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Bush, Kerry, Airplanes
All this brings up several things.
One, Bush learned to fly in the military at government expense, did not complete his assigned commitment, and flew, if I understand , fourteen months after UPT and has not flown as PIC or SIC since. Neither military or elsewise. (Not counting the ride out to the boat of late.) Kerry learned to fly not at government expense and apparently has done so for a number of years. Now, mind you, I don't like Bush or Kerry as a candidate. Bush was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. Kerry is also apparently something of a rich kid, married Big Ketchup, Ivy League (yecch), and to top it off is closely associated with a family I detest and which makes my skin crawl for many reasons (not least of which the same reason a certain baseball player hated them for every day of the last 36 years of his life). I can tell you right now I'm voting third party. But-be honest-is there any reason I should prefer Bush over Kerry from an aviation standpoint? Bush, a nonpilot as far as I'm concerned, has done nothing for aviation in this country. Kerry isn't likely to either, but how much worse could he be? The other thing in all this discussion of what balls it takes to strap on a single engine fighter, is the growing evidence that many people are willing to pay a lot of money for the privilege. Once reserved for places like Mojave, the warjet deal is penetrating down to the backward Midwest. I saw a Sabre and a Hawker Hunter poking their tails up among the Aztecs and King Airs at the local spam can patch this week out here. My guess is it costs roughly five hundred bucks an hour to fly a Sabre. And the civil warjet guys are killing themselves at a rate that would have embarrassed the Air Force during the glory days of "Every Man A Tiger". In and of itself flying fighters is no more heroic than riding a chopped Harley with the Hells Angels or wreck diving with open circuit scuba gear. It's what one does, and why, that sometimes might be heroic. But just climbing up there-if I hit the lottery and could get the FAA to let me I'd buy-after working my way up a little-the wildest fighter I could. Simply because it would be-this is 2004, Marilyn's dead, and she'd be 78 anyway- the biggest ego blast in the world to taxi up to the ramp at the local FBO in front of all those square-ass Gulfstream and Lear crews. I know what the statistics are, and I don't care. I suspect Bush Jr's motives were the same-booze, pussy and kerosene! Cub Driver wrote in message . .. I believe that is the first time I have heard of the F-102 as a "safe aircraft"! Were they really? As Ed Rasimus has said: "Every time you kick the tires and light the fire in a single-engine, single-seat Century Series jet, it can kill you--all by itself without help from an enemy." www.warbirdforum.com/bushf102.htm |
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Sam Byrams wrote: All this brings up several things. -clip- You have to fight your tendency to view a presidential candidate from the standpoint of aviation. Reagan was not pilot by any measure but I would classify Kerry as farther away from Reagan (by any number of measures) than Bush. You can't compare apples and oranges in any meaningful way. Bush is more of a statesman that Kerry but not much of one compared to Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan. It's all relative.... as for me, I'll be voting for the lesser of two evils. |
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Or, think of it this way. Bush is an incompetent moron; Kerry isn't.
Bush's incompetence and ego got us into a war we shouldn't be in; Kerry didn't. etc., etc., etc. kontiki wrote: Sam Byrams wrote: All this brings up several things. -clip- You have to fight your tendency to view a presidential candidate from the standpoint of aviation. Reagan was not pilot by any measure but I would classify Kerry as farther away from Reagan (by any number of measures) than Bush. You can't compare apples and oranges in any meaningful way. Bush is more of a statesman that Kerry but not much of one compared to Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan. It's all relative.... as for me, I'll be voting for the lesser of two evils. |
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Kerry is a PX hero and does a poor immitation of Bill Clinton.
