Yeh, pretty impressive with the sattelite shootdown, but another reason was to hide any technology on it that could have landed on foreign (*china, russia etc*) land :-)
It would be nice to see what reasons convinced you that Obama was cool ... I am still a Nader guy, allthough if Lessig were to run, I would change in a matter of seconds, not that it would matter since I can't wote there unlike you I guess :-)
And b.t.w. your RSS doesn't work, did you know that?