NASA's New Mission- Build Muslim Self-Esteem

Several times on my blog I've written about how President Obama has handled NASA. I've criticized that it took Obama several months to bother to getting around to appointing a new head of this agency in my post Obama too Busy to Appoint Public Officials. I've criticized Obama's decision to cancel NASA's Constellation program, pointing out that by doing this he has revealed to me that he does not not have a bold vision of the future that reaches for the stars, but instead has a vision of the world that is old and already tried (call it tyranny, call it European socialism, call it whatever you want) that sets it sights on the mud underneath our boots- see my post Obama is No Visionary for more on this idea. And lastly I've criticized Obama's budget proposal for NASA last year, a budget that will have NASA focus on studies and reports and analysis for future plans, and change its mission away from exploration of outer space to research and monitoring of climate change- see my post Obama's New NASA Policy- Yet More Broken Promises and Lies for more on this.

Today over at Powerlineblog I watched a video from the Director of NASA (who Obama eventually got around to appointing) that is just mind blowing, and yet another example of how badly voters messed up our nation (perhaps beyond the point of no return) when they voted for Obama and the Democrats over the last several elections. Here is how Powerlineblog reviews the video:

In the video below, Charles Bolden, head of NASA, tells Al Jazeera that the "foremost" task President Obama has given him is "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering." Thus, NASA's primary mission is no longer to enhance American science and engineering or to explore space, but to boost the self-esteem of "predominantly Muslim nations."

Exploring space didn't even make the top three things Obama wants Bolden to accomplish. The other two are "re-inspire children to want to get into science and math" and "expand our international relationships."

This is more evidence, if any were needed, of Obama's lack of interest in American achievement or, indeed, American greatness. He seems to believe we've achieved enough (or perhaps too much) and that the trick now is to make nations that have achieved little for centuries feel like we couldn't have done it without them (in the video, Bolden goes on to talk about how much NASA owes the Russians and the Japanese).

Behind the bravado of the Muslim world there may well lie an inferiority complex. If so, Obama is a fool if he believes we can help Muslims overcome that complex by having the head of the agency that symbolizes our technical superiority make patronizing statements about ancient Muslim contributions to science.

Here is the video, where Obama's appointment (confirmed by the Democrats in Congress) discusses NASA's new mission to build Muslim self-esteem, inspire children, build relationships, and study climate change (basically anything other than explore outer space, put men on the moon, build bigger rockets, conquer Mars, or anything that NASA was really established for):

Originally via Weasel Zippers.