That’s Not What I Said: Obama Flips On NASA
By NancyA on August 3, 2008 at 12:14 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Flip Flopping, Florida, John McCain, NASA, Obama, general election, pandering
For Immediate Release: From the John McCain Campaign.
ARLINGTON, VA — Today, in Florida, Barack Obama once again demonstrated that his words really don’t matter. When discussing NASA programs, Barack Obama said that “it’s still being reported” that he would delay the NASA Constellation Program to pay for his early education program. Unfortunately for Barack Obama, that is what he proposed and has been saying for months:
Here he is in Titusville, FL, home to many NASA workers and their families, making some very telling comments. Is he flipping again? You decide.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSxghYJ693A[/youtube]
According to Obama’s own website, he did indeed propose delaying the NASA Constellation Program to help pay for his Early Childhood Education program. See his plan here.
McCain’s campaign had this to say to Obama:
WORDS MATTER: Barack Obama Said He Would Pay For His Early Education Program By Delaying The NASA Constellation Program…
Here is more on Obama’s education plan:
In November, Barack Obama Proposed Cutting NASA’s Budget To Fund His Education Programs. “To pay for his education program, Obama would eliminate tax-deductibility of CEO pay by corporations and delay NASA’s program to return to the moon and then journey to Mars.
In an editorial piece in The Houston Chronicle, they ask, “How Would Barack Obama’s Positions Affect Houston And Its Residents”? Here is what they said:
“Houston is home to the Johnson Space Center. Obama has said he wants to postpone NASA’s Constellation program for five years. Should that happen, the gap between the end of the shuttle program and flight testing of a new spacecraft would exceed 10 years — years with no U.S. ability to fly humans in space. Would Obama really force such a gap, deterring Americans from pursuing careers in space science and crippling the U.S. space program for a generation?”
And today in the Orlando Sentinel, Obama said this about the Constellation Program:
“I think the constellation project is a bold vision but we haven’t thought through all the steps to get there and what the funding sources are.”
Obama it seems has never been able to take a steady stance on NASA at all. He talks about NASA “cannibalizing” other programs to keep the “shuttle program” going. Well, Obama wants to “cannibalize” the next generation NASA program, thereby dumbing down space exploration.
Hillary always maintained a steady course, calling for expansion of NASA and other space programs.It earned her an endorsement from none other than, John Glen, former Senator and astronaut. Here is the announcement in The Columbus Dispatch.
If Hillary were our presumptive nominee, would we have to deal with these flip-flops. In a one word answer. No.
Obama, can you tell us where you really stand on NASA and the Constellation Program? In a one word answer. No.
Once again, Obama, is the “no man”.
Obama Wants to Slash NASA’s Budget
Obama plan: reward teachers, lengthen school time, Baltimore Sun
“Barack Obama is planning to unveil an education plan today that would make affordable pre-school programs more widely available and offer pay incentive programs for effective teachers. It would also allow schools to lengthen the teaching day or the school year. The $18 billion annual program would be offset by savings and cuts in federal agencies, including NASA. … The cost of the early education plan would come partly from delaying the NASA Constellation Program for five years …”
Obama’s Education Rollout, MSNBC
“Though Obama called for a renewed investment in math and science education, his plan would actually pull money from the federal government’s greatest investments and achievements in math and science. Obama would delay funding for the NASA Constellation program for five years, though he would maintain the $500 million in funding the program would receive for its manufacturing and technology base, in order to help fund his education policy. The campaign did not say how much money delaying the program would provide.”
Obama unveils education proposal , The Hill
“A spokesman for the Republican National Committee (RNC) criticized the NASA cut. “It is ironic that Barack Obama’s plan to help our children reach for the stars is financed in part by slashing a program that helps us learn about those very same stars,” said Danny Diaz, RNC spokesman.”
Obama wants to trash our military so his buddies over in the middle east can bring us their beloved Sharia Law. That’s after they trash Israel.
Israel will give them all they can handle. Speaking of which, John McCain is now vetting a Virginia representative who is Jewish. That’s a win win combination.
Eric Cantor or Sarah Palin would be a whole lot better than Mitt Romney. Yes, I’m on my anti-Romney trip today!!
Please not Eric Cantor. He was one of the biggest media apologists for the Bush administration during the last seven years. My skin crawls just thinking about him.
Anyone is better than Romney.
WildChild:
I know it is difficult to comprehend this sometimes, but McCain needs to shore up the Republican base and Cantor would do that. However, I’m holding out for Sarah Palin.
If he needs to shore up with the base I’d prefer he tap Huckabee. The guy has executive experience and I personally think that like McCain, he’s a decent human being.
