[Jim Noble]

>>Do you believe the nation wants to abandon it's leadership role in the ISS program?<<

I believe the nation wants feel-good, multi-culti space TV with no investment in design, engineering or planning for the future of manned spaceflight.

I believe the nation wants a scapegoat for its failure to design and build an adequate reusable earth-to-orbit system, and I agree with the poster who said the KSC boys are the probable target.

I believe (no, I know) the nation wants immunized smallpox response teams but will not tolerate a single case of eczema vaccinatum, to the point that the consent form is >20 pages and over 40% of military vaccine candidates were excluded.

It is a miracle that we have President Bush (really), but we are the same people who elected Clinton (twice), and we haven't changed all that much.

Yet.

[bonesmccoy]

Jim,

You may be correct regarding the inability of less intellectual Americans to handle difficult losses. Liberals often have these weaknesses.

Conservatives also feel the pain of loss but we do not become dysfunction from our suffering. Indeed, most conservatives view these challenges as an opportunity for growth and development.

The US needs to refine our national space policy.

This is our opportunity to recast space policy by reforming NASA, DOD, Commerce, and Transportation.

I agree that 43 is a blessing.

I pray from him each day and night.

It's been a very long time since I could say that.

During 42 I was praying that I would survive and that he would get out. During 43 I am praying that the President will continue to be strong to help us survive.