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At this time of desperate economic crisis he did not have a consistent or convincing message about how things will be better a year from now. its all teed up there like a big golf ball ready to depart. to be able to transform that into a debate about one persons uncertain knowledge of cold war history, thats quite an achievement. what we should be talking about instead, what republicans want to talk about, is hey, things are not getting better. theyre not getting better in any way fast enough. w...

This is a "sputnik" moment. >> well, i dont know if you applauded that. i think it was you and your co-authors. >> ive heard you talk about the need to build the green economy. >> but we dont intend more than until you tell us how were going cut and take care of -- >> but that seems like the right thing to say which is not the problem that he says we need to spend more on certain things. the problem is that hes not coupling that with the a discussion of the kind of cuts in other things that woul...

By the end of the 60s we left the old soviet union in the dust and we had american astronauts walking in moon dust well before them. so watch sarah palin but keep in mind just a few things. one, americans did not celebrate sputnik. they overcame it. and two, the space race did not bankrupt the ussr. the soviet union fell two decades later because of the arms race. the single biggest event in the second half of the 20th century and sarah palin does not understand it? >> governor, last night there...

Try to stomach because the president is so off base in his ideas on how it is that he believes government is going to create jobs. obviously, government growth wont create any jobs. its the private sector that can create the jobs. and his theme last night in the state of the union was the wtf. you know, winning the future. and i thought, okay, that acronym, spot on. there were a lot of wtf moments throughout that speech. >> wtf was she thinking? theres more. remember the sputnik moment part of t...

Often repeated the sputnik moment that he would aspire americans to celebrate. he needs to remember what happened back then with the former communist ussr and their victory in that race to space. yeah, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the soviet union. >> well, the soviet union went down after the failure of the attempted coup out there yeltsin on the tanks, standing up against the red army. that was in 1991 in august. sputn...

To be able to transform that into a debate about one persons uncertain knowledge of cold war history, thats quite an achievement. what we should be talking about instead, what republicans want to talk about, is hey, things are not getting better. theyre not getting better in any way fast enough. we need a message about that that is culturally modern, environmentally responsible, economically inclusive, and instead we have this. >> on your site today, david, you linked to a politico report that p...

Cutting nasas budget and americas shuttle program is coming to a close. lets talk about it with scott pace, a former nasa official and director of the space policy institute at george washington university, tom jones, is a former nasa astronaut, a shuttle pilot and fox news contributor. he is author of "sky walking". a very special guest is with us, buzz aldrin, a former nasa senate. astronaut. one of the first two people ever set foot on the moon. buzz, when you think back to that day 1969 you ...

"sputnik" generation were in i will be finding new signals, but -- >> give me hope. where do you get the information that they want us out? >> heres -- you dont -- you find it in not one snapshot poll, which i do think defines the days coverage too much. but it has grown. the numbers have grown as they have seen whats going on in that country, they see the looting of our countrys treasury and the blood and resources being committed on something they dont understand. i also say that -- on corpora...

Its the private sector that can create the jobs. and his theme last night in the state of the union was the wtf. you know, winning the future. and i thought, okay, that acronym, spot on. there were a lot of wtf moments throughout that speech. >> wtf was she thinking? theres more. remember the sputnik moment part of the obama speech? well, it actually doesnt matter whether you remember it because this is sarah palin talking and nothings going to help you make sense of this. >> that was another on...

There were a lot of wtf moments throughout that speech. >> wtf. >> what? >> im just saying. >> oh, win the future. win the future. >> is she trying to be presidential? >> that was another one of those wtf moments, that as he so often repeated the sputnik moment. >> sputnik directly led to the collapse of the soviet union. lets talk about something thats even more troubling than that. >> but even sarah palin has a tea party challenger now who is commanding everyones attention. >> michele bachmann...