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February 12, 2010

President Obama, You're No Jack Kennedy

Posted by The MaryHunter at February 12, 2010 5:29 AM

Charles Krauthammer sums up eloquently the exasperatingly myopic decision by Dear Leader to kill America's manned space program:

Obama's NASA budget perfectly captures the difference in spirit between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons. Obama's is a constricted, inward-looking call to retreat.

Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it.

Even worse is the unavoidable corollary: America has now lost in space, as the Chinese and Russians will scramble to fill this embarrassing gap.

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