Apollo 11 Remembered...Shhhh Don't tell anyone.

Last week President Obama Celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/07/22/obama-apollo-11-crew-visit/12990241/

He celebrated in a private meeting (with the remaining astronauts) behind closed doors. No press was allowed in to ask questions. No video was shot of the meeting.

It was a hidden celebration of one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of mankind. One of the shining moments in US history, and for Obama it needed to be hush hush.

That is part of Obamas open government that he likes to brag about. The same open government all the members of the media are currently complaining about.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/21/209352/white-house-blocks-access-to-obama.html

So Obama blocks the media at every turn. Then when the media can’t do their job, and give up…… Obama complains that the media is not getting his message out.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/30/media-darling-obama-grouses-about-press-coverage/?page=all

With regard to blocking the Apollo anniversary, it was incredibly silly to block that from the media. It is one of the most important events in our countries history.

It has been 45 years and no other country has been able to duplicate the feat. No other country has even attempted it. Some have talked, but none have done.

Back then it didn’t matter what the goal was, because Americans could get it done. No matter how absurd the objective seemed, Americans still did it. Simply point up to the bright circle in the sky and announce we are going to go there. And we did.

We did it without outsourcing. We did it without offshoring. We did it without H1B visa holders. We did it without parts made in China. We did it without running up a 16 trillion dollar debt. We did it despite being in the middle of an unpopular war. And it didn’t take decades either. Kennedy announced the goal in 1961, and 8 years later we were there. Done!

Today people don’t appreciate how difficult it truly was. It wasn’t just about getting there. That was only half the problem. The other half was getting home alive.

If anything went wrong there was no calling AAA. Help wasn’t coming……. so everything had to work perfectly. There was no room for error. Today everyone yawns and acts like it was no big thing. But they are wrong. It was a huge deal. It could have easily failed.

So why didn’t Obama want to celebrate this with throngs of Reporters?

Because the reporters would ask him to contrast the greatness of America in 1969, compared to the hollowed out shell we are today. In 1969 we went to the moon, and in 2014 we can’t even get to space. The end of the shuttle program was announced in 2004. 10 years later we are still fumbling around doing nothing. Embarrassing doesn’t even begin to explain how far we have fallen.

That down fall is surprising to. Based on everything we have been told, it makes no sense why we are where we are. After all today we have the great benefit of offshoring, and outsourcing, and foreign visa holders. Our companies are efficient because they can save lots of money making things in China. Yet none of those things are getting Americans to space. Thank goodness we can count on our good friend Vladimire Putin.

If you were the leader of such mediocrity, you wouldn’t want to speak to reporters either. Better to close the Oval Office door and whisper congratulations in a quiet discussion. Then wisk them out the back door as quickly as possible.