President Obama recently directed NASA administrator Charles Bolden 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, math, and engineering.”
This was “third, and perhaps foremost” in our president’s direction to Bolden.
Y’all got that in the cheap seats? The President of the United States has directed a storied and accomplished federal agency of science and discovery to concern itself with the self-esteem of the Middle East.
This is the first time I’ve wanted to parodize this administration and been at a loss.
What do you do with such? When the reality is the above, what in the world can you write that sounds ridiculous enough to generate a laugh? I thought about “reporting” that EPA envoys had been deployed to predominantly Muslim countries to pick up litter. Ha ha, right? Really? Given our president, is that so ridiculous-sounding? Hey, let’s dedicate USGS resources to making sure every household in the Middle East has a blue recycling bin! Let’s make the new State Department motto “Have a good day today, and pass it on!”
What a thoroughly disastrous experiment the Obama presidency has been. It’s just four months before we can (hopefully) hamstring him considerably at the ballot box. Then shortly after the midterms, he’ll have to start running for reelection. He’ll sound much like a 1979-80 President Carter, but with an order of magnitude more arrogance. Furthermore, now that it’s so abundantly clear that oratory is absolutely all there is to the guy, it ought to go considerably worse for him this time around.
I have the deepest hopes we shall swear in a grown-up on January 20, 2013.
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You and the rest of the coastline… One of my hard-core democrat friends (not very liberal, a moderate) has posted in public that he made a mistake voting for Obama. Guess what state he lives in?
Oh, I just knew you were going to blog this when I saw the headline. Every time some new news nugget comes out about this administration, my first word is always “unbelievable.” Ya reckon I need to find a new word? Nothing it/HE/they do is unbelievable it seems now. Let me just say, “Wow.” I guess they can take the money they’ll be saving if He cancels the Constellation Program and use it to help them “feel good.” Oh Lord, get here November!
I expect that chorus to grow, if perhaps a bit more slowly than it might under ordinary circumstances.
Look, Obama’s election was monumental. No thinking person disputes that, in my mind. Many people were genuinely optimistic that his presidency would be just as monumental—that good things would happen because we voted him in.
Not only have good things not happened, his naivete and arrogance have combined to make him one of the most stupefyingly inept presidents imaginable. We are getting a presidency very much like one we would get were we to select a leader from a gathering of 95th-percentile grad students, with skulls full of hard- to radical-left ideology and no life experience.
That he is so bad is really hard to swallow for many millions who felt unprecedented hope at his election—many millions who are letting go of that hope very reluctantly.
This is and shall remain a tricky landscape for Republicans to navigate in ’12. I don’t know the answer, but I do know it’s not to yank it too violently the other way. Many voters falling between moderate left and moderate right (inclusive) on the scale will want an alternative narrative that is plausible, but that doesn’t minimize (or much worse, ridicule) the depth of emotion many of them felt at putting Barack Obama in office.
This is incredible! I’m so angry, I could spit nails!!!
What in the world does Obama think he’s doing? It’s not NASA’s job to reach out to the Muslim community and give them warm fuzzies.
Obama is seriously screwing up NASA and all that the agency has worked toward in the last 50 years.
I do not envy the next president the job he/she will have in cleaning up this mess.
What’s incredible to me is this story is not even ON cnn.com anywhere. No bias in the news…riiiiiiight.
Monumental? Aside from the obvious and highly touted racial end of things, I don’t understand what made his election “monumental.” But I’m a cynic, so I’ll leave that alone.
I do not, however, understand how we are to eject the eejit in ’12, though. The GOP is still being stupid; we have no one to run; the media is still playing their hero worship game; the populace is still too stupid to see through it; and the game pieces are being shifted daily in order to ensure that it’s going to have to be a landslide – not a squeaker – in order to usurp His Majesty.
The need to believe that the electorate will wake from their collective stupor is great, but the reality is enough to make me want to put a gun to my own head. *We* know what’s going on because we search out and read. Average Joe and Edith Taxpayer neither know nor care.
Re: the subject of your post – you know what I think. And I won’t use that kind of language on your blog. Wouldn’t be nice.
kemtee, even with all of the hysterically overwrought political correctness, it’s a big deal to elect the first black president. That’s what I meant.
I understand your skepticism, but I’m trying to have a little more faith in the populace. Obama’s hemorrhaging independent support, and that’s all it takes. The center put him in, not the left.
He won’t rest until the hole is plugged. He won’t rest until the economy is revived. He won’t rest until we have real reform. blah.
PJTV had a great Trifecta episode about this lately, and at the end Bill Whittle, Scott Ott, and Stephen Green displayed some viewers’ suggestions as to what the new NASA emblem should look like. The best one had the letters NASA now standing for National Arab Sympathy Administration.