Obama Outlines Bold Space Policy ... But No Moon

The Bad Astronomer writes "In front of a mostly enthusiastic audience at NASA's Kennedy Space Center today, President Obama outlined a bold, new space policy. It's a change from his previous policy; the Constellation rockets are still dead, but a new heavy-lift rocket system is funded. He specifically talked of manned asteroid and Mars missions, but also stated there would be no return to the Moon. This is a major step in the right direction, but still needs some tweaking."

Comments

Re:Too bad Obama doesn't share the American dream

[CarbonShell]

He is a black liberal. Double-bad to the reptiles.

But I was wondering the same thing. Where were all these people when the drunk coke-sniffing draft-dodging Village-Idiot-In-Chief and Darth Vader's bastard son were running the show?

Re:Whatever

[copponex]

The budget surplus was projected. Half of the 2000 debates were about how to use the projected surplus. Al Gore had the lockbox for social security. Bush said the money should be given back as tax cuts.

Bush won the supreme court ruling saying he was elected, and then he cut taxes for the wealthy and started two wars. Bye bye budget surplus.

Re:Whatever

[ArcherB]

This, more than anything else I've seen in the last ten years, convinces me that racism is still alive in the US today. It's not that opposing Obama means you're a racist. It's the iron clad, unassailable assumption that he doesn't have the intelligence or talent to be in the political elite of this country by his own merits.

Wait just a damn minute here. Didn't I just get done hearing how stupid and incompetent GWB was for the past eight years? If saying the same thing about Obama is racist, then why was it not racist to say it about Bush?

Is it because Bush is white and Obama is black? Isn't applying different standards to different people based solely on race, by definition, racist?

Listen to the guy in interviews and debates. He not only can think on his feet, he thinks on his feet *faster than the other guy*

You mean like how a local plumber embarrassed him and caused him political grief for years by making him admit things that were politically damaging? Or are you talking about how he sends world leaders DVDs that they can't play in their home countries? Wait, you must mean the iPod gift of his speeches that he gives to dignitaries, right? Or does bringing any of this up make me a racist?

Bush was not stupid either. He is a Yale and Harvard grad. I don't care who your daddy is, Yale and Harvard do not pass idiots. Sure, he occasionally stuck his foot in his mouth or did something stupid, but his slip ups are nothing compared to Biden's faux pas. Also, Bush held his own against Gore and Kerry well enough to win the elections. I didn't hear any Democrat claim that Gore and Kerry were idiots.

You might not agree with all of his positions -- I certainly don't. But you have to admit the guy is very, very smart. Intelligence doesn't always lead you to the right conclusion, but it sure helps you get ahead in life.

I agree for the most part, but sometimes, I wonder about his intelligence. There is no doubt that he's misguided, gullible and inexperienced. Seriously, how hard it is to NOT bow to foreign leaders?

Re:Whatever

[ArcherB]

No, what makes you a racist is that you bring up what is literally gossip in comparison with Bush starting an unwinnable war, illegally suspending constitutional rights, and staffing the federal government with his cronies. Remember the the guy who ran FEMA? Who's job before that was judging ponies? A job from which he was fired?

Wait! How does that make me a racist? What does any of that have to do with race? Did you oppose any of the stuff Bush did because he is white? The wars have expanded, Constitutional rights have not been restored and have been further limited, and cronyism is at an all time high. Why do you not oppose Obama from doing even more of the exact same stuff that Bush did?

So it appears that YOU are the racist. See, the only difference between Bush and Obama with respect to the issues you brought up is race. You opposed Bush when he did those things and support Obama blindly.

I never mentioned cronyism or the wars in my criticism of Obama. I support him in respect to Afghanistan and Iraq and accept that a president has the right to choose his cabinet. My criticism deals with his obvious inexperience in respect to diplomacy and the way he tends to stick his foot in his mouth when he speaks off teleprompter.

So it's just as racist to support someone because of their skin color as it is to oppose them. That makes you the racist, a racist guilty of projection.