to the moon, alice
i'm still not convinced this isn't a joke, but newt just promised voters in florida that, if elected, he's going to put the US on the moon again in sufficient numbers by 2020 to establish our 51st state.
"yeah, we're wasting too much money in the federal government and we have to throw the present bums out of office, but when I'M elected king, i mean president, we're going to put 13,000 people on the moon".
LOLOLOLOL
i promise, lord, if he's nominated, i will be the most ardent and indefatigable obama supporter you have ever seen. door to door if i have to. for months if i have to. whatever it takes. just please please please please PuH-LEEEEEEEEZE don't have this much of a sense of humor. i don't think the world can take it.
i'm convinced this guy is batshit crazy, and more dangerous than anyone since cheney.
"yeah, we're wasting too much money in the federal government and we have to throw the present bums out of office, but when I'M elected king, i mean president, we're going to put 13,000 people on the moon".
LOLOLOLOL
i promise, lord, if he's nominated, i will be the most ardent and indefatigable obama supporter you have ever seen. door to door if i have to. for months if i have to. whatever it takes. just please please please please PuH-LEEEEEEEEZE don't have this much of a sense of humor. i don't think the world can take it.
i'm convinced this guy is batshit crazy, and more dangerous than anyone since cheney.
posted by kad barma at 5:44 PM
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I don't know. It seemed to be a good idea when JFK pushed it on us. It is what it is, a make work project with potential technology spinoffs. More poluting than high speed rail, but without the mistaken promise that everyone will be using it. Which brings me to the question of why we are pushing high speed rail when the MBTA is cutting back service. And, then, there is the fact that it isn't really high speed rail after all.
There are reasons for not wanting Newt as President, but going to the moon is not one of them, at least for me.
Regards — Cliff
13000 people??? "Going to the moon" and the nonsense spouted here are so many degrees separated that it's hard to grasp the relative size of the gap. It's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard a politician say. This is not JFK and putting one man on the moon. This is just plain irresponsible. Either irresponsible in that it's pandering of the most extreme kind, or irresponsible that the amount of energy required to put that many people onto the moon with enough equipment to allow them to survive is beyond my ability to calculate. I'm going to guess it's more fuel than we burn in our cars in a year. Utter idiocy.
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