"He flashed ...all -American grin ...ejection harness between his legs.."

:rofl: He was a clueless ass then and he still is today.

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Maureen Dowd, NYT column, May 4, '03

The tail hook caught the last cable, jerking the fighter jet from 150 m.p.h. to zero in two seconds. Out bounded the cocky, rule-breaking, daredevil flyboy, a man navigating the Highway to the Danger Zone, out along the edges where he was born to be, the further on the edge, the hotter the intensity.

He flashed that famous all-American grin as he swaggered around the deck of the aircraft carrier in his olive flight suit, ejection harness between his legs, helmet tucked under his arm, awestruck crew crowding around. Maverick was back, cooler and hotter than ever, throttling to the max with joystick politics.

Compared to Karl Rove's ''revvin' up your engine'' myth-making cinematic style, Jerry Bruckheimer's movies look like ''Lizzie McGuire.''

This time Maverick didn't just nail a few bogeys and do a 4G inverted dive with a MIG-28 at a range of two meters. This time the Top Gun wasted a couple of nasty regimes, and promised this was just the beginning.

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Back in the Days of 'Mission Accomplished': How One Paper Covered Bush Declaration Four Years Ago

By Greg Mitchell

Published: May 01, 2007 10:25 AM ET
NEW YORK Today marks the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s jet landing on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and his speech declaring major fighting in Iraq over, all in front of a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner...(more with lots of quotes from the NYT's reporting of that day by Dowd, Freidman, Sanger, Judith Miller, etc.)

at.....

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003578624

:blush: :rofl:

:rofl:

:rofl:

:silly:

and she is purposefully trying to cause people to think about how this guy gets his rocks off by being a megalomaniac.

:evilgrin:

... outside of the lens of her biases. Her pretense of styling herself as some latter-day Dorothy Parker is sad ... as though the sardonic misanthropy of Ms. Parker can be approximated by misandrous rants.

If it were John Kerry ... she'd find just as high a dudgeon. And has.

the bigname Dems stayed quiet while sticking close to Bush on military matters and while Terry McAuliffe's DNC ignored the securing of the election process for 2004 just as he ignored it in 2002.

:crazy:

Shows what I know.