NASA chief's wife to Obama: Don't fire my husband
January 1, 2009 By SETH BORENSTEIN , AP Science Writer
In this Wednesday, March 26, 2008 file photo, NASA administrator Michael Griffin, speaks to reporters at a news conference after space shuttle Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife. There are other efforts, too, by those close to Griffin, and their lobbying on his behalf to President-elect Barack Obama is unusually bold, even for ego-heavy Washington. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
(AP) -- Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife. Rebecca Griffin, who works in marketing, sent her message with the subject line "Campaign for Mike" to friends and family. It asked them to sign an online petition to President-elect Barack Obama "to consider keeping Mike Griffin on as NASA Administrator."
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As well, putting a new man in who's vision and directions may be totally different than the continuing actions that are 'in situ' at NASA can be VERY, VERY expensive, Billions of $ in fact, -in costs- can be incurred to have the agency conform to the directions and desires of a NEW ego at the helm.
This is why the other side of the coin of '4 year political terms' is VERY expensive and destructive of working schedules and projects. Life does not operate on 4 year election cycles, so the backside, the downside of the election process is a severely reduced efficiency of the machine(s) of the public offices. Besides the bending and shifting of public office directions and funds for personal political nefarious purposes (through new political appointment of stooges to head the big offices - by the white house), which the US and other countries are rife with, with regards to the infection of their public corps or offices. (FEMA, CIA, FBI, FDA, SEC, IRS, etc, etc) The Bush administattion practically single handedly destoyed the quality and validity of ALL public offices that he appointed new heads of,and basically left giant bombs of impending disasters in the system that the new people will have to deal with and be blamed for when in fact, the Bush crew did the damage-and in the extreme. think about that for a while, what kind of scum would do such things?
So.....IF.... NASA follows under that auspices, so I say leave A man in the job who has expertise in projects at hand, ie DO NOT REPLACE HIM an accountant or turd polisher like a 'effin' politician or one who give blowjobs for political favor.
That said, Okeefe might be in the right spot, he might not be. That really depends on what Obama plans for NASA. One of the few ideas I liked out of BushCo was the Moon and Mars goals, so hopefully that will stick around.
http://www.ipetit...ffinNow/
It's a well-written argument and worth signing if you agree that Griffin should go.
As would I.
and come public witht he secret space program that they have alreadsy mining th moon and mars
B. Based on conclusion in 'A' above, so is he (for having married her).
C. FIRE HIM NOW!