Why are we employing a dead veteran’s mother in an attack on a Presidential candidate? Off-topic and in incredibly poor taste.

FWIW…

Assuming, of course, that he will actually get sworn in. I expect more “problems” with the voting systems not to mention manufactured “scandals” (FauxNews, after all, has to keep their viewers entertained) so it is not at all clear the Mr. Obama will be the selected puppet.

We shall see.

Once you are able to admit to yourself that AMERICANS are the root of AMERICA’s evil, you will have taken another baby step towards adulthood.

The ‘Cindy Sheehans’ well understand that Mr. Obama is just another status quo candidate, and that very little will be accomplished in solving the severe problems left to him by his predecessors. And Mr. Obama will soon discover that he will be unable to flim flam those severe problems away.

The ‘Cindy Sheehans’ also well understand that there will be plenty of opportunities for future American evils, as America consumes resources, emits carbon, pisses off the entire world, and prints and burns money with great abandon well into the future and through the next several successive administrations. I see a great future fot the ‘Cindy Sheehans’ of America.

However, I’d argue that Hillary isn’t the only pro-space possibility, or even the best – I think Bill Richardson is very likely as well, and given New Mexico, he’d be a staunch supporter of space and space development. Further, it would allow for a significant different direction for space development to happen.

I take Obama at his word that he wants to make some root deep changes in America. He is bringing hundreds of years of frustration from the black community into power. He’ll make big changes.
I just don’t know what he’ll target. I think Nasa, VSE, other countries space efforts are a sideshow. I just don’t think the guy is all that interested. Not surprising considering the social justice issues at the forefront of his campaign speeches.

But he is realistic and will have to compromise with a Democratic Congress should it want to keep certain Nasa programs alive.

As has been said before, space isn’t an election issue and won’t be on the new president’s radar for months after taking office, so nothing really has to be decided for a year or so.

I think this is a very important observation. The nation has changed since the dark days after we retreated from the moon. While lunar flights (using whatever architecture) are likely to be deemphasized in an Obama Administration, a complete withdrawal from human spaceflight is politically improbable in the extreme. Even if Congress were interested in a purely automated space program, China gently reminds us ever couple of years what that would mean.

More interestingly, today’s San Francisco Chronicle says that Ms. Clinton is hinting that she might be interested in the VP position. I think that would be a very bad idea — she is not tempermentally suited to be number two. If she should be President, she should be self-aware enough to know that. I hope that she is smart enough not to ask for the position, and that Mr. Obama is smart enough to turn her down if she does. On the other hand, Ms. Clinton is the candidate apprently most interested in human spaceflight. Having her as VP might well be the best outcome for space.

— Donald

The danger for Nasa is that Obama might find other ways to funnel federal dollars into those districts that can ease the pain should Obama cancel near and dear Nasa contracts. New money for infrastructure, schools, day care, federal buildings to name just a few. As a Chicago politician Obama is completely at ease in “marking to market” political influence.