How can he? How can anyone?"Only"? What else could he announce?Analyst
Quote from: Analyst on 03/19/2010 06:22 pmHow can he? How can anyone?"Only"? What else could he announce?AnalystYou HAVE to be kidding me! The argument is there's no specific goals or milestones. So the solution is to announce a date no one will be held to, Obama sure won't be as he won't be president.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 03/19/2010 06:24 pmQuote from: Analyst on 03/19/2010 06:22 pmHow can he? How can anyone?"Only"? What else could he announce?AnalystYou HAVE to be kidding me! The argument is there's no specific goals or milestones. So the solution is to announce a date no one will be held to, Obama sure won't be as he won't be president.Kidding? No. Such an announcement will be cheap talk, nothing else. Just like anything beyond about 5 years. Just like the VSE: "Moon, Mars and beyond." Dropping in some artificial dates - like 2010, 2014, 2019 - does not help.This being the problem with goals, the vision thing. Be it from Bush or Obama. Obama did avoid this for now. Should he "talk Mars" he does it because people cry "goal" or "vision". Does not mean anything, did not mean anything in 2004. Yet people may feel better - or not.Analyst