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You miss my point there, Chris. Whether you revel in the the achievement and the technology of the space program means diddly squat to those that ultimately run it and have hold of the purse strings. We don't even register at all. Even our opinions at the ballot box mean "jack" ultimately. The business of running things carries on regardless of who's in power or not. Or who we put in there.
What I was ultimately trying to get across is that we need someone in there that will fire up the space program. Someone who has the intelligence, imagination and forethought to be able to push it along. Someone who can rally everyone behind the grand enterprise and keep that support going. They'll need help in doing this though as no one person could carry that burden themselves. Unfortunately I don't see anyone in government anywhere who is like that...not even Obama. Those that work behind the scenes ar even less inclined to be like that. The political apparatchiks have more in common with "Corporate America" than they have in anything else. So long as their narrow minded, self righteous needs are taken care of, to hell with everything else. Unfortunately when someone who has all the right qualities appears, they usually don't last long.
Oh...BTW. It was Kruschev, not Brezhnev, and Kennedy.
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