In the '60s, under the leadership of JFK, NASA put a man on the moon.  Forty years later, under the 'leadership' of BHO, 'NASA' has become an acronym for

Nurturing Arab Self Awareness.  (From an e-mailer to the O'Reilly Factor)  Image found here.

On second thought, the e-mailer's suggestion can be improved upon:  Nurturing Arab Self Acceptance.

As for the cartoon below, I needn't point out to my astute readership that the Arabs did not invent mathematics.