learn how polygraphy give false positives and how that isn't just because its a personal truth vs. objective truth you friggin moron.

The US has become a country ruled by rural hicks, led by their leader George Bush for 8 years. We have a country that has been convinced to give up on public schooling and convinced to give up on the middle class. Its hard to aspire to being a great researcher if you can't afford college.

Idiotic body. Idiotic tagline. And you're modded up to two? Oooohh slashdot. You've fallen so far from grace.

I'd pay you to shut the hell up and stop spewing anti-intellectualism bullcrap that's probably making everyone else dumber.

Naw...actually I wouldn't. I'd just kick you in the nuts.

I mustn't run away
I mustn't run away
I mustn't run away

In case people are wondering, AT Field = Absolute Terror Field. Or at least that's what they called 'the barrier between people'.

You're crazy. The deficit went up orders of magnitude under Reagan, Bush and Bush II. And the reason is, Republicans are not fiscally responsible and break the budget spending on defense.

As far as process goes, the president can call for legislation, and minorities can introduce new bills. If overspending is a problem, the single most responsible party is the guy with the veto. So stop being a disingenuous lying dipshit and wake up to the fact that the right wing is raping this country.

He has changed, not killed the space program. Bang for your buck is in space astronomy and unmanned stuff anyways, and its not like we can afford everything we want these days. But hey, Obama bashing is in style these days, especially on Slashdot.

Its interesting that we have arguably one of the top 5 presidents every (certainly in the top 10) and yet if things keep going this way, we're going to get 1 term out of him followed by 8 years of Palin.

I remember seeing articles on how to make ball lightning in a microwave, complete with video. Then again, people may be lumping a lot of things under the header ball lightning.

Honestly, what you could create in a microwave wasn't that impressive, especially considering I had been brought up being read old Reader's Digest stories about ball lightning basically stalking people. I'd assumed that was just fiction (though they claimed it was true for whatever that's worth), but maybe there's something to the hallucination theory.