Not Your Sweetie

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House on Wednesday strongly defended President Bush's
national address last week from an aircraft carrier, rejecting Democratic criticism that the
president's dramatic arrival on the USS Abraham Lincoln was little more than a campaign event
for a president up for re-election in 2004.

The White House officials said the Navy recommended the jet as the safest mode of travel to
the aircraft carrier because it offered the option to eject if the aircraft missed the deck on its
approach for landing.

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