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Obama Taps Charles Bolden To Lead NASA
viyh notes that President Obama has named former astronaut Charles F. Bolden Jr. as NASA administrator. Obama's campaign space adviser, Lori Garver, will be Bolden's deputy. Bolden flew four shuttle missions, two as commander, as well as 100 combat missions over Viet Nam. If confirmed, Bolden will take over an agency uncertain of its direction. The shuttle Atlantis's landing will mark the end of the servicing era — it was the last planned mission to repair any satellite. Some inside the agency are less than happy about how NASA's future looks from here.
What is the value of space exploration to us at this point in time? Not a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely interested in people's responses.
Bolden is black, just like Obama. That's pretty cool.
Maybe it's just your ignorance, but how many of you didn't realize we had astronauts of many different races and creeds?
What's uncertain is how well an experienced pilot with very little technical knowledge can run a huge agency that has extremely complicated technical problems.
Why do people think that managers with little technical knowledge can run technological organizations?
I've written some articles about that issue.
simple a puppet..
if thay put smeone who knows what the hell thay are ding in there then how can Obama ever git what he wants witch in nasa limmated and private space like the falcon project witch should really be named phniox or maybe thay damn jupater programe insted of aries
Why the fuck do we pump money in stupid ass NASA when we can't even feed our own fucking people. Fuck you assholes for going along with this bullshit, eggheaded nerds.
Note the voting pattern of Hispanics, Asian-Americans, etc. These non-Black minorities serve as a measurement of African-American racism against non-Blacks. Neither Barack Hussein Obama nor John McCain is a non-Black minority. So, Hispanics and Asian-Americans used only non-racial criteria in selecting a candidate. Only about 65% of them supported Obama.
If African-Americans were not racist, then at most 65% of them would have supported Obama. At that level of support, McCain would have won the presidential race.
At this point, African-American supremacists (and apologists) claim that African-Americans voted for Obama due to the Democratic party (and its ideals) that he has supported. That claim is an outright lie. Look at the exit-polling data for the Democratic primaries. Consider the case of North Carolina. Again, about 95% of African-Americans voted for him and against Hillary Clinton. Both Clinton and Obama are Democrats, and their official political positions on the campaign trail were nearly identical. Yet, 95% of African-Americans voted for Obama and against Hillary Clinton. Why? African-Americans supported Obama due solely to the color of his skin.
Here is the bottom line. Barack Hussein Obama does not represent mainstream America. He won the election due to the racist voting pattern exhibited by African-Americans.
African-Americans have established that expressing "racial pride" by voting on the basis of skin color is 100% acceptable. Neither the "Wall Street Journal" nor the "New York Times" complained about this racist behavior. Therefore, in future elections, please feel free to express your racial pride by voting on the basis of skin color. Feel free to vote for the non-Black candidates and against the Black candidates if you are not African-American. You need not defend your actions in any way. Voting on the basis of skin is quite acceptable by the standards of today's moral values.
The folks who responded to the grandparent poster merely utter some labels like "troll", "racist", "rightwing nut", etc. Name-calling means that the grandparent poster must be speaking a signficant element of truth.