John Kerry's Day At NASA Photo Album

[Riprorin]

What do the pics remind you of?

Link

BTW, Photos Were Given To Kerry Camp Before Publication!

Kerry-Edwards Campaign Manager Says Photo Was "Leaked," And Had No Idea There Were Photographs. KERRY-EDWARDS CAMPAIGN MANAGER MARY BETH CAHILL: "[T]his was a leaked photo. And it is all over the place." FOX NEWS' BRIT HUME: "It was leaked?" CAHILL: "Yes." HUME: "Because I think it was made by NASA, right?" CAHILL: "It was." HUME: "So the campaign had no idea there would be any photographs..." CAHILL: "None." (Fox News' "Special Report," 7/27/04)

NASA Gave Kerry Campaign Photos To Review Before Posting On Website. FOX NEWS' BRIT HUME: "Since we taped that interview just a short time ago, a NASA spokesman has said that NASA provides a pool photographer who did take pictures of Kerry on the NASA tour yesterday. However, he said none of those photos was released to the media. Instead, he said, the pictures were given to the Kerry campaign to review before several were posted on the Kennedy Space Center web site." (Fox News' "Special Report," 7/27/04)

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Riprorin
What do the pics remind you of?

Link

Your sig maybe :thumbsup:

"They (the democrats) want us to fail as long as President Bush is in charge, just as they are hoping against hope that the economy will go into a tailspin between now and election day. If that hurts their fellow Americans, tough luck. Winning elections is all that counts."

 

[Riprorin]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Riprorin
What do the pics remind you of?

Link

Your sig maybe :thumbsup:

"They (the democrats) want us to fail as long as President Bush is in charge, just as they are hoping against hope that the economy will go into a tailspin between now and election day. If that hurts their fellow Americans, tough luck. Winning elections is all that counts."

Wrong!

 

[tallest1]

Congrats on giving a link that not completely one sided. As you can tell in the citings next to each of Kerry's votes, notice how on each one the Democratic Party is split almost 50/50? Thats almost a clear sign that there was a lot more to that bill than the title suggests.

 

[fjord]

And now...Bush and NASA

Nature link

Bush's space vision loses focus
Mark Peplow

US budget for sending astronauts to Moon and Mars is slashed.

President George W. Bush's project known as the 'Vision for space exploration' looks likely to stay firmly on the launch pad after budget cuts at NASA were supported by a key government committee yesterday.

The budget proposal gives NASA $15.1 billion in 2005, $1.1 billion less than it requested, and $229 million below the agency's budget this year. The full House and Senate is likely to vote on this bill later this year.

The cuts strike hardest at some of the initiatives announced with great fanfare by Bush in January this year. For example, he promised to send humans back to the Moon by 2020, as a stepping stone for human exploration of Mars and beyond. But a mere $372 million has been provided of the $910 million needed to kick-start the project.

"We simply could not afford to fund the vision," admits James Walsh, chairman of the subcommittee that recommended the cuts earlier this week. The US House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, which is responsible for overseeing all budget proposals through its subcommittees, ratified the proposals yesterday.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: fjord
And now...Bush and NASA

Nature link

Bush's space vision loses focus
Mark Peplow

US budget for sending astronauts to Moon and Mars is slashed.

President George W. Bush's project known as the 'Vision for space exploration' looks likely to stay firmly on the launch pad after budget cuts at NASA were supported by a key government committee yesterday.

The budget proposal gives NASA $15.1 billion in 2005, $1.1 billion less than it requested, and $229 million below the agency's budget this year. The full House and Senate is likely to vote on this bill later this year.

The cuts strike hardest at some of the initiatives announced with great fanfare by Bush in January this year. For example, he promised to send humans back to the Moon by 2020, as a stepping stone for human exploration of Mars and beyond. But a mere $372 million has been provided of the $910 million needed to kick-start the project.

"We simply could not afford to fund the vision," admits James Walsh, chairman of the subcommittee that recommended the cuts earlier this week. The US House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, which is responsible for overseeing all budget proposals through its subcommittees, ratified the proposals yesterday.

Bush proposed more for NASA, congress write the budget and is trimming back.

 

[HombrePequeno]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: fjord
And now...Bush and NASA

Nature link

Bush's space vision loses focus
Mark Peplow

US budget for sending astronauts to Moon and Mars is slashed.

President George W. Bush's project known as the 'Vision for space exploration' looks likely to stay firmly on the launch pad after budget cuts at NASA were supported by a key government committee yesterday.

The budget proposal gives NASA $15.1 billion in 2005, $1.1 billion less than it requested, and $229 million below the agency's budget this year. The full House and Senate is likely to vote on this bill later this year.

The cuts strike hardest at some of the initiatives announced with great fanfare by Bush in January this year. For example, he promised to send humans back to the Moon by 2020, as a stepping stone for human exploration of Mars and beyond. But a mere $372 million has been provided of the $910 million needed to kick-start the project.

"We simply could not afford to fund the vision," admits James Walsh, chairman of the subcommittee that recommended the cuts earlier this week. The US House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, which is responsible for overseeing all budget proposals through its subcommittees, ratified the proposals yesterday.

Bush proposed more for NASA, congress write the budget and is trimming back.

They wanted to slash it but Bush highly suggested they didn't so now NASA's budget is back up for debate in Congress.

 

[wiin]

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Earlier story posted July 29, 6:00 AM

NASA defends photos of Kerry during his tour of space center

BY JOHN KELLY
FLORIDA TODAY

CAPE CANAVERAL-- There was no "dirty trick" behind the photographs of Sen. John Kerry wearing the blue anti-contamination suit while touring the shuttle Discovery on Monday.
As political pundits and comedians pounced on the pictures of Kerry in what outsiders might deem a goofy-looking costume, the senator's campaign aides alleged the pictures were not supposed to be released publicly.

Not true, said NASA. Government photographers routinely snap pictures of visiting dignitaries.

Kerry's group more than qualified as dignitaries: four U.S. senators, two of whom were former astronauts, John Glenn and Bill Nelson. NASA often posts such pictures on its Internet sites for the public and reporters.

Furthermore, NASA spokesman Bill Johnson said the Kerry campaign asked that the pictures be taken of the senator's unusually up-close tour of the Discovery and that processing be expedited so reporters could have them.

The pictures have prompted chuckles and jokes among political pundits covering the Democratic National Convention in Boston because, to people unfamiliar with shuttle operations, the head-to-toe light-blue suits look goofy.

However, astronauts, workers or anyone else getting inside a shuttle or near other spacecraft and rockets being readied for launch wears such coveralls to protect the delicate vehicles from contamination.

Kerry was not alone in costume Monday. Senators Glenn, Nelson and Bob Graham wore them as well because they required garb for the foursome's incredibly rare opportunity to climb inside a shuttle. Discovery is the orbiter that will fly the first mission since the Columbia disaster last year.
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So why are the democrats not happy about the picture?