Former Vice President Al Gore criticized the new Bush space initiative in a speech in New York on Thursday, Reuters reported. A quote from the article:
“Instead of spending enormous sums of money on an unimaginative and retread effort to make a tiny portion of the moon habitable for a handful of people, we should focus instead on a massive effort to ensure that the Earth is habitable for future generations,” Gore said to a cheering Manhattan crowd.
Meanwhile, the AP reported that Presidential candidate John Kerry also took a swipe at the new policy during a speech in Iowa:
“Rather than sending Americans to Mars or the moon right now, these people would be better off trying to figure out how to get Americans back from Iraq,” he said.
I have been a life long yellow dog democrat, meaning if the democrats run a yellow dog, I would vote for her.
Space might change that.
Preston Page