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US Air Force Pilot's thoughts on Kerry
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Posted by: KingofSlackers

I found this on stuntlife.com and just thought I would share it with you guys to see what you thought....

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Chris Thomas, US 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 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 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 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).

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
ego-maniac it's-all-about-me crew-eating-pizza-ite like Kerry or maybe a
Green Party candidate like Ralph Nader? Or, God forbid, maybe even
re-elect George Bush, a nice God
fearing Christian bent on protecting us from terrorist attacks on US
soil?

Hmmm, let's see?
Continued freedom under President Bush or bombs in our backyard under
Kerry (who will be sailing on his "minimum 135' yacht"). As Fox would
say,
"we report. You decide."

Posted by: IMSA

Slacker says

Continued freedom under President Bush or bombs in our backyard under
Kerry (who will be sailing on his "minimum 135' yacht"). As Fox would
say,

Wasn't it under the Bush Administration we were attacked in our backyard by a couple of airliners? The nice thing about Kerry being as wealthy as he is, there is almost no chance he would be influenced by ‘big money’.

IMSA

Posted by: KingofSlackers

Quote:

Originally Posted by IMSA


	Slacker says Continued freedom under President Bush or bombs in our backyard under Kerry (who will be sailing on his "minimum 135' yacht"). As Fox would say, Wasn't it under the Bush Administration we were attacked in our backyard by a couple of airliners? The nice thing about Kerry being as wealthy as he is, there is almost no chance he would be influenced by ‘big money’. IMSA

Slacker didn't say that.... I said that I got that from stuntlife.com and I merely posted it here, those aren't my words...

And yes it was under bush, but within his what.... first nine months in office, by a plan that was set in motion long before he took office...

And he can't be influenced by "big money"? ........ now that is funny

Posted by: Tang

Quote:

Originally Posted by KingofSlackers


	Slacker didn't say that.... I said that I got that from stuntlife.com and I merely posted it here, those aren't my words... And yes it was under bush, but within his what.... first nine months in office, by a plan that was set in motion long before he took office... And he can't be influenced by "big money"? ........ now that is funny

Any politician can be bought. End of story.

Posted by: Mr. P

Eating the pizza sounds about right. He's going to eat our lunch too, unless we are able to prevail. Downright scarey.

Mr. P

Posted by: KingofSlackers

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tang


	Any politician can be bought. End of story.

See that's why people always use the phrase of "playing politics" when they are describing people doing dirty things behind the scenes or using underhanded tactics to get what the want....

I say 99.9% can be bought..... the other tenth never really get the chance to make it to office because they were too honest...

Posted by: 3SuperSports

Quote:

Originally Posted by IMSA


	Wasn't it under the Bush Administration we were attacked in our backyard by a couple of airliners? The nice thing about Kerry being as wealthy as he is, there is almost no chance he would be influenced by ‘big money’. IMSA

Actually the world trade center was bombed by truck during the Clinton administration (not to mention other terrorist attacks like the U.S. Cole. The only reason you don't remember those is because we didn't do anything about them). The flight training and planning of the 9/11 attack was also during the Clinton administration. We were not attacked on 9/11 because GW was in office.

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