Dems Attack Bush's Use of Aircraft Carrier for Speech

CNS News ^ | 05/07/03 | Susan Jones

[Miss Marple]

UGH..somehow "emerging from the primordial slime" comes to mind.

[Carolina]

UGH..somehow "emerging from the primordial slime" comes to mind.

Well, this was published in Vanity Fair supposedly for the "arousal factor."

[occam's chainsaw]

I just asked my clueless liberal co-worker how he felt about the President's tailhook landing and I thought that maybe *just maybe* as a former Navy avionics vet he would give it a thumbs up. Boy, was I wrong. He started going off about how much we spend to insure the President's security and how the landing was needlesly DANGEROUS (as if he thinks he can really convince me that he is the least bit concerned about President Bush's health and well-being).

My question is: How many more accidents are there with fixed-wing military aircraft than helicopters?

I heard the carrier was too far away for a helicopter transport, but even if it was close enough - is a helicopter really that much safer?

[Miss Marple]

If that's the best they can do, they are in serious trouble.

LOL!

[m1-lightning]

My question is: How many more accidents are there with fixed-wing military aircraft than helicopters?

Not sure on the numbers, but I know that when an F-14 goes down, you don't hear about it.

[LuisBasco]

The troops have absolutely no respect for this president!

Senator Byrd-Brain and the grotesquely ugly WaxMAN need to get the hell out of Dodge City!

[Miss Marple]

I suppose marginally safer, although I don't know where you would go to find statistics.

He is just picking up the talking points for this week. Probably if you had asked him on Friday he would have said it was pretty neat. But now all the leftist media have started reminding them how bad this was.

Security was actually less than if he had traveled to a military base. Clinton was on aircraft carriers several times, and not for anything as important as the end of a conflict.

I maintain that what they are really hostile about is the flight suit. They know they have no argument against that. Ha!

[Blueflag]

Yep, two of thw toughest airframes in the sky.

[GOPJ]

Didn't Lincoln take a train to Gettysburg? Pretty dramatic for his day...

[eyespysomething]

Thanks for the link! I posted it on DU'h so they could all see the truth!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID70/2403.html#10

[mombonn]

LOL, thanks!

[Blueflag]

When I follow your link I see the image of a guitar?!?!?

[Blueflag]

DOH!! #10, not #15.

A mind is a terrible thing

[m1-lightning]

Didn't Lincoln take a train to Gettysburg?

You are quite right. And did you notice how Bush borrowed a phrase from the Gettysburg Address to support the foundation of a new Iraq? "A government for the people, of the people, by the people - of Iraq". I thought it was very symbolic and patriotic.

How many Dems do you think can even recite the Gettysburg address?

[eyespysomething]

Yeah, its hard to phrase what I want to say so it stays on the board and doesn't get yanked. That's why I put the Clinton visited more ships than Reagan or Bush I.

You aren't spoon are you, I swear that can't be a DU'er saying "Tax cuts for the poor, ONLY" Like the poor pay taxes now, du'h. It has to be somene being sarcastic.

[Blueflag]

I can absolutely verify I am not "spoon" and did not make a comment about 'taxes for the poor'

I believe in a government of the rich, the well-born AND the able. (Hamilton)

[marty60]

A golden oldie. Still works.

[marty60]

Gettysburg Address? Considering KKK Byrds position on the outcome of the war(civil that is), He would have been booing Lincoln if he had been there. What really pissed him off was the fact that we even have a carrier named after Lincoln.

[hchutch]

Senator KKK is complaining.

Looks like Bush made the right call.

[Paleo Conservative]