NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration 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.
Well, they (at least, pre-Islam) did invent the concept of "zero," so maybe The One feels some digital affinity there.
I didn't read all of the 2900 comments at the site; but I read enough of them (and others at usually Democrat-friendly sites like Digg) that it's clear that Obama's next outreach had better be to Americans. Opinions ran the gamut from mystified to outraged; there was little if any support for this lunacy.
Comments (2)
This is a shocking development. I have been reading about it on Fox. Really, there should be a huge public outcry. Let us hope that more than Fox take issue with this one. If not, we know that the media are truly asleep or maybe just corrupt.
Posted by MaryL | July 6, 2010 10:35 PM
Posted on July 6, 2010 22:35
Obama doesn't want to inspire kids to get into science and math.
Private sector engineers do not vote for leftists.
Posted by dance...dance to the radio | July 6, 2010 11:05 PM
Posted on July 6, 2010 23:05