Gates/Ballmer or Bush/Cheney?

strong arguments could be made for either

american people--> <- aforementioned assholes

gates is the man, microsoft's in the top 3-4 heavyweights in the world and it's the one that's the least easy to replace. the world's hooked on an american product, that's a good thing-he signs a shitload of paychecks and he'll give most of his money away in his lifetime. he's still a ruthless bastard, and that's hot.

you know what's weird as fuck? dan quayle's the most useful former vp ever-the guy's been huge in cerebrus blowing up into the beast it is right now.

Gates and Ballmer aren't constitutionally limited to an eight year maximum term. BTW, the Clintons are bigger gangsters than anyone else in the world of politics.

I'm coming across some kind of psychological revelation about how humans project the world's interpretation of them on other people. Bill and Hillary were as image driven and corrupt as you can imagine without having officially given their soul to the devil. They still had kernels of genuineness about them that was trying to fight the good fight, but were doing shit left and right they shouldn't have been messing with. So, rather than the human mind being critical of itself, it projects the image back onto the people around them. That's how you get this non-sense the Bush is the stupidest and silliest man alive / his speech impediment would in an honest situation prevent him from having real responsibility / he's more interested in oil than fighting terrorism. The liberals can't accept the fact that they ran a man for president who Newsweek reported during the campaign he'd get so overwhelmed and panic stricken because of events, his staff had to take his cell phone away from him to prevent him from calling everybody and working them way too high up to. The Democratic party can't accept the fact that Howard Dean who had no chance in hell of becoming president was actually the best that party could do for a candidate for a long time. They can't accept these things, so they project the image back unto the people around them.

Gates isn't a terrorist either. He's just a man with no solid technical innovation skills but a massive amount of business skills. Gates genius isn't in the development of software. It's in his never having lost his original leverage he had in the computer industry because of that one deal with IBM. Steve Jobs had the same leverage before Gates had it. Jobs lost it. Then Gates got it. Gates ran with that ball much longer than Jobs could have dreamed of.