News About a Former CINC
Former President George H. W. Bush, to be precise.
The man had a birthday yesterday – his 90th. He celebrated it in a rather novel way.
What makes this one a bit unique is that the former POTUS no longer has the use of his legs. He was assisted in the jump by SFC (Ret) Mike Elliotta. Elliotta is a retired member of the US Army’s Parachute team, the Golden Knights. He guided the pair, jumping together, to a soft landing.
Think about that for a minute. The man is 90 years old. He can no longer use his legs. And he celebrated his 90th birthday by making a freaking parachute jump.
I don’t think we need to check his “man card” any time soon. (smile)
The former POTUS was uninjured. He departed the DZ without speaking to the press.
Well done, sir. Keep on jumping as long as you can.
Oh, and all of you who voted for Perot: freaking thanks heaps. Hope you enjoyed Slick Willie’s Administration.
Category: Pointless blather, We Remember, Who knows
C’mon man, if folks hadn’t voted for Perot we would have missed chubby interns blowing the president, the inability to coordinate JTTF to find terrorists, political infighting over everything from health care to taxes and my personal favorite 80 people killed while serving a warrant to one guy who was known to travel alone into town every day….
^ Exactly!
Regarding the Lewinsky thing, I think we should give the devil his due. Consider Hildebeast. If you were married to THAT, you’d be feeling up fat chicks in the office, too.
If I was (shotgun) married to Hildabeast, I’d have been trying to get bee jays from Helen Thomas.
Be serious, ChipNASA. NO ONE could be that freaking desperate!
ChipNASA…Take a deep breath and wait until you can have a drink and then rethink that Helen Thomas thing. I care for you brother is all I’m saying.
As Dennis Miller said, that marriage couldn’t be any more about convenience if there was a Slurpee machine and a Slim Jim rack at the foot of their bes.
Didn’t GHW Bush make his first parachute “jump” when he was shot down over the South Pacific during WWII? I think parachuting from a burning plane into shark infested waters entitles you to a man card that never expires.
Not sure I agree, Martinjmpr. It’s not like he had a lot of choice for the first one. (smile)
All kidding aside: I have nothing but respect for this man – who I will freely admit is a braver man than I. With my knees and back today, there’s no way in hell I’d jump again unless it was a situation like Bush’s first jump (jump or die). To do it voluntarily, at age 90, without the use of my legs . . . geez. Cojones muy grandes is fully apropos.
I wonder how in the hell those idiots who tried to hang the “wimp” tag on GHW Bush back during the late 1980s/early 1990s feel now?
I believe their is footage of him ditching his bird near a surfaced rescue submarine.
Probably fully justified and absolutely sure in their stance – they never let facts interfere with a position once taken.
Hang a wimp tag on him. No, I certainly wouldn’t. But he began the raping of the military with his “peace dividend.” It started the drawdown of the military which continued under Slick Willy.
A drawdown of the military was inevitable after the Cold War ended. Seriously, if you think we were going to sustain Reagan-era military budgets indefinitely after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, I’d like to know what drugs you are on, and where to get some, because it seems like it must be good stuff.
At least GHW Bush tried to manage the drawdown in a responsible way. It’s not his fault that Clinton came along and cut the budget to ribbons without regard to what it would do to our capabilities.
All my respect for the former President. Obama could take a lesson on getting his balls back out of Michelle’s purse. But then again, the video of Obama “working out” in the gym, took away his man card in my mind forever.
IMHO, just the photos of B. Hussein 0bama in mom jeans, eating ice cream and snow cones as well as those of him on a bicycle wearing a helmet ought to result in a permanent revocation of his man card! He does photos like that while Putin is photographed hunting, fishing, and riding horseback with a rifle slung across his back, who looks like the Wonder-Wuss?