Space Politics ? Briefly: Sentinel endorses Nelson; the Science Guy ...

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October 22, 2012 at 5:41 am ? Filed under Campaign '12

The Orlando Sentinel endorsed Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) for reelection on Sunday over his Republican challenger, Connie Mack IV. The editorial cited Nelson?s role as ?a champion for NASA and Florida?s role in the U.S. space program? in its decision. ?A law he co-authored in 2010 wisely extended the life of the International Space Station and supported the development of commercial spacecraft, both positive developments for Florida and the space program as a whole,? the endorsement stated, a reference to the NASA Authorization Act of 2010.

Bill Nye, aka ?The Science Guy,? will be supporting the Obama reelection campaign Monday night on Florida?s Space Coast. Nye is slated to appear at a watch party in Cocoa, Florida, for the third and final presidential debate. Nye, the CEO of The Planetary Society, is also scheduled to appear Tuesday morning at a roundtable about STEM education at Florida Tech. The roundtable is not an official Obama campaign event, according to a release by the campaign?s Florida staff, but ?it is part of Mr. Nye?s trip in support of the campaign.?

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How can one be a champion of NASA and be a party to eviscerating it? Ideology trumps logic at the Orlando Sentinel.

On space policy (and in my view the rest of it) there is no alternative but to support Obama. Romney just lies?there is not a single position this year he fills like he cannot modify and then say ?well I never held that position??what a liar. RGO

It?s notable that the Sentinel highlights ISS and commercial cargo/crew, rather than SLS/MPCV, from the 2010 NASA Authorization Act in its endorsement of Nelson.

there is no alternative but to support Obama.

You are in excellent company: Chavez, Putin, the Mullahs, all support Obama. Maybe you should ask, why?

amightywind wrote @ October 22nd, 2012 at 9:37 am

?You are in excellent company: Chavez, Putin, the Mullahs, all support Obama. Maybe you should ask, why??

Not really. When one foreign leader endorses another it is usually in the hopes of pinging people like you?although in Vlad?s case (who is amazingly rational) in large measure I suspect it is because he must view Romney as any sane person does; a person who has no real clue as to the issues of the day?and Putin is really trying to negotiate a path to stabilize Russian/American relations?and stabilize Russia.

The return question is why would you support Romney? An idiot who says he would spend 2 trillion more dollars on the US military without any real reason as to why he can articulate other then the slack jawed comment ?it keeps us strong?

Goofy RGO

Bill Nye, who inveighed against Obama cuts in planetary science and yet supports the man, is kind of like a battered wife, always going back to the abusive spouse.

? mike shupp wrote @ October 22nd, 2012 at 1:12 pm

C?mon Mark, get serious. Obama probably doesn?t look all that wonderful to people interested in planetary space programs, but Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are clearly much less attractive. There isn?t anyone IN THE WORLD making the argument that R&R want an improved planetary science program, or even any sort of planetary science program ? not even Romney and Ryan themselves.

You want to make a funny analogy, you ought to go the whole route with it. Bill Nye?s like an abused wife and Obama?s the abuser. And what?s Romney? A self-proclaimed ax murderer.

Mark Whittington wrote:

?Bill Nye, who inveighed against Obama cuts in planetary science and yet supports the man, is kind of like a battered wife, always going back to the abusive spouse.?

Yes. It seems Bill Nye, the Obama Guy, suffers from the space version of Stockholm Syndrome. He also seems to suffer from the mistaken notion that only Democrats support space exploration. Consequently, The Planetary Society writes off potential support (and membership dues) from Republicans who support space exploration. Given the demographics of the country, Republicans could account for up to half of The Planetary Society?s members. But I know more than a few people who have kissed Bill Nye ?goodbye? because of his blatant political bias. I dropped my own membership after growing weary of reading articles in the society?s magazine which contained far too much political content. I was interested in planetary research ? not Leftist propaganda. How much influence does Bill Nye think The Planetary Society will have in the Romney Administration after he (Nye) campaigned (again) for Barack Obama? Ditto for Elon Musk who has been effusive in his praise for President Obama and outspoken in his criticism of Governor Romney. Elections have consequences.

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