This is whats expected, and why our traveling public has an issue. Keep your idiotic politics at home. Come to work, do your job, and don't think the guy sitting next to you wants to hear hours of your political pyscho-babble.

From the beginning of a Tribune piece:

Don't know about you, but I don't want my airline pilots to get worked up over anything. I expect the full-on Chuck Yeager treatment from the cockpit — unruffled, unexcitable, half-amused by whatever is out there, good or bad.

The kind of brutally callous rhetoric increasingly common among politicians isn't what you want from the guy who might have your fate in his hands slashing through the skies at more than 500 mph, more than 6 miles above the ground.

You want someone utterly unfazed by anything, someone with a been-there, done-that, nothing-to-worry-about perspective.