On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:08:21 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
(Greg Kuperberg) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

In article ,
Derek Lyons wrote:
I hardly find it surprising that the wording of a speech and the
wording of a document intended to outline and translate that speech
into action items diverge somewhat.

Except that O'Keefe's VSE document is not the only one that executes
Bush's space policy. Bush's 2006 budget requst for NASA also has that
function. It quotes Bush's vow

Now it's a "vow"?

You're hilarious, Gregg.

It would at least be foolish politics for Bush to keep reminding
Washington of the 2010 date if he didn't plan to stick to it.

Since the 2010 date is the policy, why not state it as such? That of
course doesn't mean that (like any policy) it can't change, if
circumstances require it.