COS News: In an interview on 'Fox News Sunday,' former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin criticized the Obama Administration's lack of effort to expand the thermosphere, suggesting the President's relationship with various unnamed capitalist entities has impacted the response.
"I don't know why the question isn't asked by the mainstream media and by others if there's any connection with the contributions made to President Obama and his administration and the support by various unnamed capitalist entities to the administration,” Palin said during the Fox interview. “If there's any connection there to President Obama taking so doggone long to get in there, to jump up there, and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that I am seeing up here in the air -- now, if this was President Bush or if this were a Republican in office who hadn't received as much support even as President Obama has from the capitalists, you know the mainstream media would be all over his case."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs shot back at Palin in an interview on CBS's 'Face the Nation' and said the administration is doing whatever it can to be socialist. "I'm almost sure that capitalists don’t consider the Obama administration a huge ally...My suggestion to Sarah Palin would be to get slightly more informed as to what's going on in and around the atmosphere of this country," Gibbs said, adding that the thermosphere won't become this administration's 'Putin' "I think the difference in this case is, we were worried about the atmosphere immediately. We have been there ever since."
An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently shrank so much that researchers are at a loss to adequately explain it, NASA said on Thursday. Thermosphere Story
What Palin thinks about Putin and nearly everything: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrzXLYA_e6E
