When I Met Kerry

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When I Met Kerry Posted by Guest Blogger at February 7, 2004 11:50 AM Writes Hal Cranmer :

I would like to add my two cents about my John Kerry experience. During my career as an Air Force pilot, I spent two years flying a small twin engine prop plane around the Pacific from my base in Okinawa, Japan. On one trip we had to fly Senator Kerry, his congressional aide, and a Navy Captain (Vietnam, A-4 fighter pilot) who was also in Kerry's party to various locations in Vietnam and Cambodia as part of the MIA/POW talks. When I met him, he was wearing a shirt with a picture of his sailboat on it. I told him I had a small 27 sailboat in Okinawa, he remarked "Oh I never sail on anything less than 135 feet." When we first flew him into Phnom Penh, he went to the back of the airplane and grabbed the pizza that was put aside for the crew and passed it around to his staff. He was never offered any pizza because they were supposed to have lunch with the Cambodian government once we landed. The pizza would have been our only meal that day. Then when we picked him up in Cambodia, he was an hour late getting to the airport. We could not start the engines and therefore the air conditioning until he arrived. Phnom Penh at that time was over 100 degrees with 95% humidity and we were basically sitting in a greenhouse behind the cockpit windows. When he finally did arrive, we were wringing out our clothes from the perspiration. He walks out of the air conditioned car, into the airplane and asks us "Could you guys get the air conditioning running, I'm a little warm?" The other pilot had to physically restrain me from going back there and picking a fight. Then we took him into Noi Bai airfield in Hanoi. After we picked him up the next day (he stayed the night in Vietnam, we stayed in Bangkok) we taxied out, ran up the engines for takeoff, and noticed that our prop rpm was vibrating all over the place. We taxied off to the side to look at it, but there was a good possibility that there was an engine malfunction and the engine may fail if we took off with it. Well, Mr. Senator sticks his head up in the cockpit and says "This plane WILL take off, I have a press conference in Bangkok in three hours!" (Maybe this is an indication of how he will run the FAA). We ran the engines again, and did not have the problem, so we took off and made it back. During the flight, he told everyone how he had taken a Cessna (a small General aviation plane) up with a fighter pilot, and the fighter pilot remarked that Kerry was one of the best pilots he had ever seen. I don't know about other pilots out there, but it's hard to imagine a little, single-engine prop plane pilot being able to show the "right stuff." After Kerry left the plane, the Navy Captain came up to us, apologized and said basically that "he knows Kerry is a jerk" and that we should be glad we don't have to deal with him every day.

[mountaineer]

"Oh I never sail on anything less than 135 feet."

Life is good for the man who marries well (or, at least, into a great deal of money).

[Bahbah]

Great find. This is who I believe is the real John Kerry. What a jerk.

[AppyPappy]

I could have sworn this was posted a month ago.

[Hildy]

It was, at least once.

[psugrad98]

All that almost seems to far out to be true, but I get the impression that Kerry is a spoiled rich boy who looks down on the prople he claims to be for.

[Arpege92]

What a jerk!

[sam_paine]

Great story....but unk/unk/unk posted by "guest blogger" doesn't sound like much more than wannabe fiction until confirmed.

[DJtex]

Kerry does not have "the right stuff"

There is just so much of Kerry's BS and dirty laundry coming out--and tons more to come--I just hope he makes it to the nomination. If he is nominated, I seriously fear that the Clinton's will continue to undermine him, maybe badly enough for him to withdraw. It could be an incredible crisis if the DNC picks a replacement for him at the last moment because the polls show him hopelessly behind.

Talk about a "selected President" not an "elected President" this is scary stuff.

[caisson71]

More on the man's character, or lack of it.

[Bismarck]

What an a**hole.

[Maceman]

Back around 1983-84, I was a struggling musician who had a very bad year in which I only grossed around $17,000. I had no legitimate deductions to speak of, and my tax bill was close to $5,000.

One day that year John Kerry was a guest on a local talk show. I called in and complained to him about how outrageouse it was the the government was taking so much from people like me who made so little.

Kerry proceeded to lecture me about how this is the price we pay for living in a democracy, and that I had to remember that there were many poor people who were far worse off than I was, and that they needed help.

I will never forget how appalled I was by his arrogance and elitism.

[beckett]

More evidence of Kerry's deeply in-bred elitism.

[YepYep]

M-m-m-m, wonder if Kerry has every shown this side of his personality to any others, perhaps to any people of color...??

And wonder, if so, will this information ever make it to the news media?

[DWPittelli]

Oh I never sail on anything less than 135 feet

I don't buy it. I think he has a 47 footer. Also, this story is on:
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1588

"The John Kerry Experience, By Hal Cranmer"

[Piranha]

So...are you going to vote for him?

[NotchJohnson]

He is just WAY OUT OF TOUCH with pretty much anyone. He was a spoiled rich kid and it followed him into adulthood. Not sure the press likes him personally.

[sport]

He did not offer to give them any of his money though, did he?

When a democrat says they "want to help the poor" what they are saying is that they want to steal from you to buy votes.

[Malesherbes]

A story was going around a few years ago, and I don't know if it is true, but it was before Kerry decided to run for President. Kerry at a banquet gets a patty of butter and asks for two. "Sorry," says the waiter, "one patty per guest." "Do you know who I am?" says Kerry. "No," says the waiter, "but I know who I am. I'm the guy in charge of the butter."

[Howlin]

You're right. It was already posted.

Some website is going to be very busy this year, trying to knock down all these stories about Kerry: truth or fact!!!