President Bush is getting ready to JUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MADem]

They're covering it LIVE on NECN....it's Bush Senior, making his birthday parachute jump (eighty fifth) from a Golden Knights aircraft.

Let's hope "Bar" didn't pack the chute.

They aren't covering it on the web, but you may be able to see video here, later on: http://www.necn.com/

[Diane R]

1. Frankly, I don't give a damn.

[MADem]

10. OK, Rhett, say so long to Scarlett and stomp out the door, then! nt

[Stephanie]

2. Post it again if his chute fails

[MADem]

8. Well, he jumped....they showed the chute open with a hand-held camera.

I think he's flying around on the back of a guy--they've gone to commercial.

ON EDIT--not him....a test jumper. It's very windy!

[madmax]

12. Maybe it won't be a fail

41 may not pull the cord to end the embarassment his idiot son brought on the family name. :rofl:

[MADem]

15. He doesn't control the cord. He is strapped to the back of an Army jumper.

They're going to have a bunch more people jump (fourteen), then off he goes!

[tabasco]

3. Re-enacting the bailout from his plane with the crew still onboard.

The type of aircraft that required the pilot to maintain control until the crew got out.

[MADem]

6. I just said the exact same thing to folks here!!! nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Ordinarily, I'd say it's a great thing for an 85 year old to be jumping out of airplanes

But when the 85 year old in question is a smack peddling, terrorist funding, Kennedy killing, son of a Nazi funding, father of a nation destroying Chimp, it sort of ruins the whole thing.

[monmouth]

13. That was beautiful... Thanks....n/t

[Hutzpa]

5. Who gives a shit !

like this is going to help change Health Care or help improve the economy.

[MADem]

9. Well, not everything posted on this board does that, but thanks for your deep concern! NT

[tularetom]

7. Glad he isn't doing it around here

In case he blows chunks on the way down.

[MADem]

11. He's doing it AT Walker's Point. The goal is to land in the churchyard by the house.

Ooops--there was a guy doing a test jump--that wasn't George hopping out of the plane with the video. The "test jumper" looks like he's having a hard time.

They are having a hard time finding a hole in the clouds. The first jumper made it to the ground!!!! It's windy and sketchy, though--the first jumper was doing loop-de-loops...!

[madmax]

14. Make a hole!!! n/t

[phleshdef]

16. Wow. Politics aside, thats a bold thing to do at 85.

I wish him no ill will as far as the jump goes.

[Peacetrain]

17. Yes it was... and no one wishes him ill.. we just don't want their politics

I totally agree with you

[MADem]

18. He is doing freaking loop de loops!!!! Wonder if he'll puke?

Here he comes....good parachutist who did the hard work--he landed like a feather!

[chomper]

19. Too bad he didn't bring W. with him ... without a parachute

for the jump.