re: #28 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

But he was not the pilot.

But he *was* a pilot. And he was sitting in the right seat. He flew jets for the Texas Air National Guard before he failed to show for his annual medical in Houston while supposedly going to work on a political campaign in Birmingham. He was supposed to transfer to the ANG in Alabama, but no one ever saw him. There was a letter that was supposed to confirm the scandal, but it was exposed as a fake.

The generation and release of the letter was a brilliant move to obfuscate the fact that he, indeed, failed to complete his tenure with the Texas Air National Guard during a time frame when he was rumored to be actively snorting cocaine.

And so he was inaugurated as the President of the United States of America in January, 2001. Fun ride since then, eh?