@Hyourinmaru: Just because the fourth was the leader of their team doens't mean he taught anyone anything. What techniques has Kakashi taught Sakura or Naruto. He taught them skills he thought they should have like chakra sticking and genjutsu breaking, but he only passed on the chidori to Sasuke, and nothing to Sakura. There were three people in the fourths team, who's to say he didn't take a liking to to that chick or the kid with the goggles instead of Kakashi (who doesn't seem like much of a team player anyway).

As to Sakuras strength, I was thinking that once the show got back on track and Sakura's growth was revealed people would recognize that she wasn't a useless crybaby anymore, but lo and behold now Sakura's super strength is being talked down to a cheap imitation of Chidori and Rasengan. While I disagree, it's funy from an objective perspective since it appears that the Sakura hate runs deeper than the simple 'she sucks' reasoning.

From the way Kakashi described it, I doubt Sakura is restricted in the way in which she can apply this new skill, unlike chidori or rasengan which a) are massively telegraphed, and b) have more limited usefulness (Chidori being more limited than Rasengan) but Sakura's power isn't a technique as much as a skill, as evidenced my her destroying everything in that forest with no negative effects on herself. If you're going to compare her punch to a Rasengan or Chidori then you must admit she has out classed both Naruto and sasuke in that she can use her skill much more easily, frequently and quickly than either of them.