Really? Really?

Let's look at some of his more signature accomplishments:

• Health care legislation: based on ideas from a Republican Governor and the Heritage Foundation (although both of those had public option aspects).
• ARRA: half tax cuts
• Immigration: has set records for deporting illegal immigrants
• WoT: continued and expanded Bush policies for internet-warfare, targeted killings, warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention
• Gun bans: nothing proposed, enacted or even discussed

• About the only thing he has been to the left on is gay rights, and even that was basically half-hearted until very recently.

Following up - another post reminded me about the 2007-2008 Democratic primaries. Hillary Clinton had a significant lead among black voters in the early going. Things started shifting when Bill started running his mouth in South Carolina.

What you mean is "96 and 98% of american black voters" voted for the Democrat - the 96% Obama got is consistent with the 90% that Gore got, the 88% Kerry got, the 90% Mondale and Dukakis got, the 94% Johnson got etc.

If blacks were voting overwhelmingly based on race, than you should see overwhelming support for Hermain Cain, Alan Keyes, Ward Connerly, etc. That's not the case.

Uh, no it isn't. Quotas (in the USA) in particular have been illegal since the 1970's.

Uh, no. Maybe you can argue that an IPO or accepting outside investment obligates yourself to the pursuit of profit over all else, but not incorporation in and of itself. If my LLC cared about profit over all else, I'd be charging a lot more for my services.

Yes- conservative Democrats. Liberal = Democrat and Conservative = Republican is a recent turn of events, before the 1960's there were conservative and liberal Republicans, as well as conservative and liberal Democrats.

If the problem were "unions" you would expect that states without collective bargaining requirements would outperform states with those requirements.They don't.

It's not "career in music," it's "during their careers in music" which changes the context some. In any event, looking at the effect Jobs had on the music industry, I'd say he was at least as deserving of the award as Dick Clark, Don Cornelius, and Walt Disney (previous recipients).

Tell that to this guy.

You say this based on...? Nokia is a Foxconn customer

Ain't that simple. "Bigger airplanes" assumes that the longer runways that can accommodate those larger planes aren't already maxed out. In the event that there is room to accommodate those planes, the airport has to account for new wake separation procedures. There's also the issue of whether the markets served by the airline are appropriate for larger planes. Finally, larger planes are in many (but not all) cases louder than smaller planes, and that results in environmental issues that are similar to those building new runways.

At best, "Bigger airplanes" is a stop-gap solution.

Exactly. Which means to increase capacity, you have to increase the number of landings and takeoffs per hour. That means a) new runways, or b) new airports. That's really difficult to do these days, hence my point.

Bay Area and LA-area airports are at or near capacity, and will be bursting at the seams in the next 15-20 years. Expanding capacity by adding new runways or building new airports will cost tens of billions of dollars (DIA cost $3 billion, and that was for building an airport in the middle of nowhere almost 20 years ago that handles less traffic than LAX does). Furthermore, air travel can be affected by weather (fog, thunderstorms, in CA's case) that doesn't affect rail

Transportation options are important, there is no single perfect mode.

And what does a gathering place for nerds and geeks have to do with the statement "a cultural difference where American black culture has a much lower opinion on average of nerdy endeavors as opposed to American white culture"? Especially when blacks also attend Comic-con as well as gatherings targeted toward blacks.

Yeah I got that, but what does that (and you're links) have to do with the assertion of "black culture" being "generally anti nerd"? Low achievement does not automatically mean 'not giving a shit about school.'

Than why bother singling out "black culture"?

Sure, but that's an economic problem, not a racial problem, it just happens to fall on racial lines. Attributing differences to "black culture" being "anti nerd" is an unsupported assertion.