Sorry for the late response, but yep. US-centrism, pardon me, haha

He's protected himself from Manning's great fault: he didn't release documents all willy nilly. That's going to remove one of the major arguments I (and others) had against Manning.

I understand. I completely understand you consider intelligence irrelevant when compared to results. But how does that relate to someone attempting to simply explain Bush is intelligent to people who doubt otherwise?

I'm under the impression this is not a defense of his presidency, merely a defense against the general "Bush was/is an idiot" attack by some on the left.

I don't understand this argument. Because a celebration has been unable to erase centuries of systematic exclusion of a people's history, it's a failure? I think Black History Month has been doing it's job, and it just has to continue doing so.

The thing is, at this point, he'd have a well oiled machine of a campaign for Senate by now. Governor's race is a different ballgame.

I thought their reasoning was that it didn't come with deficit cuts

Research technician in a lab in New England, hoping to actually get into graduate school this time, instead of bouncing around labs like I have the last few years.

Came here from reddit, seems like an awesome place.

But where on Reddit? To be honest, I don't especially see it as a good idea to get my news from reddit unless you stay away from /r/politics, /r/worldnews, and the like. And even then, its probably a good idea to avoid the comments.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

I work in New England, though I'm originally from New Jersey. People up here can for some reason readily identify me as being from NJ. I never knew our cultures were that far apart to the point where'd I'd be easily identifiable