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Obama Honors Neil Armstrong With Picture Of Himself
IBD Editorials ^ | August 27, 2012

Posted on 08/27/2012 4:43:09 PM PDT by raptor22

Neil Armstrong: The first man to walk on the moon in the heady days of American exceptionalism has passed away, preceded in death by the U.S. space program with his heirs now hitching rides on Russian spacecraft.

We all mourn the passing of Neil Armstrong at age 82, the first man to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969.

A graduate of Purdue with a degree in aeronautical engineering, his academic career was interrupted when he was called to duty with the U.S. Navy in 1949 and flew 78 combat missions in Korea. He was an exceptional man and an exceptional American.

President Obama seemingly recognized the greatness of the man and his achievement, posting on his official White House Tumblr account these words:

"Neil's spirit of discovery lives on in all the men and women who have devoted their lives to exploring the unknown — including those who are ensuring that we reach higher and go further in space. That legacy will endure — sparked by a man who taught us the enormous power of one small step."

Appropriate words, except for two small things. One is that Armstrong had publicly opposed the gutting of the U.S. space program by the Obama administration, which has left us no current way of sending men into space except for paying the Russians for a ride while NASA conducts "missions" like a Muslim outreach program and observing earth for signs of climate change.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


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KEYWORDS: apollo; apollo11; armstrong; astronaut; ibd; narcissistinchief; nasa; neilarmstrong; space
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One giant leap backward by Obama.
1 posted on 08/27/2012 4:43:19 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22

Barack Obama - He puts the ME in AMErica!


2 posted on 08/27/2012 4:46:52 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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To: raptor22

Muslims don need no steenkeen science. They just need a cell phone and explosives.


3 posted on 08/27/2012 4:47:59 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: raptor22
Okay. . .pic gone from Drudge Report and 'Investors'. What happened? (Investors mentions - as did Drudge, that this was a 'stock photo' - when you click on this; you are led to 'stock photo's' etc. Perhaps 'they' took it out. . .anyone know?
4 posted on 08/27/2012 4:48:40 PM PDT by cricket
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To: cricket

they probably did take it out... probably got ridiculed by their own side for it


5 posted on 08/27/2012 4:50:25 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: raptor22

Where is the picture?


6 posted on 08/27/2012 4:52:11 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

The Klingon candidate ping


7 posted on 08/27/2012 4:52:27 PM PDT by raptor22 (Join me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken)
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To: raptor22
The pic


8 posted on 08/27/2012 4:57:07 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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we can not even tell if obama is looking AT the moon. only that his press people stating he was looking at the moon months and months and months ago.


9 posted on 08/27/2012 4:58:37 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: svcw

gone. . .


10 posted on 08/27/2012 4:59:44 PM PDT by cricket
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To: VeniVidiVici

It is always about obama, anything else is secondary.


11 posted on 08/27/2012 4:59:56 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: raptor22
i guess lowering the flag is out of the question...
12 posted on 08/27/2012 5:00:49 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Well; there we have it. (I have it in my mailbox; but did not take long for it to disappear from Drudge et al. . .) Sooo ‘who called’. . .Axelrod?


13 posted on 08/27/2012 5:01:06 PM PDT by cricket
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To: VeniVidiVici
Photobucket

Here you go. Funny, the moon is in the sky but the A-hole is on the ground.

14 posted on 08/27/2012 5:01:57 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (All Y'all White Peoples is racist!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

How bout that? A muslim crescent.


15 posted on 08/27/2012 5:03:36 PM PDT by chemicalman (The more support I see,the harder I want to work,and the more determined I am not to let folks down.)
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To: VeniVidiVici; All
Suspect it was not a 'candid' moment; but rather a suggested one. Perhaps a 'pose' for all to recall the placement of a special star in sky; per his 'messiah's birth'. Or at least; wants us to rememeber. . .or so imagine.

Whatever; this man's sickness; as deep as the sky he is standing under.

16 posted on 08/27/2012 5:06:56 PM PDT by cricket
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Found one.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/obama-pays-tribute-to-neil-armstrong-the-only-way-he-knows-how/


17 posted on 08/27/2012 5:10:01 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: raptor22

what a disgusting narcissist


18 posted on 08/27/2012 5:11:20 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: cricket; All

And its on Obama/Biden official campaign page.
http://barackobama.tumblr.com/post/30199041207/neils-spirit-of-discovery-lives-on-in-all-the-men


19 posted on 08/27/2012 5:11:29 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: VeniVidiVici

kinda reminds one of that staged photo opp BS that Billy Jefferson Clinton pulled on Omaha Beach on the 50th anniv of D-day.

and by the way, your tagline is funny as hell :)


20 posted on 08/27/2012 5:17:04 PM PDT by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
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