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"Only John Kerry would declare the country to be in scientific decline on a day when the country's first privately funded space trip is successfully completed," Schmidt said, referring to the flight of a privately financed rocket over California.

Yes! Because people with a lot of money gawking at the curvature of the earth is so much more important than stem cell research...

Whatever he's doing to get these prize winners to back him, it's a slick move by Kerry.