Friday, September 26, 2008

A 'Nobel' Choice For Obama

McCain supporters might try to call these people elitists, so beware if you have helped to cure diseases, work for peace around the world or anything else the Nobel Committee might find worthy of their prestigious awards.

From Wired Magazine:

A list of 61 Nobel Laureates issued an open letter to their fellow Americans Thursday urging them to vote for Barack Obama.

Asked about the basis of their support, a small sub-group of those scientists' basic answer was: Because he's a safe bet, and because he would make science education and research funding a priority.

A trio of Nobel Laureates reached out to the media together with the Obama campaign Thursday to explain their support. They sounded haunted by the past eight years of the Bush Administration's unflagging record of fudging scientific evidence to suit political aims, and by its powerfully symbolic exile of its science advisers from the White House.

"We join this effort because we strongly believe that US science policy has been disastrous during the past several years, and that we need a new and visionary leadership to ensure America’s dominant position in the sciences, and to maintain our nation’s competitiveness in the world." said Bob Horvitz, an MIT biologist who won a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2002.

Nothing is more important to our country's future than funding it to meet tomorrow's challenges with today's brightest minds. George Bush has tried to hard to cut back on educating Americans for the sake of his rich buddies on Wall Street and the fundies that want to switch us over to a Christian theocracy. However, with balanced and intelligent leadership under President Obama, we can start to right the wrongs of the last several years and make it so that all Americans have the potential to become Nobel Laureates.