I beg your pardon....??
0 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Monday, October 25 at Monday, October 25, 2004.
"President George Bush turned his Marine One helicopter into a campaign prop, using it to drop in on crowds at three stadiums around Florida...............
He landed at the ballparks to the strains of the Top Gun theme, his most dramatic use of a military asset since he landed in a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier 17 months ago to declare the end of the war in Iraq."
(my bolding)
Is it just me or is the idea of a political candidate landing at an event in a military helicopter with the Top Gun soundtrack playing just amazingly bizarre and weird? Are Americans so different to me that this is just normal campaign theatrics? I like my politians civilian and lame, not militaristic and campy-macho (Top Gun? Seriously? At least he could have chosen something imposing and old skooling like "Flight of the Valkyries" or "O Fortuna").
From the experience of history, politicians who start wearing military uniforms is a bad, bad idea.
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