Obama gets testy with reporter after interview on space shuttle

That "reporter" is a complete tool. In the interview segment, he states Gov. Perry's stances unchallenged in his narration and jumps on everything Obama says before he can finish his sentences. Obama certainly did not lose his cool in that interview. Many criticisms can be made about Obama, but that man has the patience and temperament of a uhh... a umm... Ahem, he doesn't get mad.

If I had to deal with any of the ignorance and malice he has to deal with from people, I would at least resort to sarcasm... which would then be followed by angry tirades. Anyway, his patience with people is impressive.

Regarding the shuttle, I'm sure politics as well as cultural and regional perceptions played a part in the decision, but to blame Obama is just silly. It's not like the guy sent one to Chicago or something! That said, I keep hearing about this commission that decided the shuttle destinations, but I can't seem to find who was actually involved. Some sources seem to indicate it was NASA's decision and others, that it was completely out of NASA's hands and decided by politicians. Has anybody seen any names?

 

Agree and I'm a Texan. Once I moved away I realized it and then I realized that I too was a Texan jackass at one point in my life because I didn't know any better. I'm still a Texan, Texas is home, and I'm proud of that, but I don't get caught up in the "don't mess with Texas" hillbilly attitude anymore.

 

There you go again being thoughtful and logical in a political thread.

 

Wasn't the statistic put out there that Johnson Space Center already gets more tourists per year than a few of these sites project to get now that they have the shuttle?

 

I don't see any relationship in tourism of old relics to funding.

Seeing the space shuttle on an aircraft carrier without any context to the program or ability to show anything related to it seems to do less for telling the story.

 

You almost sound like...a Californian

 

Someone should have asked the President why he's willing to depend, for the forseeable future, on Mr. Putin for rides to and from our incredibly expensive space station. I'm not nearly as sanguine about the prospect as he apparently is.

 

I usually agree with you but I dont agree with this at all. NASA has always been politicized in every way. It's how houston got JSC in the first place. NASA probably would have gotten massive funding cuts over the years if it wasnt for Tom Delay preventing most of it and now that JSC doesnt have a congressman with any clout, this stuff happens.

A decision like this was 100% politics. People had been lobbying for this for months. (and houston entered the race way too late, another failure by houston politicians)

NASA should be kissing Tom Delay's feet for having the budget that it has right now because if he wasnt around it would be much lower. Hell all of Bush's nonsense about going to Mars was a product of Tom Delay. Bush boosted funding for NASA because Tom Delay lobbied him to do it.

Tom Delay is a horrible politician but he was instrumental in preserving JSC and ensuring NASA funding. And now that we dont have a high ranking politician to lobby for JSC stuff like this happens. And sadly it'll only get worse from here. They'll rob JSC as long as we dont have an advocate.

 

Politicians are all about politics especially so when they say it isn't...It is.

 

People keep mentioning this, but it's neither here nor there: we might have been the recipient of a political decision, but by god it was then up to Houston and Houstonians to keep up our end of the bargain and make NASA's Mission Control what it was, and we did that a hundred-fold, if not more.

Beneficiary of political favor or not, we earned one of those damn shuttles.

 

10 years later, Texans should thank Tom Delay for his brilliant redistricting that booted out senior Democrats and replaced them with broke ass Rick Perry wannabes with no seniority.

But it's more schadenfreude for me. In the last 20 years Texas politicians on the national level have been a ****stain to Washington (they don't deserve all the credit) and has removed the reputation they had decades before. We didn't stop the bleeding. The political pendulum did on its own.

 

What????? The unflappable internet Ghandiesque persona is just that!!!!

 

It might not be telling the story but just seeing the shuttle is enough to spur interest in the space program and for the most part these type of displays are there just to generate interest. For instance there is a segment of a Mir space station at Wisconsin Dells. Wisconsin Dells has nothing to do with space or Russia but it is there to generate interest.

 

Those are some good points and you may be right that politics played a role but I have a hard time buying that where the space shuttles were located has much to do with shoring up electoral positions. I doubt that having a shuttle in Orlando will swing FL to the Democrats or not having one in NY would've cost them NY.

The location may have been done for political favors to those Congress reps but I still see tourism as playing a larger role, while JSC draws a lot of tourism the area (NYC, LA, Orlando) still draw more than Houston.

 

Why don't you suck my balls hippy...

 

perhaps they should have put it in Disneyland?

 

While the request does seem reasonable, throughout the interview you can tell Obama was uncomfortable and trying to keep his composure when being challenged and questioned...I thought the interviewer did a good job but you could tell Obama was getting PO'd...

On a side note, we are doomed!!!!

 

There might've been a problem with Disney being a private for profit corporation.

Maybe the NASA should've sold the shuttles to the highest bidder so they could directly get some money form them.

 

No outside outside of Azadre really loves Azadre. (myself included)