Still, Obama wants to kill it because it's a symbol of American exceptionalism. Period.
Whatever Obama's reason would be for eliminating the manned space program and chopping back on NASA, you'll have a whole group of FReepers right there agreeing with the bottom line results of doing that.
And, I guess my point for bringing that up, at all ... is ... it's mighty hard to support a program like NASA and the manned space program, when a good chunk of conservatives themselves don't even support it -- and then you've got a Democrat President ready and willing to "chop it to pieces" too ...
It seems to me that NASA lost "that vision thing" and, in so doing, it lost a lot of popular support. It's too bad, really. Manned space exploration is important for a host of reasons - just ask the Chinese.