Election 2004: Memos Show Bush Suspended From Flying

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by brickhouse492
Gina1201

My "boyfriend" is trying to sell some designs to FUBU and Phat Farm. I'm wondering if he even knows about this. He's in meetings with FUBU now so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

CT4

Holla if you hear me when I say P.Diddy is handsome wit' a "Uuuh Huh - Yeah!" I hear yah but he ain't all that to me. I don't know, getting our people to realize that our votes DO count (in some states - excluding Florida, DC and those other places where booths don't work, yadda yadda yadda) is .... mighteeesexeee. He could get it ... a great big two thumbs up. Okay I'm out before I get in trouble - again.

umm since I don't hear you, Imma whisper
LOL
Piddy get it? Umm Imma have to pass. P Diddy couldn't get it if he had a coupon and a frequent shoppers card nor if he paid all of my student loans.

[TonyB06]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4

Piddy get it? Umm Imma have to pass. P Diddy couldn't get it if he had a coupon and a frequent shoppers card nor if he paid all of my student loans.

* hijack

you really do need a comediene's stage/microphone in your future.

*end hijack

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by TonyB06
* hijack

you really do need a comediene's stage/microphone in your future.

*end hijack

LOL
Maybe I can write for an established comedian because I am tired of oral relations jokes, weed jokes, and baby mama drama jokes.


@ BrownSuga, I am more inclined to say it is exciting to see Black men want to rally the youth and Black folks to vote this November, but P. Diddy sexy. . . . about as sexy as Mike Tyson.

[CrimsonTide4]

Interesting Fact: Twenty-two million single women did not vote in the 2000 election. Had they voted in the same numbers as married women, 6,000,000 additional votes would have been cast. In Florida that would have meant over 200,000 additional votes would have been cast. The 2000 presidential election was decided by 537 votes in the state of Florida.


from this website: http://www.onevotefilm.com/

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PLEASE VOTE!!

[MeezDiscreet]

i'm curious how they found out that 22 million single women didn't vote.

[CrimsonTide4]

Article: http://www.iht.com/articles/534173.html


excerpt:
State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd "investigation" that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in November.

The officers, from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which reports to Gov. Jeb Bush, say they are investigating allegations of voter fraud that came up during the Orlando mayoral election in March.

Officials refused to discuss details of the investigation, other than to say that absentee ballots are involved. They said they had no idea when the investigation might end, and acknowledged that it may continue right through the presidential election.

"We did a preliminary inquiry into those allegations and then we concluded that there was enough evidence to follow through with a full criminal investigation," said Geo Morales, a spokesman for the Department of Law Enforcement.

The state police officers, armed and in plain clothes, have questioned dozens of voters in their homes. Some of those questioned have been volunteers in get-out-the-vote campaigns.

I asked Mr. Morales in a telephone conversation to tell me what criminal activity had taken place.

"I can't talk about that," he said.

I asked if all the people interrogated were black.

"Well, mainly it was a black neighborhood we were looking at - yes,'' he said.

He also said, "Most of them were elderly."

When I asked why, he said, "That's just the people we selected out of a random sample to interview."

Back in the bad old days, some decades ago, when Southern whites used every imaginable form of chicanery to prevent blacks from voting, blacks often fought back by creating voters leagues, which were organizations that helped to register, educate and encourage black voters. It became a tradition that continues in many places, including Florida, today.

Not surprisingly, many of the elderly black voters who found themselves face to face with state police officers in Orlando are members of the Orlando League of Voters, which has been very successful in mobilizing the city's black vote.

The president of the Orlando League of Voters is Ezzie Thomas, who is 73 years old. With his demonstrated ability to deliver the black vote in Orlando, Mr. Thomas is a tempting target for supporters of George W. Bush in a state in which the black vote may well spell the difference between victory and defeat.

