Bush meets the Teletubbies on U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln

Jim Dye · May-1st-2003, 05:09 PM

Hi La La! Hello Tinky-Winky!

Monte Smith · May-1st-2003, 05:16 PM

Hey! He isn't shaking hands with the gay one, is he?

Monte Smith · May-1st-2003, 05:38 PM

Nice. Drudge is running this photo above the headline "TOP GUN."

Why does this photo bring to mind a stark comparison with, say, Michael Dukakis in a tank?

Somebody print me a bumpersticker. "George W. is my hee-ro."

kedoane · May-1st-2003, 07:40 PM

lol:-)

How many Teletubbies did the pres meet today?

Tanager · May-1st-2003, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Monte Smith
Why does this photo bring to mind a stark comparison with, say, Michael Dukakis in a tank?

I'm sure this looked like a good idea at the time, but surely some actual fighter pilots have to be thinking to themselves, "what a freakin' poseur. How's about you sign up for a tour there, Rambo?"

Monte Smith · May-1st-2003, 10:00 PM

I don't think the Secret Service want him taking the stick, Tanager. Which evidently he did up there today for a "third of the trip," according to his account. That's good press, of course, but not heroics. It's good politics, too. All the pictures from today are worth a mint, politically. Not to the anti-Bushies who fortunately or unfortunately have everything backwards these days. If the American people like one thing, they insist on the opposite.

By the way, the flight suit wasn't a costume. The President didn't come in on a passenger craft; everyone in the jet he did fly in on was suited up per regulation. Of course, yes he could have come in on Marine One like a normal President. Or could he? Not sure where the Lincoln was this evening.

Ron Thorne · May-2nd-2003, 01:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tanager
I'm sure this looked like a good idea at the time, but surely some actual fighter pilots have to be thinking to themselves, "what a freakin' poseur. How's about you sign up for a tour there, Rambo?"

How predictable that Monte wouldn't relate to your question in a straightforward manner, Tanager. It's not about "taking the stick", Monte, it's about "taking the risk"! DUH!!

Poseur, indeed!

shrugs · May-2nd-2003, 04:47 PM

Obviuosly nobody realizes that 9 months at sea IS A LONG FREAKIN' TIME!!!!!
People, these guys just want to get home. Bush's visit is just a little bit more than the normal VIP tour that usually occurs when heading in.
However, I am sure many were pleased to see him. Believe it or not but A LOT of the military loves this man. I work with somebody who has a framed picture of him in his office.

Tanager · May-2nd-2003, 04:50 PM

shrugs, I've actually heard the same from a buddy (knee-jerkedly rightwing, ex-USAF). Oh well.

Monte Smith · May-2nd-2003, 04:52 PM

Shrugs, I think the Lincoln was ten months at sea. I agree--A LONG FREAKIN' TIME to be stuck on a metal tub.

By the way, did you hear about the Chinese sub today--some kind of an accident with many sailers drowned. Thought of you when I heard. No Navy man can't want to hear about stuff like that.

Tanager · May-2nd-2003, 04:55 PM

One of the many stories, none giving great detail about the accident itself (none to be had, I think), on the Chinese sub disaster:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...a_submarine_dc