One-term spendthrift George HW Bush gets aircraft carrier named after him

[CanuckAmok]

Globally-loathed, middle-class destroying, backroom arms dealing, diplomatically-reatrded senile cowboy and b-movie actor Ronald Reagan gats aircraft carrier named after him.

Two-term, budget balancer, relatively globally-respected UN peacekeeper Clinton gets no aircraft carriers named after him.

No, the republican party have no unusual ties to the military industrial complex.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Carter served on subs, so he gets a sub. GHWB served on a carrier, so he gets a carrier. nt

[geomon666]

2. And what carrier did Reagan serve on? n/t

[CanuckAmok]

3. The RKO backlot.

[Octafish]

4. Payback for what happened in Dallas on 22 November 1963.

Poppy Bush brought up JFK Assassination and ''Conspiracy Theorists'' at Ford Funeral

It's been pretty much one War Party rule since then.

[riverdeep]

5. Last week on Cheney's

diversion tour, we found out that Strom Thurmond had a cargo plane named after him. I don't think the naming is any reflection on how good or bad a job the pols do, but a function of how long they've been doing it and how high up they get. If naming was commensurate with competence, Junior
would have one of those turd pick-up sticks animal control officers use.