UGH! Pick someone else WildChild so I can agree with you. I don’t like Huckster either.
Sarah Palin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh-lW2opLyQ
I have no gripe with Palin.
Lets keep up the chat on our John McCain VP… they’re listening.
I think he and the lady from Alaska, Ms. Palin, make a nice U. S. Presidential picture.
I am checking in to her. Heard she got her brother-in-law fired or something. Its a scandal. What’s the big effin deal? So what?
I think we should start building prisons in Alaska. Plush and dNC accommodating. A little Siberia for the worst in society. hmmm, probably a few thousand jobs would be created.
More info on Sarah:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin#Biography
I think we need to remember that come the end of the day, we are “borrowing” the GOP to avoid getting the DOPE. Can you be a bit more forthcoming about Eric Cantor other than that he was an apologist? That pretty much sums up a lot of people … imho
Ugh- I saw rendell on TV today with Stephanopoulos- NOT RENDELL! Please God- not the instigator of the Homeland Security Department- aka- the SS.
ANYBODY but Rendell!
I’m with you………… I want Romney. Think he will be good on economic issues. That’s McCain’s soft spot
It was not Rendell it was Ridge.
I did not read the People Magazine with the turd on the cover, but I heard he said that they do not give their children Christmas Presents? Growing up on the SS of Chicago, I always felt sorry for Black Muslin and JWitness children that did not get Christmas Presents.
Did they actually say that?
omigod. I know.
My kid is completely baffled, she thinks the first thing a president should do is go into space. They’re leaders, right? They should lead the way in space exploration. I think I’m starting to agree with her. On November 4th, let’s launch our new leader and send him off to the moon, LOL.
Ground control to Major Tom:
Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wong.
Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
So the message is: Best way to advance education is to stop science. Got it.
Science is Out. Hopey Changey Magic Wand is In.
I have a suggestion for where he can use that wand ….
Chang it to COSMONAUTS and Obama will support NASA.
lol.. I think you mean kosmabots.
LOL….Uppity….Aaaand someone needs to post guards at Darwin’s grave
That’s not the policy I knew.
LOL, you are too funny!
Science will be replaced by musical lessons by Professor Ludacris.
ROFL - hah!
Can someone make me a list of all the Obama flip-flops so far?
Nancy A Thanks for the post….
Will noone rid us of this lyin sack o’ shit ?
Bush’s FISA
NAFTA
Campaign Finance
Late term abortion
Gun Control
Off shore drilling
& Huh??
Capital punishment
Expansion of faith based programs
Voting for Dick Cheney’s Energy bill
Iraq Time table
Someone needs to write a book.
They are talking about “Obama Nation” over at Amazon … pretty heated.
I’ve been reading that Beebop.
Yea and where’s my Andy Martin book?
I am going to need something to keep me occupied on the beach.
Just say no to watching people swim in August.
Earth to Obama? Phone home. (go home, step down, shut mouth, go away)
NOBAMA!
Can we give him a tour of NASA culminating in a free ride on Discovery to Obama land.
Let’s let him have the moon all to himself. He can be the Lunar King.
and his followers can be moonbots.:-) or space cadets..
or floaters
He’s the candidate of change and he’s giving it to you, so be appreciative!!
Now now people, Obama said these things exhausted from his endless hard work on HIS Banking Commitee, so give him a break will you after all, he can only save one thing at a time and he will save the world, tht is what he told the drunks in Germany who rallied around him en-mass of 200,000 people JUST there to hear him.
LMAO, Mel you always make me laugh.
He also spent many hours inflating tires.
Obama is willing to say and do anything to be elected that’s it there is nothing deeper and it’s the same reason he has no record, didn’t show up for the tough votes like Iran, pushed the wrong button and just as the lone Rep voted Present. Stop the denial there is no there there and the Nation letter is the most pitiful referendum on uniformed ideologues electorate on the left, yes admit it,they have become what we hated, what the difference from those on the Right those poodles we scorned for 8 years, not much just different wedgies.
Clinton Supporters Receiving Death Threats From Obama Supporters
http://obambi.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/clinton-supporters-receiving-death-threats-from-obama-supporters/
Fascist is as Fascist does….Typical Obama supporter behavior
I hope they have reported these threats so some law official has documentation. This is horrendous!
They have become the very thing they have hated. Mirror images of the Bushites. Threats, stopping dissent, insults. Cheating. Lying. Bulldozing. The left left left Neo-Liberals are looking to replace the Neo-Cons. Same savagery, different extremist agenda.
Absolutely. Eight years of screaming at each other at Huffingsomepoop has turned them into the very thing they said they deplored! Absolute assholes.
