Obama Jokes With NASA Curiosity Crew: ‘Let Me Know Right Away’ If There Are Martians (What a Dork!)

The Hill ^ | August 13, 2012 | Alicia M Cohn

[lbryce]

President Obama called to personally congratulate the crew behind NASA’s successful rover mission to Mars on Monday and asked them to inform him immediately if they made contact with Martians.

“If in fact you do make contact with Martians, please let me know right away,” he said. “I've got a lot of other things on my plate but I expect that would go to the top of the list. Even if they're just microbes that would be pretty exciting.”

NASA live-streamed the president’s call to members of Curiosity's Mars rover team, located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

“You've made us all proud,” he told them, calling their work “inspiring” and an example of American ingenuity.

“I'm going to give you guys a personal commitment to protect these investments in science and technology,” he said.

He also asked about the NASA flight director who became an Internet sensation due to his highly visible role in the control room during Curiosity’s Martian landing last week.

“You guys are a little cooler than you used to be,” Obama joked when he asked about “Mohawk guy,” Flight Director Bobak Ferdowsi. "It does sound like NASA has come a long way from the white shirt, black dark-rimmed glasses and the pocket protectors," he noted.

"And I, in the past, thought about getting a mohawk myself — but my team keeps on discouraging me," he continued. "And now that he’s received marriage proposals and thousands of new Twitter followers, I think that I’m going to go back to my team and see if it makes sense."

[lbryce]

If you really need it to be perfect, I can manage it by sometime late afternoon. Please let me know.

[Cincinatus]

He just wants to make sure that the martians “pay their fair share.”

[MrB]

I personally don’t think the comment was any more dorky than anything else the man says, but...

you’re right, he doesn’t give a ratsass about discoveries on Mars,

unless they promote Islam. This is what he views as the mission of NASA under his administration.

[Don Corleone]

asked them to inform him immediately if they made contact with Martians.

He mis spoke.. he meant to say MARXISTS.

[Right Wing Assault]

Beuatiful! I love it. I’m sure we will see it again.

[Moltke]

“You guys are a little cooler than you used to be,” Obama joked when he asked about “Mohawk guy,” Flight Director Bobak Ferdowsi. "It does sound like NASA has come a long way from the white shirt, black dark-rimmed glasses and the pocket protectors," he noted.

"Shut up, you twit."

[ETL]

"asked them to inform him immediately if they made contact with Martians."

He misspoke.. he meant to say MARXISTS.

Well, Mars is known as the "Red" planet.

:)

[DoughtyOne]

Obama is getting desperate to look charming and funny.

In 2008 everyone was kissing his ass.  By the end of 2012, everyone will be calling him one.

By this time next year, he won't be able to so much as find a couple to go out with him and Michelle to dinner, let alone get it comped.

Oh he won't have changed any, it's just that when he does the same dumb ass stuff, he'll be seen as an idiot stick, not described (by the DNCp) as Mr. Slick.

The thrill is gone.  No more pant leg tingles... he's yesterday's flavor.  The teleprompter will leave him for a better man, no check that, just a man. In the future he'll have to lie to and insult folks without reading to them.

At least he'll have all those personal documents at home to rifle through, reminisce, realizing why he desperately had to hide them, and coming to the conclusion that we were right about him all long.

So in the end, he'll be proven right.  We do have something in common with him.  He will inevitably have come to see himself as we do.

Having unseated the former worst president in our nation's history, perhaps Obama should meet with him and get some pointers.

He could start an international affairs think tank, so he could short circuit U. S. policy for the next forty years.  He could jet-set to Iran and strike a deal, so they too could have nukes in a matter of months.  He could even hammer a few dozen nails and convince the world he's the poster wimp for Habitat for Humanity, you know, the best ex-president in U. S. history.

Say what you will, it worked for the last moron.

They could bill it as the Misters Peanut/JujyFruit summit.  And read that carefully.  I did not use the word masters, because masters they are not, unless... you use it in the English sense, Master Barack Hussein Obama, the adolescent.

You know, you think about either of them and realizing what they did to our nation and the world, your eyes sort of mist up.

Carter, Clinton, Obama... gosh that Democrat party... isn't it on a roll...

What WILL they come up with next?

McGovern, you're the queball, that got this whole thing rolling.  Aren't you proud of yourself.  Your anti-American activities were adopted by the whole party.  See why we annihilated you at the polls in '72?

Well it's 2012 George, and guess what's about to happen.  The guy that beat out Jimmy Carter is positioning himself to beat you out too.

I don't know, is that a bifecta, a trifecta, a quadrafecta, a quintafecta, a sextivecta, an sevtifecta, an octifecta...