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Byrd Blasts Bush's Aircraft Carrier Use
AP via NYTimes.com ^
| 05/06/2003
Posted on 05/06/2003 3:12:42 PM PDT by GeneD
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To: GeneD
if clinton had done it first, he would have had no problems with it.
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posted on
05/06/2003 6:39:05 PM PDT
by
liberalnot
(what dems fear the most is real democracy.)
To: fightinJAG
Byrd's new name "SENATOR PROP"
To: GeneD
Mentally I compare the images of President Bush surrounded by cheering Navy crewmen, and senator byrd surrounded by his supporters...pointed white hoods, burning cross.
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posted on
05/06/2003 6:43:24 PM PDT
by
CWOJackson
(why let the facts stand in the way?)
To: GeneD
Long live the Byrd. Long live the Byrd. Long live the Byrd. The democrats should be ashamed of themselves for allowing the Byrd to fly for so long.
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posted on
05/06/2003 6:56:50 PM PDT
by
TBall
To: GeneD
Funny Byrdbrain would cite a Republican, Pres. Lincoln, as a man who gave simple, but effective speeches. But Lincoln appeared at a military funeral to give the Gettysburg address in front of a huge crowd. Was he also convincing voters at the time?
RATS like Bryd are all beyond help! And how can Bryd compare what and where the President is supposed to speak considering his own speeches given while wearing a white sheet?
To: GeneD
Is Sheets angry that Bush didn't run over a black guy when making the carrier landing, or what?
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posted on
05/06/2003 7:22:18 PM PDT
by
Terpfen
To: fightinJAG
Senator Byrd said, "To me, it is an affront to the Americans killed or injured in Iraq for the president to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle of a speech".
Oh yes, I understand now... It is much more appropriate at a funeral for a "momentary spectacle of a speech". Of course, it's not at all an affront to the deceased to have a democratic campaign event billed as a memorial service!!
To: liberalnot
I am loath to think of an aircraft carrier being used as an advertising backdrop for a presidential political slogan, and yet that is what I sawSenility has finally hit the KKK's man in Washington. I think you just have to ask those on that carrier whether they think of Bush's visit as "advertising" (do you have to ask? the pictures say enough).
Byrd-brain is so distant from reality that he just assumes everything a politician does is campaigning. No, idiot, not everyone is Clinton. And thank God that is the case, for if this country had been run by Byrd or Clinton the past 4 years we would be waving the green flag of Islam by now.
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posted on
05/06/2003 7:30:43 PM PDT
by
EaglesUpForever
(Boycott france and russia for at least 20 years)
To: GeneD
Visualize this commercial:
Byrd spouting nonsense like this on a backdrop of the cheers of the troops on the Lincoln; first scene is Dubya in flight suit shaking hands and high fiving his men.
Toss in the Senator's KKK garb for spice.
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posted on
05/06/2003 7:39:24 PM PDT
by
don-o
To: SwinneySwitch
Why don't we ask the troops how they feel about this president, the first to land on a carrier, and who they will be voting for in 2004, senator byrd?
That's the ONLY important point, isn't it?
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posted on
05/06/2003 7:43:21 PM PDT
by
gitmo
("The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain." GWB)
To: Freeper
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posted on
05/06/2003 8:22:21 PM PDT
by
Vetnet
("WHO'S NEXT?")
To: sarasmom
"Question for the military types: Is it significantly more dangerous to do a tailhook landing on a small jet as opposed to flying out on a helo?" First of all, by carrier aircraft standards, the S-3 is not all that small. It's the second or third largest A/C that is operational on the carriers. The E-2 and C-2 are slightly larger and the C-2 can come aboard heavier. But then again, that's what Condi Rice and others came aboard on, and she was riding backwards and had couldn't see the landing coming. (Might be an advantage for some, but I'd rather see whats happening)
IMHO, helocopters, while more dangerous in general, are safer to land on the carrier than trapping aboard in a relatively heavy jet, especially one like the S-3 with no afterburners to help with the "go round" if you fail to catch a wire.
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posted on
05/06/2003 9:40:16 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: El Gato
Shush!
Dont make me order my F-15 CAP to shut you up!
smirk quietly,or feel a need for a chute and SAR forces.
LOL!
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posted on
05/06/2003 9:48:19 PM PDT
by
sarasmom
(Punish France.Ignore Germany.Forgive Russia...Free Israel from terrorists.)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
I found this Letter to the Editor in the New York Post today. I enjoyed it so much, I thought I'd share with everyone:
HAIL TO THE SKY CHIEF
May 6, 2003 -- I had to laugh about Linda Stasi's column ("Overdressed Prez Must Have Been a Boy Scout," May 4). It really must bother Stasi and her ilk the way our commander in chief stirred the emotions of a nation.
The pride I and others felt seeing our president come off a plane that landed on an aircraft carrier to salute his troops was just what this nation needed, and something I will never forget.
Maybe he was overdressed, maybe he wasn't. However, isn't it better than disrobing in the Oval Office?
To: GeneD
Questioning the motives of a ``desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior,'' Bush garb:
![](http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20030502/mdf268190.jpg)
Byrd garb:
To: FreedomCalls
Look at the 'suits' packed around Clinton.
Contrast with Dubya wading into the throng of servicemen with only one Secret Service Agent anywhere at arm's length--behind him!
Actions speak far louder than words.
To: GeneD
Hee Hee Hee!
Green is just the WRONG color on the Bryd Brain! He is just eaten up with jealousy that he isn't a hero to the American people.
To: GeneD
The old guy is going to die soon. I wish I could be there to see his face when St. Peter greets him at the pearly gates with a sheet and instructs him to put it on so God can recognize him.
I guess it's a good thing that he has his name on all those buildings in WVa because it's the only way he's ever going to have any kind of immortality.
To: GeneD
Look on the bright side. That Byrd is so bitter gives me pleasure!
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posted on
05/06/2003 10:49:20 PM PDT
by
jporcus
To: Nick Danger
I guess these things go right out of the fax machine in the Democratic cloakroom straight onto the AP wire. I bet the Republicans wish they could say something and have it printed. Maybe they need one of those fax machines hooked up to the news wire, like the Democrats have.
And it's going to get worse too! Look out!
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