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Posted on 08/27/2012 6:28:31 PM PDT by penelopesire
Stars Get In Your Eyes
Special Iowahawk Guest Commentary By Barack Obama, Stargazer-in-Chief
When I learned of the untimely passing of Neil Armstrong I was, like all Americans, deeply moved and saddened. I share your sense of loss for this American hero, even if his fame had been eclipsed by others over the years. But in our shared moment of grief, let us also celebrate his historic accomplishment in becoming the first astronaut eulogized by me, Barack Obama, our nation's historic first African-American president.
Neil's passing gives all of us all pause to consider deeper questions. What does it mean for the future of space exploration? How proud would Neil have been to have a famous historic president refer to him by first name? And, most importantly, how did his death inspire that historic president to make ever more gigantic leaps for mankind?
For one thing, it inspired me to venture off on a historic twilight photo mission to a Maryland cabbage field. There I stood, gazing into the night sky, providing a dramatic backlit silhouette of inspiration for generations of future space explorers. In the centuries to come, space fans around the world will look to this indelible dorm poster image of Barack Obama, representing humankind's enduring pioneering spirit of exploration, and be spurred to dream their impossible dreams of Obama-like accomplishment.
As a stood looking into the night sky, at the billions upon billions of stars twinkling across their celestial field, amid the clicking of the photographer's shutter, I couldn't help but wonder if there were other life forms - perhaps other civilizations - out there. If so, were they looking back at us? Could they have powerful enough telescopes to see our planet in detail, and to observe the many ways I have worked tirelessly to make Earth a better place? Has my example served as an inspiration to the faraway aliens to work for their own extraterrestrial hope and change?
It was a moment that drove home to me just how significant I am in the grand scheme of things. As a result, I returned to the Oval Office with a renewed spirit to push the envelope, to strike out into the unknown, whether it be the vast expanses of space or the 2013 federal debt ceiling.
Yes, it is true that only a select few of us can ever aspire to be a Neil Armstrong or a Barack Obama. But I hope Neil and I have encouraged you to enrich yourselves from that vast, rich, empty blinking array of stars.
Which reminds me, I have another fundraising trip to George Clooney's house next week.
August 27, 2012 in Tales of the O-Cult | Permalink Digg This Save to del.icio.us
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Or the original photo taken months ago?
When I see Iowahawk associated with a link, I almost always click on that link. Things like this are the reason why :)
You are an angel..thank you!!
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Will give you this:
He is funny!! I follow him on twitter just to add brevity and laughter to my day during this awful time in our nation’s history.
Laughter is good medicine..and the libs absolutely hate to be made fun of....lol...especially the narcissists like Zero and his followers.
What we have here, is a Muslim looking up in wonder at the heavenly symbols of his faith.
I know how to do it on my PC but haven’t figured out how to capture the HTML code on my iPad yet. Just fumbling through cyberspace here...too lazy to walk downstairs and use the PC.....lol. Sitting in bed doing this stuff is so much more fun....lol.
penelopesire, I’ve added you to the Iowahawk ping list. I hope you don’t mind. It’s a low volume ping list. :)
Yep.
The heavenly body associated with madness, and the one called Lucifer half the time it’s in the sky.
Great...thanks. I get follow him on twitter....so get alot of his random thoughts and spears to the left everyday....lol.
The genius of Iowahawk!!!
i thought bloodsucking vampires didn’t have reflections.
Wow...never thought of it that way.
LUNA, LUCIFER and LOSER...al together.
Hawk, the only reason Barry isn’t shamed by that is that he isn’t capable of being shamed.
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