On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:35:22 -0800, "Mike Kanze"
wrote:

Year 2010. President Hillary Clinton names CVN-78 after William J. Clinton.
Year 2025. President Chelsea Clinton names CVN-85 after Hillary R. Clinton.

Presupposes no modern-day "Revolt of the Admirals," not to mention a
large number among the lower ranks...

Polling data shows that currently serving USN sailors respect Bill
Clinton as a president more than our sitting prez by a rather wide
margin. Polls show that servicemen who were in the military while
Clinton was president favor Bill over George W. by an even _wider_
margin.

And since when does a nasal aerator speak for the lower ranks?
Whatever their collective opinion of Clinton, I'm sure that 95% of
former flattop enlisted of the last 20 years would emphatically state
that said former brown shoe could go [expletive deleted] himself in the
bilges rather than speak for them in re. their preferences in former
presidents. If you expand that question to brown-shoe O's in general
the percentages might fall into the 80's, but no farther.

...the retired / former servicemember communities, and all those folks
who were absolutely disgusted by Willie's low character.

Uh huh. But ain't it funny that our sole president who served as a
naval aviator, Dad Bush, has become surprisingly chummy with Bill C.
during the years his son has been in the White House? (Served in
combat, mind you.) Anyway, I'm willing to lay down serious cash that
in a year in which two GOP senators disgrace themselves in homosexual
scandals, whilst George-Dub spends away even more soldier blood amidst
careening ineptitude, that even the bedrock conservative service
community would rather see a CVN named after Roger Clinton, let alone
Bill, than the current prez.

Now, what would really be interesting would be to strap old George Bush
_pere_ into a lie detector and ask him which is the better president,
his son or Bill Clinton? I would submit that the faction of former USN
sailors who would be surprised by a truthful answer is getting damn
near single digits.


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