Obama and his anti-space crusade??

On 15 May, 01:44, Paul wrote:
In the past, I’ve read that because of the Vietnam War, the US lost its
direction for space exploration after Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
Today, I’ve read that because of the war in Iraq and terror, man will
not be going to Mars anytime soon, and perhaps only limited manned
exploration of the moon (depending on the presidents in the next 10-15
years). Then I hear that the idiot Obama wants to “postpone” Project
Constellation for 5 years so he can fund his education programs if he
becomes president (hopefully, he will not; too liberal in my opinion,
and too stupid). If I believe correctly, isn’t the Constellation program
all being done within the confines of NASA’s current annual budget? Does
that mean, Obama intend to slash NASA’s budget to fund his so-called
education programs? Then, I checked out the following link, and it makes
me even more angrier.

http://www.cfiflistmanager.org/globalpovertyact3he.html

Obama is a complete idiot. He is just as bad as Walter Mondial was back
in 1984 when he vowed to curtail, or even scrapped, manned exploration
of outer space and put the money “saved” into social programs. That’s
probably why he lost big time. Perhaps the moron should re-read his
history. Obama is a person who is stuck in the past and is not
interested in looking towards the future. And in the end, everybody pays
the price for such stupidity.

I fear it is even worse than you suggest. As you know I feel and have
always felt that unmanned exploration yields more cost effective
results than manned. However we now know a little bit more about
Obama. If he postpones Consellation will he insitute a program of
unmanned exploration and AI?

There is this evangelical preacher who talks about America "deserving"
9/11. Obama has didtanced himself from his more extreme rantings. At
the back of my mind is 3KPa. This is the (maximum) distance light will
have travelled since the Garden of Eden. Obama has NOT distanced
himself from Creationalism. He may well be not only anti space
(manned) but anti science in general. "Crusade" may indeed be the
right word to use.

I am British, and I don't have a vote. Hillary would I think have been
the preferred choice, but I would vastly prefer McCain to Obama who is
in fact a very conservative Democrat. In many respects he is like
Bush, only worse.


- Ian Parker