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, ***an. 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 ocations 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 small 27 sailboat in Okinawa, he remarked 'Oh I never sail on anything less than 135 feet'. I laughed to myself and realized this guy was
no sailor.
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 once we landed. The pizza would
have been our only meal that day. He just never cared to ask.
Then when we picked him up in Cambodia, he was an hour late getting to the airport. 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 cockpit 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 takeoff, 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 cockpit 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). 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.... Or will we?
Is Kerry going to last thru the summer? He has so much crap coming out of the closet.
Cal, I don't think he can last. He is proven to be the biggest liberal in both houses and it won't fly with the majority of Americans.
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Kerry, like most life-long politicians, is a wind-bag who's ego-maniacal. He'll do whatever he's allowed to do. Just remember they are supposed to be our puppets...but with a mind and conscience to help us. They are supposed to have our best interests and the interests of society as whole at the front of their thinking.
He doesn't strtike me as that kind of person...In fact I having trouble thinking of ANY life-long p[olitician who strikes me this way.
How do guys in his position decide which party they want to be affiliated with. They're always talking about Republicans being for the rich guy and he's a millionare. Why would he want to be a Democrat? What's in it for him?
He's a liberal idealist. He buys into the stuff 1000% In terms of the millionaire stuff, he, like many other lib's, has a holier than thou complex. He knows how to handle money, not you. It's ok for him to be rich because he's smart and can handle it. He does the right thing with his money. Others do not.
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