Both candidates are being cautious on manned stations on the moon, which makes sense. We need to look carefully at a cost-benefit analysis and be working on getting our economy in order before borrowing billions from the Chinese to build on the moon. Meanwhile, we whould support 100% the scientific research mission of NASA, including ISS, Mars robotics, Hubble/Chandra/ etc., and earth sciences studies looking at global climate change. NASA has a huge role to play in our future and needs our support!

Both candidates are being cautious on manned stations on the moon, which makes sense. We need to look carefully at a cost-benefit analysis and be working on getting our economy in order before borrowing billions from the Chinese to build on the moon. Meanwhile, we whould support 100% the scientific research mission of NASA, including ISS, Mars robotocs, Hubble/Chandra/ etc., and earth sciences studies lookng at glopbal clikmate change. NASA has a huge role to play in our future and needs our support!

So, um, good idea. We should just not listen to what the candidates say, and come up with our own prejudices about what they’re really thinking. Mind reading. What a concept! BTW, what was your bad judgment that led to your experience?

I’m not concerned about a President “gutting” a space program (no, he wouldn’t be “gutting space”) that has no compelling strategic vision or national value. But I am impressed with a President who would reevaluate what is really important about space to the nation, and exercise some judgment about national priorities. I don’t put this past McCain, either.

Er, did I understand that you were criticizing a presidential candidate for proposing to divert funds to “more important national priorities”? Why would a President NOT want to do that? I guess space exploration has to be established as an important national priority. This administration has simply not done that, and that’s disappointing. In fact, it pretended that it was a national priority, as per Presidential Directive, and then rolled the whole program under the bus. (No Obama doesn’t have a lock on using buses.)

What? The national debt?

“space for more important national priorities.”

Like what, more war? More corporate welfare?

Your sworn enemy has stated he’s going to preserve Constellation, the one thing that should be gutted. What’s he gonna do, shut down SpaceX?

Get a grip.

Also are you aware that Alice Palmer was his political mentor prior to the election? She arranged for him to run for her seat and even helped him raise funds while she ran in the Democratic primary for Congress. She lost and switched to re-election for her old seat in the state senate, She expected Obama would keep his promise to drop-out if she had to run again for it. Of course he did what Obama does best, broke his promise and threw her under the bus by having his volunteers work to have her disqualified knowing he would lose big if she stayed in the race. Disposing of others were just frosting on the cake for Obama.

Also I point the interesting coincidence that Obama won his Senate race by having both his opponent in the Democratic Primary and his major opponent in the general election self-destruct by having court ordered divorce documents unsealed. BTW in both cases the reason they were unsealed was a result of legal action by the Chicago Tribune where his several of his staff used to work. Really Tricky Dick and Old Richard J. would be proud of such election winning tactics.

Again the context of this is that Obama does have a Record and its a Record of Obama doing ANYTHING needed to get elected. If that means promising Florida and the space advocate community the Moon, so be it. It will be easy enough to stiff them later. And nothing compared to what he has done in the past. Really, do your research on his past record.

The space community will come to rue the day they fell for Obama, just as they now rue the day Griffin was named NASA Administrator. If I recalled the advocate community were jumping for joy that an engineer with a commercial space background was finally going to run NASA. Then they learned that it was probably the worst thing to ever happen to NASA and the VSE.

So mark my words when a year from now you are crying at Obama gutting space for more important national priorities. As they say, good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement. I expect the space advocate community with gain a lot of experience in the next year by supporting Obama.

Ferris, this is probably your cue to now come in with the pro-Obama spin that he was just the innocent benefactor of his election opponents having an extraordinary series of unfortunate events. I won’t waste my time anymore here. You may do your Obama worshiping and NASA bashing unopposed. However will I come back after Obama breaks his promise and guts NASA to say with gusto I told you so.

It is incumbant on anyone who wants to run for office to fullfil the qualifications for running for office. If they don’t, or can’t, it is not the fault of the remaining candidate(s). It is their own stupidity.