Remarkable leaders challenge us with audacious goals.

Magnificent Desolation is a book written by, and about, Buzz Aldrin. He was the second man to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong.  Aldrin's book is fascinating and describes the jagged journey of Aldrin, post astronaut, and the jagged journey of the NASA program itself. I just finished reading the book today. It's ironic because many commentators say the space program is effectively finished today too.  The last  blast-off yesterday, July 7, 2011 occurred just about 47 years after Aldrin walked on the moon.  NASA has already announced lay-offs in Florida and Texas.

Many of us remember John Kennedy, when he announced to Americans we would send a man to the moon and back before the decade was over. Americans did it. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 so he did not live to witness his challenge come true on July 20, 1969.

Kennedy challenged Americans to accomplish what the "man-in-the-moon movies" only presented as a fantasy. Kennedy's challenge signified genuine leadership. It is just that kind of remarkable leadership that is missing in Obama's messages to America. It would have been a rare prognosticator in 1960 that would have predicted landing a man on the moon in 1969, a feat which almost seems ubiquitous today. Our leaders today do not present any big audacious challenges like that to us. On the contrary, Obama's pulpit seems to echo with apologies for America, or a list of the egregious acts of the republicans, or gospels depicting the greediness of the wealthy. There is little recognition for the philanthropic acts of Warren Buffet or Bill Gates, both who have given billions of dollars for charity. Gates is leading the way to encourage other wealthy business executives to join him in his charitable acts.

What is the point? Glad you asked. The death of the space program comes at a time when we should be accelerating its growth rather than letting it crash into a wall with no survivors. Excuse me for being redundant, but NASA could have used some of the 185 billion dollars that the Feds gave AIG.  NASA started with a marvelous challenge by a remarkable leader and its funeral only illustrates again the lack of leadership by our current CEO.

What do you suggest? The new CEO could challenge wealthy Americans to create a trillion dollar war chest to focus on world health. The new CEO could challenge American firms to create the world's best electronic highway to carry America's Internet traffic. The new CEO could challenge American firms to bring back to America the trillions of dollars in foreign banks and invest those dollars into putting Americans back to work. A new CEO could make these things happen.

And for my liberal critiques and you know who you are. I am not suggesting it is all Obama's fault. I am suggesting that he tried to lead. He failed. He should resign and give another CEO a chance.

Join me in my fire Obama campaign.