The First “Nerd In Chief.”

Here’s the thing about having a “geek” president. It’s the Revenge of the Nerds on a national level.
For the last 50-years, the jocks, the conservatives have dictated American politics, business, economics. The big-3 made gas guzzling cars that no American wanted to buy simply to make their cronies over at Enron filthy rich- now the tables are turned. The Big-3 automakers may go out ofbuiness bailout or not and in ordfer to stay in business, they might actually have to build the kind of cars Obama, “a geek” wants them to build. While Detroit and Japan continue to deliver cars that are fashion accesories Obama has called for 1 million PHEVs on American roads by the year 2015. (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The Big-3 automakers in know that this would be the end of their reign of their colossal greed, the oil-industry which charged Americans $5 a gallon of gas last summer for no discernable reason, there was no shortage, know that the end of their price-gouging for colossal profits would also come to an end.

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Is the bar too high now even for “Superman” to leap in a single bound?

Hell Boy II theme song (Rammstein – Mein Herz Brennt) The Dark Knight sure raised the bar for super-hero action/special effects movies just as Harry Potter raised the bar for children’s fantasy books. Over the next few years the movie-going public will see a proliferation of super-hero movies, all trying to “cash-in” on the success [...]

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