during an election year.

Nothing much should be made of anything a politician says in an election year.

John McCain, besides having a world's worth more experience, has actually flown something. I would trust him FAR more than some fancy talking wannabe.

Won't that just make two gaps?

He is telling people what they want to hear. That's how politicians do it.

When he can stand up and say the same speech in someplace like Iowa, which does not have a space center, then we will believe him. For now, he's just another politician trying to get elected by telling everyone what everyone wants to hear. John McCain did the same thing when he was here.

If he said that in January and backed it up with funding we would see a huge interest in Space, not just from the public but also from private companies, investors and rich philanthropists!

For instance, some could be investing in NASA projects to add a direct boost to space exploration right now, and others could be investing in education to provide the rocket scientists and astronauts of the future.

This is gonna be even harder than transfering funds from the war chest and black-ops, but it can and should be done.

There you go Senator Obama, my challenge to you. It may seem like a Republican philosophy but it satisfies a deeply held Democratic belief.

You can do it!

Not long into his rule we will have the very public and tearful retirement of the space shuttle system.
Obamas shining future will have begun with the most prominent symbol of the nations advancements going away, with nothing to replace it until well after 2012.
That will be a hard thing functional to explain during the Reelection campaign.

A true believer in space would fund Constellation and COTS. Maybe throwing extra money towards the development of reusable spacecraft and continued work on the ISS.

Someone who was "for space" would not throw on an extra burden to the program just for political gain.

(In the interest of fairness, McCain's said some pretty contradictory stuff as well. Don't forget that.)

As to Quantum Flux, people don't want to spend cash on stuff that they need. Why the hell would the common man spend money on Burt Rutan or JP Aerospace when they barely care to spend money on anything that doesn't directly concern them?