To the Moon Ali

I received e-mail today asking me to comment on the latest episode with regard to the new mission given to NASA by Obama: outreach to the Muslim world. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs now says that the head of NASA was in error in claiming that NASA had been given this new principal task. Of course, that leads to a series of questions.

First, who believes anything that Gibbs says anyway?
Second, is it possible that the head of NASA does not know his agency's main mission?
Third, since Obama has cancelled most of the space missions for NASA, does it seem logical that Obama would give the agency a bizarre political assignment in place of the cancelled missions?
Fourth, if you read this stuff in a novel, would you ever think that it bore any resemblance to reality?

The truth is that Obama is destroying NASA. But since he is doing the same to much of the country, it is no surprise.