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The White House is bristling at the suggestion that President Obama is becoming more warlike and, therefore, more like his predecessor, George W. Bush. At the White House press briefing on Friday, reporters asked presidential spokesman Josh Earnest for his reaction to the cover photo of the Economist magazine, which depicts Mr. Obama in the flight suit worn by Mr. Bush during the Iraq war in 2003, with the new caption “Mission Relaunched.” It’s a reference to Mr. Obama renewing the war against Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria. But Mr. Earnest called “unfair” the suggestion that the president...

Haven't seen these pics on FR before. Palin visiting Strykers at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Out of curiosity... does anyone know when this visit was? Can't find a date at the Governor's site. BTW there is no dress she doesn't look good in.

Dan Rather will be anchoring from Indonesia and the Navy released a photo of him on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in his flight suit. I find this hillarious after the way the left pilloried Bush for "wearing a costume" for his landing on the....ta da!....USS Abraham Lincoln! LOL! The Lefties...the gift that keeps on giving.

ENTIRE ARTICLE G.I. George: Bush stars as action figure The Washington Post Blue Box Toys In September, KB Toys will begin selling an action figure depicting President Bush when he landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln. Holy photo op, Batman! The president of the United States has become a military action figure. When President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln three months ago in a naval flight suit, many commentators believed that the image of the vigorous president on the aircraft carrier would figure prominently in his reelection campaign. What the commentators did not predict is that Bush...

<p>"I certainly don't want to see Teddy Kennedy in a Navy flight suit."</p> <p>House Majority Leader Tom DeLay used that image in a speech last week as he accused Democrats of a lack of leadership on national security. His joke at the expense of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., touched off a verbal war Friday.</p>

Senator Byrd, As a retired Naval Officer, with two Gulf carrier deployments under my belt, I find your criticism of President Bush's visit to the Lincoln offensive in the extreme! This is the first time that the Commander-in-Chief took time out of his busy wartime schedule to pay a visit to thank those who served in the line of fire, in way that was both dramatic and meaningful to those on the carrier. Perhaps if LBJ got off his fat ass to do something similar, our troops' morale in Vietnam might not have been so low. As a Naval officer,...

Bush Scoring Soccer Moms, Dems Making Fools of Themselves May 13, 2003 One of the reasons Democrats are angry about this aircraft carrier landing is that the soccer moms have fled the Democrats and they're all a-tizzy over the way Bush looks in a flight suit. Lisa Schiffren, a conservative columnist, wrote a whole piece in the Wall Street Journal the other day, where she basically comes right out and says she wanted to rip that flight suit right off Dubya. Yet, here are the Democrats making a big to-do over the carrier landing. Meanwhile, Patrick Leahy proudly displays himself...

Rather than keeping quiet in response to the overwhelmingly positive marks given by Americans to President Bush's speech aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, the Democrats continue to amaze by once again saying the wrong things at the wrong times. Whether it's Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle blasting Bush at the beginning of the war with Iraq or countless Democrat congressmen echoing the media's assessment that the U.S. military was bogged down after a week and a half of action, the Democrat protests have been met with scorn, and yet they keep going. One has to wonder if the...

Heretofore, since at least FDR, most of our American Presidents have been typically staid, except for the notable exception of John F. Kennedy when he appeared formally and repeatedly sans hat. Henceforth the exposed male head was an overnight fad. With a bad back and Addison’s Disease, Kennedy nevertheless exuded physical vitality to us----he was young, fit, trim and daring (he would sail a boat bare-handed in the open ocean for a magazine photo-op)---furthermore, he exposed his bare head in all settings, even the most formal. Long-established haberdasheries collapsed shortly after Kennedy’s inauguration because of the ensuing world-wide trend of...

DANGER ZONE Dubya's looking sharp when he made the tailhook landing "Let's investigate"...Nostrilitis starts his demanding Flying toward two thousand four...RATS know what will be in store They have been outflanked...they don't know where next to be turning They are as desperate as can be...you can see them do a slow burning Flying toward two thousand...and the poor RATS know what will be in store We had eight years of Clinton crimes...George Bush has proven he's the right man for these times To everyone it's evident...we have a really decent man as president Terry Mac is mad...he has been...