Terri
05-14-2003, 12:56 AM
To those on the ship, politics played poorly
Brian Kelly
Herald Writer
May 11, 2003
"Can you believe that?"
There was revulsion, not wonder, in the tone of the sailor's voice.
Only a few days had passed since President Bush had touched down on the USS Abraham Lincoln to tell a national TV audience and a grateful going-home group of sailors that the war in Iraq was pretty much over.
The Lincoln had been treading water off the California coast when Bush made a dramatic landing on the carrier's flight deck, his "Navy One" S-3B Viking catching the 4-wire, the last cable before about an 80-foot drop from the edge of the flight deck to the frigid Pacific.
But some politicians on the mainland, and on the other side of the political aisle, criticized the president's tail-hook landing as an overpriced photo opportunity.
Full Story (http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/5/11/16927523.cfm)
Brian Kelly
Herald Writer
May 11, 2003
"Can you believe that?"
There was revulsion, not wonder, in the tone of the sailor's voice.
Only a few days had passed since President Bush had touched down on the USS Abraham Lincoln to tell a national TV audience and a grateful going-home group of sailors that the war in Iraq was pretty much over.
The Lincoln had been treading water off the California coast when Bush made a dramatic landing on the carrier's flight deck, his "Navy One" S-3B Viking catching the 4-wire, the last cable before about an 80-foot drop from the edge of the flight deck to the frigid Pacific.
But some politicians on the mainland, and on the other side of the political aisle, criticized the president's tail-hook landing as an overpriced photo opportunity.
Full Story (http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/5/11/16927523.cfm)