RFLMAO….I have yet to find an historical source that equates FASCISTS as Big Deep thinkers….Calculating yes….Navel ponderers no….chuckle….
Exactly Uppity…Both extremes are the same.
Uppity is funny that each passing day barky’s policies become more and more the same as bush’s.
barky the closet republican.
Change we can believe in.
Ain’t that the truth. I can remember watching Olbermann back before he chugged the Kool-Aide. He was a breath of fresh air. Then he became the Rush Limbaugh of the left. Great, just what we need, another arrogant asshat with an agenda. And don’t get me started on HuffandPuffPo.
I would rather die than vote for Obama.
While this election is critical, we need you around. Death will have to wait.
Those making threats should be prosecuted under the Patriot Act (not that I like that particular statute). That would certainly fix their little red wagons.
I am going to check this out, hopefully some of these cowards can be found, it is a federal crime, even when done via e-mail or on a blog.
Did anyone see today how the press was discounting the polling info saying it did not reflect the youth vote?
I thought these were scientific polls? The youth vote has been in play for 7 months now-how could they not be counting it.
There is something beyond curious about how determined these people are to ignore facts to support Obama.
The funny thing was the only one who seemed to realize what the polling numbers meant was Donna Brazille. All the other were sitting around looking smug but Don-she looked a little worried.
The Youth vote is no ace and if they think it is, they are stupid. Donna SHOULD look worried. She remembers history.
A little late. But she remembers.
And she’s never watched a candidate so hell bent on destroying his own slim chances.
Generation “inert” will stay away from the polls in droves. Their friends will tell them it’s all good and that Oblahblah won. So much for the youth vote. Hahahaha
Why it didn’t reflect it do tehy think? Because the “college kids” are all on holidays? Really? Does that include all the working class college kids and all of the AA youth? They are on holidays alright…ELITISM anyone?
The MSM has been saying that this entire election cycle. The think because the NIKE’s and College kids only have cell phones they don’t get polled.
This is a lie. This isn’t a change in position. This is pandering to the audience sitting in front of you. Period. No nice way to put this. Barack Obama is a LIAR. He will tell you whatever it is you need to hear to part with your vote. He is the VERY WORST thing to ever happen to politics in my 55 years.
Beebop….Why restrain yourself ? Obama is a Lyin Sack O’ Shit…IMHO….LOL
I am just stunned at the breadth of his “audacity.” Does he think we don’t pay attention? Does he think that people are just going to give him a pass on this crap? Banking committee my ass. This guy needs to take the time off between now and the convention and get himself together. He’s a big ball of twine unraveling FAST.
I hope he keeps going and unravels faster!
The best sentence I read in the last couple of days was from Jennifer Rubin who asked:
Will the base rise up or have they put their collective intellectual integrity in a blind trust?
and then she continued:
Who knows !!???!!
Full article here:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/18921
(I think SusanUnPC referenced to this as well yesterday in a post).
I thought you had an issue with not having cromium pigment, workingclass artist?
BO has a life time supply.
Republicans called that positions for the moment when trying to explain their wild gyrations in policy positions as they crept ever closer to the abyss.
Can you imagine having Obama in the White House together with Nancy Pelosi speaker of the house? What a travesty for the next 4 years…it scares me to death!! Did you see what she did in the house on Friday? Wish we could leave our job at 11:23 am and go home…all at the expense of us…the taxpayers.
Well at least we should be grateful that he didn’t tell us we “Weren’t listening”.
“I know it’s still be reporting” so it’s the media who is stupid I guess ….. How’s that going to work? He’s throwing the cheerleaders under the bus?
Uppity that was a great Columbo piece.
Thanks PK. I had fun doing it.
Obama’s problem (one of them, anyway) is that we are listening.
Obama’s best move right now would be to take a vow of silence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JrHKrSfkxM
Narcissists are not capable of vows of silence. You have to pull them off the stage with a hook.
Usually I try to make a somewhat thoughtful comment. Can’t do it right now:
OBAMA FREAKIN’ SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, Barky, that’s the way to emulate JFK- yeah, sure. Ignorant, lightweight, flip-flopping appeaser dumbass- that’s the way to improve our nation. Like NASA, space exploration and innovation have nothing to do with the economy, education, manufacturing and our place in the world economy? Sheesh- what would one expect from an idiot who didn’t know a thing about Hanford or the Great Lakes or number of states or ….(fill in the blanks- I grow weary just listing them…)
JFK challenged us to go to the Moon. Obama wants us to stay on Earth.
“If Hillary were our presumptive nominee, would we have to deal with these flip-flops. In a one word answer. No.”
