Obama v. McCain v. Space

Rod provided a good post recently reference the campaigns and space. It prompted to me do a little more research on it. While I doubt this issue will have a significant impact on how people vote, I found it interesting, perhaps you will also since I assume if you're on this forum you are likely "pro-space exploration".

Anyway, everything I see indicates to me McCain is somewhat more supportive of space exploration (I'm open to someone showing me something contrary). Obama wants to delay our return to the moon by 5 years to pay for some education initiatives. While I'm all for education initiatives ( the right ones anyway) I hate to see the NASA budget slashed once again.

Any thoughts? Is it only geeks like us that consider this?

Well consider that the Space Shuttle fleet is due to end their useful lives in 2010 we will not have a way to get to our space station for another 4 or 5 years! Except for the Russians. The Orion space vehicle riding on top of SRB's have a problem. The SRB's really shake and this is likely to cause some delays getting back into space let alone getting back to the moon.

Another problem this country faces due to you know who. That is the huge deficit over 9.5 trillion dollars and the gov't still spends way more than they are taking in. On top of that Social Security is going to be having shortfalls. I see a really big huge Tax increase on the middle class in this country. The gov't never will tax the rich they way they ought to.

So inspite of who gets into the white house I still don't see a return to the moon by this country in our lifetimes if ever.

The way things are going because of the short sightedness of the American people and its politicians the future belongs to someone else. Not the USA