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**brurdefdoro** · 07-07-2010, 12:49 AM

In roles that the Federal government should do (i.e. Defense, Border security, Space exploration) Dear Leader doesn't want to do. You see, America has been sooooo far ahead of the world in space exploration that it's just not fair. We need to pause so the rest of the world can catch up. Meanwhile, we need to redistribute all that knowledge we gained while the rest of the world watched. It's all about fairness.

What an idiot Obama is.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...tions-muslims/

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

Published July 05, 2010
| FoxNews.com

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.

The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo -- in his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.

"It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," he said. He held up the International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese.

However, Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission -- in a distinctly non-diplomatic role.

07-07-2010, 12:49 AM	#1
brurdefdoro Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 528 Senior Member	NASA's mission under Obama: Improve relations with the Muslim world In roles that the Federal government should do (i.e. Defense, Border security, Space exploration) Dear Leader doesn't want to do. You see, America has been sooooo far ahead of the world in space exploration that it's just not fair. We need to pause so the rest of the world can catch up. Meanwhile, we need to redistribute all that knowledge we gained while the rest of the world watched. It's all about fairness. What an idiot Obama is. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...tions-muslims/ NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World Published July 05, 2010 \| FoxNews.com NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel. "When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview. The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo -- in his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part. "It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," he said. He held up the International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese. However, Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission -- in a distinctly non-diplomatic role.
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