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Thursday, May 01, 2003
The multi-million dollar campaign commercial
Hey. You paid for it
President Bush arrived on an aircraft carrier homebound from the war in Iraq on Thursday, ahead of his prime-time TV address to the nation.
In his speech, prepared to be delivered from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln at 9 p.m. EDT, Bush is expected to tell the nation that "we have difficult work to do in Iraq" to rebuild Iraq and promote democracy - and to find Saddam Hussein and any weapons of mass destruction.
"Our coalition will stay until our work is done," an excerpt of the president's address read.
Well, that's news.
The ship, returning from the Persian Gulf, was about 30 miles from San Diego when Bush landed. A former pilot, he got a turn at the controls, flying about a third of the way. Bush emerged in a green flight suit, carrying his helmet, and shouted to reporters, "Yes, I flew it!" He said he had only steered the plane "straight ahead" and wasn't tempted to try to land it.
He failed to add that it was so much easier when "you aren't coked up out of your mind".
It was a made-for-television day sure to be replayed during Bush's re-election campaign. With a wide grin, the president lingered on the deck with crew members, shaking hands and posing for pictures. "Good job," he shouted to sailors. The ship was slowed so Bush could spend the night on board before it docked on Friday, officials said. He watched dozens of fighters roar off the ship one last time on the way to home bases.
So how much did it cost for the flying extravaganza, the slowing down of the ship, the mass of Secret Service agents, the security supplied in San Diego for his first landing, and all the other logistics?
Probably more than the Sixth Nuremburg Party Congress, but less than the occupation of Iraq.
Glenn Reynolds thought the flight was pretty "Third World".
The jet-pilot arrival, on the other hand, rang false. The whole leader-who-flies-jets thing seems, somehow, Third World to me.
But confronted with dissenting emails he's going a bit "wobbly". For some reason he thought this email was worth noting:
I read your analysis of Bush landing on the U.S.S Lincoln opining it was "too third world". I think you miss what I saw. I saw a guy having some fun after what must have been 3 hellish months of tension as he navigated our country through war. My initial reaction was not all that different from yours, but as I saw him eagerly walk the flight deck shaking hands and having his photo taken I saw a smile on him that I had not seen for a while. That made me feel good.
"3 hellish months of tension"? What the fu--?
Now I'll admit that those weekends in Camp David are no walk in the park especially when Laura gets past her fifth Harvey Wallbanger by 11am. And sure, there were those nights when he actually had to stay up past 9:30 because the Cheney's were visiting and Lynne brought over her gay porn collection, but it's not like he's actually been fighting...or worrying...or doing any thinking....or.......
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