Kerry: 'Perfect Way to See Middle East Is Upside Down'

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 5/04/04 | Susan Jones

[kattracks]

(CNSNews.com) - Democrat John F. Kerry told the Associated Press that he has seen Israel "upside down" (the "perfect way to see the Middle East") -- back in 1991, when an Israeli colonel allowed him to take the controls of an Israeli Air Force trainer jet. Kerry told the Associated Press he did "a little aerobatics" -- a loop at 12,000 feet, he said. The AP quoted Kerry as saying: "To be able to come out upside down and look down and catch the horizon in back of me and see all the way down into the Sinai to the old base that had been given up, all the way across into Jordan, all the way out into the Gulf of Aqaba, and to see Israel beneath me, and the lines contained, and to see it all upside down was the perfect way to see the Middle East and Israel." Kerry said he almost flew into Egyptian airspace by mistake. He is not a pilot.

[OXENinFLA]

The transcript to this needs to be found.

It was strange listening to Kerry talking about donning a flight suit.

[stainlessbanner]

and the lines contained,

What lines?

[OXENinFLA]

Kerry Tells of Flying a Jet Over Israel

"To be able to come out upside down and look down and catch the horizon in back of me and see all the way down into the Sinai to the old base that had been given up, all the way across into Jordan, all the way out into the Gulf of Aqaba, and to see Israel beneath me, and the lines contained, and to see it all upside down was the perfect way to see the Middle East and Israel," he said.

[OXENinFLA]

The lines that are painted on the ground showing the boarders of the different countries.


Silly.

[Bahbah]

I listened to some of Kerry's speech yesterday before the Anti-Defamation League when he informed us "I am a pilot, you know". I was waiting for him to say he flew planes in Viet Nam. His telling of the story was incredibly ponderous, but the crowdd, nevertheless, laughed uproariously.

[Solamente]

From Drudge, another account:

Kerry tells of flying a jet over Israel

By Nedra Pickler, Associated Press Writer | May 3, 2004

WASHINGTON --John Kerry wasn't kidding when he told the Anti-Defamation League that he had a different perspective on Israel. Probably no one else in the room has seen the country upside down from an Israeli Air Force jet.
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Kerry said Monday that Tel Aviv kept denying his request to fly one of their planes, but that the colonel who was showing him around Israel during a 1991 visit not only got him into a trainer, but let him take the controls.
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"I take it off, we go up into the sky, climb up, head down toward Aqaba," the senator said. "And I wanted to look at Aqaba, so I'm coming down over Aqaba, and I suddenly hear this voice on the intercom, and he says, 'Senator, you'd better turn faster, you're going over Egypt.'"

Kerry said the colonel then gave him permission to do "a little aerobatics" and that he made a loop at about 12,000 feet.

"To be able to come out upside down and look down and catch the horizon in back of me and see all the way down into the Sinai to the old base that had been given up, all the way across into Jordan, all the way out into the Gulf of Aqaba, and to see Israel beneath me, and the lines contained, and to see it all upside down was the perfect way to see the Middle East and Israel," he said.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

It's good to know John Kerry doesn't mind the frivolous and wasteful use of other people's property. So much for the notion that Bush's aircraft landing was a wasteful use of taxpayer money, or that Bush was "hot-dogging" it by taking control of the plane.

Any truth to the rumor that when Kerry landed, there was a sign behind him that said "NOTHING ACCOMPLISHED"?

[Moby Grape]

Kerry has spent his entire life looking at the world upside down.

[sonsofliberty2000]

Dukakis and the tank anyone?

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Patriot Paradox

[demkicker]

Here he goes again with his bragging, "I am a pilot, you know". Kerry's ego is as big as the Middle East.

[Drawsing]

He is not a pilot.

he informed us "I am a pilot, you know".

Is he a pilot or isn't he? Are we getting into Al Gore territory here?

[Norman Conquest]

Go find this same story over at Lucianne.com for what has to be the single funniest reader comment ever.

I think Alyson Hannigan may have the ultimate sound bite on the entire Kerry enterprise.

[Bahbah]

Kerry is a product of incredible privilege. When his personal fortune was inadequate to support the life to which he feels entitled, he married a richer woman, and, when that wasn't enough, he married an even richer one. He is disgusting.

[babaloo]

Next photo op will be him sitting with the pilot in a plane of some sort. He is now dying to be photographed in a flight suit. I am just wondering if they make them out of spandex.

[demkicker]

He is now dying to be photographed in a French flight suit. I am just wondering if they make them out of spandex.

[keats5]

I hate skinny men in spandex. He loooks like a spider!

[Redcoat LI]

"Kerry said Monday that Tel Aviv kept denying his request to fly one of their planes, but that the colonel who was showing him around Israel during a 1991 visit not only got him into a trainer, but let him take the controls."

This clown can't even stay upright on a bicycle,and he wants us to believe he's a jet pilot?

[Gritty]

back in 1991, when an Israeli colonel allowed him to take the controls of an Israeli Air Force trainer jet. Kerry told the Associated Press he did "a little aerobatics" -- a loop at 12,000 feet

I find this tale not very credible. It sounds like he is brushing up his "hero" patina again.

A loop is not a difficult maneuver, but it does require some finesse - unless the pilot rode through the controls with him which he would surely have to do. More likely, if he did any aerobatics unassisted (as he sort of brags), Kerry did a simple aileron roll, which is about the best somebody without training could attempt successfully alone, and even then it would be pretty rough.

A loop requires variable "g"s - up to about 4 - with variable degrees of "play" in the stick throughout along with decent airspeed control. It is not a simple maneuver. An aileron roll only requires moving the stick to the left or right in a more aggressive manner than in a turn. Both will put you upside down.

I think Kerry is full of it, again. Maybe he rode along for some aerobatics, but unlikely he had much to do with them except puke in his barf bag. He probably just rode along, looked at the scenery, made a few easy turns before he puked and then asked to go back.

[new cruelty]

Think of it - At some point in time, deep in the dark, dank pit that is kerry campaign HQ, several dimwitted troglodytes huddled together in a big stinking mass of stupidity, grunting and griping that their feckless leader some how, some way, needed to appear less repugnant - and this little story is what they came up with.