[brurdefdoro]

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.

[MasdMnPa]

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-po...#ixzz0suoXnJnB

Krauthammer Rips NASA Chief for Declaration to Improve Relations with Muslim World

By Jeff Poor

Mon, 07/05/2010 - 21:08 ET

If you haven't heard the report of the remarks recently made by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden over what the role of his agency, it's a little troubling. And it hasn't gone unnoticed, at least not by syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer

Recently, Bolden, in an interview with Al Jazeera English, said that the "foremost" mission of NASA is to improve relations with the Muslim world. This drew the ire of Krauthammer on the July 5 broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Special Report with Bret Baier." (h/t Gateway Pundit)

"This is a new height in fatuousness," Krauthammer said. "NASA was established to get America into space and to keep is there. This idea to feel good about their past and to make achievements is the worst combination of group therapy, psychobabble, imperial condescension and adolescent diplomacy."

And how does Krauthammer think this should be handled? Assuming Bolden wasn't instructed by President Barack Obama to make this gesture, he said he should be immediately fired for deviating from the intended purpose of NASA.

"If I didn't know that Obama had told this, I'd demand the firing of Charles Bolden the way I would Michael Steele," he continued. "This is absolutely unbelievable."

In the interview in question, Bolden had said he was tasked with doing the following by the President, including the claim the "foremost" mission was for the space agency to reach out to the Muslim world.



Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-po...#ixzz0sxB0wYGj

[TubOppomo]

Lou Dobbs and Fox News are idiots. But not really, if you get my drift. The conservatives know damn well that Pres. Obama isn't putting NASA under the direction of the State Department or turning it into an exclusive diplomatic agency. Like rats, the conservatives swarmed over one word in Administrator Bolden's statement and have now gleefully stuffed it in their mouths, ready to scurry back to dump more meaningless detritus into their cheap political nests. Regis, your house is infested and you don't even realize it.

[trowUrillioth]

And Krauthammer is just as bad as Fox, Rush, Drudge and all the rest of the neocon mouthpieces. He just puts more intelligent-sounding sentences together.

First leap to the conclusion, then completely ignore the concept that anything that ANY branch of government can do to improve international relations makes us safer. Of course, since the neocon method of improving national security is to invade whatever country we don't like at the time, they wouldn't understand that concept.

[paulaglober]

Why is it that every nation including our own has those very few select boneheads that can create the biggest mess out of the world we live in when the vast majority of people in all nations simply want to live a normal life in peace?

[fetesiceWaist]

Why is it that every nation including our own has those very few select boneheads that can create the biggest mess out of the world we live in when the vast majority of people in all nations simply want to live a normal life in peace?

I might say, because people are inherently selfish. If there's material gain to be had, some people will go to any cost to obtain it. Rush has acknowledged that the more crap he slings about liberals, the more viewers he has, and the more money he gets from advertisers. Well, a combination of selfishness and stupidity.

[Sarbrienna]

Funny how this policy stance was applauded by the right when Reagan expressed it.

[exsmoker]

They also loved the way he propped up Saddam and Osama.