http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/04/30/bush.carrier.landing/index.html HAHAHAHAHA...ahhhh where to start on this one...
It looks like they'll try to keep him on a short leash, so he probably won't end up resignating with the hull of the carrier or anything. Let's hope all goes well- those jets are very expensive.
First the airlines, now the Air Force... http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1243493&nav=0RceFNBe
so should we expect to not see bush for 6 months and then see him reemerge with no explanation for where he's been?
Re: Bush Meets With Colombia's Uribe in Washington And who says Bush pays no attention to South America?
You could start at the fact that Bush flew F-102 fighter planes in the National Guard and you would wet your pants if asked to merely sit in one.
Re: Re: Bush to co-pilot plane... i still think it was a cheesy thing to do...and i personally wouldn't piss my pants, i would be more than happy to fly in a sub-sonic jet and land on an aircraft carrier with a qualified pilot doing the flying. bring it on! and if something happened, i am damn good on that microsoft flight simulator. basically they are already beginning the push to 2004 and this is the start.
Re: Re: Bush to co-pilot plane... im about as qualified to fly a f-102, for having been allowed in the cockpit for five minutes as a 9 year old, as Junior is. the difference is, i was actually allowed to leave the base afterwards... fidlerre's absolutely correct...campaign 2004 has begun.
Maybe he should pop by here in Liverpool now that he's gone all "mil'try" on us. The HMS Illustrious is parked right outside my office window. They're doing some sort of exercise, slap bang in the middle of the Mersey, all abseiling from choppers and smoke and loudspeaker announcements. Dubya would love it, I'm sure. They're selling popcorn, and everything!
I was at a technical conference in Waterloo (Iowa, not Belgium) yesterday afternoon and popped out to the pub to buy some smokes just as his S-3 was on final. I just managed to get in on the pool on whether he would prang (hit the stern) or bolter (miss all the wires and go off the end). Lost my $1 on the bolter at 10-1.
That’s torn it - the Mersey ferry has just pulled up alongside the Illustrious to pick up the Crew. 700 Sailors and Marines, Friday night, Liverpool city centre… man am I please I’m off to the Lakes for the weekend.
Re: Re: Bush to co-pilot plane... cmon Ian - stop adding some sanity to these threads - you know the libs need somewhere to go whine to each other.
let's see - more credibilty - Bush riding copilot on to the Lincoln - or Gore happy snapping photos in Saigon?
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/One_year_gap_in_Bush_s_Guard_duty+.shtml My favorite bits from the article: Many states, Texas among them, had a record during the Vietnam War of providing a haven in the Guard for the sons of the well-connected, and a tendency to excuse shirking by those with political connections. and The ease of Bush's entry into the Air Guard was widely reported last year. At a time when such billets were coveted and his father was a Houston congressman, Bush vaulted to the top of a waiting list of 500. Bush and his father have denied that he received any preferential treatment. But last year, Ben Barnes, who was speaker of the Texas House in 1968, said in a sworn deposition in a civil lawsuit that he called Guard officials seeking a Guard slot for Bush after a friend of Bush's father asked him to do so. Any one who likes the shrub as president would do well to avoid any mention of his military record, especially the 12 months during which he simply failed to show up.