Byrd Blasts Bush's Aircraft Carrier Use

AP via NYTimes.com ^ | 05/06/2003

[Cicero]

Byrd was always a scum, but he used to be a smooth, courteous, southern-gentlemanly type of scum. Ever since the clinton impeachment trial he seems to have lost his veneer of southern politeness. Now he comes across as shrill as hillary.

It just goes to show you that sooner or later sleaziness will out.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

You need to be on a Robert C Byrd ping list so that you can remind everyone that forgets what a king pork barrel spender this fraud is.

[johnb838]

I thought having a president with the nad to do the tailhook was just awesome.

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?

[maxter]

But Senator Byrd, as you are so fond of saying, it was pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty.......

[Uncle Fud]

Good point, perhaps instead of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" we should have called it "The Robert C. Byrd War on Iraq" and Dubya would be having a lot less trouble in the Senate these days.....

[CarryaBigStick]

Why do I get the feeling that George Bush spent years hearing hearing his father say 'you aren't a real aviator until you've shot a carrier trap.'

He just put all that to rest - well sort of.

Heck, if I was the president (now there's a scary thought), I'd have left the deck with a cat shot.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

The sight of this man throws the dems into a tailspin. I love it.

[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?

[fightinJAG]

HAHAHAHAAAAHAAAAA

[biss5577]

I am loath to hear of a current U.S. senator who was a member of the KKK. He's a babbling idiot, plain and simple.

[Dog Gone]

Senator Byrd Tyrd is not helping himself or the Democrats with this kind of statement. The nation wants to feel good about the military accomplishment in Iraq, and this looks like some old coot trying to rain on the parade.

[fightinJAG]

It throws me into a tailspin, I must confess. ((blush))

[M0sby]

Amazing... I know that my own (eek) Democratic/ war opposing senator-in-tennis-shoes Murray arrived onboard the Lincoln today as it pulled into Everett. As did our Democratic Governor Locke (BTW, the same governor who gave the democratic rebuttle to the Pres. State of the Union Address)

I wonder if Sen. Byrd will notice this???
I would guess not.

[onehipdad]

Too bad Natalie Maines isn't from West Virginney...

[johnb838]

She looks like she is and sounds like she is.

[ruoflaw]

gee, I don't remember the old coot complaining when clinton visited a aircraft carrier....of course clinton didn't arrive the same way President Bush did. President Bush got a real welcome from the troops!

[SwinneySwitch]

You forgot the Robert C. Byrd Museum of Baking Science and History!:^}

[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?"
Thats a loaded question.
While I do not have the guts to actually WANT to do a carrier landing, I would have to say I would prefer a carrier pilot fly me anywhere, if I have to fly anything smaller than a DC-10.I have no fondness for helocopters at all.Possibly an allergy involved.
Yes, its theoretically more dangerous.But he was flying with the best pilots the world produces, much as it pains my USAF heart to admit such a thing.
It sure aint routine, and I loved it!

[Wolfstar]

Yeah, that's really what has Byrd's shorts in a knot (his and other Dems, plus their media shills). The notion of those fantastic images of a dashing, ruggedly handsome, real-man President being used to slaughter Dems in the 2004 election. Too bad, Byrd. Your hero, Bill Clinton, is looking mighty matronly these days, and none of your Presidential wannabes even remotely have the alpha male chops that Dubya has. Plus you're 85, now, and not even you can stay in the Senate forever (although to be fair, Strom tried). Hehehehehe....

[GallopingGhost]

Byrd contrasted the speech with the ``simple dignity'' of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address during the Civil War.

This from a guy that witnessed the Gettysburg Address live.