Bush Soars, But How He'll Land Is Another Story (Cynthia Tucker Alert)

Atlanta Journal & Constitution ^ | 05/10/03 | Cynthia Tucker

[Criminal Number 18F]

Here it is as a link:

Press Briefing, 5/20/93

Thanks yo you, YaYa, and to Howlin... the links you posted completely debunk this latest set of DNC talking points from Cindy.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Criminal Number 18F]

During the Clinton years, we developed a little ritual. When reenlisting, during the phrase "enemies foreign and domestic" our guys would say the "domestic" a bit louder and point to the picture of the Bent, Impeached Commander in Chief on the wall. The point was to make the officer giving the oath crack up and lose control. The first time someone did it, we had to back up and restart the whole oath.

I suppose it sounds disrespectful. I suppose it was. Still the guys followed orders from him (yuck, Haiti) because we're not some banana republic, but it makes a difference to know that you are hanging it out there for a president who's a man, and not a boy who can't control his appetites, and does things for childish reasons.

It was with great joy that we fed the Clinton picture to the shredder in January 01. It jammed the shredder, too -- even that machine was disgusted with him, after being fed a diet of straight national security stuff for years.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Brices Crossroads]

Cynthia Tucker and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.....Two sides of the same false coin. Someone needs to tell her that many National Guard units were activated both during Vietnam and subsequent conflicts. George W. Bush put himself at risk by joining the National Guard, unlike the Impeached One, who practiced his trademark mendacity to avoid service altogether. This President is a brave man, who is not afraid to land a plane on the deck of a moving carrier or to stand in the middle of a stadium with 80,000 people in it and throw out the first pitch, right after 9/11 to give an exampole to his fellow Americans not to be afraid of terrorists. Does anyone really believe Clinton would have taken a similar risk. Or Lyndon Johnson, supposed WW II hero, who was cowering in fear after JFK's assasination.

The liberals are trying to do a preemptive strike on the Presiudent's visit to the Carrier which was a wonderful patriotic moment for our Country, akin to Reagan's speech at the Berlin Wall or on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. Their tactic will not, of course, work.

[NMFXSTC]

The president decided to fly in on the Viking because he "wanted to see an aircraft landing the same way that the pilots saw an aircraft landing."

Maybe he should have experienced a USMC rifle platoon or fire team assualt the same way Marines see it!

BTW...the F-102 was being phased out when dubbya was in the Guard (and missing a full year of drills...his last efficiency report clearly states that he was "not observed" and hadn't been seen nor heard from during his last year of "service"...something any military member would be scutinized for far more wuickly and harshly...called either "unauthorized absence" or AWOL!)

[Hacksaw]

A Cynthia Tucker article that doesn't involve her reminding everyone that she is black? Maybe she isn't feeling well.

[ohioWfan]

Thanks for that George link, Howlin.

Great to read the facts lined up in black and white (though I knew that to be true), and fun to scroll down and see that there were anti-Bush nutcases on FR before I signed up in 2001. :o)

[cyncooper]

I think you're supposed to post a picture of the Flight Suit on these types of threads. It's that image that is driving them insane.

[dsutah]

You should've heard that exchange between Neil Cavuto and Anthony Weiner this morning! AW was spouting that "Bush lied" crap this morning, and Neil Cavuto was all over him! Hilarious!!

[cyncooper]

Not only did Bush seek to link himself to combat pilots,

Flying Bush to Carrier 'Just Awesome'

Lussier said Bush, a former National Guard pilot, took the controls and flew about a third of the flight from San Diego to the carrier, about 30 miles off the California coast.

``He was great,'' said Lussier. ``Once he got into the brief he just started remembering. It was a bonding of aviators. When we got into the plane, I gave him the stick and it was like he hadn't left the cockpit.''

[texasbluebell]

I find it delicious that Dems can't figure why Bush can pull off this stunt with flare and Clinton couldn't.

It must have something to do with the way xlinton always behaves in such an undgnified manner.

I've never seen a leader look like this. Can you believe the nerve of this man to stride on the deck of a naval carrier, slurping an ice cream cone? And the worst of this is the cigar in his other hand.

Sickening. He can't stop stuffing his face even at a time like this.

[jejones]

Ed Williams's very handy Aviation Formulary says that d =1.17*sqrt(h) for h = altitude in feet, d = distance to horizon in nautical miles. Anyone know offhand how high the carrier is?

[CyberAnt]

The sad part is - BUSH HAS ALREADY LANDED - it's just the dems who don't get it.

[Brices Crossroads]

From your post, I take it that you agree with Cynthia Tucker. Is not "being observed" in the National Guard, which is not active duty, the same thing as being AWOL while on active duty?

I don't think being a combat veteran either qualifies or disqualifies someone from being President of the United States. Do you think Reagan should be criticized for wearing green fatigues when he visited the troops in Korea or speaking at Pointe de Hoc on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day? After all, he was making training films in HOllywood at the time. I am always a little suspicious of people who have been in the military and feel a constant need to trumpet the fact. I always thought Audie Murphy set a good example by giving credit to his comrades and refusing it for himself.

Whatever you happen to think about DUBBYA's (as you so respectfully refer to him) military service, he happens to be the President of the United States and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States You may believe that he should have been court martialed 35 years ago based on something in a National Guard report and that he somehow received some favorable treatment to avoid it. This is Democrat agitprop. I am surprised to see you swallow it whole.

[Michael.SF.]

Key Excerpt from Dee Dee Meyers PBS Interview:

I think George Bush not knowing how a grocery store scanner worked --which [was] absolutely not true -- but that became a metaphor for an out-of-touch president. Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.

[Michael.SF.]

Perhaps the height of the carries makes it possible but somehow I doubt one can see the shoreline at 39 miles

My son, on board the Lincoln, advised me that they could see the skyline of downtown San Diego from the flight deck.

[YaYa123]

I'm link challenged, so I really appreciate your magic, maybe more folks will read it now. Get the real time skinny on Clinton's haircut, straight from little Georgie Steph.....and maybe even contrast Clinton's LA boondoggle, (which includes a photo op to a south central playground), and President Bush's legitimate use of Air Force One as this nation's Commander in Chief.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Even warm sunshine can't brighten up a day, as much as listening to childish liberals whine.

[Fzob]

Thanks for the info.

[TC Rider]

I think George Bush not knowing how a grocery store scanner worked --which [was] absolutely not true-DeeDee Myers

She should know, it was Begalla and Carville that sold that story lie to the NYT.

[Kip Lange]

Oh, how they whine when Bush does ANYTHING right.

Talk about not getting it.

"It is a profound insult to the skills, bravery and sacrifices of real naval aviators for Bush to masquerade as one."

No, you moron, the people on that carrier KNOW how dangerous carrier landings are. If anything, that carrier landing was done to let THEM know how much he cares about what they've done -- and less for the general public. The general public may well indeed view it as "really cool", because it IS, but that was done first and foremost for THE TROOPS. And they *loved* it. As for the man on the street -- one of my friends is a registered Green Party member (don't ask, he should be a conservative, he's just living in same Utopia Libertarians are) -- and even he thought it was, and I quote, "damn cool, even if it is just PR" (I then argued for 15 minutes about how it wasn't "just PR" and got him turned around on that, too).