In all fairness, if anyone else were nominee we would not have to deal with this outrageous level of flip-flops. I don’t think Obama can even remember what he has previously said and I don’t think he really cares.
“Obama, can you tell us where you really stand on NASA and the Constellation Program?”
Which version do you want?
The only thing he hasn’t flipped on is the use of the race card.
Pretty soon, if this goes on…..
ALL thinking people will ridicule Obama, and Obama supporters.
He is on the verge of becoming another Dan Quayle….
he is sinking like a stone.
EVERYDAY brings fresh fodder to be amazed and incredulous about.
The media should ridicule Obama but they are trying to elect him. In all fairness to Dan Quayle, the media began ridiculing him the day Bush picked him as VP. They said he was too inexperienced although he had 8 years in the US Senate and 4 years in the US Congress and he ran as VP. Obama running as president has 3 years experience in the US Senate and he has spent most of that time running as president.
The media spent all of their time trying to pick on Quayle and they make a big deal about him misspelling potato. Yet Obama trips all over himself daily like an inept clown. Compared to Obama, Quayle looks like a genius.
Well, the problem was Quayle. He “led the way” for simplemindedness being ignored. One might also note that almost all of Quayle’s “problems” didn’t really surface until AFTER he became VP: The “Murphy Brown” debacle, for instance, didn’t happen until he and Bush the Elder were running for RE-election in 1992; the infamous “potatoe” incident also happened in 1992. Quayle’s only serious flub before he became VP was his self-comparison to JFK (hmm, hasn’t another candidate done that this year?) before he was smacked down by Lloyd Bentsen with the famous, “I served with Jack Kennedy. . . .Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy” reply. Of course, Quayle’s later claimed that, in spite of his “deer in the headlights” look and speechlessness at the time, he did what he intended (attack Dukakis’ liberal record while avoiding comparison to Bentsen’s own record of greater experience–hmm, again, there does seem a bit of a comparison with a certain Presidential candidate with a lack of any real experience).
What’s more to the point is that Quayle became VP at age 41 (five years younger than Barry will be should he be make it to the White House) after having spent almost a dozen years in Congress.
The media set out to trash Quayle from the get-go since he was young and was not expected to be picked as VP. The media made an all out effort to trash Quayle before he even said or did anything. I remember they decended on Qualye’s house right after he was put on Bush’s ticket and railed on him while he was outside.
Where is the media now with a space cadet like Obama running loose? These idiots are out trying to elect him president!
No matter how you try to justify the media knocking Quayle you look like an idiot not holding the media responsible for trying to elect Obama instead of criticizing him. Did Quayle spend 20 years in a racist anti-American church? Did he spend over 20 years embracing a terrorist? I see no evidence of this.
What if we promised to send BOBO to the Moon?
Wile we’re trying to cleanup Earth, let’s not start polluting the Moon.
Let’s save Earth. Let’s just put Obama in space and have him orbit Earth for the rest of his life. It would be ironic that a megalomanic who thinks the Earth revolves around him would actually be revolving around the Earth.
You people just do not get it do you?
Every evening, Obama goes to his room, lights some incense and candles and speaks to all the fallen soldiers he has the ability to see and then he contacts all the Democratic Gov’s in the 57 states of the union and between these groups he makes his decissions.
We are so lucky to have such a gifted candidate who has ghosts and imaginary State Gov’s to consult to form policy decissions, does McCain have that?
http://orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/barack-sees-dead-people.jpg
WHY is Obama running to be president? He isn’t even a democrat!! He doesn’t act like one, he doesn’t sound like one: When was the last time you heard him refer to himself as a democrat? He never did during the primary season—wants those republican votes, Hell–he votes like a republican now.
WTF does Obama have to offer us? HUH? NOTHING. What is the damn point of him? He SUCKS.
Yeah ok, Obama, expand those FAITH BASED programs, and halt money to science. GREAT!
I’m gonna flip the hell out.
Obama. You SUCK!!
Go the hell away, you fake ass democrat.
I’m glad you got your thougts together Kat. Carry on!
This is off subject, but when you have a free minute, go over to Amazon and search on Corsi Obama (sorry, if I tried to provide a link I’d probably bring down the electric grid from Miami to Boston), and read the reviews and the comments on “Obama Nation”. It’s so painfully obvious that none of the pro-Obama people have read the book, and the people who have clearly read it recommend it highly. 700 plus footnotes to Obama’s own words and deeds, not one Obama supporter has yet to refute any fact in the book. This is what the MSM has refused to investigate, and the book is already #5 on the list of all books being sold at Amazon right now.
Fight the Smears troopers are still getting their talking points.