Reply #6: You know what's so damn ironic here?

[Hamoth]

Dems are more pro-space than anyone else. Remember Clinton's stunning speech regarding ALH84001 and his support of the findings? Now with the Clinton era rover missions having indeed certified that conditions on Mars were ripe for life Nasa SHOULD by ALL MEANS get more funding to send manned teams there.

The DNC charter gives our party credo, and places space exploration right next to civil rights. As a liberal, I find space exploration to be our most noble and richeous war. The only richeous war we face, is to conquer ignorance and boundaries, to advance the envelope of human achievement, and to protect our species by moving a few of the eggs out of this single basket.

I can't speak for liberals or democrats as a whole...but myself, and everyone that I know who is a Kerry supporter, loves space exploration, and wants to see an advancement of reasserting manned space exploration. If the DNC were to support the values in our charter and credo, then perhaps we wouldn't see so much pathetic skull-dugery surrounding an institution that I find utterly praiseworthy in its aims and contributions to human society.

As a techist, I demands progress and progress into space is the paper upon which many solutions to humanities sad technological problems will be drafted.