[CrimsonTide4]

Memos Show Bush Suspended From Flying
By PETE YOST

WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly unearthed memos state George W. Bush was
suspended from flying for the Texas Air National Guard during the
Vietnam war because he failed to meet Guard standards and failed to
take his annual flight physical as required.

The suspension came as Bush was trying to arrange a transfer to
non-flying status with a unit in Alabama so he could work on a
political campaign there.

A memo written a year later referred to one military official
``pushing to sugar coat'' Bush's annual evaluation.

``On this date I ordered that 1st Lt. Bush be suspended from flight
status due to failure to perform to USAF/TexANG standards and failure
to meet annual physical examination ... as ordered,'' says an Aug. 1,
1972 memo by Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, who is now dead.


The same memo notes that Bush was trying to transfer to non-flying
status out of state and recommends that the Texas unit fill his flying
slot ``with a more seasoned pilot from the list of qualified Vietnam
pilots that have rotated.''


The Vietnam-era documents add details to the bare-bones explanation of
Bush's aides over the years that he was suspended simply because he
decided to skip his flight physical.


The White House said in February that it had released all records of
Bush's service, but one of Killian's memos stated it was ``for
record'' and another directing Bush to take the physical exam stated
that it was ``for 1st Lt. George W. Bush.''


``I can't explain why that wouldn't be in his record, but they were
found in Jerry Killian's personal records,'' White House
communications director Dan Bartlett told CBS's ``60 Minutes II,''
which first obtained the memos.


Bartlett said Bush's superiors granted permission to train in Alabama
in a non-flying status and that ``many of the documents you have here
affirm just that.''


A memo dated May 19, 1972, five days after Bush was supposed to have
completed his physical, summarizes a telephone discussion with Bush
about how he ``can get out of coming to drill from now through
November.'' It says Bush was ``told he could do ET for three months or
transfer.'' ET referred to equivalent training, a procedure for
meeting training requirements without attending regularly scheduled
drills.


The same memo says ``we talked abut him getting his flight physical
situation fixed'' and quotes Bush as saying he would ``do that in
Alabama if he stays in a flight status.'' It also says, I advised him
of our investment in him and his commitment.''


Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe said, ``George W. Bush's
cover story on his National Guard service is rapidly unraveling. ...
George W. Bush needs to answer why he regularly mislead the American
people about his time in the Guard and who applied political pressure
on his behalf to have his performance reviews 'sugarcoated'''


Bartlett told CBS, ``As it says in your own documents, President Bush
talked to the commanders about the fact that he'd be transferring to a
unit ... in Alabama that didn't fly that plane,'' the F-102, the type
Bush was trained in.


Using only last names, one of the newly disclosed documents points to
sharp disagreement among Bush's superiors in Texas over how to
evaluate his performance for the period from mid-1972 through
mid-1973.


``Stuart has obviously pressured Hedges more about Bush,'' Killian
wrote on Aug. 18, 1973. ``I'm having trouble running interference and
doing my job - Harris gave me a message today from Grip (a
headquarters unit) regarding Bush's OETR (officer efficiency training
report) and Stuart is pushing to sugar coat it. Bush wasn't here
during rating period and I don't have any comments from 187th in
Alabama. I will not rate.''


The memo concludes: ``Harris took the call from Grip today. I'll
backdate but won't rate. Harris agrees.''


At the time, Walter B. Stuart was commander of the Texas National
Guard; Lt. Col. Bobby Hedges was one of Bush's superiors in Texas who
two years earlier had rated Bush an outstanding young pilot; and Lt.
Col. William D. Harris Jr. was another superior of Bush's.


Records released this year when Bush's military service re-emerged as
a campaign issue contain no evidence that he showed up for duty at all
for five months in mid-1972 and document only a few occasions later
that year.


Asked about Killian's statement in a memo about the military's
investment in Bush, Bartlett told CBS: ``For anybody to try to
interpret or presume they know what somebody who is now dead was
thinking in any of these memos, I think is very difficult to do.''



09/09/04 06:15


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