When I saw this story I was very surprised:
To President George W. Bush, today’s ceremony commissioning a battleship named for his father is the emotional culmination of a turbulent eight years in office.
Not so much at an ex president was being honored with a warship named after him, but that a new Battleship had been launched. To my knowledge there hadn’t been a new battlewagon in over 60 years and I couldn’t see where a new one would be useful today.
Well the Houston Chronicle is half right it was being commissioned today but its an aircraft carrier.
President George W. Bush landed Saturday on the USS George H.W. Bush, a new aircraft carrier named after his father — the ultimate honor for a decorated Navy pilot from World War II.
With just days left in his presidency, Bush and first lady Laura Bush joined his father, now 84 years old, and other Bush family members at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia for the commissioning of the nuclear-powered carrier.
I know the media doesn’t know much about the military these days but C’mon.
Naturally the Huffington Post objects:
The public Bush 41 was a genial patrician who got along with everybody. The private Bush 41 was deeply connected to operations that damaged, removed or destroyed several American presidents. Bush 41, who has famously claimed not to recall where he was on November 22, 1963, the day JFK was shot, was a longtime friend of the man who mentored Lee Harvey Oswald. That Bush 41 placed a suspicious call to the FBI at the time of JFK’s death to establish himself as being outside Dallas. He was connected to many figures surrounding Kennedy’s motorcade and the events of that tragic day.
Gotta love ’em. The site for the ship is here.
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