[GeneD]

Please delete the duplicate post; I had trouble communicating with you folks and clicked twice.

[Defend the Second]

Senility is an awful thing to watch, but since he helps the conservative cause every time he opens his mouth, I say let the old bastard blather on.

[cabbieguy]

Thanks for the post, this is the confirmation I've been looking for, Senator Robert (KKK) Byrd has final gone "round the bend". He has completely forgotten that the President of the United States is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces.

[Nachoman]

Of course its perfectly alright for John Glenn to take a joyride on the shuttle as a payoff from Clinton.

[Williams]

How can Bush be "desk bound" when he flew in a small military jet and landed on an aircraft carrier deck?

[Aria]

I am loathe to think of reading anything this old hypocrite says yet that is what I saw.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Sunday's (Nashville) "Tennessean" printed this from from a noted local:

To the Editor:
What's the difference between the audience at a Dixie Chicks concert and those attending a President Bush speech on board an aircraft carrier?
Answer: The Chicks' fans pay to be there and are captured by their music, while the troops are paid to be there and are a captive audience.
Our president's mandatory rallies are reminiscent of the best performances of history's great dictators and would do credit to a Red Square assembly for Stalin.
Robert O. Begtrup
Nashville 37220

Tuesday's rag had this good citizen's reply:

Troops wanted to meet President Bush
To the Editor:
In his letter to the editor May 4, it is obvious by Mr. Robert O. Begtrup's parody suggesting our military on board the aircraft carrier was under hostage to greet the president, that he probably not only wouldn't have listened to our president's speech but didn't watch the 30-40 minutes that followed where our troops refused to leave the deck and clamored to grasp his hand and be photographed with him.
But then it could be argued that each and every one of our troops couldn't have been as discerning as the writer of that letter.
I feel sorry for anyone so obviously filled with hatred toward our president that he would compare this scene to one of Stalin in Red Square.
Harvey Eisen
Nashville 37205

[Dr. Robert Begtrup runs the Vanderbilt Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Center. A Green Beret in Vietnam, an elitist leftist in this era. Would you trust him with your child's head?]