BUSH TO LAND ON CARRIER AT SEA

New York Post ^ | 5/01/03 | DEBORAH ORIN

[kattracks]

May 1, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - President Bush today turns "Top Gun" and boards a warplane to fly out over the Pacific for a dramatic landing on the homeward-bound aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, where he'll declare that "major combat" in Iraq is over.

[Ready4Freddy]

Thank you, MJY.

[Core_Conservative]

Approx 3:00 PM EDT!

[Starrgaizr]

Clinton couldn't have done this. The plane would have crashed while he lurched around looking for a flight attendant to grope.

[goodnesswins]

Thanks for the ping Ohio.......1 HOUR and COUNTING!!!!! to the landing!

[Joe Hadenuf]

What.....you're only 15 years old?? I don't think anyone over that age still says that!

Is that out of sink, not in fashion in Ohio?

Whatever....Hehehe....

[ohioWfan]

Not in fashion with the grownups, Joe. :o)

[G.Mason]

"Well, that would include me if I knew what time it was going to happen! Any idea?"

I heard 3:00pm EST.

Sure it will be played over a few times! ;)

[G.Mason]

"I just get tired of marching in cadence.....And while I am at it, this is nothing but a photo op and a PR move."

So don't march.

Give us your insight on John Glenn's little space odyssey.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I just can't keep up with the breaking trends and do's and don'ts coming out of Ohio..I guess a trip to Akron would help, you know, mix it up with all those adults.....

In any event, looks like he's landing in about a twenty minutes. Clear the flight deck.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I was jealous. He was very lucky to make the trip......

[deport]

ONE DOWN

[G.Mason]

Man what a recruitment move for the military!

[2Jedismom]

Has he landed?? I don't have cable!

[G.Mason]

Landed, and was it GREAT!

[CDHart]

My neighbor's daughter is on the Lincoln -- they got an e-mail from her this a.m. to watch the landing, as she would be in one of the first rows. The entire crew is really looking forward to Bush coming for a visit. I think this is wonderful for their morale.

Carolyn

[ReleaseTheHounds]

W on the carrier deck reminds me of a couple of lines from a great movie (The Right Stuff) when they go out to see if Yeager survived his last test pilot run trying to get a high altitude record... Two guys are driving an emergency vehicle to see if he survived... The passengers sees something on the horizon and asks "Is that a man?" and Yeager's friend, the driver says "You're DAMN RIGHT that's a MAN!"

[AndrewC]

I envision a master card commercial. Something along the lines of ---.

Green flight suit XX$
S3-B Viking $X millions.
Aircraft Carrier $X billions.
Clintoon's envy ---- priceless!!

[GretchenEE]

A carefully calculated plan which will have the world glued to their collective TV screens and help insure GWB's re-election.

Can you not hear the teeth grinding going on in dem circles, about how stinking unfair it is that Bush is percolating the perqs of office to new heights / depths, to win the hearts and minds of the American people?

And, I imagine, thrashing around at night, sweating profusely, sleepless in their comfortless beds, trying vainly to formulate plans to counteract this seeming juggernaut.

[gcruse]

I like the undermessage it sends.
"This campaign is complete, but the war is not over."

[GretchenEE]

The reason we remember what Reagan and W say is that they base(d) their symbolic gestures on substantive actions.

blubba x42 was all huff and puff followed by ... fluff.

One can build on the Rock or one can build on the sand.