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.
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Barack Obama - He puts the ME in AMErica!
Muslims don need no steenkeen science. They just need a cell phone and explosives.
they probably did take it out... probably got ridiculed by their own side for it
Where is the picture?
The Klingon candidate ping
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.
gone. . .
It is always about obama, anything else is secondary.
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?
How bout that? A muslim crescent.
Whatever; this man's sickness; as deep as the sky he is standing under.
Found one.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/27/obama-pays-tribute-to-neil-armstrong-the-only-way-he-knows-how/
what a disgusting narcissist
And its on Obama/Biden official campaign page.
http://barackobama.tumblr.com/post/30199041207/neils-spirit-of-discovery-lives-on-in-all-the-men
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 :)
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