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American Hero John Glenn: THERE'S a Guy Who Knows What Love Is...
Reaganite Republican ^ | March 28, 2012 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 03/28/2012 5:26:32 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican

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To: FReepaholic
I had the pleasure of spending the day with Senator Glenn and his wife touring the Kennedy Space Center back in the '90s. I found him to be a man of exceptional character and grace.

That "man of exceptional character and grace" was a member of the Keating Five.

41 posted on 03/28/2012 7:00:45 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Reaganite Republican
John Glenn is one of the biggest pr**ks I have ever met. Or more accurately, one of the biggest ones I did not want to meet. I was in one of the training buildings at JSC when Glenn was there. I was visiting and Glenn walked by. They asked me if I wanted to meet him. I said no but they stopped him anyway. I looked at Glenn and said "why are you going up on the shuttle? There is no good reason for you to. You are bumping somebody else who has been training for many years just because you want to have some fun time". He got pissed at me. Said "who the hell is this?" and whatnot. I just walked away.

The people I was with were saying they were sorry to him and that I was not an employee so they could not "fire my ass" as he had just told them to. We walked out of the building and as soon as the door closed behind us the guys I was with busted out laughing and told me that they all wanted to talk to Glenn that way.

Glenn sucks!

42 posted on 03/28/2012 7:20:11 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks!)
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To: isthisnickcool

Thanks for telling it like it is... we need more of that!

LLS


43 posted on 03/28/2012 7:42:58 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: FReepaholic

After reading this story, I have to agree with you.

John Glenn was indeed a liberal Senator, but thinking back I don’t remember him being nasty or subversive and even though I am as right as right can be I can see the difference between being liberal and those that liberally hate America.


44 posted on 03/28/2012 7:44:51 AM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: LibLieSlayer
During my drinking days I was in San Antonio at a convention for cable TV developers. One company had hired Neil Bush to stand around and promote their company. I had had a few drinks and walked up to him and got in his face about Silverado Savings and Loan. The Secret Service guys with him were from Houston and knew me. As I grilled Bush I suddenly found myself up in the air. My feet were off the ground. The secret sevice guys had picked me up under my elbows and moved me about 15 feet. They set me down and one whispered in my ear "he is a little prick but please cut it out". So I walked away.

The Bush family, the ENTIRE Bush family are on government "welfare" and always have been. You can include "W" who made a mint off the Texas stadium deal. Barbara is as bad as any of them. They have their hands in so many companies it would make your head spin.

45 posted on 03/28/2012 7:54:30 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks!)
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To: treetopsandroofs

After reading your and many other posts here, I need to walk back my post 44, just a bit. I had forgotten his thing with Klintoon, which definately brings up a saying from an old boss, “one Ah-shit, wipes out a thousand Attaboys”, which is certainly fitting for “Senator” Glenn.


46 posted on 03/28/2012 7:58:41 AM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: traderrob6
...And you know what you can do with the last sentence of your comment...

I apologize for that. I grew up in the '60s and John Glenn was my boyhood hero. I have been a "space nut" all my life and had the great fortune to work at the Kennedy Space Center for 12 years.

The day I spent with the Senator and his wife was one of the best days of my life outside the birth of my sons. When you called him an a-hole I took offense. I shouldn't have.

Again, I apologize for my comment.

47 posted on 03/28/2012 8:11:21 AM PDT by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

I admire John Glenn, but he is also the very picture of a man who compartmentalized his politics from his profession. He bought his seat on the Space Shuttle by coming to the ludicrous defense of the White House and Hillary Clinton during the Amato banking hearings back in the ‘90’s.


48 posted on 03/28/2012 8:16:04 AM PDT by Prospero
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To: FReepaholic

Spoken like a gentleman, accepted.


49 posted on 03/28/2012 9:06:53 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: isthisnickcool
They are ALL part of the one world order... illuminati... bilderberg etc...a rose by any other name smells just like communism. Screw the bush family... and even laura... who is pro baby murder!

LLS

50 posted on 03/28/2012 9:08:31 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: Reaganite Republican
He’s not the nasty breed of gangster-commie we see today, anyway

He doesn't have to be - he's got a Senator's vote.

So he can be polite, refined, respectful, attentive, caring, sensitive, and vote our missile secrets to China, before getting home for an early dinner with a vintage wine and then going to the theatre.

51 posted on 03/28/2012 9:24:50 AM PDT by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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To: X-spurt

Thanks. I used to think a lot of Glenn.

My dad used to say it the same way.

Big Media certainly holds Republicans to a high standard of conduct. I do no less for Democrats.

Selling out one’s country is a biggie, ESPECIALLY if one is a “hero”.


52 posted on 03/28/2012 9:32:16 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Prospero
He bought his seat on the Space Shuttle by coming to the ludicrous defense of the White House and Hillary Clinton during the [D']Amato banking hearings back in the ‘90’s.

I'm pretty sure he bought the seat by blocking Fred Thompson's investigation into the China money. (Glenn had help from some other senator).

Both Glenn (and McCain) should have been booted out of the Senate, if not imprisoned, for corruption in the 1980s S&L mess.

53 posted on 03/28/2012 3:57:04 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Prospero
He bought his seat on the Space Shuttle by coming to the ludicrous defense of the White House and Hillary Clinton during the [D']Amato banking hearings back in the ‘90’s.

I'm pretty sure he bought the seat by blocking Fred Thompson's investigation into the China money. (Glenn had help from some other senator).

Glenn (and McCain) should have been booted out of the Senate, if not imprisoned, for corruption in the 1980s S&L mess.

54 posted on 03/28/2012 3:57:29 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Last Dakotan

It is grievous that such a man took the wrong side in politics, though i suppose he would be considered a moderate relative to the standards today as the liberal revolution seeks to institutionalize its fantasy, but i would not want even to send even a liberal to Hell.


55 posted on 03/28/2012 9:27:17 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a damned+morally destitute sinner,+trust Him to forgive+save you,+live....)
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To: daniel1212
...but i would not want even to send even a liberal to Hell.

Consider that the Chinese can now threaten American cities like Los Angeles with nuclear annihilation due to the efforts of John Glenn and his party members selling out their country. You might think differently.

56 posted on 03/29/2012 7:46:00 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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