Foster wrote: Or, think of it this way. Bush is an incompetent moron; Kerry isn't. Bush's incompetence and ego got us into a war we shouldn't be in; Kerry didn't. etc., etc., etc. |
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In article , kontiki
wrote: Kerry ... does a poor immitation of Bill Clinton. which could be considered something in waffle's favor. -- Bob Noel |
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"Foster" wrote in message ... Or, think of it this way. Bush is an incompetent moron; Kerry isn't. Bush's incompetence and ego got us into a war we shouldn't be in; Kerry didn't. Actually, Kerry has not made any such claims and for good reason: he has gone on record too many times saying that Bush fooled him on various issues. Kerry would probably just as soon his supporters did not make such a big argument that Bush is stupid; it makes Kerry look even dumber than Bush. It makes his supporters look even dumber than that, but of course they are too stupid to realize it. :-) |
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If he gets fooled by the Bush administration, should we let him represent us
in dealings with truly professional diplomats and world leaders? "C J Campbell" wrote in message ... "Foster" wrote in message ... Or, think of it this way. Bush is an incompetent moron; Kerry isn't. Bush's incompetence and ego got us into a war we shouldn't be in; Kerry didn't. Actually, Kerry has not made any such claims and for good reason: he has gone on record too many times saying that Bush fooled him on various issues. Kerry would probably just as soon his supporters did not make such a big argument that Bush is stupid; it makes Kerry look even dumber than Bush. It makes his supporters look even dumber than that, but of course they are too stupid to realize it. :-) |
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"Dude" wrote in message ... If he gets fooled by the Bush administration, should we let him represent us in dealings with truly professional diplomats and world leaders? Exactly the point. That is why you won't see Kerry going around saying that Bush is stupid and why he probably wishes his 'supporters' would stop saying it, too. |
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And you think we are going to have another presidential election in this
country???? I think that bush will stop the election and I have said the same thing in the past prior to the news reports on how he wants to know how to delay an election incase of a terrorist attack. If there is an election this year I will be very surprised. They have already taken away 45% of our arms so we could not fight an unruly government if bush dose what I think he is going to do. But I could be wrong. "Sam Byrams" wrote in message om... All this brings up several things. One, Bush learned to fly in the military at government expense, did not complete his assigned commitment, and flew, if I understand , fourteen months after UPT and has not flown as PIC or SIC since. Neither military or elsewise. (Not counting the ride out to the boat of late.) Kerry learned to fly not at government expense and apparently has done so for a number of years. Now, mind you, I don't like Bush or Kerry as a candidate. Bush was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. Kerry is also apparently something of a rich kid, married Big Ketchup, Ivy League (yecch), and to top it off is closely associated with a family I detest and which makes my skin crawl for many reasons (not least of which the same reason a certain baseball player hated them for every day of the last 36 years of his life). I can tell you right now I'm voting third party. But-be honest-is there any reason I should prefer Bush over Kerry from an aviation standpoint? Bush, a nonpilot as far as I'm concerned, has done nothing for aviation in this country. Kerry isn't likely to either, but how much worse could he be? The other thing in all this discussion of what balls it takes to strap on a single engine fighter, is the growing evidence that many people are willing to pay a lot of money for the privilege. Once reserved for places like Mojave, the warjet deal is penetrating down to the backward Midwest. I saw a Sabre and a Hawker Hunter poking their tails up among the Aztecs and King Airs at the local spam can patch this week out here. My guess is it costs roughly five hundred bucks an hour to fly a Sabre. And the civil warjet guys are killing themselves at a rate that would have embarrassed the Air Force during the glory days of "Every Man A Tiger". In and of itself flying fighters is no more heroic than riding a chopped Harley with the Hells Angels or wreck diving with open circuit scuba gear. It's what one does, and why, that sometimes might be heroic. But just climbing up there-if I hit the lottery and could get the FAA to let me I'd buy-after working my way up a little-the wildest fighter I could. Simply because it would be-this is 2004, Marilyn's dead, and she'd be 78 anyway- the biggest ego blast in the world to taxi up to the ramp at the local FBO in front of all those square-ass Gulfstream and Lear crews. I know what the statistics are, and I don't care. I suspect Bush Jr's motives were the same-booze, pussy and kerosene! Cub Driver wrote in message . .. I believe that is the first time I have heard of the F-102 as a "safe aircraft"! Were they really? As Ed Rasimus has said: "Every time you kick the tires and light the fire in a single-engine, single-seat Century Series jet, it can kill you--all by itself without help from an enemy." www.warbirdforum.com/bushf102.htm |
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"NW_PILOT" wrote in message ... And you think we are going to have another presidential election in this country???? I think that bush Replace "Bush" with "Clinton" and you have a re-run of what many Republicans were saying during the last election. |
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