So I, too, can see what it's like to land on a carrier! Gosh, I always did admire those Top Gun studs in the movie...yumba.
what's next? Dubya going up in a space shuttle to see what the astronauts see?
Wonder how much Dubya's joyride cost us?
Oh, darn.
And, more wonderful wisdom from Senator Byrd, the voice crying in the wilderness:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/...ush/index.html
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| The White House also won extensive coverage of the buildup to the speech with the president's dramatic arrival on the USS Abraham Lincoln. Arriving by a Navy jet, he made a tailhook landing on the carrier. |
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| Last week, the White House had said that such a landing was necessary because the carrier would have been too far out for a helicopter landing. In fact, the carrier was close enough to the California coast for a helicopter landing. "The ship did make much faster progress than anticipated," White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said Tuesday, when asked about the matter. Still, he said the president "wanted to arrive on it in a manner that would allow him to see an arrival on a carrier the same way pilots got to see an arrival on a carrier." |
Wonder how much Dubya's joyride cost us?
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| Fleischer said he had no estimate on the cost of the carrier event. |
And, more wonderful wisdom from Senator Byrd, the voice crying in the wilderness:
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| "President Bush's address to the American people announcing combat victory in Iraq deserved to be marked with solemnity, not extravagance; with gratitude to God, not self-congratulatory gestures," Sen. Robert Byrd, D- West Virginia, said in a sharply worded speech delivered on the Senate floor. "American blood has been shed on foreign soil in defense of the president's policies. This is not some made-for-TV backdrop for a campaign commercial." |
