Therealbrighteyes

Ele,
It isn't just his personal life. It is his sheer hypocrisy that he helped found the Moral Majority pointing fingers at us mere mortals, telling us that we were evil and that we needed to be more like him. All the while he was doing far worse than any of us have done. On top of that, he claimed to be some hard working guy, just like us and that he made his money with integrity......all the while taking bribes.
The fact that he is running for POTUS frankly shocks the living hell out of me. When I first heard about him tossing his hat in the ring, I laughed. To me, Homer Simpson would have been more believable. Incredibly, he is the front runner now.

I don't think we can compare Kennedy to this. Afterall, he never came out saying he was some upstanding husband.

anotherguy

I don't see it that way. We launched a TON of missions in the past few years. Spirit and Opportunity to Mars, probes to Saturn (Cassini), the Sun, asteroids, Jupiter..the moon again.... We realized we can learn much much much more by sending robots out first, at a fraction of the cost. Yes, capturing public attention and enthusiasm is important too.. Something that was helped with the shuttle program and Hubble, and the space station... But those are only part of the big picture. We have learned more in the past 5 years than we have from the entire mercury and apollo programs about space travel, and the future looks very good with some public support for a manned mission to mars and an asteroid landing.

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html

Maybe I don't see all the doom and gloom and apathy because I see what is getting accomplished in the space biz... With a surprisingly tiny budget no less.
...and I'm not even counting 'SUITSAT'..
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HappyAtLast

And be sure to make room for Santorum & Romney,too.

F-102

While I am a "space nut" and think that it was shameful that we pulled the plug on the moon program the first time around, I absolutely HATE Gingrich, and I NEVER want to see him as president.
(Seems that every Republican wants to be "The Next Ronald Reagan")

But face it-his space ideas, as great as they sound, would NEVER survive the next president's agenda or the congressional budget-cutting axe, just as Bush's lofty space goals were gutted by Obama and Obama's space plans will also be dismantled by the next president.

Seems every president after Kennedy/Johnson wants their own "space legacy", but by the time these plans even make it to the design stage, their terms expire and then the next president orders those plans destroyed and starts to push their own agenda. It's a vicious cycle, and face it, we ain't going anywhere.

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