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Oops Bill Nelson's Hypocrisy Is Showing Again

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 14, 2009

Gration to Head NASA, MSNBC
“Nelson, the senior Senator from Florida, flew in space himself and when hearing about Gration’s possible appointment said, “I think President Bush made a mistake when he appointed someone without NASA experiece in Sean O’Keefe to head the agency.”
Editor’s update: Hmm, isn’t it ironic that someone like Bill Nelson would say this about someone else’s job qualifications when he himself got a chance to fly on a space shuttle with absolutely no qualifications whatsoever. I’m told that many in the astronaut office gave Nelson the nickname “ballast” at the time. Curiously, Jay Barbree never bothered to mention this blatant hypocrisy. How quickly we all forget.
Key U.S. Senator Cautions Obama on NASA Pick, Space.com
“I think President Bush made a mistake when he appointed someone without NASA experience in Sean O’Keefe to head the agency. I hope President Obama’s pick will have that kind of [NASA] background,” Nelson said today through his spokesman, Dan McLaughlin.”
Editor’s update: Again, it is hypocritical in the extreme for Nelson’s PR flack to be thumping this theme when his own boss used his position to get a seat on a Space Shuttle – a seat he was utterly unqualified to occupy.

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