More about Kerry (fling away)

[Riptide]

Chris Thomas, Air Force Pilot:

I would like to add my two cents about my John Kerry experience.
During my career as an Air Force pilot, I spent two years flying a small
twin engine prop plane around the Pacific from my base in Okinawa, Japan. On
one trip we had to fly Senator Kerry, his congressional aide, and a Navy
Captain (Vietnam, A-4 fighter pilot) who was also in Kerry's party to
various locations in Vietnam and Cambodia as part of the MIA/POW talks.

When I met him, he was wearing a shirt with a picture of his sailboat on it.
I told him I had a 27' sailboat in Okinawa, he remarked "Oh I never sail on
anything less than 135 feet."

Thanks, Senator, "I feel even better about the meager salary I get paid for
flying you around the Pacific."

When we first flew him into Phnom Penh, he went to the back of the airplane
and grabbed the pizza that was put aside for the crew and passed it around
to his staff. He was never offered any pizza because they were supposed to
have lunch with the Cambodian government when we landed. The pizza was the
crew's only meal for that day and he ate it.

Then when we picked him up in Cambodia, he was an hour late getting to the
airport. Because fuel was an issue, we could not start the engines and
therefore the air conditioning until he arrived. Phnom Penh at that time was
over 100 degrees with 95% humidity and we were basically sitting in a
greenhouse behind the ****pit windows.

When he finally did arrive, we were wringing out our clothes from the
perspiration. He walks out of the air conditioned car, into the airplane and
asks us "Could you guys get the air-conditioning running, I'm a little
warm?" The other pilot had to physically restrain me from going back there
and picking a fight.

Then we took him into Noi Bai airfield in Hanoi.

After we picked him up the next day (he stayed the night in Vietnam, we
stayed in Bangkok) we taxied out, ran up the engines for take off and
noticed that our prop rpm was vibrating all over the place. We taxied off to
the side to look at it, but there was a good possibility that there was an
engine malfunction and the engine may fail if we took off with it.

Well, Mr. Senator sticks his head up in the ****pit and says "This plane
WILL take off, I have a press conference in Bangkok in three hours!"
(Maybe this is an indication of how he will run the FAA).

American service members lives be damned, we had our Senatorial orders. We
ran the engines again, and did not have the problem, so we took off and made
it back. During the flight, he told everyone how he had taken a Cessna (a
small General aviation plane) up with a fighter pilot, and the fighter pilot
remarked that Kerry was one of the best pilots he had ever seen. I don't
know about other pilots out there, but it's hard to imagine a little,
single-engine prop plane pilot being able to show the "right stuff."

After Kerry left the plane, the Navy Captain came up to us, apologized and
said basically that "he knows Kerry is a jerk" and that we should be glad we
don't have to deal with him every day. Your choice folks. Elections in
November. You want a mega-millionaire egomaniac it's-all-about-me
crew-eating-pizza-ite like Kerry or maybe a Green Party candidate like Ralph
Nader? Or, maybe even reelect George Bush, a nice God fearing Christian bent
on protecting us from terrorist attacks on US soil?

Hmmm, let's see?

[kahloq]

easy choice to make good post Riptide

[UDawg]

Can I Get A Whitness!? i Said can I Get A Whitness!?

[DiscipleDOC]

That was a good read, rip. Thanks for the post.

[DiscipleDOC]

btw...where did you find this?

[peeon]

He wrote it himself. j/k hahaha

"George Bush, a nice God fearing Christian bent
on protecting us from terrorist attacks on US soil" umm no. I will leave it at that.

[netviper13]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/pizza.asp

[UDawg]

From what I have heard from senators and people who knew Kerry from way back in high school and college, they say he is an ass. This to me is besides the point. Sure it would be nice if he was a good guy but being a ass does not disqualify you from being president, nor should it.

[peeon]

And everyone seems to paint Bush as mister goodie-to-shoes...

[UDawg]

Oh don't go crying about this because you don't hear stories about Bush being a jerk.

[UDawg]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...dc_1&printer=1

Yes Kerry made a personal plea to president Bush to be civil in their campaigning. Maybe he for got what he said in his speech because he was rushing through it. What a joke. Theresa Heinz has no class.

http://washingtontimes.com/national/...1322-5779r.htm

Gotta love how the left reacts to this. It seems it is the left that does not after all like free speech or freedom of the press. Gotta love those wacky libs.

Last night, Mrs. Kerry's bluntness was on display again. A Bush supporter was chanting "Four more years! Four more years!" through a bullhorn at a Wisconsin rally while Mrs. Kerry was speaking. She departed from her text to say: "They want four more years of hell."
Mr. Kerry gave her a long hug and a big smile when she finished speaking. "She speaks her mind, and she speaks the truth," the candidate said.

In the aftermath of the "shove it," Mr. Kerry supported his wife, as did the Democratic National Committee, which called Mr. McNickle's paper "a right-wing rag," and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
Mr. McNickle denied he had been rude.
"I didn't bully her. I didn't set her up. She stumbled all by herself," he said. "She began her remarks about her husband's vision, then went off on a tangent."

In hundreds of e-mails and telephone calls to his office and home, and even on the street, Mr. McNickle's life was threatened. He was called a "Nazi" and a variety of obscene names, and had death wished upon him.
In a Boston Globe interview, singer Patti LaBelle advised Mrs. Kerry to "pimp slap" Mr. McNickle; liberal columnist Molly Ivins suggested he had inappropriately "touched" Mrs. Kerry; and former Baltimore Sun columnist Jack Germond told CNN that Mr. McNickle "was not a legitimate newspaperman."

A mention of Mr. McNickle's column in Editor & Publisher was picked up by the Drudge Report yesterday, ultimately reversing the firestorm of criticism, Mr. McNickle said.
"Today, I got 1,700 e-mails in four hours, most supportive, saying I'd done a good job," Mr. McNickle said.
"But you know what?" he pointed out. "Mrs. Kerry never answered my question."

Gee and some wonder why I am a EX-LIBERAL

[vampireuk]

Mrs. Kerry speaks her mind, which is why she rarely speaks at all.