Gary,
You are a gold mine of interesting information of the factual kind.
I just found this from a bit of surfing. I vaguely remember a report of this Obamah visit to KSC. The references probably need checking, but the bits I looked up check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_...launch_vehicle
Seems when Obamah cancelled the Constellation Program, he promised to increase NASA budget to achieve a similar objective but with new designs.
A wall of the same Apollo astronauts have put their name to very critical comments that the extra money will fail to achieve anything near to that already well advanced in the Constellation Program that Obamah cancelled.
Its worth a read - certainly does not sound like the bold determined approach of JFK!