Ken Blackwell: Obama's "Fly Me to the Crescent Moon" Policy

We thought this graphic captures the Obama/Bolden 'Outreach to Muslims' very well and reminds us of the lines from space movies, "We Come in Peace!" It fits perfectly with the editorial by Ken Blackwell at Townhall.com.

Blackwell has a way with words and has done a masterful job of a slap-down of Obama and Bolden on their policy of the newest space frontier is an outreach to Muslims. These three paragraphs speak volumes about why this outreach is so dumb and what Muslim Nations could do on their own:

I have a simple way for Muslim-majority nations to excel in science and technology: Have everyone read a list of Jewish scientists who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, or Medicine in the past century. Then, perhaps, their leaders could stop their Israel-bashing and Jew-baiting.

They might also read George Gilder’s latest book The Israel Test. Gilder, who is not Jewish, says Israel is a wonderful test for everyone. Do we envy and resent this people?

Do we covet what they have produced? Do we want to emulate their productivity and creative genius, or do we darkly ascribe their feats to a “Zionist” protocol? Gilder holds up a mirror to anti-Semites everywhere. What do you see?

When we first read that "Outreach to Muslims" was the next endeavor of NASA, it was like "What did we just read?" We thought it came from Obama and sure enough the White House and NASA reportedly are standing behind NASA's administrator for saying that his "foremost" mission is to reach out to the Muslim world according to media outlets. We should not have been surprised as Obama did say in 2009:

"And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. And so there's got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples."

Facts are that with around 6 million Muslims, we are the 34th largest Muslim country. How Obama came up with the United States would be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world is anyone's guess. Guess Obama missed the part in history that we are a Judeo/Christian Nation.

Since Obama stated during the campaign "I have visited all 57 States" maybe it is the other '7' states who have all the Muslims? We cannot fathom anyone raised in America not knowing we have '50' states. Maybe that statement during the campaign should have been a clue to voters that this Senator from Illinois may not be someone who was raised as an American. With so little investigating by the press even after the gaffes like that, we still don't know.

Cannot even fathom what NASA employees are thinking about the President and the NASA Administrator today. All these years these men and women have worked toward the goal of exploring further into space, but now are told their next mission is to the Middle East. What a comedown from the lofty heights of space to the deserts of the Arab lands. Excuse me but this is like a "Beam me Up Scotty moment." What a waste of our tax dollars.

Ken Blackwell does a great job of capturing the abject stupidity of this outreach by Obama and Bolden in his editorial:

Obama's "Fly Me to the Crescent Moon" Policy
Ken Blackwell
July 11, 2010

Maybe it’s the Dog Days of Summer. Perhaps it’s the heat—102 degrees in Washington—that’s getting to peoples’ heads. But President Obama’s latest policy—announced by his NASA administrator, astronaut Charles Bolden, is about to melt down.


Speaking on the Arabic language network al-Jazeera, Bolden said Mr. Obama had given him his marching orders for NASA: Get American kids re-inspired to do better in math and science. Work on international cooperation. And, perhaps most important: find ways to “reach out” to the Muslim world to affirm their strong contributions to science and engineering.

First, we have to consider that President Obama is gutting NASA’s budget. He has scrapped the Constellation Program that would take Americans back to the Moon. There are possible resources there that could help all of us on earth with our energy needs. Former Sen. Harrison Schmitt, who walked on the Moon, says we could mine the Helium-3 that is abundant beneath the lunar surface and use it for nuclear fusion. Perhaps, perhaps not, but we are unlikely to know if we’re not going back there.

Second, why should American kids be excited about math and science when Administrator Bolden confesses that the U.S. can no longer even put astronauts in low earth orbit without help from other nations? President Kennedy led this nation to the Moon, but President Obama is teaching us to look inward. Under this administration, NASA has been grounded.

Third, this “outreach” to Muslims by NASA is, well, lunacy. Telling Muslims that they once led the world in science and technology is wonderful. They did. But that was before murderous mullahs took over control of Muslim societies and threatened with death anyone who didn’t toe the line of theocratic control.

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