Just in case anyone still doesn’t think Obama is a Manchurian candidate,
From FOX News: h/t Gay and Right
NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World
Published July 05, 2010
Shown here is NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. (YouTube)
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s
agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.
“When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering,” Bolden said in the interview.
The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo — in his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.
“It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations),” he said. He held up the International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese.
However, Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission — in a distinctly non-diplomatic role.
“Not at all. It’s not a diplomatic anything,” he said.
He said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without international help.
Bolden has faced criticism this year for overseeing the cancellation of the agency’s Constellation program, which was building new rockets and spaceships capable of returning astronauts to the moon. Stressing the importance of international cooperation in future missions, Bolden told Al Jazeera that the moon, Mars and asteroids are still planned destinations for NASA.
Below, a video of some of Bolden’s pathetic and disgusting grovelling dhimmitude.
Astonishing. Doesn’t NASA know that it shouldn’t treat with Klingons?
Seriously, if this is the way NASA is going, we’ll be having to look to China for future innovative space exploration.
That’s probably true, Durotrigan-unfortunately. Only dumb people who havn’t got a clue are promoted in top circles these days-the smart ones being fired instanly with their careers left in ruins. What is it about this policy that makes me feel so particularly sick to my stomach? Is it the bending-over-backwardness, the racism-of-lowered-expectationsness, the cowardice, the gross dishonesty? So many reasons to choose from. I think I’ll go and take another shower.
Just more PC butt kissing from the administration of ‘our Dear Leader’.
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” – Barack Hussein Obama , from his book “Audacity of Hope”
Says it all, really.
Chris, it seems to be that in any country afflicted by multicultural dhimmitude those employed by the state have to at the very minimum pay lip-service to the diversity dogma and its implicit (often explicit) prostration before Islam. As under Stalinism, it is the yes-men and women who get promoted to the most senior positions. I am bracing myself for what I expect to be some nauseating dhimmi grovelling to the Muslim population tomorrow to mark the fifth anniversary of the 7 July London bombings.
NASA is still doing some excellent work, but it really has lost its grand animating vision. However, the folks over at the Planetary Society (Buzz Aldrin included) are always trying to re-inject a little of the old idealism into the space programme through their advocacy of exploration of the Solar System: http://www.planetary.org/blog/
Reaching out to the Muslim world, thankfully, does not feature as one of their goals.
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” – Barack Hussein Obama , from his book “Audacity of Hope”
Wow, it sure does make things much clearer.
It tells me that my gut instinct was correct. He is Muslim practising tikkaya/kitman on an unsuspecting world.
So what happened to the science that NASA is supposed to be doing?
Once it appeases the non-scientific Muslim world, then its mandate has been chucked for political correctness. Doesn’t this violate its funding requirements?
Just asking…
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” Are you kidding? Does he say this in “Audacity of Hope”? In what context? Prove it to me. I have to see this with my own eyes. I’m going to go get the book.
Dont buy the book it will only encourage Burak. Find the page number and check it at a book store.
Oh, I’m far cleverer than that, Eeyore-I have it already, for free, bwahhhaahhaaha! You can torrent books.
Oh, and what is the page number, wake up? I got the book.
I just searched “Audacity of Hope” for the word ‘Muslims’. There were two instances, but neither one was about standing with Muslims. Um… I think this is it:
“Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
There it is, I think. Behold.
Thanks for searching out the quote Chris. It does none of us any good to be using incorrect information as it only provides our opponents with ammunition, so your posting of the actual phrasing of Obama’s statement is welcome.
I have read the book and do not remember a statement like that. Get the page number from Wake Up.