Excerpt from full text of comments made by President Biden
“But then, last week — (applause) — guess what? — we also landed a rover on Mars. (Applause.) We — led by a NASA team in Pasadena, California. A rover carries instruments developed by a team here in Houston that will be used in the mission of our time and our dreams. Imagine. We tell — everybody has been so down the last number of years about what America — what can we do? Who are — we can do anything! America can do anything. (Applause.) And now we see the images that are truly stunning: battling COVID, beating cancer, going to Mars.”

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One reply on “Yet Another Mars Rover Shout Out From President Biden”

  1. There are so many exceptional things happening in our great country even in the worst of times. Finding them is a cinch.

    So why then do we have this down-in-the-mouth attitude towards America and especially towards our government? Where does all of this cynical, anti-community attitude even start?

    The answer to that question is political and not easy to precisely define. There’s a long ‘get the government off my back’ thread in American history that can be credibly traced to our Revolution. It’s an attitude both destructive and, at the same time, a sensibility that drives individual innovation.

    Why am I going on about this? Because national attitudes are strongly top-down, that’s why. Put a cynic in charge? Results are/were predictable.

    The current President knows that America is a place of consistently stunning creativity and fabulous output. We are in no way ‘falling behind’.

    The media looks for simple emblems. Fine. Let JPL and Percy be those examples. But don’t forget how these successes came to fruition.

    Touting our current ‘greatness’ – forgive me – is a step in the right direction, and our little international jewel in Pasadena is a very good place to start. JPL shows us that Americans are hard at work, dreaming Big.

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